Courses

    Varying topics on important individuals, historical developments, groupings of films, film directors, critical and theoretical issues in film. May be repeated up to 9 total credit hours, provided the topics are different.

    Surveys the major Asian directors from China, India, Japan, Taiwan, and Vietnam. Recommended prereq., FILM 1502. Restricted to FILM/FMST majors. Non-majors will need instructor's consent.

    Eighteen films depict our capacities for good and evil. Topics addressed include the following: the Holocaust, Jung's concept of "The Shadow," the Seven Deadly Sins, altruistic and sociopathic personalities, capital punishment, the redemptive narrative, and the satanic in film. Same as FARR 2510. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: ideals and values.

    Focuses on the work of a single director or a group of related directors. Course content varies each semester. Consult the online Schedule Planner for specific topic. May be repeated up to 12 total credit hours with departmental consent. . Non-majors need instructor consent. Prerequisites: Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Junior or Senior) FILM (FILM or FMST) majors only.
    Examines the representation of women both in mainstream movies and in women's counter-cinema that resists traditional form, content, and spectator-text relationships of Hollywood models. Emphasizes work by key women filmmakers such as Margarethe Von Trotta, Lizzy Borden, and Yvonne Rainer, as well as readings in feminist film theory. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: human diversity. Prerequisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors) only.

    Examines color and cinema from historical, technological, aesthetic and theoretical perspectives. Students will be required to complete both creative and scholarly assignments.

    Prepares students for advanced Film Critical Studies work. Subject matter varies from semester to semester. May be repeated up to 9 total credit hours, provided topics are different. Prereq., FILM 1502 or instructor consent. Prerequisites: Restricted to Film (FILM or FMST) majors only.

    History and theory of Weimar and Nazi film with sociocultural emphasis. Taught in English. Same as GRMN 3503.

    Introduces issues in German society through film during the Cold War. Focus on East and West Germany, though some other German language films may be included. Emphasis is on reading films in their social, historical, and political contexts. Taught in English. Same as GRMN 3513.

    Focuses on the production process of movie making from idea through distribution, analyzing each of the five phases involved, including the major players, function and problems inherent in each. Emphasizes the critical role the script plays in this process. Designed to give students a "map of the minefield" before venturing out on their own. Offered through Continuing Education.

    Historical and aesthetic overview of sound in relation to film, ranging from Hitchcock's Blackmail to Mailick's The Thin Red Line. Pursues issues in sound design, mixing film scores, voiceovers, and film/sound theory in narrative, experimental, and documentary films. Among the filmmakers to be studied are Vertov, Welles, Altman, Brakhage, Lipsett, Eisenstein, Coppola, Scorcese, Stone, Leone, Godard, Nelson. Also explores a limited practicum using Pro Tools for sound design. Prereq., FILM 1502. Recommended prereq., FILM 3051.

    Explores similarities and differences between literature and film as narrative arts. Studies several novels, short stories, and plays and films made from them. Examines problems in point of view, manipulation of time, tone, structure, and setting. Same as ARTF/COML 5003.

    Provides interdisciplinary study of film, photography, and modernism, focusing on issues such as dystopia, alienation, sexuality, subjectivity, and self-referentiality. Photographs by Stieglitz, Strand, Weston, Evans, Cartier-Bresson, Kertesz, and Moholy-Nagy. Films by Dziga-Vertov, Eisenstein, Resnais, Antonioni, Bergman, Bunuel, and Bertolucci. Prereq., FILM 1502. Recommended prereq., FILM 3051. Same as ARTF 5013.

    Focuses on major international filmmakers who have had a decisive impact on world cinema. Students will learn how directors create their own innovative body of work with specific formal and thematic patterns, and will also learn to place such work within multiple frameworks that will cover film history, theory, aesthetics, philosophy, and social and cultural analysis. May be repeated up to 6 total credithours provided topics are different. Prereq., FILM 1502. Recommended prereqs., FILM 3051 and 3061. Same as ARTF 5023. Prerequisites: Requires prerequisite course of FILM 1502 (minimum grade D-). Restricted to Film (FILM or FMST) or Fine Arts - Creative Arts (ARTC) majors only.

    Prepares students for advanced Film Studies critical studies courses. Subject matter varies each semester. May be repeated up to 9 total credit hours, provided the topics are different. Same as ARTF 5043.

    Explores psychoanalytic theory as it relates to our understanding of literature, film, and other arts. After becoming familiar with some essential Freudian notions (repression, narcissism, ego/libido, dreamwork, etc.), students apply these ideas to works by several artists (e.g., Flaubert, James, Kafka, Hoffmann, and Hitchcock). Prereq., HUMN 2000 or junior/senior standing. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: literature and the arts.

    Traces the history and aesthetics of avant-garde/ experimental films in light of similar ideas found in the other arts, particularly painting, poetry, photography and music. Topics covered include Dada and the early avant-garde; surrealism and psychodramas; Brakhage and abstract expressionism; feminist arts and film since the 1980s; the idea of the sublime in painting, music, and film; landscape in painting, photography, and film; post-modernism and the cinema; queer theory, gender/identity politics, and aesthetics of recent films; and specific multiple disciplinary artists such as Andy Warhol, Michael Snow,Helen Levitt, and Gunvor Nelson. Prereq., FILM 1502. Same as ARTF 5453.