Introduces the critical study of film, exploring theoretical, historical, and technical concerns while presenting a survey of important film periods and genres. Students will hone critical-thinking, close-analysis, and writing skills. The course will cover a wide variety of films, approaching them from numerous perspectives, considering both the effects films have on individual viewers and their ability to reflect culture.
Introduces basic media literacy by exploring the technical and aesthetic principles behind the production, analysis and interpretation of films. Explores comprehension and thinking about movies critically as technological, cultural and artistic products. Study of films in different social and historical contexts and discussion of the importance of movies as cultural products.
Introduces students to basic image making technology and aesthetics. Fundamentals of film/video production in Super 8mm, Black Magic Pocket Cinema cameras, ProRes 422 (HQ), and other analog and digital image making, editing, and management formats. May emphasize personal, experimental or narrative films and exercises, according to instructor. Basic competencies include composition, basic audio, basic editing, studio critique, file management, etc. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of FILM 1502 (minimum grade D-).
Familiarizes students with current trends and major directors in international cinema. Students attend specific films screened in class and/or offered in the International Film Series, and read and write about these films. Recommended prereq., FILM 1502 or 6 hours humanities courses involving critical writing.
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.
Offers students a unique first-hand understanding of the significance of the film festival circuit in the context of global film culture and scholarship. Students will attend Telluride Film Festival screenings, discussions and Q&A sessions. After the festival, weekly screenings of select films from the previous year's festival offer insight into the festival's influence on box-office and the industry's award season.
Analyzes the form and structure of narrative, experimental non-narrative, and documentary films. Familiarizes students with the general characteristics of the classic three-act structure, principles of adaptation, form and content of experimental films, structural approaches, and the basic formal, narrative, and rhetorical strategies of documentary filmmaking. Requisites: Requires prerequisite or corequisite course of FILM 1502 (minimum grade D-). Restricted to Film (FILM or FMST) majors only.
Provides students with artistic foundational hands-on experience in integrated use of media software in both the PC and Mac creative imaging making digital working environments. Includes fundamentals in general computer maintenance, creative and practical audio editing, image management and manipulation, and creative moving image practice. Requisites: Restricted to Film (FILM or FMST) majors only.
Explores, through close reading and original student work, the form and structure of the screenplay from the writer's perspective. Students will begin by analyzing structural and character elements of such screenplays as Chinatown and Witness, then analyze screenplays of their choosing. Students will learn the basics of screenwriting form, then develop and write 10 minutes of an original screenplay. Non-majors admitted with instructor's consent. Requisites: Requires prerequisite or corequisite course of FILM 1502 (minimum grade D-). Restricted to Film (FILM or FMST) majors only.
Covers basic camera, editing, and splicing techniquesfor Super-8 film. Equipment is available at the film studies office for a modest rental fee. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of FILM 1502 (minimum grade D-).
Study of films designed as trilogies, drawing on a wide range of international cinema. Films include Satyajit Ray's Apu Trilogy (India), Krzysztof Kieslowski's Three Colors Trilogy (Poland), Francois Truffaut's Antoine Doinel cycle (France), and Abbas Kiarostami's Iran Trilogy (Iran). Non-majors will need instructor's consent. Requisites: Restricted to Film (FILM or FMST) majors only.
Instructs students in developing a technical and aesthetic understanding of the principles of analog and digital cinematography. Technical, creative and studio critique emphasis on the Bolex 16mm RX and Black Magic Pocket Cinema cameras, advanced composition, grammar and mechanics of cinema editing, film/digital lighting (exposure, latitude) multi-format origination and file management, sync sound techniques, etc. Requisites: Requires prerequisite courses of FILM 1502 and 2000 or 2300 (all minimum grade C). Restricted to FILM (FILM or FMST) majors only.
Surveys the major Asian directors from China, India, Japan, Taiwan, and Vietnam. Recommended prereq., FILM 1502. Non-majors will need instructor's consent. Requisites: Restricted to Film (FILM or FMST) majors only.
Surveys the classics of international cinema from the 1960s to the present. Recommended prereq., FILM 1502. Non-majors will need instructor's consent. Requisites: Restricted to Film (FILM or FMST) majors only.
Includes analysis of independent and experimental animation and an introduction to various animation techniques (object, line, collage, sand or paint on glass, Xerox, cameraless, pixellation, etc.). Students produce exercise films and a final film exploring these techniques. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of FILM 2000 or FILM 2300 (minimum grade D-).
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.
Covers the basics of "Why you need lighting", color temp, as well as camera techniques, lighting theory, and lighting set-ups for still and motion picture film video. Emphasizes hands on as well as theory. Recommended prereq., FILM 1502. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of FILM 2000 or FILM 2300 (minimum grade D-). Restricted to Film (FILM or FMST) majors only.
Historical-aesthetic survey dealing with various styles, movements, genres or national cinemas. Can be taught in conjunction with the appropriate language department. Typical offers are in the French, the German or the Russian films, etc. Also offers detailed approaches to specific styles, subjects or genres: film comedy, melodrama, the Western, women filmmakers, German expressionist cinema, Italian neorealism, etc. May be repeated up to 12 total credit hours within the same term with departmental consent. Non-majors will need instructor's consent. Requisites: Restricted to Film (FILM or FMST) majors only.
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. Recommended requisite, students with 57-180 credits (Juniors or Seniors). Requisites: Restricted to Film (FILM or FMST) majors only.
Intensive survey of Hitchcock's American films from 1940 (Rebecca) to 1964 (Marnie). We will concentrate on in-depth analysis of the most influential and significant films made by the most important movie director of the Hollywood era. We will pay special attention to Hitchcock's deep understanding of the intricacies of film language, style and form in relation to the themes and subjects that interested him: guilt, sex, gender relations, crime and punishment, "mothers". Non-majors will need instructor's consent. Requisites: Restricted to Film (FILM or FMST) majors only.
Offers students both theoretical and practical experience in various specialized areas of cinematic production. Topics vary but include production in the documentary, fictional narrative, animation, computer animation, and experimental genres. May be repeated up to 9 total credit hours. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of FILM 2000 or FILM 2300 (minimum grade D-). Restricted to Film (FILM or FMST) majors only.
Provides a historical and theoretical introduction tothe documentary film. Examines the historical beginnings of documentary film as well as exploring contemporary documentary practice. Canonical moments of documentary history and lesser known examples of documentary film work will be explored. Recommended prereq., FILM 3051. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of FILM 1502 (minimum grade D-).
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. Requisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors) only.
Explores alternative methods of film processing and filmic image manipulation. Through projects, film screenings, lectures and discussions students will learn fine arts approaches to creative control for the moving image. Recommended prereq., FILM 2500. Requisites: Requires prerequisite courses of FILM 1502 and FILM 2000 or FILM 2300 (all minimum grade D-). Restricted to Film (FILM or FMST) majors only.
Presents an aerial survey of the history of Western drama as represented in film: Greek drama, the Elizabethans, Ibsen/Strindberg to O'Neill/Williams, Beckett, etc. Recommended prereq., FILM 3051. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of FILM 1502 (minimum grade D-).
