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Undergraduate Film

2022 Fall Term

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3 Units

VISUAL CULTURE IN AMERICA

FILM 110

This course explores the history and enduring significance of visual culture in America. Themes the course will explore include the role of technology in visual culture, modern consumerism, cinematic representation, and the postmodern digital collage of contemporary culture.


3 Units

GENDER AND FILM

FILM 266

Students will learn to critically view, consider, and describe films, with special attention to representations of sexuality and gender. The course will include instruction in gender theory and methods for deploying gender analysis in the context of film studies.


3 Units

CRITICAL WRITING IN MULTIMEDIA CONTEXTS

FILM 272

In this course, students will learn to conceptualize, structure, and produce analytical writing in multiple forms within digital contexts. Since such contexts are often multi-modal--layered with visual images as well as sound--instruction will include the analysis and appropriation of the visual and auditory in critical writing.


3 Units

FILM GENRE

FILM 350

Film Genre examines the conventions, development, and cultural contexts of a rotating selection of film genres, with a focus on the stylistic innovations, recurrent themes, and varying interpretations of representative films and/or filmmakers. Repeatable with change of instructor.


3 Units

TOPICS IN FILM STUDIES

FILM 358

This course considers important issues in Film Studies not fully addressed in regular film courses. Topics offered will be of particular social and academic importance, and the course will include instruction in both reading and writing film criticism. Repeatable with change of instructor.


3 Units

SCREENWRITING

FILM 376

Practical experience in writing scripts for cinema and/or television, with special emphasis on the creative, theoretical, and critical processes.


3 Units

CINEMA AUTEURS

FILM 483

In Cinema Auteurs, students will learn to analyze film in international contexts. The course will either focus on a director whose work crosses national and language boundaries or compare two established film directors, one working in English and one working in another language. Repeatable with topic change.


1-3 Units

INDEPENDENT STUDY

FILM 498

Study of a selected topic or topics under the direction of a faculty member. Repeatable.

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