Undergraduate Film
Undergraduate Film
2021 Spring Term
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
QUEER CINEMA
FILM 374
In Queer Cinema, students will deploy analyses of gender and sexuality that respond to the possibilities and limitations of the medium. Queer Cinema is appropriate for any student who wishes to learn how to apply complex theories of gender representation and sexual identity to the analysis of visual narratives.
SCREENWRITING
FILM 376
Practical experience in writing scripts for cinema and/or television, with special emphasis on the creative, theoretical, and critical processes.
FILM THEORY
FILM 485
In this course, students will learn how film theory developed, study the work of major film theorists, and analyze specific films using sophisticated theoretical lenses. Topics will vary
INDEPENDENT STUDY
FILM 498
Study of a selected topic or topics under the direction of a faculty member. Repeatable.