Courses - Spring 2025
CINE
Cinema and Media Studies
Open Seats as of
12/21/2024 at 10:30 PM
CINE245
Film Form and Culture
Cross-listed with: ENGL245.
Credit only granted for: ENGL245, CINE245 or FILM245.
Formerly: FILM245.
Introduction to film as art form and how films create meaning. Basic film terminology; fundamental principles of film form, film narrative, and film history. Examination of film technique and style over past one hundred years. Social and economic functions of film within broader institutional, economic, and cultural contexts.
CINE280
Cross-listed with: CMLT280.
Credit only granted for: CINE280, FILM298D or CMLT280.
Formerly: FILM298D.
Comparative study of a variety of film traditions from around the world, including cinema from Hollywood, Europe, Asia and developing countries, with a stress on different cultural contexts for film-making and viewing.
CINE282
Cross-listed with: AMST213.
Credit only granted for: AMST213, HONR219F, CINE282 or FILM298V.
Formerly: HONR219F, FILM298V.
We will examine the complex, changing, and ever-present representations of heroes and villains in American film. Beginning with a foundational understanding of how heroes and, conversely, villains have been defined through classic Hollywood film, we will explore how these definitions have shifted throughout the 20th and 21st century in various narrative genres, including westerns, war films, film noir, fantasy, science fiction, and, of course, superhero movies. In particular, we will be focusing on how the hero and villain maintain or disrupt specific cultural ideologies concerning race/ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and ability. This course will examine how these various ideologies have evolved throughout the 20th and 21st century, impacting the ways in which heroes and villains are both represented in American film and perceived by diverse audiences. Finally, we will examine our own complicated and sometimes troubling identification with these heroes, even when they might stand in stark contrast to our cultural values and identities.
CINE302
Cinema History II: The Sound Era
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Prerequisite: ENGL245, FILM245, or CINE245.
Restriction: Must have permission of the Film Studies program.
Credit only granted for: CINE302 or FILM302.
Formerly: FILM302.
Introduction to the international history of cinema from sound around 1930 to the present.
Priority given to majors in Cinema and Media Studies.
CINE310
Introduction to Filmmaking 1
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Restriction: Permission of the Cinema and Media Studies program. Repeatable to 6 credits.
Credit only granted for: CINE319M or CINE310.
Formerly: CINE319M.
This practice-based course offers an introduction to the foundational skills, techniques, and principles of filmmaking. Prior film or video production experience is not necessary.
Priority given to Cinema and Media Studies majors.
CINE319F
Special Topics in Documentary, Animation, Experimental Cinema, and Other Visual Media; Cartoons on the Page and on the Screen
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Prerequisite: ENGL245, FILM245, CINE245, CINE283, FILM283, or SLLC283; or permission of instructor. Cross-listed with ENGL329B. Credit only granted for CINE319F, FILM319F or ENGL329B.
CINE319O
Special Topics in Documentary, Animation, Experimental Cinema, and Other Visual Media; Animation and Cinema: Mixing Animation with Live Footage
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Explores the long-lasting dialogue between live-action filmmaking and animation to understand the added layer and meaning gained by integrating animation - a highly stylized form of filmmaking - and live-action footage. This is a hybrid studio/lecture course. Students will collaborate in teams to create a scene that integrates live footage with animation.
CINE319U
Special Topics in Documentary, Animation, Experimental Cinema, and Other Visual Media; How Cinema Judges Us
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Examining film and law/justice as a compelling twist. Responding to the crisis of living in a post-truth world but if truth is indeed dead, who or what killed it? And how does it meet its end or resurrection through the intersections between cinema and trials? Exploring the trial not solely as a mechanical site of legal battles, but as a media form, a rich visual and spatial metaphor, and an aesthetic mediating system weaving its way through global cinema, documentaries, animation, experimental moving images, amateur video, and activist media.
CINE329F
Special Topics in National/International Cinemas; African-American Music in Film
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Prerequisite: ENGL245, FILM245, CINE245,SLLC283, CINE283 or FILM283; or permission of instructor. Cross-listed with ENGL329Q. Credit only granted for CINE329F or ENGL329Q.
CINE329N
Special Topics in National/International Cinemas; Politics and Memory on Screen: A History of Latin American Cinema
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Examine one or more national cinematic traditions (including Hollywood cinema), or may look across traditions comparatively, for example at international and/or transnational phenomena. Content varies.
CINE332
Brazilian Cinema
Cross-listed with: PORT332.
Credit only granted for: PORT332, CINE332, or FILM332.
Formerly: FILM332.
Brazilian films from the late 1950s to the present with a special view to the relationship between cinema, society, historical dates, and social changes in Brazil. Taught in English.
CINE335
Transnational Chinese Cinema
Cross-listed with: ARTH391.
Credit only granted for: ARTH391 or CINE335.
Chinese cinema has made a big impact on contemporary world film culture. This course will introduce students to the films directed by some of the most representative filmmakers working in different geopolitical locations (mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong) and the Chinese diaspora. The films of these directors, in a spectrum of genres, themes, and styles, have inspired global scholarship, not only in visual culture and cinema, but also in the study of women's issues, gender and ethnic studies, as well as the fields of adaptation and intermedia studies. Students will explore these films in their socio-historical and artistic contexts, considering the influences and innovations that have shaped them and analyzing their reception by audiences and critics. After reading about the films they view, and participating in class discussions, students will be ready to complete their analytical written assignments, for which they will critically examine the films by applying key concepts such as gender, sexuality, race, gaze, style, representation, power, diaspora, etc.
CINE336
CINE342
Film Comedy
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Prerequisite: ENGL245, FILM245, or CINE245; or permission of ARHU-School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures department.
Cross-listed with: SLLC342.
Credit only granted for: SLLC342, CINE342, or FILM342.
Formerly: FILM342.
Comedy as a specific cinematic genre.
CINE352
The Baddest Decade: The 1970s in American Film and American History
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Cross-listed with: HIST304.
Credit only granted for: CINE352, FILM352 or HIST304.
Formerly: FILM352.
The history of the United States and of its cinema in the 1970s.
CINE353
Spike Lee's Joints
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Cross-listed with: AASP370.
Credit only granted for: AASP370 or CINE353.
In offering extended formal considerations of Spike Lee's cinematic oeuvre--in particular his uses of light, sound, and color--this course is interested in how various modes of critical inquiry can enable or broaden our cultural, political, or historical engagement with a film. We will pay special attention to the question of what it means to encapsulate a specific cultural moment, particularly in relation to differing demands of fictional and non-fictional representation, in sound and image. As well, we will attend to how Lee's aesthetic techniques, cultural politics, and wide-ranging critique of the American racial caste system helps us think about the role of film in ongoing struggles for racial justice.
Cross-listed with AASP370. Credit only granted for AASP370 or CINE353.
CINE359A
Special Topics in Genres/Auteurs/Cinema Movements; Writing About Cinema
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Examine narrative cinema from the perspective of content (themes, issues, structures) and style through the lens of genre, auteurship (a concept of authorship in film studies), and/or historical aesthetic movements that have been influential in the development of cinema as an art and film studies as a field. Content varies.
CINE359C
Special Topics in Genres/Auteurs/Cinema Movements; Disaster Cinema
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Exploration of disaster films in Hollywood and global cinema during the past century. The course will examine disaster films, such as Godzilla, King Kong, and Contagion, as a form of cinema's critical encounter with war, colonialism, and scientific development.
CINE359E
Special Topics in Genres/Auteurs/Cinema Movements; Hollywood in the Golden Age, 1930-1950
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Prerequisite: ENGL245, FILM245, CINE245, CINE283, FILM283 or SLLC283; or permission of instructor. Cross-listed with ENGL329E. Credit only granted for ENGL329E or CINE359E.
CINE369K
Special Topics in Film Theories; Who Gets Final Cut: Director's Cuts, Studio Cuts, and Editions Both Special and Otherwise
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Prerequisite: ENGL245, FILM245, CINE245, CINE283, FILM283 or SLLC283; or permission of instructor. Cross-listed with ENGL329K. Credit only granted for ENGL329K or CINE369K.
CINE376
Writing the Feature Film
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F
Prerequisite: ENGL275, ARHU275, ARHU375 or THET340; or permission of instructor.
Cross-listed with: ARHU376.
Credit only granted for: ARHU376 or CINE376.
Examines the creative process of developing and writing a feature-length screenplay. Students will experience a collaborative workshop environment, researching stories, pitching feature film ideas, creating a logline, developing a detailed beat sheet and, ultimately, writing a complete first draft of the screenplay.
CINE388
Experiential Learning: Cinema and Media Studies
Credits:
1 - 3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F
CINE415
Advanced Filmmaking
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Prerequisite: CINE245, CINE310.
Focus is placed on the process of moving from film script through production to a complete film with an emphasis on conceptualization, aesthetics, advanced production techniques, directing, and finishing touches. Students are expected to produce an original film project. Cameras and software are provided, and significant collaborative work is required.
CINE419E
Special Topics in Documentary, Animation, Experimental Cinema, and Other Media; Digital Storytelling with Archives
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F
Prerequisite: Instructor permission required. Priority given to majors in Cinema and Media Studies. Cross-listed with MITH498E. Credit only granted for CINE419E or MITH498E.
This course explores the practice of digital storytelling with the creative reuse of archival audiovisual materials. Students will write a media autobiography about their relationship to media throughout their lives (film, TV, radio, the internet, cell phones, video games, and more). One entry will be turned into a final media project - either a short documentary film, video essay, podcast, or digital exhibit - utilizing archival footage from select sources.
This course explores the practice of digital storytelling with the creative reuse of archival audiovisual materials. Students will write a media autobiography about their relationship to media throughout their lives (film, TV, radio, the internet, cell phones, video games, and more). One entry will be turned into a final media project - either a short documentary film, video essay, podcast, or digital exhibit - utilizing archival footage from select sources.
CINE419P
Special Topics in Documentary, Animation, Experimental Cinema, and Other Media; Cinema and Media Preservation at UMD
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F
Prerequisite: Two English courses in literature or permission of department. ENGL245, FILM245, CINE245, CINE283, FILM283, or SLLC283; or permission of instructor. Cross-listed with ENGL468B. Credit only granted for CINE419P or ENGL468B.
CINE423
Women and French Cinema
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Cross-listed with: FREN423.
Credit only granted for: FREN423, CINE423 or FILM423.
Formerly: FILM423.
Cultural identity, social boundaries and gender roles in French film as well as introduction to film textual analysis and diverse film theories (semiotics, film and psychoanalysis, feminist film theory, structuralism, narratology, spectatorship and cultural studies). Taught in French.
CINE429Q
Special Topics in National/International Cinemas; Ideology of Stereotyping: American and Middle Eastern Film aTelevision
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Cross-listed with ARAB410. Credit only granted for ARAB410 or CINE429Q.
CINE429U
Special Topics in National/International Cinemas; Chinese Cinemas and the Underground
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Cross-listed with CHIN418N. Credit only granted for CHIN418N or CINE429U.
This course digs into the hidden world of film and media across PRC China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and other diasporic Sinophone areas. Issues tobe explored include cinema's relationship to the Chinese Hell, revolutionary espionage, and tunnel warfare, as well as guerilla filmmaking, media piracy, subversive data mining, and forms of secret voices, forbidden images, and unofficial memories. Taught in English.
This course digs into the hidden world of film and media across PRC China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and other diasporic Sinophone areas. Issues tobe explored include cinema's relationship to the Chinese Hell, revolutionary espionage, and tunnel warfare, as well as guerilla filmmaking, media piracy, subversive data mining, and forms of secret voices, forbidden images, and unofficial memories. Taught in English.
CINE459A
Special Topics in Genres/Auteurs/Cinema Movements; The Heist Film
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
A survey of the heist film genre from its emergence around 1950 to the present. Focused primarily on Hollywood production, the course also includes discussion of the development of the heist film as a popular international genre.
CINE469E
Special Topics in Film Theories II; Representing the Holocaust
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Cross-listed with JWST419C. Credit only granted for CINE469E or JWST419C.
An examination of cinematic representations of the Jewish Holocaust in the 20th century, within the overlapping contexts of three critical lines of investigation: the efficacy and social function of aesthetic representation; the expressiveness of film in relation and contrast to other media (graphic literature, prose & poetry, photography); and genocide as a broad cinematic theme (Rwanda, Cambodia, slavery and native genocidein the Americas).
An examination of cinematic representations of the Jewish Holocaust in the 20th century, within the overlapping contexts of three critical lines of investigation: the efficacy and social function of aesthetic representation; the expressiveness of film in relation and contrast to other media (graphic literature, prose & poetry, photography); and genocide as a broad cinematic theme (Rwanda, Cambodia, slavery and native genocidein the Americas).
CINE499
Directed Study in Cinema and Media Studies
Credits:
1 - 3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
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