Courses - Fall 2023
CINE
Cinema and Media Studies
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.
CINE283
Iranian Cinema
Cross-listed with: PERS283.
Credit only granted for: PERS283, CINE283 or FILM298B.
Introduction to Iranian cinema, society, and culture. Taught in English.
CINE301
Cinema History I: The Silent Era
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Prerequisite: ENGL245, CINE245, or FILM245; or permission of ARHU-College of Arts & Humanities.
Credit only granted for: CINE301 or FILM301.
Formerly: FILM301.
Examines the development of silent cinema from the 1890s to the early 1930s drawing on at least five distinct national traditions (French, German, Russian, British, and American). Introduces students to key cinematic conventions as they emerged around the world.
CINE319A
Special Topics in Documentary, Animation, Experimental Cinema, and Other Visual Media; David Bowie, Film, and Audio-Visual Media
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Prerequisite: ENGL245, FILM245, CINE245, FILM283, or SLLC283; or permission of instructor. Also offered as ENGL329F. Credit only granted for CINE319A or ENGL329F.
CINE319C
Special Topics in Documentary, Animation, Experimental Cinema, and Other Visual Media; Images of Revolt: Strike, Riot, Uprising
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
CINE319M
Special Topics in Documentary, Animation, Experimental Cinema, and Other Visual Media; Introduction to Filmmaking
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
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.
CINE329T
Special Topics in National/International Cinemas; Sports in Film
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
CINE337
Contemporary Chinese Art and Film
Cross-listed with: ARTH392.
Credit only granted for: ARTH392, FILM329L or CINE337.
Formerly: FILM329L.
Contemporary Chinese art and film are arguably the most vibrant of all national arts at the turn of the millennium and have become the face - both figuratively and literally - of contemporary China, a complex society with historic overlays of Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism, Communism, Post-socialism, and state capitalism. Students will consider a wide range of art forms (painting, photography, video, installation, web-based media, and film) in four broad themes (uses of the past; critiques of power; representations of race, gender, and sexuality; socially engaged art) and explore the complex intertwining of the political, historical, and aesthetic aspects in Chinese contemporary art and film, as well as the multiple contexts in which these artworks are created and circulated.
CINE344
Film and the Fantastic
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: SLLC344.
Credit only granted for: SLLC344, CINE344 or FILM344.
Formerly: FILM344.
Survey of fantastic cinema, encompassing American classics, Hollywood recent productions, and independent films, as well as Asian horror films, anime, and European fantasy.
Prerequisite: ENGL245, FILM245, CINE245, SLLC283, or FILM283; or permission of instructor. Also offered as ENGL329I. Credit granted for ENGL329I or CINE344.
CINE345
The Films of Alfred Hitchcock
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Prerequisite: ENGL245, FILM245, or CINE245; or permission of ARHU-College of Arts & Humanities.
Credit only granted for: CINE345, FILM345 or ENGL329J.
Formerly: FILM345.
An examination of important Hitchcock films from the perspective of innovation, aesthetics, and cultural history.
Prerequisite: ENGL245, FILM245, or CINE245; or permission of ARHU- College of Arts & Humanities. Also offered as CINE345. Credit only granted for FILM345, CINE345 or ENGL329J.
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.
CINE359O
Special Topics in Genres/Auteurs/Cinema Movements; New Wave Cinemas of the Soviet Bloc
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
CINE369N
Special Topics in Film Theories; Voice, Music, Sound
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
CINE369P
Special Topics in Film Theories; Paranoia and Conspiracy Narrative in Contemporary Cinema
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
CINE388
Experiential Learning: Cinema and Media Studies
Credits:
1 - 3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F
CINE411
Experimental Film
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Cross-listed with: SLLC411.
Credit only granted for: SLLC411, CINE411 or FILM411.
Formerly: FILM411.
Introductory survey of European and U.S. American experimental cinema.
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.
CINE429F
Special Topics in National/International Cinemas; Where Truth Lies: Chinese Cinema between Fact and Fiction
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Cross-listed with CHIN418T. Credit only granted for CHIN418T and CINE429F.
This course explores Chinese/Sinophone films and media that unsettle the boundary between fiction and nonfiction in this class. Course materials under discussion draw on a variety of genres, forms, and approaches: reportage, mockumentary, docudrama, found footage, true crime series, crowd-sourced video remix, filmed reenactments, essay film and ephemeral media of various kinds, etc.
This course explores Chinese/Sinophone films and media that unsettle the boundary between fiction and nonfiction in this class. Course materials under discussion draw on a variety of genres, forms, and approaches: reportage, mockumentary, docudrama, found footage, true crime series, crowd-sourced video remix, filmed reenactments, essay film and ephemeral media of various kinds, etc.
CINE441
Italian Cinema I: Neorealism
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Cross-listed with: ITAL436.
Credit only granted for: CINE441, FILM441 or ITAL436.
Formerly: FILM441.
Explores representations of Italy in cinema with special focus on identity formation and the movement of Italian neorealism and post neorealism. Taught in English.
CINE459L
Special Topics in Genres/Auteurs/Cinema Movements; The Transnational Cinema of Ang Lee
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Cross-listed with ARTH489L and WGSS498K. Credit only granted for ARTH489L, CINE459L or WGSS498K.
Students will examine how the award-winning director Ang Lee has been able to explore important issues of culture, gender, race, identity, and values across borders in a transnational world. Films to be studied are from a wide spectrum of genres and may include "The Wedding Banquet," "Sense and Sensibility," "The Ice Storm," "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon," "Hulk," "Brokeback Mountain," "The Life of Pi," and "Gemini Man."
Students will examine how the award-winning director Ang Lee has been able to explore important issues of culture, gender, race, identity, and values across borders in a transnational world. Films to be studied are from a wide spectrum of genres and may include "The Wedding Banquet," "Sense and Sensibility," "The Ice Storm," "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon," "Hulk," "Brokeback Mountain," "The Life of Pi," and "Gemini Man."
CINE499
Directed Study in Cinema and Media Studies
Credits:
1 - 3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
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