(3 lecture, 1 film screening) Co-requisite: Film 121. Learning to analyze film and appreciate film as art by looking at a variety of styles, genres, and ideological directions in Hollywood and non-Hollywood films. (LAC, gtP)
Co-requisite FILM 120. Required once per week screening time to complement Film 120.
(3 lecture, 1 film screening) Co-requisite: FILM 220. a survey of film history from its beginnings to 1945, focusing on cinema's development from aesthetic, social, technological, and economic perspectives. Includes selected issues in film theory.
(3 lecture, 1 film screening) Co-requisite: FILM 221. A survey of cinema from 1945 to the present day. This course will study innovations in technology and production as well as formal developments in narrative, editing, cinematography, and sound.
Co-requisite FILM 210. Required once per week screening time to complement FILM 210.
Co-requisite FIM 211. Required once per week screening time to complement FILM 211.
(3 lecture, 1 film screening) Prerequisites: FILM 120 and an additional 3 credits of coursework with the FILM prefix. Co-requisite FILM 311. A historical survey of film theories and criticism, including formalist and structuralist, psychoanalytic, feminist, and queer theory. Genre theory and theories of spectator-ship and audience response will also be considered.
Co-requisite FILM 310. Required once per week film screening time to complement FILM 310.
(3 lecture, 1 film screening) Co-requisite FILM 321. This course will allow students to study a particular area of film criticism, history, or theory, or consider a specific national cinema. Repeatable, maximum of nine credits, under different subtitles.
Corequisite: FILM 320. Required once per week screening time to complement FILM 320.
(3 lecture, 1 film screening) Co-requisite FILM 331. An introduction to key theories and methods of analysis in genre studies or auteur theory, focusing on a particular genre or a particular director. Repeatable, maximum of nine credits, under different subtitles.
Co-requisite FILM 330. Required once per week film screening time to complement FILM 330.
Prerequisite: FILM 120. This hands-on course introduces students to the basics of the short-film production process: from scripting, development, shooting, editing, to marketing.