FILM 180 Film Culture (Designed for non-majors.)
Considers the development of the film industry and the impact of movies on global popular culture. Class MW 4:00-5:15 Richard Jennings
Screenings M 5:30-8:00
FILM 240 Introduction to Film & Media Studies
Basic concepts of how films convey meaning to viewers and viewers ascribe meaning to films. Class TTH 9:30-10:45 Susan Courtney
Screenings T 5:00-7:30
See Master Schedule for additional evening section.
FILM 300 Film and Media History
Surveys the development of cinema and related media from the 1820s to the present. Attention to the relations among key technological, cultural, and industrial changes, their causes, and consequences. Class MW 2:30-3:45 Shawn Vancour
Screenings M 5:30-8:00
FILM 473 Film and Media Theory and Criticism
To help us understand what screen culture is and has been, and what people have imagined it could be, this course studies the rich history of critical and theoretical writings about film and related media from the 1910s to the present. These offer a diverse body of modern thought (informed by semiotics, Marxism, feminism, critical race studies, technology studies, and more) and a rich repertoire of analytical tools. We’ll closely read the written texts; analyze moving images (e.g., films, TV, websites) through the lenses they offer; and use the moving images in turn to reflect upon, refine, and expand the theories we read. Class TTh 9:30-10:45 Heidi Cooley
Screenings W 7:30-9:30
FILM 511S Sound Studies
This course surveys key issues and debates in contemporary studies of sound media and auditory culture. A decade into what scholars have dubbed the “sonic turn” in film and media studies, our investigations seek to assess the foundations and parameters of this rapidly expanding field and its value for understanding sound media both past and present. Class MW 11:15-12:30 Shawn Vancour
FILM 566S Split Screens: Hollywood in the 1950's & 60s Despite pop mythologies of the 1950s as the era of “Father Knows Best,” Hollywood films from the decade reveal a more unstable cultural landscape. The 1960s, too, were more of a mixed cultural bag than popular memory would have it. And “classical Hollywood” style itself is in this period marked by subtle and dramatic transformations. This course considers ruptures of both kinds, social and aesthetic, to ask what Hollywood can teach us about these significant decades of change (at the movies and in US culture) and about how we remember them. Class TTH 12:30-1:45 Susan Courtney
Screenings T 7:30-9:30
Other Film/Media Courses
MART210 Digital Media Arts Fundamentals
Introduction to the theory and practice of image and sound capture, sequencing, and processing, for photo, video, and Web. Class MWF 1:25-2:15
MART321 Media Writing
Learn conventions and formatting of screenwriting and TV writing. Work out your story completely with compelling characters, exciting twists and fresh approach. And in the following semester, optionally take it into Advanced Screenwriting (MART 521A), Manga and Anime (MART 521C), TV writing MART 521D or other mart classes to execute your project’s script Class TTh 3:30-4:45 Faye Riley
Screenings TTh 5:30-6:45
MART371 The Moving Image
An introduction to video production and related topics in aesthetics, technique, and genre. Section 001 MWF 10:10-11:00 J Tarr Section 002 MWF 11:15-12:05 J Tarr
MART 571B Documentary
This media production course investigates the theory and technique of non-fiction video production within specific historical, political, social, cultural, technological, economic, and artistic contexts. Approaches to non-fiction production are studied and practiced through production assignments, readings, screenings, and discussion. Students complete three production assignments during the semester with the goal of public exhibition and/or community distribution. Prereq: MART 371 Class TTH 2:00- 3:15 Laura Kissel
Screenings T 7:00-9:00
For more Media Arts classes, see the Master Schedule
THEA 575Rehearsal & Performance
An intensive laboratory course in theatrical and media performances. Section 001 TBA
THEA 581 Film as Performance
Study and analysis of film production, performance, and aesthetics. Class MWF 2:30-3:20 Richard Jennings
ENGL 765/HIST 700 Cinema and archives seminar
Motion pictures are archival objects as well a technology for archiving. This coincidence has something to teach us about archives themselves as well as about cinema and the histories in which it has participated. This seminar will ask, first, how, and to what ends, is knowledge produced by means of an archive? We will consider some of the answers philosophers, historians, and film scholars have given to that question. We will next ask about cinema’s participation in the history of the archives. To what projects of archiving has cinema seemed useful? When, how, and with what effects did archiving movies (along with associated documents and objects) become a project in which museums, libraries, and corporations invested resources? To what extent are definitions of cinema as art, as politics, as a business, as news, etc. archive-dependent? The final units of the class will be devoted to the possibilities for research afforded by two world-class archives in our own backyard: the Irvin Department of Rare Books and Special Collections Department and the Moving Image Research Collections. Students will write seminar papers drawing on the resources of one or both. Projects might engage the archives in the investigation of particular topics in cinema history. Alternatively, they might provide examples for theoretical and/or historical considerations of archiving as a practice. Class T 2:30-5:00 Mark Cooper
NOTE: 500-level courses above can be taken for graduate credit.
