FILM 180: Film Culture Does not count toward the film studies major or minor. Considers the development of the film industry and the impact of the movies on global popular culture. Multiple times and instructors available, please consult the Master Schedule for details.
FILM 240: Introduction to Film Studies
Basic concepts of how films convey meaning to viewers and viewers ascribe meaning to films. SECT: 001
TTH
2:00 PM – 3:15 PM
M 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM (Screening) SECT: 002
MW
3:35 PM – 4:50 PM
M
7:00 PM – 9:00 PM (Screening) See Master Schedule for details of evening/Fort Jackson sections.
FILM 366/ENGL 475: History of Cinema II
Survey of international cinema from 1945 to the present.
TTH
12:30 PM – 1:45 PM
TH 7:15 PM – 9:15 PM (Screening)
FILM 473/ENGL 473: Film Theory
Theories of film from the 1910's to the present; early debates over the aesthetics of film, its debts to and departures from other media; more recent accounts of how cinema organizes desire and shapes perceptions of reality (territories, populations, governance); consideration of cinema's possible futures.
MW
11:15 AM – 12:30 PM, Cooper
T 5:00 PM – 7:30 PM (Screening)
FILM 555/ARTH 555: Documentary Film
History, theory and practices of documentary film studied via screening, readings, and lectures. Students are encouraged (but not required) to enroll simultaneously in MART 553, Documentary Production, as these courses will be taught in tandem.
TTH 11:00 AM – 12:15 PM, Cooley
W 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM (Screening)
FILM 566G/ENGL 566G: Science Fiction
Covers a variety of sci-fi films from the 1920's-2000s. Considers sf as history and political allegory; sf as a space of utopia and dystopia; sf and the metaphysics of time, space and consciousness; sf's interactions with other genres; and sf fandom.
TTH
3:30 PM – 4:45 PM, Hark
W
7:15 PM – 9:15 PM (Screening)
FILM 566F/ENGL 566F: The South on Film
What does the American South look and sound like in popular and independent cinema? What myths of region, race, class, nation, gender, and sexuality circulate with such films? How have such films functioned in US culture more generally to imagine and work through, remember and forget, crucial histories and conflicts of the entire nation?
MW
2:30 PM – 3:45 PM, Courtney
M 4:00 PM – 7:00 PM (Screening)
FILM 598A/GERM 580A: WWII in German Film
The problematic process of "overcoming the past" has been a major theme in German culture since the end of World War II. This course considers the role of film in this process. When did Germans start making films about World War II, and how do they portray themselves and their enemies? What are the implications of such representations over time?
MW
12:45 PM – 2:00 PM, Vazsonyi
M 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM (Screening)*
*occasional Tuesday screenings 7:00-10:00
FILM 566T/SPCH 499B: TV Criticism
Surveys the methods and processes of critically analyzing the content, production, and consumption of American television programming. Studies TV as a unique message generating system; investigates relationships among TV, culture, and society; improves skills, written and oral, of critical TV viewers.
TTH 9:30 AM – 10:45 AM, Fenske
TH 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM (Screening)
Other Film/Media Courses
*See Major and Minor requirements, or an advisor, for which of these courses apply to Film Studies major and minor.
ANTH 291P: East Asian Popular Culture
Considers mass media such as film, music, television programming, comic books, and other related topics in Japan, the PRC, and Taiwan. Also includes theoretical examinations of cultural hybridity, colonial pasts, alternate modernities, local vs. transnational space, and the adoption and adaptation of foreign influences.
TTh
11:00 AM – 12:15 PM, Moskowitz
ANTH 570: Ethnographic Film Focus on films and writings by about five key ethnographic filmmakers: Jean Rouch, John Marshall, Robert Gardner, Timothy Asch and Hu Tai-Li (Taiwan).
W
11:15 AM – 1:45 PM, Heider/Moskowitz
Screening Times:TBA
FREN 397: The French Film Experience
Introduces the history of French film with special emphasis on the aesthetic appreciation of films in their artistic and cultural context.
M
1:25 PM – 2:40 PM, Warehime
W
1:25 PM – 3:30 PM (Screening)
MART 341: Introduction to Audio Art
Theoretical, artistic, and historical conceptualization of audio as an independent art form. Production skills include recording, editiing, processing and sound for film.
M
3:35 PM – 5:05 PM, Milutis
MART 371: The Moving Image
Advance communicative elements of moving images including editing patterns and the grammar of film and video. SECT: 001
TTH
8:00 AM – 9:15 AM, Kissel SECT: 002
TTH
9:30 A M – 10:45 AM, Kissel
M
7:00 PM – 9:00 PM (Screening)
MART 541: Advance Audio Arts (Prereq: MART 341 or consent of instructor)
Audio for media production; midi applications and synchronization methods using time code; digital audio software.
T
4:00 PM – 7:00 PM, Milutis
MART 553: Documentary Production (Prereq: MART 371)
Theory and practice of documentary media production. Students are highly encouraged to enroll simultaneously in FILM555/ARTH555, on the history and theory of documentary film, as these courses will be taught in tandem.
TTH
2:00 PM – 3:15 PM, Kissel
W
5:00 PM – 7:00 PM (Screening)
SPAN 380B/LASP 398B: Hispanic Film & Culture
Spanish American cultures through literature and film.
TTH
12:30 PM – 1:45 PM, Lagos
SPAN 499D/LASP 398D: Caribbean Literature & Film
Explores issues of race, identity and nation from the Conquest to presents. Considers topics from slavery to Americanism and anti-imperialism.
TTH
9:30 AM – 10:45 AM, Camacho
Graduate Courses
NOTE: All 500-level courses above can also be taken for graduate credit.
ENGL 765A/HIST 700A: Cinema and the Archives
Motion pictures are archival objects as well a technology for achiving a-- coincidence that promises to teach us about archives themselves as well as about cinema and the histories in which it has participated. The seminar will proceed from interdisciplinary consideration of how knowledge is produced by means of an archive to the practical work of using cinematic archives in research. Students are expected to produce seminar papers that will lead to publication.
M
2:30 PM – 5:00 PM, Cooper
S
7:00 PM – 9:00 PM (Screening)
