COMM 108 - Film Studies/Selected Topics

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College of Marin

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Description:

(1.0 Unit) (No prerequisite. Either one evening a week for six weeks, or six three-hour classes [two weeks], or seventeen and one-half hours on one weekend.) This class offers an intensive survey of a single subject of film study such as influential director, screenwriter, cinematographer, or an influential movement in film history. Subjects of study change, but will include such topics as the following: the Director (Hitchcock, Fellini, Truffaut, Nicholas Ray, Frank Capra); the Screenwriter (Waldo Salt, John Sayles, David Mamet, John Patrick Shanley); Animation (classic, Disney, Fleisher); and Focus on Film Noir, Focus on the Western, Focus on French New Wave, Focus on Italian Neo-Realism, Japanese Cinema, Focus on Third World. Check current schedule for particular focus offered. Communications 108 may be taken more than once for credit provided the same topic is not repeated. (CSU) AA/AS Area C (three units)

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1.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.marin.edu

Phone Number:

(415) 457-8811

Regional Accreditation:

Western Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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