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5.00 Credits
Introduction to study of film genre. Literary, mythic, and historic aspects of film genre. 270, 271, 272 are designed to be taken as a sequence, but may be taken individually.
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5.00 Credits
An introduction to comparative literary study designed for departmental majors. Examines how literary forms and genres shape our reading of texts; how these forms and genres change over time; and how literary forms and genres manifest themselves in different cultural traditions. Includes theoretical readings and substantial writing.
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5.00 Credits
Introduction to the analysis of film. Covers major aspects of cinematic form: mise en scene, framing and camera movement, editing, and sound and color. Considers how these elements are organized in traditional cinematic narrative and in alternative approaches.
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5.00 Credits
Overview of the main conceptual problems in film criticism such as: “what is a film?”, “what is the relationship between film and reality?”, “does a film have a language?”, “what is the connection between image and sound?” Follows a historical timeline within five individual sections.
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5.00 Credits
Introduction to the history and significance of film genres from the early days of film to the present. Examines a se ion of several genres, drawn from a list including western, melodrama, musical, thriller, road odyssey, film noir, and documentary. Topics include form, ideology, authority, history, innovation, and parody.
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5.00 Credits
Film history from its beginnings in the 1890s through the golden era of silent film in the 1920s. Topics include the invention of major film techniques, the creation of Hollywood and the studios, and movements such as expressionism, constructivism, and surrealism.
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5.00 Credits
Film history from the introduction of sound through the late 1950s. Focuses mostly on the golden age of the Hollywood studios and on alternative developments after World War II in Italy (Neo-Realism), France (the New Wave), and Japan.
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5.00 Credits
Covers the vast changes in filmmaking since 1960. Topics include the continuing influence of the French New Wave, the New German Cinema of the 70s and the “New Hollywood” of the 70s, American independent film of the 80s, and the resurgence of Chinese filmmaking since 1980.
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5.00 Credits
Addresses the latest trends in international filmmaking typically with an emphasis on world cinema and issues of globalization and diaspora. Sometimes taught in conjunction with the Seattle International Film Festival.
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3.00 - 5.00 Credits
Examines the cinema of a particular national, ethnic or cultural group, with films typically shown in the original language with subtitles. Topics ref themes and trends in the national cinema being studied. .
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