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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
Provides a comparative study of major international film movements from 1960 to the present. Studies selected films by representative contemporary directors. Includes lectures, screenings, and discussions.
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4.00 Credits
Explores the movement from modernist concern with the art object to postmodern concerns with subjectivity and spectatorship, race, and gender. Requires a paper using formalist analysis and later revision using cultural analysis, psychoanalysis, philosophy of perception, race studies. Also offers students an opportunity to learn research methods in cinema studies and perform a metacritical review of their own work and to present their findings from film journals, databases, Web sites, blogs. Presents the relation of perception to reality; levels of representational realness; reception theory; digitalization in its relation to movement and meaning. Seeks to enable students to recognize structures and problems for analysis in a film and to apply appropriate theoretical models to analyze these structures.
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4.00 Credits
Uses selected films to investigate psychological subjects including human development over the life cycle (particularly childhood and adolescence), family dynamics, sexuality, and psychopathology (trauma, anxiety and eating disorders, and psychosis).
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4.00 Credits
Surveys the emergence and development of the film industry in the USSR. Examines the political, economic, ideological, and artistic sources of Soviet cinema and their relationship to Russian culture and history. Directors considered include Eisenstein, Vertov, Pudovkin, Dovzhenko, Kozintsev, Kalatozov, and Tarkovsky.
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4.00 Credits
Considers a specific genre, style, or director in American film. Topics could include the western, film noir, or comedy of remarriage; a director such as Martin Scorsese or Ida Lupino; or a group of directors (independent film, women directors).
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4.00 Credits
Explores the nature and possibilities of the psychoanalytic interpretation of film, demonstrating that such an approach offers an additional dimension to the analysis of a work of art. Focuses on elements in the work that are derivative of unconscious processes, especially fantasies, dreams, symbolism, and imagery. Discusses material in the works studied that relates to neurotic conflicts, character structure and formation, interpersonal relationships, and distortions in psychological development.
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4.00 Credits
Covers special topics in cinema studies.
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4.00 Credits
Covers special topics in cinema studies.
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4.00 Credits
Studies international directors, or the cinema of a specific country or ethnic group outside the United States. Students meet for weekly screenings, discussions, and lectures.
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4.00 Credits
Studies a selection of major modern films from around the world from a thematic, cultural, and historical perspective. Special attention is given to political, social, ethical, and psychological issues, as well as to the way common human themes emerge in quite diverse cultures. Also covers the basic procedures of film interpretation.
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