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3.00 Credits
Wood (The Writing Program) What is it that draws filmmakers, critics, writers, and scholars back to the films of Alfred Hitchcock, time and time again What shots and frame compositions tempt filmmakers to imitation and homage What narrative themes seduce critics What paradoxes puzzle scholars and writers To what extent is Hitchcock the master of his own films-in the words of film theorists, an auteur as much as a director To what extent did he collaborate with others-screenwriters, composers, actors, cinematographers, and yes, his own wife and daughter-to produce enduring works of art In reading, viewing, analyzing, and writing about films from all periods of Hitchcock's working life, this course will use these questions to shape our understanding of film and film theo ry. This course satisfies thWRIT 125 requirement and counts as a unit toward the major in Cinema and Media Studies. Includes a third session each week. Prerequisites: None Distribution: Arts, Music, Theatre, Film, Video Semester: Fall Unit: 1.0
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Mekuria (Art) Introduction to the principles of video production with emphasis on developing basic skills of recording with a video camera, scripting, di-recting, and editing short videos. Students may register for either CAMS 135 or ARTS 165 and credit will be granted accordingly. Prerequisite: None. Permission of the instructor required. File application found on the department Web site before preregistration. Distribution: Arts, Music, Theatre, Film, Video Semester: Fall, Spring Unit: 1.0
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C. Rogers (Art) This introductory course explores photography as a means of visual communication by producing and analyzing photographic images. Emphasis is on acquiring basic black-and-white technical skills with 35mm cameras and traditional darkroom practices. Class discussions and studio projects address a range of technical, compositional, and aesthetic issues fundamental to image-making. Strong emphasis is on the development of both a technical grasp of the tools and a critical awareness of the medium through assignments and critiques. Stu-dents may register for either CAMS 138 or ARTS 108 and credit will be granted accordingly. Prerequisite: None. Permission of the instructor required. File application found on the department Web site before preregistration. Distribution: Arts, Music, Theatre, Film, Video Semester: Fall, Spring, Summer Unit: 1.0
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Rivera (Art), Olsen (Art) This studio course focuses on the issue of composition in two-dimensional imagery. It introduces the fundamental elements of design (e.g., line, shape, value, space, color) and their function in the process of composition. Studio projects emphasize formal problem-solving skills as a means of achieving more effective visual communication. Weekly assignments given in a variety of media. This course is not digitally based, but students will have the opportunity to use digital media to solve certain problems. Recommended for those interested in pursuing any type of two-dimensional work, including painting, photography or Web design. Students may register for either CAMS 139 or ARTS 109 and credit will be granted accordingly. Prerequisite: None. Not open to seniors except by permission of the instructor. Distribution: Arts, Music, Theatre, Film, Video Semester: Fall, Spring, Summer Unit: 1.0
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3.00 Credits
Wood (The Writing Program) This course examines the energy, experimentation, and aesthetics of pre-sound and early sound cinema, from 1895 through the 1930s, when sound, censorship, and an emerging Hollywood studio system produced a shift from a ?cinema of attraction? (Gunning) to a cinema of narration. The period provides a delicious paradox for the serious student of film: early films are at once strange (in the range of visual styles deployed) and familiar (establishing forms that become commonplace in later cinema-melodrama and expressionism, for exam-ple). The course covers major filmmakers (the Lumières, Meliès, Griffith, Vertov, Eisenstein, Murnau, Keaton and Chaplin, among others) in relation to aesthetic and social theories. Other topics: early Bombay and Shanghai film; modes of production and distribution; the tech-nological development of the cinematic f orm. Prerequisite: CAMS majors: 101, and CAMS 135/ARTS 165, CAMS 138/ARTS 108 or CAMS 139/ARTS 109. Students who entered the College prior to the Fall of 2009 are exempted. For non-majors CAMS 101 is recommended. Distribution: Arts, Music, Theatre, Film, Video Semester: Spring Unit: 1
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3.00 Credits
Song (East Asian Languages and Literatures) This course explores the cinematic conventions and experiments employed by Chinese filmmakers over the past 100 years. Unique Chi-nese film genres such as left-wing melodrama, martial arts films and model play adaptations, as well as the three ?new waves? in China's recent avant-garde cinema, will be examined and discussed. Individual filmic visions and techniques experimented with by important direc-tors such as Fei Mu, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Zhang Yimou and Jia Zhangke will be closely analyzed. Class discussions will aim to help students understand the history, politics, and aesthetics of Chinese cinema. Theoretical aspects of film studies will also be incorporated into class readings and discussions. No prior knowledge of China or film studies is require d. Students may register for either CAMS 203 or CHIN 243 and credit will be granted accordingl y. Prerequisite: None Distribution: Arts, Music, Theatre, Film, Video or Language and Literature Semester: Spring Unit: 1.0
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3.00 Credits
Nolden (German) This course provides a survey of the history of films made by German directors. It introduces the student to the aesthetics and politics of the individual periods of German filmmaking, among them Expressionism, Film in the Third Reich, Postwar Beginnings, and New German Cinema. We will concentrate on films by Lang, Murnau, Riefenstahl, Sierck, Staudte, Akin, Fassbinder, Wenders, and Tykwer. Students may register for either CAMS 204 or GER 280 and credit will be granted accordingly. Prerequisite: None Distribution: Arts, Music, Theatre, Film, Video or Language and Literature Semester: Spring Unit: 1.0
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3.00 Credits
Zimmerman (East Asian Languages and Literatures) From the long take and the pictorial composition to the swirling action of the sword fight, we explore how Japanese directors first adopted and then transformed the language of cinema. We move chronologically, from early silent film to recent independent cinema, and we view films that speak to the concerns of each subsequent generation. Because Japanese directors have created a visual style that counters certain Hollywood conventions, we also devote class time to learning how to read film. Readings from literature and history enhance study. Directors include: Mizoguchi, Ozu, Kurosawa, Oshima, Imamura, Koreeda, and Nishikawa. No previous knowledge of Japan, Japanese, or film studies is required. Students may register for either CAMS 205 or JPN 256 and credit will be granted accordingly. Prerequisite: None Distribution: Arts, Music, Theatre, Film, Video or Language and Literature Semester: Fall Unit: 1.0
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Viano NOT OFFERED IN 2009-10. Many film historians regard the 1960s as the most important decade in the growth of the so-called seventh art. While ubiquitous New Waves were transforming filmic conventions across the globe, cinematic Modernism peaked with the works of such filmmakers as Antonioni, Bergman, and Teshigahara. At the same time, political and avant-garde films were pushing representation's boundaries and mirroring the turbulent creativity of the times. Through an exemplary selection of films from different countries, this course aims to expose students to the works, directors, and movements of ?the decisive decade. ? Prerequisite: CAMS majors: 101, and CAMS 135/ARTS 165, CAMS 138/ARTS 108 or CAMS 139/ARTS 109. Students who entered the College prior to the Fall of 2009 are exempted. For non-majors, CAMS 101 is recommended. Not open to students who have taken CAMS [210]. Distribution: Arts, Music, Theatre, Film, Video Semester: N/O Unit: 1.0
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3.00 Credits
Berman (Art) Photography is so much a part of our private and public lives, and it plays such an influential role in our environment, that we often forget to examine its aesthetics, meanings, and histories. This course provides an introduction to these analyses by examining the history of pho-tography from the 1830s to the present. Considering fine arts and mass media practices, the class will examine the works of individual practitioners as well as the emergence of technologies, aesthetic directions, markets, and meanings. Normally offered in alternate years Students may register for either CAMS 207 or ARTH 226 and credit will be granted accordingly. Prerequisite: None. ARTH 100 and 101 strongly recommended. Distribution: Arts, Music, Theatre, Film, Video Semester: Spring Unit: 1.0
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