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3.00 Credits
Every year. Fall 2006. TRICIA WELSCH. An introduction to a variety of methods used to study motion pictures, with consideration given to films from different countries and time periods. Examines techniques and strategies used to construct films, including mise-en-scène, editing, sound, and the orchestration of film techniques in larger formal systems. Surveys some of the contextual factors shaping individual films and our experiences of them (including mode of production, genre, authorship, and ideology). No previous experience with film studies is required. Attendance at weekly evening screenings is required.
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Fall 2007. TRICIA WELSCH.
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Every other fall. Fall 2007. TRICIA WELSCH. Examines the development of film from its origins to the American studio era. Includes early work by the Lumières, Méliès, and Porter, and continues with Griffith, MurnauEisenstein, Chaplin, Keaton, Stroheim, Pudovkin, Lang, Renoir, and von Sternberg. Special attention is paid to the practical and theoretical concerns over the coming of sound. Attendance at weekly evening screenings is required.
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Every other spring. Spring 2008. TRICIA WELSCH. A consideration of the diverse production contexts and political circumstances influencing cinema history in the sound era. National film movements to be studied include Neorealism, the French New Wave, and the New German Cinema, as well as the coming of age of Asian and Australian film. This course also explores the shift away from studio production in the United States, the major regulatory systems, and the changes in popular film genres. Attendance at weekly evening screenings is required.
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Spring 2007. TRICIA WELSCH. Explores American culture and history by looking at studio- and independently-produced films. Topics include sex and race relations; ethnicity and the American Dream; work and money and their role in self-definition; war and nostalgia; and celebrity and the role of Hollywood in the national imagination. Attendance at weekly evening screenings is required. Prerequisite: One of the following: Film Studies 101, 201, or 202.
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VPA.The Films of Alfred Hitchcock
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3.00 Credits
Fall 2008. TRICIA WELSCH. Surveys the first hundred years of British cinema from the silent period to contemporary films. Topics covered: invention of cinema and patterns of movie-going in the UK; work of important directors and producers (Alfred Hitchcock, Carol Reed, Alexander Korda); changes brought by World War II; the Angry Young Men of the '50s and '60s; and recentdevelopments ("heritage" films, postcolonial perspectives, Scottish film). Attendance atweekly evening screenings is required. Prerequisite: One of the following: Film Studies 101, 201, or 202.
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Spring 2009. TRICIA WELSCH. Considers the adaptation of short stories, novels, and plays into films, as well as work by major writers directly for the screen. Examines the differing needs and priorities of writers working in different formats, and the relation of readers to screen adaptations. Writers may include Shelley, Bront , Fowles, Pinter, McEwen, Hardy, Woolf, Forster, Shakespeare, Austen, Dickens. Attendance at weekly evening screenings is required. Prerequisite: One of the following: Film Studies 101, 201, or 202.
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THE DEPARTMENT.
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3.00 Credits
Spring 2008. TRICIA WELSCH. Considers both mainstream and independent films made by or about gays and lesbians. Four intensive special topics each semester, which may include classic Hollywood's stereotypes and euphemisms; the power of the box office; coming of age and coming out; the social problem film; key figures; writing history through film; queer theory and queer aesthetics; revelation and revaluations of film over time; autobiography and documentary; the AIDS imperative. Writing intensive; attendance at evening film screenings is required. (Same as Gender and Women's Studies 310.) Prerequisite: one previous course in Film Studies or permission of the instructor. Note: This course is offered as part of the curriculum in Gay and Lesbian Studies.
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