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3.00 Credits
This course explores the history and theory of documentary practices in film and video: the epistemological issues and critical debates surrounding documentary attempts to depict and/or comment on "reality," theimplications of cinematic technique and style for documentary representation and function, and the place of documentary representation in social, political and cultural discourses about nation, race, gender, sexuality, and class. The course integrates critical readings on documentary history and theory and viewings and discussions of relevant documentary films and videos. Recommended prerequisite: Humanities and Media and Cultural Studies 128, Film Analysis and Visual Culture. Every year. (4 credits)
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3.00 Credits
This course provides an overview of the history of film up through the release of Citizen Kane, examining aesthetic, industrial, social, and theoretical topics in a variety of national and cultural contexts. Discussions, lectures, and screenings emphasize commercial and avant-garde styles and their determinants. What is the style now referred to as the "classical Hollywood cinema " Why did it materialize What alternatives were there Thecourse explores issues of racism and gender as well as connections between the history of film and the modernization of European and U.S. culture. Several papers are required. Prerequisite: sophomore status or permission of instructor. Recommended prerequisite: Humanities and Media and Cultural Studies 128, Film Analysis and Visual Culture. Alternate years. (4 credits)
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3.00 Credits
This course provides an overview of the history of film from the early 1940s, examining aesthetic, industrial, social, and theoretical topics in a variety of national and cultural contexts. Discussions, lectures, and screenings emphasize international commercial and alternative styles and their determinants. Why and how did alternative styles develop against and within the Hollywood system The course explores issues of racism and gender as well as connections between the history of film and postwar transformations, with particular attention to the effects on filmmaking of the Cold War in the United States and of post colonial struggles in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Several papers are required. Prerequisite: sophomore status or permission of instructor. Humanities and Media and Cultural Studies 248, Film History, 1893-1941, is not a prerequisite, but students who have completed that course will be encouraged to engage in independent research. Recommended prerequisite: Humanities and Media and Cultural Studies 128, Film Analysis and Visual Culture. Alternate years. (4 credits)
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3.00 Credits
The politics and sociology of Soviet Russian culture from the October Revolution to the fall of communism. For each period in Soviet history, changes in the production and consumption of culture will be considered with specific examples to be discussed. Topics dealt with in the course include the role of mass media in society, popular participation in "totalitarian" societies, and culture as a political tool. Popular films, newspapers andmagazines, songs, radio and TV programs, etc., will serve to analyze the policies that inspired them and the popular reactions (both loyal and dissenting) they evoked. No prerequisites. Taught in English. Alternate years. (4 credits)
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4.00 Credits
Since the 18th century to the 1990s war with Chechnia, contradictory views of Russian empire building have been reflected in Russian literature. Students first explore recurring Russian ideas of empire, such as "Moscow the Third Rome," and "Eurasianism," as well as the constructs of East-West as factors in Russian identity thinkingThe course focuses on the Caucasus region, Russia's "Oriental" south, starting with a brief history of imperiaexpansion into the area and concentrating on its literary expression in travelogues, Classicist and Romantic poetry, Oriental tales, short stories, and novels. We will ponder general "orientalist" imagery and stereotyping(the noble savage, the brave tribesman, the free-spirited Cossack, the sensual woman, the imperial nobleman/peasant, the government functionary, and "virgin" territory) together with ideas of nation and identitybased on this specific region. We will read classics of Russian literature (Pushkin, Lermontov, Tolstoy, Tsvetaeva), but also lesser known authors, some justly and others unjustly forgotten by the canon (Osnobishin, Elena Gan, Iakubovich, Rostopchina). We will supplement our literary readings with a variety of critical and historical texts, as well as films. In English. Alternate years. Not offered 2008-2009. (4 credits)
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3.00 Credits
This course provides an overview of the key concepts and theories that have informed sociological perspectives on the complex and varied dimensions of human sociability. Class readings, discussions, and assignments explore the contributions of classical and contemporary sociologists to ongoing debates over the origins and nature of the great transformation: the transition from feudal, agrarian societies to modern, industrialized ones governed by emergent nation-states. The course also examines contemporary revisions and extensions of classical theories accompanying the reconstruction of the political, economic, and cultural landscapes of modern societies in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Further, the course surveys recent trends in theoretical scholarship devoted to understanding important social issues of contemporary relevance. Prerequisite: one 100-level course in sociology, Humanities, Media and Cultural Studies 110 (Text and Power), or permission of the instructor. Every year. (4 credits)
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4.00 Credits
We know the world watches a different war-but just how different and why In this highly methodological and analytical course, we will follow two news networks (ideally CNN and Al-Jazeera) for a semester and analyze them using course concepts for analyzing news (frames, sources, languages) and contrast different theories for explaining the shape of news (from elite domination, political ideologies, cultural difference, and media ownership to journalistic routines). Alternate years. (4 credits)
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3.00 Credits
This course explores a variety of critical approaches to the representation of gender and sexuality in film and video, including psychoanalytic feminist film theory and criticism, gay and lesbian studies, queer theory, narrative analysis, ideological critique and cultural studies of gender and sexuality in relation to race, nation, and class. How have social constructs about gender and sexuality been promulgated and/or contested in film and video within both mainstream and avant-garde contexts of cultural production How have these constructs functioned to uphold and/or challenge other forms of social stratification or privilege In asking these questions, the course considers a wide range of issues, including drag, camp, spectatorship, identity and identification, the gaze, assimilation, social change, body politics, realism, and pornography. Written work emphasizes the close analysis of film texts. Prerequisites: sophomore standing and previous experience with one of the following fields: women's, gender and sexuality studies, cultural studies and/or media studies, or permission of the instructor. Alternate years. Not offered 2008-2009. (4 credits)
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4.00 Credits
This interdisciplinary course will employ the methodologies of cultural and media studies within an historical framework to ask: What roles did "race" (the presence of diverse races; the relationships among those groups ofpeople; the construction and representation of racial identities; the linking of material privileges and power to racial locations) play in the development of the United States How have relationships of class, gender, ethnicity, and sexuality been linked to "race" How has "race" been a site of struggle between groups How the present a product of historical experiences Our coursework will rely on reading historical studies, theory, cultural analysis, and memoirs, and on viewing and analyzing cultural performances and films. This course is designed for students with experience in history, cultural studies, African American studies and/or American studies. Alternate years. (4 credits)
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4.00 Credits
British literature from the 1830s to about 1900, emphasizing poetry and non-fiction prose by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, the Brownings, Matthew Arnold, the Rossettis, William Morris, Algernon Swinburne, Thomas Carlyle, John Stuart Mill, John Ruskin, Walter Pater, Oscar Wilde, and others. Attention is paid to social, economic, political and scientific developments of the age; Victorian music, painting and architecture are briefly examined. This course is usually taught in conjunction with History 353, and when it is, students will be required to register for both courses. Alternate years. (4 credits)
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