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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
A historical and critical survey of a particular film aesthetic and its impact on film language, production, and culture. Topics include cinematography, camera movement, sound, color, studio art design, and editing.
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4.00 Credits
A second-level course that introduces the main schools of film theory, focusing on the question, "What is cinema?" Overview of the basic theories developed by filmmakers (e.g., Eisenstein, Pudovkin) and theoreticians (e.g., Arnheim, Bazin, Metz). Refines the student's understanding of the theoretical concerns of cinema studies in its relation to the practice of filmmaking and film criticism.
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4.00 Credits
The European theatre scene of the last two decades has witnessed the emergence of a new wave of dramatists who share a dark, desperate, depressive, yet humorous Weltanschauung and style. They have encountered controversy and shock in reception but could not be ignored, gradually gaining a significant place in recent theatre history. We study and discuss work by Sarah Kane, Mark Ravenhill, David Harrower, Roland Schimmelpfennig, Koffi Kwahulé, Yasmina Reza, Juan Mayorga, Biljana Srbljanovic, Gianina Carbunariu, Hristo Boytchev, Matéi Visniec, Goran Stefanovski, Vassily Sigarev, and their forerunners Beckett, Ionesco, Orton, Churchill, Koltes, Havel, Mrozek, et al.
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4.00 Credits
Comprehensive, practical course in the various technical aspects of theatrical production. First term explores the planning, construction, and painting of scenery and the architecture of the stage. Second term deals with stage electrics, lighting, crafts, sound technology, and special effects.
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4.00 Credits
Class hours are spent in the practice of improvisation, pantomime, and theatre games, as well as brief scenes. Additional hours for rehearsal and performance of scenes.
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4.00 Credits
Emphasis on scene study and the analysis and performance of characters. Students may be cast and rehearsed by members of the directing classes in brief scenes performed on Friday afternoons and in evenings of one-act performances, as well as staffdirected or supervised, full-length productions.
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4.00 Credits
Theories of light and lighting. The practice of lighting the stage. Experiments with light as design.
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4.00 Credits
Major/Minor in Dramatic Literature Costume design for the modern stage; the history of fashion.
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4.00 Credits
Elements of play scripts are analyzed and dramatized. Students may cast and rehearse brief scenes performed on Friday afternoons.
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4.00 Credits
Design for today's stage in period and modern styles. Methods of originating and presenting a design conception. Practice in scene sketching.
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