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3.00 Credits
Expanding appreciation and perception of cinematic works as expressive form. How history shapes cinema and how cinema shapes history. Methods of analyzing films and video works as individual creations and as manifestations of genres, national traditions or stylistic movements. Technological and economic development of cinema.
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Explores personal works created by film and video artists, usually outside the commercial studio. It fosters understanding of and sensitivity to those aspects of form, subject and technique that have been employed in innovative cinema art from its beginnings to the present. Selected examples illustrate relationship between artistic creation in cinema and in other arts, including movements such as surrealism, expressionism, minimalism. Expansion of the capacity to see, hear and enjoy in creative response to cinema. This course develops on certain themes introduced in CINE 121 and is best taken in sequence. Prerequisite: CINE 121.
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to shooting and editing silent Super-8 film and digital video. Investigating possibilities of discovery and expression in the basic processes of cinema. The aim is to become comfortable, sensitive, playful and inventive in exposing film or CCDs to light; use of basic cameras, projectors, editing systems; emphasis on increased awareness of the moving image and of non-narrative formal structures. Prerequisites: CINE 121. Prerequisite or corequisite: CINE 122.
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3.00 Credits
This introductory course will emphasize the creative possibilities of working with sound as a cinematic form. Students will learn how to construct concrete sound compositions through the use of samples, looping, and field recordings. Knowledge of the essentials of recording process such as a signal routing, levels, dynamics, layering, and equalization will be part of the creative projects assigned. We will look at how to manipulate the color of sound using vintage and new recording technologies and how to create unique acoustic spaces through the use of heights, width, and depth. Class assignments will push critical thinking about the relationships of sound to image. Texts and recordings of contemporary and early experimental sound artists will be presented as well as films that employ innovative sound/image relationships.
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This class explores the ways in which photography in its expanded sense ? digital, collage, slide shows ? can be incorporated into a larger filmmaking or artistic practice. Emphasis will be put on artistic production, group critique and examining different photographic work and traditions, both past and present. There will also be several technical workshops and class exercises dealing specifically with digital photography. Students must have one of the following: an Art Studio course, an Art History course, CINE 122, or permission of Cinema Department.
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3.00 Credits
Study of how women are presented in film. How to analyze films from socio-historical perspective. Roles women are given in film narratives (wives, mothers, sisters, seductresses, objects of spectacle and male desire, career women) and how such representations shape notions about function of family, fashion, race, class, insanity. How women have participated in or been excluded from creating the images that represent them. Women's relationship to men and definition of males in film.
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3.00 Credits
Specific topics in social, historical or political function of film. Topics change each semester.
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3.00 Credits
Specific issues in aesthetics of film or video. Topics change each semester.
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3.00 Credits
Theory of artistic functioning: speculation on expressive qualities of form through consideration of issues of perception, processes of creating meaning, pleasure and fascination. Questions how film is related to other arts and languages, how images and sound generate feelings and concepts, how film viewer is addressed ideologically. Prerequisite: CINE 121.
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3.00 Credits
More complex technical and conceptual filmmaking projects, using 16mm production, editing, projection systems. Basic techniques of non-synchronous sound. Individual rather than group projects. Prerequisite or corequisite: CINE 121, 122, 251 or 252.
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