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Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. Staff. Introduction to different ways in which religion is represented in film. Emphasis upon religious themes, but some attention to cinematic devices and strategies. Although most films studied will deal with only one of the major historical religious traditions (Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity and Islam), the selection will always include at least two of those traditions.
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Staff. This course will look at the screenplay as both a literary text and a blue print for production. Several classic screenplay texts will be critically analyzed (REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE, DOCTOR STRANGELOVE, PSYCHO, etc.) Students will then embark on writing their own scripts. We will intensively focus on: character enhancement, creating "believable" cinematic dialogue, plot development and story structure, conflict, pacing, dramatic foreshadowing, the element of surprise, text and subtext and visual story-telling. Class attendance is mandatory. Students will submit their works-in-progress to the workshop for discussion.
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Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. Beckman. Penn-in-London. Fran_ois Truffaut once famously suggested that there was a certain incompatibility between the terms cinema and Britain ; Satyajit Ray declared, I do not think the British are temperamentally equipped to make the best use of the movie camera ; and throughout the history of film criticism, British cinema has been condemned for its theatrical style, lack of emotion, imitation of Hollywood and/or European cinema, and failure to achieve a national character. Yet in spite of this history of dismissal, British cinema has a long and complex history that we will begin to explore through film screenings, critical reading, and visits to archives and museums. Topics covered will include: Early Cinema of Attractions ; British cinema s relation to other countries; war propaganda and the British documentary film; cinematic adaptations of British literature; British film theory; British experimental film/moving images in the art gallery; British cinema and identity. Requirements: attendance at screenings/discussions/trips; final paper; film journal.
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Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. Todorov. The purpose of this course is to present the Russian and East European contribution to world cinema in terms of film theory, experimentation with the cinematic language, and social and political reflex. We discuss major themes and issues such as: the invention of montage, the means of visual propaganda and the cinematic component to the communist cultural revolutions, party ideology and practices of social engineering, cinematic response to the emergence of the totalitarian state in Russia and its subsequent installation in Eastern Europe after World War II; repression, resistance and conformity under such a system; legal and illegal desires; the nature of the authoritarian personality, the mind and the body of homo sovieticus; sexual and political transgression; treason and disgrace; public degradation and individual redemption; the profane and the sublime ends of human suffering and humiliation; the unmasking of the official "truth" as a general lie.
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Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. Katz, Corrigan, Decherney, Beckman. This topic course explores aspects of Film History intensively. Specific course topics vary from year to year. See the Cinema Studies website at for a description of the current offerings.
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Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. Katz, Corrigan, Decherney, Beckman. This topic course explores aspects of Film Practice intensively. Specific course topics vary from year to year. See the Cinema Studies website at for a description of the current offerings.
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May be counted as a General Requirement Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. Messaris. This course will trace the development of the classical Hollywood cinema, as well as significant alternatives to this dominant mode of representation, by relating analyses of the formal elements of film texts to discussions of film industries and audiences as well as the larger social, historical context. A variety of analytical methods and perspectives will be applied to films drawn from different times and countries in order to consider the cinema as a cultural construction.
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Messaris. Examination of the structure and effects of visual media (film, television, advertising, and other kinds of pictures).
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Beckman. This topic course explores aspects of Gender in Film intensively. Specific course topics vary from year to year. See the Cinema Studies website at for a description of the current offerings.
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May be counted as a General Requirement Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. Staff. This topic course explores aspects of Chinese Cinema. Specific course topics vary from year to year. See the Cinema Studies website at for a description of the current offerings.
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