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Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. Staff. This topic course explores aspects of Film and Theater 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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Arts & Letters Sector. All Classes. Gouveia. This course will survey films from different Portuguese-speaking countries. Still unknown to many viewers, Luso & Brazilian films include a variety of genres and styles. We will explore films from the cultural perspective of Portugal, Cape Verde, Mozambique, and Brazil. The first segment of this course will expose students to theoretical approaches to the study of film. The second segment of the course will focus on Portugal and Portuguese-speaking countries in Africa. We will also discuss emblematic Portuguese filmmakers such as Manuel de Oliveira and African writers whose work has been translated to the screen such as Mia Couto and Germano de Almeida. The third segment will focus on Brazilian films produced since the mid 1990s. In the early 1990s, there was a virtual collapse of Embrafilme (the state agency that funds most Brazilian films). Brazilian cinematic production only resumed around 1995. Throughout the last 8 years numerous quality films have been released, many of them directed by a new generation of filmmakers. Films like Cidade de Deus, Carandiru, Onibus 174 present a critical view of political, social and economic issues in post-dictatorial Brazil. Most of the films also provide commentaries on (and are themselves part of) the effects of economic and cultural globalization. Inequality, corruption, poverty, violence, crime, drugs, and prejudice are themes that permeate all of these films. The course will be conducted in English.
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Messaris. Prerequisite(s): COMM140/CINE203 and/or COMM262/CINE204. This course gives students the opportunity to participate in the _ production of a feature-length fiction film. Students engage in all _ aspects of production, including: screenplay writing, production _ design, cinematography, production sound, acting, and directing. The _ course is intended as a follow-up to COMM 140, Film Forms and _ Contexts, and COMM 262, Visual Communication. Students who have not _ taken either of those courses should consult with the instructor _ before enrolling. COMM 241 is followed by COMM 242. Students may _ enroll in either or both.
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Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. Staff. This topic course explores aspects of Asian-American Literature and Cinema 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. Decherney. This topic course explores aspects of Film Cultural Studies 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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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. Beckman. This topic course explores aspects of Film in others arts 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. Staff. Modern Italy has added to the traditional belle arti of painting, sculpture and architecture new fields like fashion, industrial design and film. "Made in Italy" has come to stand all over the world for quality workmanship and fine design. Yet this same country has been involved in the last hundred years in two terrible world wars, a brutal fascist dictatorship, violence both political and criminal and a flood of emigration. In this course we will review that history, its triumphs and disasters, by combining film and written tests. Both media are equally important and ought to enrich each other. The weekly film is part of that work and you will be expected to do the assigned reading as well. This course will be open to seniors and juniors, and sophomores (with special permission).
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3.00 Credits
Arts & Letters Sector. All Classes. Richter. For centuries the pact with the devil has signified humankind's desire to surpass the limits of human knowledge and power. From the reformation chap book to the rock lyrics of Randy Newman's Faust, from Marlowe and Goethe to key Hollywood films, the legend of the devil's pact continues to be useful for exploring our fascination with forbidden powers.
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3.00 Credits
Bogle. An examination and analysis of the changing images and achievements of African Americans in motion pictures and television. The first half of the course focuses on African-American film images from the early years of D.W. Griffith's "renegade bucks" in The Birth of a Nation (1915); to the comic servants played by Steppin Fetchit, Hattie McDaniel, and others during the Depression era; to the post-World War II New Negro heroes and heroines of Pinky (1949) and The Defiant Ones (1958); to the rise of the new movement of African American directors such as Spike Lee (Do the Right Thing), Julie Dash (Daughters of the Dust), Charles Burnett, (To Sleep With Anger) and John Singleton (Boyz N the Hood). The second half explores television images from the early sitcoms "Amos 'n Andy" and "Beulah" to the "Cosby Show," "Fresh Prince of Bel Air," and "Martin." Foremost this course will examine Black stereotypes in American films and television--and the manner in which those stereotypes have reflected national attitudes and outlooks during various historical periods. This course will also explore the unique "personal statements" and the sometimes controversial "star personas" of such screen artists as Sidney Poitier, Dorothy Dandridge, Paul Robeson, Richard Pryor, Oscar Micheaux, Spike Lee, Bill Cosby, Eddie Murphy, and Whoopi Goldberg. The in-class screenings and discussions will include such films as Show Boat (1936), the independently produced "race movies" of the 1930s and 1940s, Cabin in the Sky (1943), The Defiant Ones (1958), Imitation of Life (the 1959 remake), Super Fly (1972), and She's Gotta Have It (1986) and such television series as "I Spy," "Julia," "Good Times," "The Jeffersons," "Roots," "A Different World," "I'll Fly Away," "LA Law," and "Hangin' With Mr. Cooper."
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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. Corrigan. This topic course explores aspects of Cinema Studies 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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