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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
An intermediate exploratory seminar in film study. Topics may include: the creative process, film and politics, directors, genres, and periods. Note: Open to FMA majors and non-majors.
Prerequisite:
Completion of a prior media studies course or permission of the instructor
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the concept of “Film Noir” in its cultural context using a body of films (literature, photography, art, music) to analyze predominant themes and the history of the concept in film scholarship. Directors, producers and writers of Noir; the industrial process by which these films were produced, marketed and exhibited; and a variety of cultural/historical issues (e.g. race, gender, class, urban development, national morale) will be examined. The first part of the class will focus on “Classic” Noir (1940-60), while the second will concentrate on the evolution of Noir, scrutinizing 1960-contemporary films that have appropriated Film Noir characteristics, paying particular attention to international examples. Note: Open to FMA majors and non-majors.
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3.00 Credits
This course will examine American Comedy, with a particular focus on several significant directors/producers: Harold Lloyd, Preston Sturges, Frank Tashlin, Woody Allen. We will approach this class in equal parts as a directors study, a genre study, an American culture study. Some of the questions we’ll address are: How does comedy function/work? What personal styles emerge from the genre? Are these films and their critical concerns reflective of larger patterns and tendencies in American life? Note: Open to FMA majors and non-majors.
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4.00 Credits
Lectures, screenings and critical assignments will survey and analyze significant narrative, documentary and experimental works that challenge the assumptions and practices of mainstream media.
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4.00 Credits
An examination of the history and aesthetics of fine art, documentary and commercial photography within their cultural contexts. The course will cover the works of major photographers and will relate historical and contemporary concepts in still photography to parallel practices in motion pictures.
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3.00 Credits
This screening-intensive course surveys the broad trends in the development of cinema as an art and as an industry. Spanning from the beginning of cinema to the immediate post-World War II years, it will ask how a popular art arose and how cinema finds its expression either with or against its commercial nature. Topics to include the Hollywood studio system, European national and international cinema traditions, the avant-garde, the role of documentary and propaganda, and the role of women in the film industry.
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3.00 Credits
This screening-intensive course surveys the broad trends in the development of cinema as an art and as an industry. Spanning from 1950 to the present, it will particularly examine how notions of film art and social protest defined national cinemas, including American film, against the traditional Hollywood studio film. Topics to include the decline of the studio system, the international art film, the New Hollywood, oppositional countercinema, independent cinema, and transnational and global exchange of cinematic style and language.
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4.00 Credits
The business of making media from conceptualization, budgeting, financing, and fundraising to production management, distribution, and marketing. Focusing on both commercial and not-for-profit organizations and strategies, coursework includes readings, lectures, case studies, as well as guest professionals, and multi-genre assignments in developing hypothetical projects.
Prerequisite:
Completion of the basic FMA core is required before taking this course, or permission of instructor
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1.00 - 4.00 Credits
Students selected on the basis of special qualifications are assigned as interns on an unpaid basis with organizations professionally engaged in broadcasting and film. Note: Enrollment subject to availability of openings. Contact FMA’s internship director.
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4.00 Credits
An advanced workshop to develop projects in experimental forms, Experimental Media Workshop has a rotating curriculum, with each semester exploring a different aspect of experimental media. Projects may include use of portable digital equipment, TV studio space and editing facilities. Note: This course is repeatable for credit. Prior to fall 2009, this course was called “Experimental TV.”
Prerequisite:
Completion of FMA Core. Completion of FMA 2242 (0200) or FMA 2451 (0241); or permission of the instructor
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