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3.00 Credits
Not offered in the period from 08F through 10S The basic techniques and theories of portable and studio video production. The course covers the basics of developing a video project from idea through realization on the screen. Students are expected to produce several projects which emphasize ideas outside the traditional narrative and documentary forms, and are encouraged to develop their own form of aesthetic expression. Students show and critique their work in class weekly in preparation for a final project and public screening. Permission is granted by the instructor after the first day of class, on the basis of an application submitted before the end of previous term. Supplemental course fee required. Limited to 15 students. Dist: ART. Ruoff.
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3.00 Credits
Not offered in the period from 08F through 10S Offered in conjunction with Theater 34 (Acting for the Camera), Directing for the Camera investigates the directorial process of translating the written script to the screen. Working with actors from Theatre 34, students analyze, rehearse, shoot and edit narrative scenes from existing or original screenplays. The exercises are critiqued and comparisons are then made between the existing works and the exercises. Students work in crews rotating between the roles of director, camera, and sound. Special attention is also given to lighting, cinematography, and audio recording. Texts will include works on directing, e.g., Truffaut /Hitchcock, as well as on cinematography and writing. Permission required. Limit 10 students. Dist: ART. Brown.
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Not offered in the period from 08F through 10S A workshop course in two-dimensional film animation, with the individual student required to complete an animated short with synchronized sound for showing at the Animation Festival at the end of the term. Weekly class meetings will focus on conceptualizing, storyboarding and scheduling the various stages of production, frame-by-frame analysis of sound, advanced animation techniques, and critiques of ongoing work. Prerequisite: Film Animation I or previous animation experience. Permission of the instructor required. Supplemental course fee required. Dist: ART. Ehrlich.
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3.00 Credits
Not offered in the period from 08F through 10S A workshop course in advanced digital videomaking, with students, working in pairs or groups, required to complete a short (10-minute or less) broadcast-quality documentary or experimental video for screening at the end of the term. Class meetings will focus on conceptualizing, preparing, and completing the various stages of pre-production, production, and post-production, with extensive in-class critiques. Prerequisite: Film Studies 30, 31, 36, or significant experience shooting and editing digital video. Permission granted by the instructor after the first day of class, on the basis of an application submitted before the end of previous term. Supplemental course fee required. Dist: ART. Ruoff.
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3.00 Credits
09W: 3A 10W: Arrange This course is designed to introduce the film and television studies major to some of the field's major scholarly methodologies and their theoretical value in explaining how texts, industries, creative artists, and audiences participate in meaning-making processes. Students will read scholarship and participate in projects that illuminate how meaning is created and negotiated at the levels of industrial production, artistic creation of texts, and audience knowledge and engagement. The screenings, readings, and assignments will ask the student to think about the relations among his/her own position as a scholar, as an audience member, and as a creative artist. This knowledge provides a foundation for critical thinking skills necessary for the student's success in the major. The course is designed for students who have had some introductory exposure to the principles of film and/or television aesthetics and production techniques, but before they have completed their upper division major requirements. Dist: ART. Williams.
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3.00 Credits
09W, 10S: 10A An examination of the concept and use of genre with focus on a particular genre. How are the genres determined and how useful structurally and historically is genre as a concept of classification What constitutes a genre What is the relationship between periods and genres Between genre and the Hollywood film This course will consider genre as both an aesthetic concept and an economic one, producing stabilization and variation in product. The roles of repetition and variation, stability and change. Genres may include the western, the crime movie, the women's film, the musical, family melodrama, the film noir or other genre-related topics such as film and literature. May be repeated for credit with a different topic. Dist: ART; WCult: Varies. In 09W, Animation History. An overview of animation from its invention to the work of contemporary American and international animators. The class will feature studio history (Disney, Fleischer, Warner Bros., U.P.A.), an examination of animation techniques (cel, drawing, fluid, cut-paper, object, puppet, clay and computer animation), and visits by contemporary auteurs. Particular attention will be paid to politically based animation produced during and after socialism in China and the former Soviet Union. Lawrence. In 10S, Shades of Noir: Film, Fiction, Politics (Identical to Comparative Literature 62). 'Film Noir' evokes memories of stylish, cynical, black-and-white movies from the 1940s and 1950s-melodramas about private eyes, femmes fatales, criminal gangs, and lovers on the run. Noir narratives revolve around questions of racial and national identity; the postwar crisis of masculinity and gender relations; and the experience of alienation and dislocation. The course will also trace the pervasive presence of noir and its continuing appeal for artists and audiences throughout the world. Dist: ART or INT; WCult: W. Gemünde
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3.00 Credits
08F: 3A 09W: 2A, 2A 09S: 2A 09F: 3A Focus on a specific national cinema or a particular period of a national cinema. May be repeated for credit with a different topic. Dist: ART (unless indicated otherwise); WCult: Varies. In 08F (Section 2), Korean Film (Identical to, and described under, Korean 63). In 09W (Section 1), 100 years of Song and Dance A History of Popular Hindi Cinema. This course will chart the history of India's mainstream Hindi-language film industry ("Bollywood"). With its melodramatic plots and extravagant song and dance sequences, Bollywood is often dismissed as escapist fare. However, popular Hindi films have a long history of engagement with national politics, drawing on diverse international cinematic and musical traditions. Films will include the nationalist classic Mother India (1957); romantic hits such as Shree 420 (1955) and Kaagaz Ke Phool (1959); films of the "angry young man" oeuvre like Zanjeer (1973) and the "curry western" Sholay (1975); and contemporary family dramas like Kal Ho Naa Ho (2003) that address themselves as much to the Indian diaspora as to audiences in the sub-continent. SIn 09W at 2A (Section 2), Faces of Totalitarianism: A History of a Nation through a History of a Medium (Identical to, and described under, Russian 14). In 09S, Asian Animation. This course will feature the most interesting of works from China. Japan, Korea, Mongolia, India and Iran and students will analyze them within a socio-political and cultural context. Ehrlich. In 09F, Continental Strangers: European Exiles and Emigrés in Hollywood, 1933-1950 (Identical to, and described under, German 43). Gemünden.
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3.00 Credits
Not offered in the period from 08F through 10S This course will focus on a single figure or group of related figures, examining their roles and creative authority in the filmmaking process, investigating the major films with which they are associated, and determining the central thematics of their works. Resources in addition to films will include biographies, film-scripts, critical writing, and some examples of theory. Dist: ART; WCult: Varies.
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3.00 Credits
Not offered in the period from 08F through 10S Using the student's exposure to television as a starting point, this course will examine prominent critical issues regarding television as an industry, as a narrative form, and as a cultural institution. Analytic viewing of past and present programs, assigned readings in books and periodicals, and lectures from scholars and industry veterans will be among the materials used as the basis for discussion and critical writing. A historical understanding of the medium will be emphasized. Dist: ART; WCult: W.
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3.00 Credits
Not offered in the period from 08F through 10S This course will examine the history of television as an emerging technology; its dynamic interaction with government, private industry, and audiences; and its impact on society and culture. It will include a consideration of both pre-television media (especially radio) and new media (cyber-culture) as they inform a historical understanding of TV. The norms and practices of the network era (1955-1985) will be positioned as a functional middle-ground, much in the way that classical Hollywood Cinema (1920-1960) serves as middle-ground in motion picture history. Students will be encouraged to develop their capacity for a critical distance from contemporary media via this historicized approach. Open to all classes. Limited to 50 students. Dist: ART; WCult: W.
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