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Course Criteria
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08F: 10A 09W: 10 09S: 2A This course presents a range of approaches to television studies with varying emphases on historical, theoretical, or new methodological approaches including the impact of the new technologies. Dist: Varies. In 08F, Television and Histories of Gender (Identical to, and described under, Women's and Gender Studies 56). Dist: ART; WCult: CI. Desjardins. In 09W, Race and American Television. This course will examine representations of race in American television, as well as the position of race as a category in television studies (theory and historiography of television texts, industry, and audiences). Dist: ART. Beavers. In 09S, The Information Superhighway. Williams.
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08F: 10A, 2A 09S: 2A 09F: 10A This course presents a range of approaches to film studies outside traditional categories such as genre or national cinemas. Each course will emphasize a different combination of historical, theoretical, and new methodological approaches to one area of film studies. In 08F at 10A (Section 1), The Racialized Body in Popular Media. This class examines the ways that representations of race and racial identity have been central to U.S. popular media. Rather than view the history of race and media as a history of the absence or merely the denigration of racial "others", this class is interested in the way that popular media have offered many and varied images of racialized bodies that often invite viewers to find pleasure in racial difference. We will look at the multiplicity of racial images in various media including, early motion pictures, documentary films, television variety programs, music television, television news, reality programming, and new media. Dist: ART. Beavers.In 08F at 2A (Section 2), History of Documentary. Documentary film combines nonfiction with an aesthetic aspiration. This course will explore achievement in the documentary, raising issues about the influence of documentary upon political persuasion, historical memory, the status of film as evidence and its utility as a means of investigation. We will look at films from a broad range of styles, viewpoints and eras, i.e., compilation, observational cinema, propaganda, social-issue, travelogue, interview, avant-garde, home movie, biography, newsreel, mock-documentary, and autobiography. Documentary represents an alternative to the dominant entertainment cinema and, as such, frequently addresses controversial issues directly. Students should be prepared to explore sensitive issues of race, class, and gender raised by non-fiction film. Ruoff. In 09S, Gender and the Media (Identical to, and described under, Women's and Gender Studies 56.6). In 09F, Jews In Hollywood (Identical to, and described under, Jewish Studies 22).Bronski.
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09S 11 Introduction to basic issues of film and television theory as seen by classical and contemporary film theorists. Issues include the problem of realism and representation, signification, narrative, and the impact of semiotic, psychoanalytic, feminist, and structuralist theories on classical theory. Prerequisite: Film Studies 20 or 21. Dist: ART; WCult: Varies. In 09S, Sound Theory and Practice. Lawrence.
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All terms: Arrange This course is designed to enable qualified upperclass students to engage in independent study in film under the direction of a member of the Department. A student should consult with the faculty member with whom he or she wishes to work as far in advance as possible. A proposal for any independent project must be submitted by the appropriate deadline in the term immediately preceding the term in which the independent study is to be pursued. Permission of instructor required. The staff.
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All terms: Arrange This course, limited to Film and Media Studies majors or as part of a modified major, involves an individual project in some aspect of film and television history, theory or practice. The subject of the project, the term, and the hours are to be arranged. Each project must be directed by a faculty member of the Department. The approval of the faculty member and the Chair must be secured in advance, not later than the term immediately preceding the term in which the project is to be undertaken. This is a two term project.
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All terms: Arrange A thesis, screenplay, or film production written under the supervision of a member of the Film and Media Studies Department. This course must be elected by all honors candidates. Permission of the Film and Media Studies Faculty required.
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08F, 09W, 09S, 09F, 10W, 10S: 9 An introduction to French as a spoken and written language. The work includes regular practice in class, scheduled drill-sessions, and the laboratory, in understanding and using the spoken language. Written exercises and elementary reading materials serve for vocabulary building and discussion. Never serves in partial satisfaction of the Distributive or World Culture Requirements. The staff.
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08F: 12, 2 09W, 09S: 2, D.L.S.A.+ 09X: 12 09F: 12, 2 10W, 10S: 2, D.L.S.A.+ These courses, offered each term by various members of the Department, deal in major figures, themes, or issues of modern French literature, and of those earlier periods which have particular relevance to today's world. Techniques of critical reading and interpretation are studied as an approach to these topics, which reflect the interests of the teaching staff. Prerequisite: French 3, or equivalent preparation. Dist: LIT; WCult: W. In 08F at 12, Tourists, Exiles and other Outsiders. Inhabiting another space-real or imaginary, for pleasure or out of necessity-inspires reflection about the host culture, the self, and the concept of "home." This course will explore these themes and perspectives in French and Francophone literature and film. Readings may include works by Graffigny, Hugo, Sand, Nerval, Stendhal, Rimbaud, Tristan, Colette, Camus and Butor. KilbanIn 08F at 2, Seduction. Seduction is a game and a ritual that takes many forms. With words, the body, music, images and objects, seducers, be they characters within novels, poets, playwrights or huge corporations, can exercise a hold on their targets of seduction. Beginning with the poetry of the Renaissance, we will then read plays and novels and view films that foreground the arty of seduction. Authors may include Marot, Ronsard, Molière, Flaubert and Beauvoir. Cone. In 09W, Coming of Age. The novel of development has traditionally described a young man's coming of age. Contemporary writers have turned to this familiar literary form in representing new situations, opening it to the experience of women, immigrants and others once considered marginal to French society. The course will explore the experience of coming of age in novels and films by Jean-Paul Sartre, Annie Ernaux, Fran ois Truffaut, Mehdi Charef, Maryse Condé, Camara Laye, and Marguerite Duras. Green.In 09S, Fatality, Danger and Phantasmagoria: Performing Destiny on the Modern French Stage, Theory and Performance. A study of the dramaturgy, the themes, problems and their resolutions in the performance of selected French plays and novels. The transition of dramatic literature from page to stage will be examined, as well as the concepts, insights and techniques from which actors create and sustain theatric illusion. Authors may include Diderot, Musset, Maeterlinck, Claudel, Beckett, Ionesco, Simenon, Leblanc. Rassias.
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09W, 09S, 10W, 10S: D.L.S.A.+ In this course, students will learn to recognize and reproduce a broad range of linguistic registers and structures in order to achieve competence in French grammar, phonetics, vocabulary, and oral and written expression. Aided by the analysis of newspaper articles, letters, political orations, screenplays, interviews, and short stories, students will analyze, imitate, and produce diverse types and levels of discourse. Course work will entail intensive writing, stylistic analysis, small group discussions, dramatic presentations, and experiential exercises such as conducting interviews, writing business letters, or composing political speeches. Texts by Montesquieu, Danton, Maupassant, Zola, Ionesco, De Gaulle, Yourcenar, Kassovitz, and others. Prerequisite: acceptance into the Dartmouth Advanced Language Study Abroad Program. WCult: W. The staff.
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