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3.00 Credits
In this intensive workshop course students will be expected to write, storyboard, direct, shoot, and edit an original film of their own creation. Extensive lab time required. Prerequisites: successful completion of Rhetoric and Film Studies 160, 165, and/or consent of instructor. Priority given to rhetoric and film studies majors.
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4.00 Credits
Students will study the cultural influences on the intersection between the pursuit of artistic achievement and commercial rewards as illustrated by the evolution of a specific genre - e.g. musicals, westerns, noir, horror, combat, screwballs, weepies, etc. Lectures, discussions, tests, papers and weekly film screenings. May be repeated for credit. Film genre offerings follow.
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3.00 Credits
In tracing film history from the demise of the studio system in the late 1960s to its rebirth in the early 1980s, students in this course will study the all too brief era known as the American cinema's "silver age," during which maverick film school directors made deeply personal and remarkably influential films. Texts will likely include works by Coppola, DePalma, Friedkin, Altman, Allen, Polanski, Bogdanovich, Kubrick, Malick, and Scorsese. Lectures, discussions, a big research paper, an oral presentation, and a required weekly film screening
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4.00 Credits
National cinemas not generally considered in other courses offered by the department. The specific materials will vary from semester to semester and may cover subjects from early times to contemporary developments in world cinema. Lectures, discussions, tests, papers and weekly film screenings. May be repeated for credit. World cinema offerings follow.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines Chinese language films that are well known to general audiences in America or film festival devotees. The films to be discussed in the class consist of popular as well as arthouse films by Chinese, Hong Kongese, Taiwanese and overseas directors made in the period from the last two decades of the twentieth-century into the new millennium (2007). We will explore the representative genres and structuralist aesthetics of the fast changing cinematic images of China and look into the dialectical construction of public and private space of Chinese film in view of a globalized audience. No previous knowledge of Chinese or Cinema Studies is required. All films are subtitled in English. May be elected as World Literature 382A.
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4.00 Credits
not offered 2008-09 Focuses on the principle rhetorical developments that occurred during several of the great periods of Western thought, beginning with the classical conflict between the Sophists and Platonists in Greece, to the emphasis on the liberally educated person in the Roman Empire, the rhetoric of the church in the Middle Ages, and concluding with the study of logic and argument during the Scottish Enlightenment. May be elected as Classics 371.
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4.00 Credits
Intensive studies in special topics not generally considered in other courses offered by the department. The specific materials will vary from semester to semester and may cover subjects from ancient to contemporary times. The current offerings follow.
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4.00 Credits
This course engages a range of television cultures and genres. We will explore visual codes, image structures, and practices of looking as we engage the debates surrounding the cultural and political implications of television viewing. You will learn to apply critical theories and methods in order to analyze television images and how viewers make meaning from and participate in television culture. This course also explores television's democratic potentials and ideological contradictions with regard to new media phenomena such as fan sites, citizen journalism, and YouTube. May be elected as Art History 257A
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3.00 Credits
Students examine the creation, reception, and impact of American public discourse from the colonial period to the present, focusing on the process of public advocacy as it occurs in significant political and social movements and during important public controversies. Examination of public arguments will allow students to better understand the strategic choices available, the limitations and constraints that face advocates, and the nature of critical responses that resulted. Students will better understand the role of public discourse in American history and the relationship between rhetorical practice and public culture.
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
This course explores issues of gender in popular forms of visual culture. You will learn to apply critical methods in order to understand how gendered images are constructed and strategically used. We will draw from a variety of visual contexts including online and in print culture such as magazines, comic books, and graphic novels. In analyzing concepts of femininity and masculinity, we will examine how popular culture reflects, creates, and contests our understandings of gender and sexuality. From a critical standpoint, this kind of analysis also includes issues of power, identity, and representation in the visual field. May be elected as Art History 357A.
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