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  • FAS 125: Music and Movies

    3.00 Credits
    Wheeling Jesuit University

    Some of the most important orchestral composition, arrangement, and performance in contemporary music is undertaken in collaboration with filmmakers. Through a study of the legendary film score composers from Bernard Herrmann to John Williams to Philip Glass, students will explore the choreographic synergy of motion pictures and music.
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  • FAS 130: Film:The Creative Process

    3.00 Credits
    Wheeling Jesuit University

    No artistic process is more collaborative than the filmmaking process, where artists of various talents and expertise, including the dramatic (screenwriter), visual (art director, cinematographer, editor), and the auditory and musical (score composer, sound designer) come together to help realize (and shape) the director's vision of the finished film. Students will explore the auteur approach at one extreme of filmmaking theory all the way through improvisation at the other end of the spectrum, with an emphasis on the various "dialects" of film language that each filmmaker'position contributes to the finished product of a film.
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  • FAS 131: Film History

    3.00 Credits
    Wheeling Jesuit University

    Movies are a distinctly American art form - invented here and developed by Hollywood into a multi-billion-dollar global industry, one of our country's leading exports. Yet other nations, particularly in Western Europe, have been just as innovative in the emergence of cinema as entertainment and as art. Students will explore cinema classics from the silent era through the digital age, observing the delicate balancing act between aesthetic and commercial impulses.
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  • FAS 132: The Reel World

    3.00 Credits
    Wheeling Jesuit University

    When we think about movies,we typically think of Hollywood product - what's playing at the multiplex. But there's a widworld of other cinematic traditions out there, often either influenced by and/or reacting against Hollywood methodology. In turn,American films often gather fresh inspiration from their international counterparts. Students will study classic and contemporary international filmmakers, exploring the ways in which culture influences art - and vice versa.
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  • FAS 133: New Hollywood and Independent Cinema

    3.00 Credits
    Wheeling Jesuit University

    As an essentially conservative industry, Hollywood has always sought to manufacture crowd-pleasing formulas that swiftly slip into stale predictability. At the commercial fringes, however, filmmakers without big budgets or supervisory constraints take risks and make films that nudge film art (and its audiences) forward. Students will study DIY mavericks (Anderson, the Coens, Coppola, Lee, Soderbergh,Tarantino) of the "Sundance generation,"who are aesthetic godchildren of the 1970s directors (Allen,Altman, Coppola, Lucas, Scorsese, Spielberg) who changed the formal language of film.
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  • FAS 134: The Art of Documentary

    3.00 Credits
    Wheeling Jesuit University

    The powerful impressions made by fictional film narratives routinely persuade us of the reality of whatever we see and hear in a film. Such expressive formal power may also be used to inform, provoke, and/or move us about social and political realities. Using an understanding of film language, students will distinguish between rhetorical modes and categories of non-fiction filmmaking, exploring classic and contemporary cinematic agitprop, essays, and reportage.
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  • FAS 135: Cinema Genres

    3.00 Credits
    Wheeling Jesuit University

    Movie narratives come in many tidy packages, called genre forms - comedy, romance,western, crime, horror, and many more. These narrative forms provide orientation for an audience:we know what to expect and how to understand stories based in an innate acculturation to the arc of these narratives. Students will become familiar with several of the generic formulas of film and/or study one genre in depth, focusing on how film language helps to solidify (or subversively undercut, for thematic reasons) our consumption of narratives; films studied will include traditional examples of the genre and contemporary variations. Likely genre subjects for indepth study are The Western, Film Noir, and Horror.
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  • FAS 136: Religion and Film

    3.00 Credits
    Wheeling Jesuit University

    An examination of select films which present religious issues in a way that stimulates the religious imagination and theological reflection. The films may be organized around a theme (e.g., suffering, death, and hope; the sacramentality of everyday life; the quest for God; religious commitment and moral decision-making) or around a selection of filmmakers whose films reveal various religious interests. Prerequisites: RST 106 or 107.
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  • FAS 137: Cinema and the Classical World

    3.00 Credits
    Wheeling Jesuit University

    Like the rest of the culture, filmmakers in Hollywood and beyond have maintained a fascination for the ancient worlds of Greece and Rome. Through a study of significant film traditions and masterpieces from the silent era to the Golden-Age epics through modern blockbusters of classical history and mythology, students will explore source materials for these narratives and examine the modern motives for telling (or sometimes drastically retelling) these stories.
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  • FAS 138: Hitchcock and His Heirs

    3.00 Credits
    Wheeling Jesuit University

    Alfred Hitchcock, the medium of cinema, and the Twentieth Century were born within a few years of one another, and together they grew up. Hitchcock is in many ways the classic correspondent of that rich and troubled century. He mastered the use of what he called "pure cinema," and from film noir andthe great European cinema traditions, he invented the modern suspense and horror film genres. This course will study several of his masterpieces, then explore his influence on two subsequent generations of filmmakers.
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