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Course Criteria
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1.00 Credits
Distinctively cinematic engagements with principal themes in the existentialist tradition: isolation and alienation, identity and commitment, perception and reality, communication and contact, madness and sanity. In-depth exploration of culturally specific filmic modes of capturing, processing, and transmitting images of human life and the myriad issues, moral conflicts, and dilemmas that inform it. Films to be considered will vary with different offerings of the course, but may include works of directors such as Herzog, Schloendorff, Fassbinder, Wenders, Bergman, Antonioni, Kurosawa, and Godard, among others. Instructor: Morton
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History and theory of film and video technology across nations; postcolonial patterns and their electronic and mechanical transmission; economics of distribution, reception, exhibition, and their relation to aesthetics. The first world defined against the second and third by means of cultural product. Instructor: Mottahedeh
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1.00 Credits
Geopolitics of situatedness and distance as they refer to the film industry. Production, distribution, and reception of exilic and diasporic films. Classical and artisanal modes of production in film. Questions of authorship and embodiment; human rights and interventionist filmmaking. States of liminality, global movements and capital. The experience of globalization, urbanization, alienation, violence, nostalgia for nature and homeland as represented in the filmic image. Instructor: Mottahedeh
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Religious, political, and philosophical currents informing performance traditions in theatre, mourning rituals, and films of the Near East and North Africa. Role of performance in construction of gendered and national identities. Ta'ziyeh, rowzah, street performance traditions and recitals, modern theatre, film traditions considered from comparative and historical perspectives. Instructor: Mottahedeh
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The variety of ways sexualities are represented in current mainstream and avant-garde film and video art. Topics include voyeuristic, narcissistic, and other perverse pleasures; modes of representing bodies, genders, and desires (especially gay and lesbian ones) in relation to national and subcultural identities. Readings in film theory and the history and theory of film technology, as well as related literary and critical texts. Instructor: Clum, Metzger, or Gaines
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1.00 Credits
Theory and practice of the process of adaptation of serious literary works of fiction to screenplay or play form. Reading and analysis of literary works adapted as screenplays and plays. Project in writing an adaptation. Consent of instructor required. Instructor: Malone
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Film scripts, memoirs, novels, political and social history, and cinematic technique that inform the viewing of French films on World War II. Possible films to be viewed: Cl<130>ment's Jeux interdits, Malle's Au revoir les enfants and Lacombe Lucien, Miller's L'accompagnatrice, Yanne's Boulevard des hirondelles, and Lanzmann's Shoah. Instructor: Staff
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1.00 Credits
Introduction to the material and technical infrastructure that informs and constrains the production and dissemination of knowledge. Exploration of cultural impact of technical media from writing to the internet. Combines historical and theoretical discussion with hands-on experimentation with various media, including the codex book, phonography and sound registration technology, photography, cinematography, video, virtual reality, digital computation, and the internet. Instructor: Hansen
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1.00 Credits
For students enrolled in the Duke in Los Angeles program. To explore Los Angeles as the model for a new global (visual) culture. Approaches include visual studies, art (installation, video, sculpture, murals, performance, theater, and music), ethnic studies, urbanism, environmental studies, public policy, history of social movements, border studies, immigration, and language acquisition. Class discussions, field trips, and independent research involved. Final project in lieu of final exam. Instructor: Gabara
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1.00 Credits
Special Topics in Film Studies. Instructor: Staff
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