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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Study of film classics from the silent era to the present. Particular attention is given to the evolution of narrative conventions in films such as Birth of a Nation, Potemkin, The Last Laugh, M, Citizen Kane, Rome: Open City, Hiroshima Mon Amour, and others. Weekly screenings. Cross-listed with ENG 235. Offered infrequently.
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Analysis of selected films from the perspectives of film technique and the political, economic and social context of filmmaking in Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Latin America. How film techniques are used to highlight cultural views of gender. Cross-listed with HST 251.
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3.00 Credits
Attempts to familiarize students with ways that history is represented in film and video (as opposed to print). By comparing film to texts, analyzing narrative structure, and studying the techniques of film and video making, students learn how history is depicted in this medium. Introduces history of film by viewing and discussing works of several early directors who represented history. Films and directors selected for inclusion will vary from year to year. Cross-listed with HST 252. Prerequisite: FST 201 recommended (not required).
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Study of selected films. Introduces Chinese cinema and, through films, Chinese culture. Works are from mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, and subject matter is both historical and modern. Knowledge of Chinese is not required. Cross-listed with CHI 264.
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3.00 Credits
Survey of films by Jewish filmmakers, or films dealing with Jewish themes, from the 1920s to the present. Films with English subtitles. Readings and discussions in English. Cross-listed with FRE/ GER 265.
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This course examines representative Japanese films from the immediate post-war era to the new wave of Japanese anime (animated film). Offered in English. Cross-listed with JPN 266.
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3.00 Credits
Explores the cinematography of Black Africa. Topics may vary but the focus will be given to social and ideological implications of African cinema and the way films produce a critique of cultural mores. Cross-listed with BWS 267.
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An introduction to the cultures of Eastern Europe, from Poland to the former Yugoslavia, through representative twentieth-century literary works and films, with particular focus on the history of Eastern Europe's Jewish community and the tragedy of the Holocaust. Cross-listed with RUS 272. CAS-LIT-B.
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3.00 Credits
An exploration of film representations of diverse sexualities (e.g., gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered) from the silent era to the present. Cross-listed with COM 282.
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3.00 Credits
Explores how films have constructed ideas about war in 20th Century Europe. Examines films of the First World War, the Second World War, the Balkan War of the 1990s, and the Chechen War. Through readings, discussions, and viewings, students will gain a better understanding of how war is represented on the "big screen" and how wars of the 20th Century have been remembered and recast in film. Cross-listed with HST 302.
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