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4.00 Credits
Exploration of Black Theater, specifically African-American performance traditions, as an intervening agent in racial, cultural, and national identity. African-American theatre artists to be examined include Amiri Baraka, Kia Corthron, W.E.B. Du Bois, Angelina Grimke, Langston Hughes, Georgia Douglas Johnson, Adrienne Kennedy, Suzan-Lori Parks, Adrian Piper, and August Wilson. - P. Cobrin Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 16 students. General Education Requirement: The Visual and Performing Arts (ART). 4 points
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4.00 Credits
Competing constructions of American identity in the United States date back to the early republic when a newly emerging nation struggled with the questions: What makes an American American What makes America America From colonial times forward, the stage has served as a forum to air differing beliefs as well as medium to construct new beliefs about Nation, self and other. The texts we will read, from colonial times through WWI, explore diverse topics such as politics, Native American rights, slavery, labor unrest, gender roles, and a growing immigrant population. General Education Requirement: Literature (LIT). General Education Requirement: The Visual and Performing Arts (ART). 4 points
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3.00 Credits
This course covers the development of drama and theatre from the late nineteenth century to the late twentieth, addressing the ways writing and the physical, presentational instrument of performance has worked to frame theatre as an ideological instrument. Playwrights typically include a selection from: Ibsen, Chekhov, Strindberg, Shaw, Chekhov, Pirandello, Brecht, Dürrenmatt, Handke, Churchill, Beckett, Kane. Essays by Zola, Freud, Nietzsche, Brecht, Eagleton, Derrida, Artaud, Stanislavsky, Grotowski, Jameson, etc. Course typically requires two papers and final examination. - W. B. Worthen 3 points
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3.00 Credits
Literature of 20th-century minority women writers in the United States, with particular emphasis on works by Asian, Black, Hispanic, and Native American women, the historical and cultural as well as the literary framework. General Education Requirement: Literature (LIT). Not offered in 2009-2010. 3 points
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3.00 Credits
Literature of the 20th-century minority women writers in the United States, with emphasis on works by Asian, Black, Hispanic, and Native American women. The historical and cultural as well as the literary framework. General Education Requirement: Literature (LIT). Not offered in 2009-2010. 3 points
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3.00 Credits
A practical workshop in dramatic writing for the screen. Through a series of creative writing exercises, script analysis, and scene work, students explore and develop the basic principles of screenwriting. Either a polished short film script or a preliminary draft of a feature screenplay is the final project. Prerequisites: Departmental sign-up required. Preference given to students concentrating in film and restricted to Juniors and Seniors. (Since this is a Film Concentration course, it does not count as a writing course for English majors with a Writing Concentration.) 3 points
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3.00 Credits
A workshop in feature film writing. Students will enter the course with a story idea, ready to start a feature screenplay. Through lectures and workshop discussions, the course will critique the details of character development and scene construction. Analysis of student work will prompt generalized conversations/lectures on the fundamentals of film writing. Emphasis will be placed on character as the engine of story. - G. Gallo Prerequisites: Successful completion of FILM BC3119 Screenwriting I or equivalent. A complete story idea, either original or to be adapted from another form. Sign up through the Barnard English Department required. General Education Requirement: The Visual and Performing Arts (ART). 3 points
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3.00 Credits
Links literature to painting, photography and film, as well as texts in psychology (Freudian trauma theory and recovered memory). We will explore the role of personal and cultural memory in the creative process through key examples from the medieval "memory rooms" to the work of Alain Resnais. Weekly screenings. Also listed as ENGL 3145. General Education Requirement: Literature (LIT). General Education Requirement: The Visual and Performing Arts (ART). Not offered in 2009-2010. 3 points also listed as ENGL 3145
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3.00 Credits
An exploration of basic narrative tools at the filmmaker's disposal, with a particular emphasis on camera work and editing. Examines basic cinematic syntax that provides a foundation for storytelling on the screen. Prerequisites: FILM BC3201 and permission of instructor. Sophomore standing. Enrollment limited to 12 students. General Education Requirement: The Visual and Performing Arts (ART). 3 points
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3.00 Credits
An introductory survey of the history, aesthetics and theories of film. Topics in American and International cinema are explored through weekly screenings, readings, discussion, and lecture. A complete introduction to cinema studies, this course is also the prerequisite for further film courses at Columbia and Barnard. General Education Requirement: The Visual and Performing Arts (ART). 3 points
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