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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
4 hours; 3 credits Examination of experiments in film technique, form, and content. Examples for screening drawn from significant works outside the commercial film industry. Prerequisite: Film 1 and one additional film studies course.
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4.00 Credits
4 hours; 3 credits Intensive analysis of the style and themes of one major director (such as Bergman, Fellini, or Hitchcock) or of two directors (such as Renoir and Lang or Eisenstein and Lee). Students may take this course for credit three times, but may not repeat topics. Prerequisite: Film 1 or permission of the chairperson.
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4.00 Credits
4 hours; 3 credits Analysis of a specific film technology and its impact on film form. Prerequisite: Film 1.
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4.00 Credits
4 hours; 3 credits Survey of a major cinema reflecting the intellectual and artistic traditions of a nation such as India, Australia, or Japan. Students may take this course for credit three times, but may not repeat area studied. Prerequisite: Film 1 or permission of the chairperson.
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4.00 Credits
4 hours; 3 credits Studies in genre types and techniques. Narrative structure, theory, popular appeal of archetypal patterns, character stereotypes. Each term focuses on either an individual genre (westerns, science fiction, crime) or on genre as a popular film form and method of analysis. Students may take this course for credit three times, but may not repeat topics. Prerequisite: Film 1 or permission of the chairperson.
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4.00 Credits
4 hours; 3 credits Theoretical writings of Eisenstein, Pudovkin, Kracauer, Arnheim, Bazin, Lacan, Metz, Mulvey, Cavell, and others. Their application in cinema. Writing workshop for students interested in contemporary film criticism, supplemented by historical survey of film criticism in newspapers, magazines, and film journals. Course aims at film scholarship rather than journalistic reviewing. Prerequisite: Film 1 or permission of the chairperson.
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4.00 Credits
4 hours; 3 credits Survey of a major cinema tradition that transcends national borders. Topics selected according to regional, political, social, and/or cultural traditions shared by people across the globe. Topics include African cinema, postcolonial cinema, and the cultural exchange between Hollywood and different national cinemas. Students may take this course for credit two times, but may not repeat area. Prerequisite: Film 1.
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4.00 Credits
4 hours; 3 credits The study of film as a commercial enterprise, from Hollywood studios to New York independents, from the international marketplace to ancillary markets like cable and home video. Prerequisite: Film 1. Film 191
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2.00 Credits
2 hours lecture, 2 hours laboratory; 3 credits Introduction to fundamentals of film production through demonstrations, lectures, and hands-on use of motion picture cameras, lenses, filters, lighting equipment, film stocks, and sound recording equipment. Individual and group film projects, which are evaluated and criticized. Prerequisite or corequisite: Film 1 and 61, or permission of the chairperson.
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2.00 Credits
2 hours lecture, 2 hours laboratory; 3 credits Team writing, shooting, editing, and group criticism. Each student works as director, editor, writer, and cinematographer on sequences of 16mm film. Concept, research, writing, cinematography, editing, and sound. Discussion of problems encountered. Must be taken concurrently with Film 43. Prerequisite: Film 1, 40.1, and 61, and permission of the instructor.
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