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4.00 Credits
E-mail Professor Biers (klb2134@columbia.edu) with the subject heading "Drama, Theatre, Theory seminar." In your message, include basic information: your name, school, major, year of study, and relevant courses taken, along with a brief statement about why you are interested in taking the course.
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4.00 Credits
Application Instructions: E-mail Professor Robinson-Appels (jr2168@columbia.edu) by noon on Wednesday, April 11th, with the subject heading, "Contemporary Theater seminar." In your message, include basic information: your name, school, major, year of study, and relevant courses taken, along with a brief statement about why you are interested in taking the course.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor. (Seminar). E-mail Professor Brietzke (zb2120@columbia.edu) by noon on Wednesday, November 16th, with the subject heading, "Mamet seminar." In your message, include basic information: your name, school, major, year of study, and relevant courses taken, along with a brief statement about why you are interested in taking the course.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor. (Seminar). The course will trace the pattern of the evolving theatrical career of Ibsen and Pinter and explore the nature of and relationships among key features of an emerging aesthetic. Thematic and theatrical exploration involve positioning the plays in the context of the trajectories of modernism and postmodernism, and examining the characteristic use of confined spaces; the intense scrutiny of families, friendships, and disruptive intruders; the alternating rejection of and insistence upon political implications; the experiments with temporality, multi-linearity, reverse chronology, and split staging; the emblematic use of stage sets and tableaux; the problematics of performance and the implied playhouse; and the plays' potential as instruments of cultural intervention.Two papers are required, 5-7 pages and 10-12 pages, with weekly brief responses, and a class presentation. Readings include major plays of both writers and key statements on modernism and postmodernism. E-mail Professor Quigley (aeq1@columbia.edu) by noon on Wednesday, November 16th with the subject heading, "Ibsen and Pinter seminar." In your message, include basic information: your name, school, major, year of study, and relevant courses taken, along with a brief statement about why you are interested in taking the course.
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3.00 Credits
No course description available.
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3.00 Credits
The dramatic and cinematic principles of screen storytelling, including dramaturgy, character and plot development, use of camera, staging, casting, sound, editing, and music. Diverse narrative techniques, story patterns, dramatic structures, and artistic and genre forms are discussed, and students do screenwriting exercises. Discussion Section Required.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: For film majors, FILM W3001. Explores how expressions of same-sex desire, in the hands of highly imaginative filmmakers, can open up fresh artistic possibilities for the medium of film, and impel viewers to rethink assumptions about human relations, pleasures, and ethics. Focus on the heyday of international New Queer Cinema (1982-1992), with works by Jarman, Almodovar, Fassbinder, Van Sant, Araki, Collard, and on subsequent mainstreaming of representations of queer desire, especially in Hollywood productions. Readings in film analysis and aspects of queer theory. Fee: $50.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: the instructor's permission. Prospective students must submit writing samples to hes2130 by April 15. The class will analyze and evaluate various approaches to film, with an emphasis on the changing landscape of criticism today. Students will screen and write about films from a variety of perspectives and for different audiences.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: For film majors, Film W3001 or 3100 Course content changes yearly. Krzysztof Kieslowski created some of the most philosophically and stylistically rich films of the 1980s and 90s. We explore such works as "The Decalogue" and "Three Colors: Blue, White, Red" in the context of post-war Polish cinema, and do close analysis of his films in conjunction with their screenplays. Fee: $50.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Film W3001 and permission of the instructor. Fee: $50. Priority given to MFA Film students, and senior film majors. By application to professor only.
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