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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; screening, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): none. An introduction to Japan's major directors and to watching and writing about Japanese film. Works studied range from the samurai epics of Kurosawa to recent anime. All films have subtitles. No previous knowledge of Japanese language or culture is required. Cross-listed with AST 022 and JPN 022. Fulfills the Humanities requirement for the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; discussion, 1 hour. Prerequisite(s): none. An introduction to the impact of media technology on the visual arts, from photography to the Internet. Addresses mechanical reproduction, perception, gender, sexuality, identity, interactivity, cybernetics, and popular culture. Cross-listed with AHS 020. Fulfills the Humanities requirement for the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; screening, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): none. Introduction to world cinema as a fusion of national and international, culturally specific, and globally universal characteristics. Topics include realism, the role of world wars, Hollywood's global reach, alternative aesthetics of third-world cinemas, cross-fertilization between Europe and Asia, and the function of international film festivals and the international film market. Cross-listed with CPLT 024. Fulfills the Humanities requirement for the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; discussion, 1 hour. Prerequisite(s): none. An introduction to Latino theatre and film from 1965 to the present. Examines the major works of playwrights and important films and videos. Cross-listed with ENGL 021 and THEA 021. Fulfills the Humanities requirement for the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; screening, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): none. An introduction to a succession of New Waves in European Cinema: Neorealism in Italy, New Wave in France, and New Cinema in Germany, Russia, and Britain. Study of political engagements and technical innovations. Topics include the concept of the auteur, key manifestos, and attempts to define European cinema in film theory. Cross-listed with CPLT 026 and EUR 026. Fulfills the Humanities requirement for the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; screening, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): none. An introduction to the design process for film, television, and theatre. Addresses the influence design has on the viewer, as well as how looks are achieved in different media. Cross-listed with ART 028 and THEA 038. Fulfills the Humanities requirement for the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; screening, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): none. Comparative introduction to the study of two or more media, such as film and television or digital media, and to various critical approaches to the media (formalism, feminism, Marxism, etc.). Special attention is paid to the "rhetoric" of media,media similarities and differences, and cross-media borrowing. Cross-listed with ENGL 033. Fulfills the Humanities requirement for the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; screening, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): none. Explores the representation of food, cooking, and restaurants in films from different national traditions. Includes gender roles; sensuality and sexuality; social class and the economics of food; excess and lack. Cross-listed with CPLT 027. Fulfills either the Humanities or Social Sciences requirement for the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, but not both.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; screening, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): none. A study of representations of Greece and Rome in film, television, and other modern media. Introduces these 'visual texts' both as popular artforms on their own and in relation to their ancient and modern literary sources. Cross-listed with CLA 045. Fulfills the Humanities requirement for the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; screening, 3 hours; practice writing, 1 hour. Prerequisite(s): none. A study of twentieth-century fiction and film from a writer's point of view, emphasizing narrative elements and literary techniques found in both. Explores how novels are translated into film. Cross-listed with CRWT 040. Fulfills the Humanities requirement for the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences.
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