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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours;laboratory, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Analyzes the juncture between representation and presentation in everyday dance genres on film. Concerns itself with race, class, tropes of authenticity, and ownership of cultural production through screenings, lectures, and theoretical writings. No previous dance experience is required. Course is repeatable.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; screening, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Examines, primarily through film, video, and texts, the relationship between gender, mechanization, and shape during the twentieth century. Focuses on the performing arts, industrial and technological design, and visual culture's relation to changing notions of gender. Course is repeatable.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; screening, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Explores the nature of film studies through the eyes of the audience. Uses film, videos, and texts, in addition to outside viewing of films in cinematic locales, to formulate how viewing film constructs the viewers subjectivity and the films cultural context. Course is repeatable.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; laboratory, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Analyzes the deconstruction and reconstruction of the narrative arc in selected films by the insertion of "live" performancepractices, such as, but not limited to, fight scenes and dance sequences. Includes in-class and out-of-class screenings. Course is repeatable.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; laboratory, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. A study of the vast corpus of films that constitute the genre called Bollywood, with special attention paid to its music and dance styles. Includes weekly film screenings, audio listening, and readings. No previous dance experience is required. Course is repeatable.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; laboratory, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Analyzes choreographic practices within television broadcast and marketing and their relation to popular culture. Also examines situational or tactical use and misuse of satellite, cablecast, and broadcast television by unintentional audiences that subsequently reconstitute themselves as communities via the programming. Attention is given to video as an archival and/or choreographic tool. J. Corporations and Corporealities: Commercials, Culture, and Choreography; K. Television as Location: The Satellite Feed; M. Music Television (MTV) and Popular Culture. Segments are repeatable.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; screening, 2 hours; laboratory, 1 hour. Prerequisite(s): MCS 020; upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Provides a theoretical approach to digital subjectivities, bodies in motion, products, and realities. Addresses issues of liveness, new media, mediated cultural identities, speed, transfer, telepresence, and coded and encoded sexuality within programming. Focuses primarily on the body-computer interface. J. Digital Games, Violence, and the Body; K. Virtual Subjectivity: Persona, Identity, and Body. Segments are repeatable.
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4.00 Credits
Studio, 8 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division courses in choreography or consent of instructor in unusual situations. An investigation of dance production theories and practices. Each practicum is directed experience in a limited topic, announced in advance of the quarter given, with the name of the guest instructor if it is not taught by the staff. E. Cine Dance; F. Folk Forms; G. Advanced Choreography; H. Intermedia Movement; I. Video Dance; J. Repertory; K. Reconstruction of Dances; L. Theory of Individual Choreographers; M. Dance for Children; N. Dance in Therapy; O. Improvisation; P. Role Preparation; Q. Dance Notation; R. Pedagogy; S-Z to be announced. Each segment is repeatable to a maximum of 12 units.
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4.00 Credits
Seminar, 3 hours; outside research, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Presents the emergent field of improvisation studies, moving beyond traditional genre boundaries to explore improvisation as a cultural phenomenon and social practice. Draws from jazz studies, ethnomusicology, music theory, musicology, American studies, and the histories of dance, theatre, and the visual arts. Crosslisted with MUS 187.
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1.00 - 5.00 Credits
To be taken with the consent of the Chair of the Department of Dance to meet special curricular problems. Course is repeatable to a maximum of 12 units.
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