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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to basic principles, techniques, and aesthetics of motion picture production. The course emphasizes practice with a series of several short-term assignments in the first twothirds of the semester, and the development of a focused production project in the last third of the semester. Working in small production crews and with the medium of digital video, students gain a practical and theoretical understanding of the basic principles of camera and editing for motion picture production. Laboratory fee.
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3.00 Credits
An introductory survey of international cinema, selecting classic films of the major national cinemas (France, Italy, Germany, Sweden, Russia, Japan) along with important works from other cinemas (Yugoslavia, India, Brazil, Senegal). Weekly screenings. Prerequisite: CIN/CMM 150. Film fee.
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3.00 Credits
From 1895 to the present, a survey of the defining developments in technology (sound, color, widescreen) and national styles (primitive cinema, silent cinema, German expressionism, Soviet montage, French poetic realism, classical Hollywood cinema, Italian neorealism, French New Wave, American experimental cinema, the new Hollywood). Weekly screenings. Pre- or corequisite: CIN/CMM 150. (Writing-intensive course) Film fee.
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3.00 Credits
Close study of the formalism of Eisenstein, the realism of Bazin, the auteur theory, and semiotics. Film analysis asks whether a movie is more like a painting, a window on the world, or a mirror for the desires of the audience; it asks whether there is a language of film, whether seeing a film is like dreaming, and what makes for the impression of reality in the cinema. Weekly screenings. Pre- or corequisite: CIN/CMM 150. (Writing-intensive course) Film fee.
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3.00 Credits
A close study of the transformation into film of dramas of Shakespeare written chiefly before 1600 (first semester), including The Taming of the Shrew, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, and Henry V. Film fee.
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3.00 Credits
A close study of the transformation into film of dramas of Shakespeare written chiefly after 1600 (second semester), including Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth, and Anthony and Cleopatra. Film fee.
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3.00 Credits
Extended close study of one or more of the major individual figures in cinema (e.g., Eisenstein, Chaplin, Welles, Hitchcock, Godard). Specific director varies by the semester; thus, the course may be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: CIN/CMM 150. Film fee.
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3.00 Credits
Thorough survey of one or more of the major national cinemas (American, British, French, German, Italian, Japanese). Specific national cinema varies by the semester, thus the course may be repeated for credit. Prerequisites: CIN/CMM 150 and foreign-language literature course, or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Close study of one or more historically important genres in cinema (documentary, melodrama, film noir, horror, western, musical, experimental film). Specific genre varies with the semester; thus, the course may be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: CIN/CMM 150. Film fee.
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3.00 Credits
Intensive study of a major motif, topic, or limited period in film (City in Film, Fantasy and Realism in Cinema, Masculinity in the Movies). Specific topic varies by semester; thus, the course may be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: CIN/CMM 150. Film fee.
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