FILM STUDIES (FILM)
FILM 201 - FUNDAMENTALS OF FILM STUDIES
Americana Film Introduction to film and its American practitioners. Emphasis on basic techniques and vocabulary for analyzing and writing about film and reading film theory. Attention to prominent directors and popular genre-- the thriller, Introduction to film and its American practitioners. Emphasis on basic techniques and vocabulary for analyzing and writing about film and reading film theory. Attention to prominent directors and popular genres--the thriller, melodrama, Western, buddy picture. melodrama, Western, buddy picture.
Credits: 3
Attributes: Humanities
Prerequisites: ENG 102
FILM 205 - FILM HISTORY
History of film as an art form in light of its technological, aesthetic, and cultural developments and influence. Particular attention to the correlation between the history of the medium and the larger history of the twentieth and twentieth-first centuries.
Credits: 3
Attributes: Humanities
Prerequisites: ENG 102
FILM 215 - BLACK PANTHER AND BEYOND: MILESTONES IN AFRICAN-AMERICAN FILM
The billion-dollar, worldwide success of Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther signaled what may be the beginning of a new age of recognition and celebration of filmic depictions that focus on people of African descent. This course will examine milestones in Black film leading up to and including Black Panther, focusing on cultural and artistic merit.
Credits: 3
Attributes: Humanities, Non-western Culture
FILM 221 - INTRODUCTION TO MEDIA PRODUCTION
Course is designed to build core competency in utilizing and expanding communication technology to tell the stories; studying the principles of production in the areas of photography, video, audio, and interactive media. From both practical and theoretical perspectives, students will learn to: 1) analyze media forms (such as design, user interface, composition, framing, lighting, sound and editing) and 2) produce elementary productions that exhibit an understanding of these forms.
Credits: 3
Attributes: Humanities
FILM 253 - SCREEN WRITING
Students produce a full-length screenplay in a workshop atmosphere while analyzing the techniques professional screenwriters use to create complex characters, thrilling action, and original plots. Some attention to marketing the screenplay, including the treatment and pitch.
Credits: 3
Attributes: Humanities
FILM 341 - TOPIC: FILM THEME OR PERIOD
A film seminar that looks closely at cinematic treatment of a particular theme, period, trope, or location.
Credits: 3
Attributes: Humanities
FILM 350 - SPECIAL TOPICS IN FILM THEME OR GENRE
Every film presents to its audience a world and a way of sensing and thinking about that world. Cinema possesses what we might call a thought-function: cinema incites us to think, to think through and with the diverse worlds presented in films. To the extent that philosophy consists in an effort to think clearly and rigorously about the world and the problems it comprises, it follows that there is much of philosophical interest in cinema. In this class, then, we will attend to cinema’s thought-function, endeavoring to think philosophically about cinema—and even, perhaps, to think cinematically about philosophy.
Credits: 3
Attributes: Humanities