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Course Schedule—Fall 2008

Film & Media Studies

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FILM AND MEDIA STUDIES

061.140 (H)
            

INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF FILM (3) DeLibero   Lab Fee: $40 
Limit 30   A survey of the history of film from its origins to the present, designed with prospective film majors in mind. Students learn the aesthetic vocabulary of film and study key films in weekly screenings.

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T  1:30-4:30

MTh 7:30-10pm

061.230 (H)

INTERMEDIATE FILM PRODUCTION (3) Mann Prereq: 061.142 (Introduction to Film) Production   Perm. Req’d. Limit 9  Lab Fee: $100 Expands the work accomplished in Introduction to Film Production with the inclusion of sound. Students work individually, from concept to completed short 16mm (black & white or color, non/sync. sound). All editing is performed through digital non-linear system.

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T 1:30-4

061.245 (H)

INTRODUCTION TO FILM THEORY (3) Staff    Limit 40    Prereq: Introduction to the Study of Film (061.140)  Lab Fee: $40 or Perm. Req’d  An introduction to the major developments and tendencies in film theory. Authors studied will include Eisenstein, Benjamin, Kracauer, Bazin, Baudry, Mulvey, and Wollen.

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Th 1:30-4

W 7:30-10pm

061.308 (H)

EXPERIMENTAL VIDEO (3) Yasinsky  Limit 12   Lab fee: $40  Prereq: 061.145. (Introduction to Visual Language) or video editing experience An introduction to experimental video from the 1960s to present. Understanding "experimental" as an operative to change existing forms of video using aesthetic and ideological innovation. With video projects.

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MW 12-1:15

T 7:30-10pm

 

061.314 (H)
(W)

SKETCHING THE SCENE: IMAGE AS NARRATIVE TOOL (3) Porterfield  Limit 9   Lab fee: $40   Prereq: Introduction To Film Production (061.150)  or Introduction To Visual Language (061.145) or Perm Req’d.  Departing from traditional screenwriting technique, this course will promote the precise visual image as a foundation for developing scene, character, and story. Students will explore narrative from the inside out.

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F 1:30-4

Th 7:30-10

 

061.339 (H)

A CINEMA OF ANXIETY: FILM NOIR (3) Bucknell  Prereqs: 061.145 or 061.244 or 061.245 or 061.246 One core course or Perm. Req’d   Limit 15    Lab Fee: $40   Postwar film noir: Fuller, Huston, Lang, Mann, Tourneur, and others.  
Cross-listed with Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality

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W 1:30-4
TTh 7:30-10

061.341 325 (H)

THE WILDERNESS WITHIN AND WITHOUT (3) Bucknell   Limit 15 Lab fee: $40   Prereq: one core course: 061.140 or 061.244 or 061.245 or 061.246 or Perm. Req’d Savage landscapes and savage states of mind in films by Ford, Herzog, Boorman, Weir, and others.

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M 1:30-4

Sun & Wed 7:30-10pm

061.349 (H)

ARTS, NEW MEDIA, COMMUNITY: CREATING AN ONLINE ARTS JOURNAL FOR BALTIMORE AND BEYOND (3) DeLibero  Limit 10 Lab fee: $40   Prereq: one core course or Perm. Req’d In conjunction with visiting professionals/faculty, students will get real world experience helping to create the regional online arts journal, RadarRedux. Involves critical writing, video, webcasting, and podcasting. Course will meet at MICA. Course added 4/17/08

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W 10-1

061.401 (H)

DANCE FOR THE CAMERA (3) Mann  Limit 6  Lab Fee: $100   Prereq: Advanced Film Production, 061.301 or  Perm. Req’d. 
Dance for the Camera is a collaborative course taught with dance majors from Towson University. Film students from Film and Media Studies will work with choreographers from Towson to produce a short 16mm dance for the camera film.

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W 2-5

061.440 (H)

SENIOR PROJECT IN FILM PRODUCTION (3) Mann   Limit 15  Perm. Req’d. 
Senior students develop and complete a short 16mm film.

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070.265 (H,S)

ANTHROPOLOGY OF MEDIA (3) Pandian  Limit 50 40   The course examines the mediation of contemporary cultural life through technologies such as cinema, television, radio, design, and  the Internet, investigating questions of desire, power, identity, and belonging.
Cross-listed with Anthropology

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TTh 10:30-11:45

214.420 (H)

ITALIAN NEOREALISMO AND ITS IMPACT ON THE INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTATARY FILM TRADITION (3) Wegenstein  Limit 20 Cross-listed with German and Romance Languages and Literatures

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W 2-4:30

215.451 (H)

EL CINE DE PEDRO ALMODOVAR (3) González, E.   Limit 40  
Cross-listed with German and Romance Languages and Literatures and Studies of Women Gender and Sexuality

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Th 2-4:30

360.233 (H)
(W)

FEMINIST AND QUEER THEORY (3) Goodfellow    Limit 15  
Cross-listed with Interdepartmental and Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality

Sec. 01

TTh 10:30-11:45

061.502

INDEPENDENT STUDY IN FILM AND MEDIA Staff   Perm. Req’d.
Lab Fee: $100 (if production related)
For students who wish to explore an aspect of film studies not covered by existing courses. The course may be used for research or directed readings/viewings and should include one lengthy essay or several short ones as well as regular meetings with the adviser.

061.504

INDEPENDENT STUDY IN FILM PRODUCTION Mann   Perm. Req’d.
Lab Fee: $100 Students work on an individual basis to complete a theoretically based paper related to film production.

061.506

INTERNSHIP IN FILM AND MEDIA DeLibero   Perm. Req’d.    S/U only
Allows students to gain professional experience in film and/or media along with their academic development. Internship must be approved by academic advisor.

 

 

 

 

 

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