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Course Schedule—Fall 2006

Film & Media Studies

FILM AND MEDIA STUDIES

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061.140 (H)

(W)

INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF FILMS (3) DeLibero   Lab Fee: $40 Limit 60   An overview of the history of film, from the first motion pictures to the present. Students learn the critical vocabulary of film and study key films in weekly screenings.

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Scrns.

TTh  12-1:30

M 7:30-10pm, Th 7:30-10pm

061.240 (H)

INTRODUCTION TO FILM PRODUCTION (3) Mann   Limit 9 Lab Fee: $100   Perm. Req’d.
Introduction to Film Production presents the basic elements of 16mm film production. Working in groups students shoot weekly exercises and complete a short, silent 16mm film for a final project.

Sec. 01

M 12-2:30

061.244 (H)

FILM GENRES (3) Bucknell   Limit 15 
Lab Fee:$40   A survey of American genres: the Gangster Film, the Western, the
Musical and others.

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Scrns:

W 1-3:30

T 7:30-10pm, Th 7:30-10pm

225.322 (H)

CRITICAL MOMENTS IN 20TH CENTURY AMERICAN RADICAL THEATRE (4) Astin / Walters   Limit 20    An in-depth examination of selected significant events in twentieth century American radical theatre. Cross-listed with Theatre Arts & Studies and Studies of Women, Gender & Sexuality

Sec. 01 

TBA

061.325 (H)

THE WESTERNS OF FORD, LEONE, AND PECKINPAH (3) Bucknell  Limit 15 Lab fee: $40   A study of three masters -- John Ford, Sergio Leone, and Sam Peckinpah -- their impact on the genre and on each other.

Sec. 01 

Scrns:

M 1-3:30

W 7:30-10pm, Sun 7:30-10pm

090.346 (H)

PSYCHOANALYSIS AND CINEMA (3) Kolarav Limit 20   Psychoanalysis and Cinema are two interchangeable sciences, or institutions, that address our practices of corpse disposal, on the one hand, and our libidinal investments on the other. We will examine some allegories of the development, disintegration, or sugical refashioning of the psyche offered by Goethe, Freud, Hitchcock,and Fritz Lang, among others. Cross-listed with German Course added 7/05/06

Sec. 01

Screen.

W 1-3

Th 7-9pm

061.361 (H)

DOCUMENTARY THEORY (3) Mann
Limit 12   Lab Fee: $40   Documentary Theory explores contemporary documentary film and video with and emphasis on selected directors and the theoretical implications suggested by their work.

Sec. 01

Screen.

T 2-4:30

Sun 7:30pm-10pm

061.384 (H)

HISTORY OF PHOTOJOURNALISM IN THE UNITED STATES (3) Hijar Limit 20 Lab Fee: $ 40 (No lab fee) Undergrads only - Perm Req'd. This course explores US Photojournalism in historical perspective, with emphasis on social and cultural contexts; students will develop the analytic skills necessary to see media images with a critical eye.
Cross-listed with History and Studies of Women, Gender & Sexuality

Sec. 01

MW 4-5:30

061.413 (H)

LOST AND FOUND FILM (3) Mann Limit 9 
Lab Fee: $ 100   Students produce weekly short films from "found footage" via archival resources. Explores the notion of "filmic" and "photogenic" through final project and readings from Epstein, Benjamin, and Barthes.

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Th 2-4:30

061.440 (H)

SENIOR PROJECT IN FILM PRODUCTION (3) Mann   Perm. Req’dLab Fee: $100   Prereq: 061.240, 061.301, 061.304

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TBA

061.502

INDEPENDENT STUDY IN FILM AND MEDIA Staff   Perm. Req’d.
Lab Fee: $100 (if production related)

   

061.504

INDEPENDENT STUDY IN FILM PRODUCTION Mann   Perm. Req’d.
Lab Fee: $100

   

061.506

INTERNSHIP IN FILM AND MEDIA DeLibero   Perm. Req’d  S/U only

   

 

 

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