FILM AND MEDIA STUDIES

061.240 (H)

INTRODUCTION TO FILM PRODUCTION (3) Mann Perm. Req=d  Lab Fee: $100   Limit 9    An introduction to 16mm film  production. Working in groups of three, students produce a short, black and white, silent film. All editing is performed on a 16mm flat bed editor.

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Th 12-2:30

061.244 242 (H)

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FILM GENRES (3) Bucknell Prereq: one core course recommended (061.140-144)    Limit 15     Lab Fee: $40  A survey of American genres: the Western, the Gangster Film, Science Fiction, Horror, Comedy, Melodrama, and others.

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W 4-6:30pm

M 7-9:30pm

Th 7:30-10pm

061.243 (H)

LOST AND FOUND FILM (3) Anderson Juniors and Seniors only. Basic non-linear editing skills.  Lab Fee: $40 Limit 9 Students produce a short film from "found footage" via archival resources. Explores the notion of "filmic" and "photogenie" through final project and supplemental readings from Epstein, Benjamin, and Barthes. Course added 11/04/04

Course canceled 02/16/05 Students should register for course 061.413

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T 12-2:30

061.301 (H)

ADVANCED FILM PRODUCTION (3) Mann   Prereq:061.240, Perm. Req=d. Limit 6  Lab Fee: $100 Produce a short black and white or color negative 16mm film. Films may include synchronous sound. All editing and post-production work is performed through non-linear video systems. Course canceled 11/03/04

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T 12-2:30

061.303 (H)

INTERMEDIA STUDIO (3) Freedman Limit 10   Priority to FMS students with computer experience. Dept. Perm. Req’d Studio is a laboratory for the creation of electronic art, combining students in the musical, visual, and media arts in a team-based environment to collaborate on multimedia projects.

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F 1-5

061.306 (H)

INTRODUCTION TO ANIMATION (3) Yasinsky   Limit 10    Prereq: 061.240 Lab Fee: $100.  This course will cover a history of animation from early puppet and cell animation through contemporary work, including Starevich, Fleischer Studios, Svankmajer, and Gondry. Workshops in stop-motion and Flash.

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M 11-1:30

061.312 (H)
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WRITING THE SCREENPLAY (3) Roper   Limit 15   Prereq: Expository Writing or Intro. to Fiction and Poetry.

Course is a rigorous introduction to writing in screenplay form, based on writing exercises, the reading of scripts, and the screening of popular films.

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W 2-5

061.337 (H) (W)

FILMS OF THE FIFTIES (3) Bucknell Limit 15   Lab Fee: $40   Prereq: one core Film & Media course or Perm. Req’d. Cultural, social, and political concerns of the decade as reflected in the films of Lang, Sirk, Ray, Fuller, Kazan, and others.

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W 12-2

M 7:30-10pm,
T 7-9:30pm

061.338 (H)

RUSSIAN CINEMA FROM AVANTE-GARDE TO SOCIALIST REALISM (3) Eakin  Limit 20  Prereq: one core and one 300-level Film & Media course or Perm. Req’d.  Lab Fee: $40  Conducted in English    Examines the origins and development of Russian cinema to the 1930s: silent era, montage, the advent of sound, Formalism, Socialist Realism, Stalinism, the role of ideology, censorship and the state.

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MW 2-3:30

T 7:30-10pm

061.364 (H)

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HITCHCOCK AND FILM THEORY (3) DeLibero   Limit 15   Prereq: One core and one 300-level Film & Media course  Lab Fee: $40      Close examinations of Hitchcock's films from the Lodger to Frenzy. Special attention given to the vast array of theoretical and critical responses that his work has provoked.

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T 3-5

M 7:30-10pm

Sun 7-9:30pm

061.411 (H)

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FEATURE SCREENPLAY WORKSHOP II (3) Friedman Prereq: 061.410   Limit 8    This course is a continuation of 061.410. Workshop is directed towards completion of feature screenplays.

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M T 6-9pm

061.413 243 (H)

LOST AND FOUND FILM (3) Mann Juniors and Seniors only. Pre.req: Basic non-linear editing skills.  Lab Fee: $40 Limit 9
Students produce a short film from "found footage" via archival resources. Explores the notion of "filmic" and "photogenie" through final project and supplemental readings from Epstein, Benjamin, and Barthes.

Course added 11/04/04

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T 12-2:30

061.420 (H)

THE FRENCH NEW WAVE  (3) Roos Prereq: One core (061.140-144)    
Lab Fee: $40    Conducted in English    Study of the major films of the French New Wave, their origins, context, and afterlife. Cross-listed with Romance Languages

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Th 3-5
T 5-7:30pm

061.441 (H)

SENIOR PROJECT IN FILM PRODUCTION (3) Mann  

Prereq: 061.240, 061.301, 061.304

Perm. Req=d.   Lab Fee: $100         

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TBA

061.443 (H)

SENIOR PROJECT IN DIGITAL VIDEO PRODUCTION (3) Staff  Perm. Req=d.  

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TBA

020.125 (H,N)

BIOLOGY IN FILM: DISCOVERY, DISEASE, AND DISASTER (1) Schroer    Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory only This course will feature weekly presentations of highly acclaimed, Hollywood films. Each film will be hosted by a different member of the Biology faculty who will provide an introduction and discussion of the film. Film topics include early discoveries in the biomedical arena, genetic and infectious diseases, and the potential consequences of human genetic engineering. Students will be expected to attend all classes and complete out a questionnaire based on each film.
Cross-listed with Biology

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Th 7-9:30pm

220.393 (H)
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COMEDY WRITING: COMEDY WRITING IN FICTION AND DRAMA (STAGE, TELEVISION AND FILM) (3) Bucknell    Weekly creative exercises with emphasis on mechanics.  Writers considered will include Oscar Wilde, Kingsley Amis, Bill Cosby, Woody Allen.

Cross-listed with Writing Seminars

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M 1-3

Th 7:30-9pm

300.326 (H)

LIVING IN DOUBTS:SKEPTICISM IN PHILOSOPHY, LITERATURE, AND FILM (3) Fenno  Limit 20

Cross-listed with English, Humanities and Philosophy

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M 2-4,
T 3

360.262 (H,S)

GENDER, SEXUALITY, AND IDENTITIES IN MASS MEDIA (3) Hijar   Limit 15   Freshmen only  How men, women, and their sexualities are imagined in American mass media. Focus on the role of editors, publisher, and artists in creating sexual identities.

Cross-listed with Women, Gender, and Sexuality and Interdepartmental

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T 2-5

061.501

INDEPENDENT STUDY IN FILM AND MEDIA Staff   Perm. Req=d.

Lab Fee: $100 (if production related)

061.505

INTERNSHIP IN FILM AND MEDIA DeLibero  Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory only