FILM AND MEDIA STUDIES

061.145 (H)

INTRODUCTION TO VISUAL LANGUAGE (3) Yasinsky  Lab Fee: $40   Limit 12 Introduction to the aesthetics and meaning of moving images. Films and videos (Murneau, Bresson, Lynch, etc.) will be screened to analyze picture, sound, editing. Students will produce 3 videos.

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TTh 3-4:30

W 7:30-9:30pm

061.240 (H)

INTRODUCTION TO FILM PRODUCTION (3) Porterfield Perm Req'd. Dept. Majors Only   Lab fee: $100 Limit 9 Course 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. Course added 11/27/06

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F 12-2:30

061.304 (H)

INTERMEDIATE FILM PRODUCTION (3) Mann Perm. Req’d. Prereq: Intro to Film Production 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 film (black and white, color, non/sync. sound). All editing is performed through digital non-linear system.

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Th 12-2:30

061.312 (H)
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WRITING THE SCREEN PLAY (3) RoperLimit 15 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 4:30

061.313 (H)
(W)

STORY AND CHARACTER DESIGN FOR THE SCREENPLAY (3) Bucknell Limit 15 Lab Fee: $40 A workshop devoted to developing dimensional characters and compelling, original stories.

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M 3:30-6pm

Th Sun 7:30-10pm

061.322 (H)

WOMEN IN HOLLYWOOD FILM (3) Bucknell Limit 15 Prereq: ONE CORE COURSE OR PERMISSION Lab Fee: $40. Female beauty, villainy, and humanity in popular film from the silent era to the present.

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M 12-2:30

MTh ThW 7:30-10pm

061.328 (H)

GANGSTER FILMS (3) Bucknell   Limit 15   Prereq: One core course or Perm. Req’d Lab Fee: $ 40  The bad guy as hero from Little Caesar to Goodfellas.

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W 2-4:30

M & T 7:30-10pm

061.331 (H)

AMERICA SINCE BRANDO (3) DeLibero  Prereq: Intro.to the Study of Film (061.140) and at least one 200 or 300 level Film & Media course Limit 15 Lab Fee: $40 Traces the actor's influence on American film and culture. Close examination of the actor's performance methods, life, and movies, as well as the cultural contexts that informed his work.

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W T 3-5:30

MT MTh 7:30-10pm

061.362 (H)

AMERICAN & EUROPEAN EXPERIMENTAL FILM (3) Mann Limit 12 Film & Media majors preferred Lab Fee: $40 Examines an eclectic group of experimental filmmakers including Stan Brakhage, Trin T. Minh-ha, Leslie Thorton, and Michael Snow. Includes screenings of filmmakers' works and their writings on the subject.

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W 2-4:30

061.420 (H)

THE FRENCH NEW WAVE  (3) Roos Lab Fee: $40   Limit 15   Study of the major films of the French New Wave, their origins, context, and afterlife.

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Th 2:30-4:30 5

T 7- 9pm

061.441

SENIOR PROJECT IN FILM PRODUCTION (3) Mann
Perm. Req’d

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061.443 (H)

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

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TBA

213.255 (H)

VOICES: FROM THE ROMANTIC TEXT TO GRAMMOPHONE AND TELEPHONE (3) Campe Limit 15
Cross-listed with German and Romance Languages and Literatures and the Humanities Center

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T 1-3

213.347 (H)

CREATURE FEATURE (3) Kolarov Limit 15
Cross-listed with German and Romance Languages and Literatures and English

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M  1-3

Th 7-9pm

215.455 (H)

CUBA NOIR (3) E. Gonzalez
Limit 20 Taught in Spanish
Cross-listed with Program in Latin American Studies and German and Romance Languages and Literatures

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M 3-5

061.501

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

061.503

INDEPENDENT STUDY IN FILM PRODUCTION Mann Prereq: 061.240, 061.301, 061.304 Perm. Req’d. Lab Fee: $100

061.505

INTERNSHIP IN FILM AND MEDIA DeLibero Satisfactory/ Unsatisfactory only