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 video art – by Murnau, Bresson, Lynch, Nauman, etc. – will be screened to analyze picture, editing and sound. With video project.

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MW 3-4:15

Th 7:30-9:30pm

061.150 (H)

INTRODUCTION TO FILM PRODUCTION (3) Porterfield    Lab Fee: $100   Limit 9     Permission required    Department majors only 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 flatbed editor.

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F 12:00- 2:30

061.245 (H)

INTRODUCTION TO FILM THEORY (3) Roos    Lab Fee: $40   Limit 40   Prereq: Intro to the Study of Film (AS.061.140)    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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T 1:30-4 3:20

M 7:30-10pm

061.301 (H)

ADVANCED FILM PRODUCTION (3) Mann  Lab Fee: $100  Limit 6  Prereq: Intro to Film Production and Intermediate Film Production  Advanced Film Production allows each student to shoot a short (6-15 minute) film in black/white or color negative. The course involves synchronous sound.

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T 3-5:30pm

061.313 (H)
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STORY AND CHARACTER DESIGN FOR THE SCREENPLAY (3) Bucknell Lab Fee: $40    Limit 15   A workshop devoted to developing dimensional characters and compelling and original stories. Weekly screenings and short written exercises.

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Th 1:30-4

W 7:30-10pm

061.323 (H)

MASCULINITIES (3) Bucknell     Lab Fee: $40. Limit 15 Prereq: One Core Course Or Permission   From tap dancer to gangster, assassin to anguished teen, versions of the male in film from the silent era to the present.  Cross-listed with Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality

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T 12-2:20

MTh 7:30-10pm

061.324 (H)

THE DECADENT BLACK & WHITE (3) Roper   Lab Fee: $40  Limit 15   Prereq: One core course or Perm. Req’d   This course studies some of the most alluring films made under the old Hollywood system.  As black-and-white was disappearing, a brilliant "final" burst of effort yielded some of the richest American filmed stories.  Class will view movies, study scripts, and try to comprehend the historical moment (roughly 1958-63).

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W 1:30-4:20

061.345 (H)

PRIMITIVE FILM (3) Mann    Lab Fee: $100  Limit 9   Prereq: Intro.to Film Production (061.150) Primitive Film explores pre-cinematic and early cinematic devices and spectatorship. The course offers readings as well as production techniques. Students construct and film a zoetrope.

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W 1:30-4

061.347 (H)

WRITING WITH LIGHT (3) Plow   Lab Fee: $100    Perm. Req’d    Limit 9    Prereq: Intro.to Film Production (061.150)   Writing with Light explores the stylistic applications of lighting for film. The course will include readings and class projects emphasizing various lighting modes.

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Th 3-5:30pm

061.348 (H)

NARRATIVE PRODUCTION (3), Sadler Lab Fee: $100   Limit 9   Most meetings will take place at MICA   Prereq: Intro. to Film Production (061.150, formerly 061.240) or Intro. to Visual Language (061.145) Students from MICA and JHU will collaborate to produce short narrative films from their original screenplays. Production accompanied workshops with filmmakers on Production Design, Directing, Cinematography, and Art Direction.

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M 4-7pm

061.366 (H)

THE NEW HOLLYWOOD: AMERICAN CINEMA OF THE SEVENTIES (3) DeLibero  Lab Fee: $40 Limit 15   Prereq: Intro.to Study of Film (061.140) and at least one 200-level Film & Media course.   Films of Altman, Peckinpah, Coppola, Penn, Scorsese, and others. Intensive examination of the films and their cultural/political context.  
Cross-listed with Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality

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W 4:30-7pm

T 7:30- 10pm

061.441 (H)

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

300.312 (H)
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IMAGINING REVOLUTION AND UTOPIA (3) Moss   Limit 25 20
Cross listed with Studies of Women and Gender, and Sexuality, the Humanities Center

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T 1:30-4

300.328 (H)
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SURREALIST NARRATIVES (3) Khatib Limit 20
Cross listed with Studies of Women and Gender, and Sexuality, the Humanities Center

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W 1:30-4

213.352 (H)

FONTANE AND THE ADULTERY FILM (3) Kolarov   Limit 20    
Cross-listed with German and Romance Languages, Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, and the Humanities Center

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F 2-4:30

214.371 (H)
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IMAGINING MEDIEVAL ITALIAN CULTURE: THE NAME OF THE ROSE (3) Stephens   Limit 20    
Cross-listed with the Humanities Center, History, Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, German and Romance Languages, and English

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T 2-4:30

215.457 6 (H)

LITERATURE AND FILM: THE CASE OF MANUEL PUIG (3) E. Gonzalez   Limit 30 20  
Close reading of select works by Manuel Puig, the outstanding Argentine writer of his generation.  Readings examined in relation to relevant movies and film theory.  Taught in English.  Readings in Spanish and English.
Cross listed with Program in Latin American Studies, German and Romance Languages, Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, and the Humanities Center

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Th 2-4:30

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