About the Program
How to Become a Program Member
The program is open to all Brandeis undergraduates. To enroll in the program, consult with a member of the film studies committee and fill out declaration forms from the Office of Academic Affairs. Students who complete the requirements of the program receive film studies certificates and notations on their transcripts.
Committee
| Alice Kelikian
Chair |
History |
| Scott Edmiston | Office of the Provost |
| Matthew Fraleigh | German, Russian, and Asian Languages and Literature |
| Timothy Hickey | Computer Science |
| Paul Morrison | English and American Literature |
| Sabine von Mering | German, Russian, and Asian Languages and Literature |
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Requirements for the Program
Students must complete six courses:
- A. Core course: FILM 100a (Introduction to the Moving Image).
- B. A research or creative project usually written in the senior year and approved by the Film Studies Committee.
- C. Five additional courses from the approved Film Studies curriculum, which must include one course in a non-American cinema and one course in some creative aspect of film production.
Courses of Instruction
(1-99) Primarily for Undergraduate Students
FILM 92a Internship in Film Studies. Signature of the instructor required. Usually offered every year. Staff
FILM 92b Internship in Film Studies. Signature of the instructor required. Usually offered every year. Staff
FILM 98a Independent Studies. Signature of the instructor required. Usually offered every year. Staff
FILM 98b Independent Study. Signature of the instructor required. Usually offered every year. Staff
FILM 100a Introduction to the Moving Image [ca hum]. An interdisciplinary course surveying the history of moving image media from 1895 to the present, from the earliest silent cinema to the ag e of the 500-channel cable television. Open to all undergraduates as an elective, it is the introductory course for the film studies program. Usually offered every year.
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Electives
The following courses are approved for the program. Not all are given in any one year, so the Course Schedule for each semester should be consulted.
AMST 112b
American Film and Culture of the 1950s
AMST 113a
American Film and Culture of the 1940s
AMST 113b
American Film and Culture of the 1930s
AMST 114a
American Film and Culture of the 1920s
AMST 130b
Television and American Culture
AMST 131b
News on Screen
ANTH 26a
Communication and Media
ENG 27a
Page, Stage, and Screen
ENG 27b
Classic Hollywood Cinema
ENG 147a
Film Noir
ENG 177a
Hitchcock's Movies
NEJS 181a
Jews on Screen
NEJS 181b
Film and the Holocaust
NEJS 182a
Jewish Life in Film and Fiction
THA 155a
Icons of Masculinity
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Courses in Non-American Cinema
ENG 48b
Anime
GECS 167a
German Cinema: Vamps and Angels
HBRW 104a
Israeli Films
HIST 170a
Italian Films, Italian Histories
RECS 149b
The Rise and Fall of Russian Modernism: Cultural and Political Revolutions, 1900-1934
SAL 150b
Indian Film: The Three Hour Dream
SECS 183a
Spanish Fictions and Films of Modern Life
SPAN 193b
Topics in Cinema
Courses in Creative Aspects of Film Production
AMST 196d
Film Workshop: Recording America
ENG 67a
Art of the Screenplay
ENG 79a
Directed Writing: Beginning Screenplay
ENG 129b
Understanding the Screenplay: A Workshop
ENG 139b
Intermediate Screenwriting
MUS 107a
Introduction to Electro-Acoustic Music
THA 50b
Sound for Theater, Film, and Television
THA 52b
Fundamentals of Lighting
THA 125a
Acting for the Camera
Senior Seminars
AMST 120b
Film Theory and Criticism
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Research Project
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