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An interdepartmental program in Film, Television and Interactive Media
Last updated: August 14, 2014 at 4:30 p.m.
The Film, Television and Interactive Media major exemplifies interdepartmental inquiry and multi-cultural exploration. The course of study is not a pre-professional one, but rather a liberal arts field of scholarly inquiry. In the program, the study of Film, Television and Interactive Media offers interdisciplinary insight into motion picture media. Broadly understood to encompass inquiry into the aesthetics, history, and cultural meanings of the moving image, the major has two primary goals: to provide an informed background in motion picture history and to develop a critical appreciation of the cultural meanings of film.
This humanities-driven course of study stresses analysis of film style and content, film history, and the relationships between cinema and culture. The curriculum is designed to provide a broad overview of the history of the moving image, to promote expertise in cinematic style and cultural meaning, to lend theoretical sophistication to an understanding of the moving image, and to ensure some appreciation of the practical and technical side of motion picture production. Students develop an awareness of cinema as a complex narrative form and as an art. They learn the rhetorical and syntactical conventions of moving images and how this language has developed historically. No more than three courses in production can count towards the nine classes required.
Film, Television, and Interactive Media draws on faculty in the Humanities, the Social Sciences, the Creative Arts, and Computer Science, to offer liberal arts courses in cinema and television as well as in film production. The major provides a distinctive and innovative setting for the education and training of students in the newer media and of fiction and documentary filmmakers. We empower graduates with deep knowledge of cinematic history and culture, and foster their technical skills and creative abilities in media capture, editing, sound, lighting, directing, cinematography and screenwriting. We prepare students to apply their understanding of conventional film and television to new domains in interactive media, such as movies for mobile devices and games with a strong narrative and visual appeal. In short, we teach majors to understand and respect the creative process and artists to value and learn from scholarship.
Knowledge:
Students completing the major in Film, Television and Interactive Media will come away with a strong understanding of:
- American and international cultures of the moving image
- film criticism, auteurial cinema, independent film, and the studio system
- appreciation of film as text and narrative
- global, national and regional cinemas
- implications of the new and emerging technologies for the creative process
- economic and business dimensions of the industry
Core Skills:
- the creative aspects of film production, including screenwriting, editing, interactive media, 3D animation, sound design, and digital media capture, as they relate to film, gaming, and web-delivered visual work
- techniques and the art of production
- ability to provide insightful criticism of film, television, and enriched media
Upon Graduating:
A Brandeis student with a Film, Television and Interactive Media major will be prepared to:
- undertake graduate study or a career in the cinematic arts
- work in production
- pursue, as many of our concentrators have done, careers in law, business, entertainment, journalism, and media-based endeavors
Alice Kelikian, Chair
(History)
Steven Burg, Undergraduate Advising Head
(Politics)
Eric Chasalow
(Music)
Tory Fair
(Fine Arts)
Timothy Hickey
(Computer Science)
Caren Irr
(English)
Paul Morrison (on leave spring 2014)
(English)
Affiliated Faculty (contributing to the curriculum, advising and administration of the department or program)
Steven Burg (Politics)
Eric Chasalow (Music)
Matthew Fraleigh (German, Russian, and Asian Languages and Literature)
Timothy Hickey (Computer Science)
Caren Irr (English)
Alice Kelikian (History)
Paul Morrison (English)
A. FILM 100a (Introduction to the Moving Image)
B. One course in World Cinema (see course list below).
C. One course in the creative aspects of film production (see course list below).
D. Three courses selected from the World Cinema, creative aspects of film production, and elective course lists (see below); however only two courses may be from the creative aspects of film production list.
E. Students may double-count no more than three courses used to fulfill the minor in Film, Television and Interactive Media with another major or minor.
No course with a final grade below C can count toward the minor nor any course graded on a pass/fail basis.
A. FILM 100a (Introduction to the Moving Image)
B. One course in World Cinema (see course list below).
C. One course in the creative aspects of film production (see course list below).
D. Six courses selected from the World Cinema, creative aspects of film production, and elective course lists (see below); however only two courses may be from the creative aspects of film production list. One semester of FILM 92 may be taken for credit towards the major.
E. Candidates for departmental honor considerations must satisfactorily complete FILM 99d (Senior Thesis) under the supervision of a member of the executive committee and may count two semesters towards the required courses for the major.
F. Students may double-count no more than four courses used to fulfill the major in Film, Television and Interactive Media with another major or minor.
G. No course with a final grade below C can count toward the major nor any course graded on a pass/fail basis. Courses cross-listed in Creative Writing, which are credit/non-credit courses, may be counted towards the major.
Courses of Instruction
(1-99) Primarily for Undergraduate Students
FILM
92a
Internship in Film Studies
Usually offered every year.
Staff
FILM
98a
Independent Study
Usually offered every year.
Staff
FILM
98b
Independent Study
Usually offered every year.
Staff
FILM
99d
Senior Thesis
Students who are candidates for degrees with honors in Film, Television and Interactive Media must register for this full-year course. Usually offered every year.
Staff
(100-199) For Both Undergraduate and Graduate Students
FILM
100a
Introduction to the Moving Image
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An interdisciplinary course surveying the history of moving image media from 1895 to the present, from the earliest silent cinema to the age of the 500-channel cable television. Open to all undergraduates as an elective, it is the introductory course for the major and minor in film, television and interactive media. Usually offered every year.
Staff
FILM
110a
Film Production I
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Preference given to Film,Television and Interactive Media majors and minors.
An introduction to the basic principles and techniques of fictional narrative motion picture production. Each student will produce three short films. The films will emphasize dramatic development and creative storytelling through image composition, camera movement, editing, and sound. Usually offered every year.
Staff
FILM
110b
Motion Picture Editing
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Preference given to film, television and interactive media majors and minors.
Students will develop visual literacy through a study of the editor's role in cinematic storytelling. The course provides an overview of the craft's history and theory and offers practical training in editing digital video with Final Cut Pro. Usually offered every year.
Staff
FILM
114a
Genre Films in Cinema and Television
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Explores the analytical framework for understanding genre film. From Steven Spielberg's Jaws to Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs and Tim Story's Barbershop, genre films break box office records and have lasting cultural significance in cinema. Usually offered every third year.
Ms. Kelikian
Film, Television and Interactive Media Electives
The following courses are approved for the program. Not all are given in any one year. Please consult the Schedule of Classes each semester.
AMST
35a
Hollywood and American Culture
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This is an interdisciplinary course in Hollywood cinema and American culture that aims to do justice to both arenas. Students will learn the terms of filmic grammar, the meanings of visual style, and the contexts of Hollywood cinema from The Birth of a Nation (1915) to last weekend's top box office grosser. They will also master the major economic, social, and political realities that make up the American experience of the dominant medium of our time, the moving image, as purveyed by Hollywood. Usually offered every second year.
Mr. Doherty
AMST
116b
Race and American Cinema
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From its earliest beginnings, the history of American cinema has been inextricably--and controversially--tied to the racial politics of the United States. This course explores how images of racial and ethnic minorities such as African Americans, Jews, Asians, Native Americans, and Latino/as are reflected on the screen, as well as the ways that minorities in the entertainment industry have responded to often limiting representations. Usually offered every second year.
Staff
AMST
129a
From American Movie Musicals to Music Videos
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Examines the spectacle of song and dance in movie musicals and music videos, beginning with the earliest talking pictures in the late 1920's and continuing to the present. Particular emphasis will be on technological change, race, gender and the commodification of culture, among other topics. Usually offered every second year.
Mr. Mandrell
AMST
130b
Television and American Culture
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An interdisciplinary course with three main lines of discussion and investigation: an aesthetic inquiry into the meaning of television style and genre; a historical consideration of the medium and its role in American life; and a technological study of televisual communication. Usually offered every second year.
Mr. Doherty
AMST
131b
News on Screen
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An interdisciplinary course exploring how journalistic practice is mediated by moving image--cinematic, televisual, and digital. The historical survey will span material from the late-nineteenth-century "actualities" of Thomas Edison and the Lumiere Brothers to the viral environment of the World Wide Web, a rich tradition that includes newsreels, expeditionary films, screen magazines, combat reports, government information films, news broadcasts, live telecasts, television documentaries, amateur video, and the myriad blogs, vlogs, and webcasts of the digital age. Usually offered every second year.
Mr. Doherty
AMST
136a
Planet Hollywood: American Cinema in Global Perspective
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Examines the global reach of Hollywood cinema as an art, business, and purveyor of American values, tracking how Hollywood has absorbed foreign influences and how other nations have adapted and resisted the Hollywood juggernaut. Usually offered every second year.
Mr. Doherty
ANTH
26a
Communication and Media
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An exploration of human communication and mass media from a cross-cultural perspective. Examines communication codes based on language and visual signs. The global impact of revolutions in media technology, including theories of cultural imperialism and indigenous uses of media is discussed. Usually offered every second year.
Ms. McIntosh
CLAS
151a
Greece, Rome, Myth, and the Movies
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hum
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Explores classical mythology through several key texts to demonstrate the strong connections between antiquity and our own society, especially as revealed in an array of modern cinematic experiments. Charts the transformation of these myths for our own cultural needs. Usually offered every third year.
Ms. Koloski-Ostrow
COML
164b
Reading Screenplays
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Focuses on the secret life of the film script in Hollywood and world cinema. Before a movie can be made, it needs to be scripted. The course links the reading of screenplays in an academic context to script-development practices in the film industry. Usually offered every third year.
Mr. Arellano
ENG
27b
Classic Hollywood Cinema
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A critical examination of the history of mainstream U.S. cinema from the 1930s to the present. Focuses on major developments in film content and form, the rise and fall of the studio and star system, the changing nature of spectatorship, and the social context of film production and reception. Usually offered every second year.
Mr. Morrison
ENG
50b
American Independent Film
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Explores non-studio filmmaking in the United States. Defines an indie aesthetic and alternative methods of financing, producing, and distributing films. Special attention given to adaptations of major film genres, such as noir thrillers, domestic comedy, and horror. Usually offered every third year.
Ms. Irr
ENG
60b
The Films of Disney
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hum
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Surveys Disney narratives from early shorts to recent features. Includes discussion of studio style, concept of the child viewer, social impact, and responses to changing world technologies. Usually offered every third year.
Ms. Irr
ENG
61b
Philosophical Approaches to Film Theory
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Studies a philosophical approach to film theory, examining both what philosophy has to say about film and what effects the existence and experience of film can have on philosophical thinking about reality, perception, judgement, and other minds. Usually offered every third year.
Mr. Flesch
ENG
70a
Magic Lanterns to Movies: The Origins of Narrative Film
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Explores the birth of moving pictures, from Edison and Lumiere's experiments to "Birth of a Nation" and "The Jazz Singer". Traces film's roots in the photographic experiments, visual spectacles and magical lanterns of late nineteenth-century France, England, and America, and its relationship to the era's literary experiments. Filmmakers include: Georges Melies, Abel Ganz, Sergei Eisentein, D W Griffiths, Charlie Chaplin. Usually offered every third year.
Mr. Plotz
ENG
140b
Hipsters on Trial: Irony, Meaning, and Style in the Digital Age
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Examines "the hipster" as a case study for thinking about irony, humor, and the circulation of values in the contemporary digital culture. Authors studied range from Jean-Paul Sartre and Susan Sontag to Childish Gambino and Lena Dunham. Special one-time offering, fall 2014.
Mr. Stevens
ENG
147a
Film Noir
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A study of classics of the genre (The Killers, The Maltese Falcon, Touch of Evil) as well as more recent variations (Chinatown, Bladerunner). Readings include source fiction (Hemingway, Hammett) and essays in criticism and theory. Usually offered every third year.
Mr. Morrison
ENG
150a
Sex and Cinema
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Studies the construction and representation of sexuality, both normative and deviant, in film from the 1930's to the present day. We will pay particular attention to evolving strategies of censorship and resistance to it. Usually offered every third year.
Mr. Morrison
ENG
160a
Digital Media and Culture
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Studies the history and development of digital media, with an emphasis on modes of literature and entertainment. We will examine the digitial revolution's effect on such concepts as narrative, politics, aesthetics, identity, knowledge, and humanism. Usually offered every third year.
Mr. Stevens
ENG
177a
Hitchcock's Movies
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hum
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A study of thirteen films covering the whole trajectory of Hitchcock's career, as well as interviews and critical responses. Usually offered every second year.
Mr. Morrison
FILM
114a
Genre Films in Cinema and Television
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hum
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Explores the analytical framework for understanding genre film. From Steven Spielberg's Jaws to Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs and Tim Story's Barbershop, genre films break box office records and have lasting cultural significance in cinema. Usually offered every third year.
Ms. Kelikian
HISP
193b
Topics in Cinema
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hum
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Open to all students; conducted in English. Course may be repeated for credit.
Topics vary from year to year but might include consideration of a specific director, an outline of the history of a national cinema, a particular moment in film history, or Hollywood cinema in Spanish. Usually offered every second year.
Mr. Mandrell or Mr. Rosenberg
NEJS
181a
Jews on Screen: "Cohen's Fire Sale" to the Coen Brothers
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Open to all students.
Survey course focusing on moving images of Jews and Jewish life in fiction and factual films. Includes early Russian and American silents, home movies of European Jews, Yiddish feature films, Israeli cinema, independent films, and Hollywood classics. Usually offered every second year.
Ms. Rivo
NEJS
181b
Film and the Holocaust
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Open to all students.
Examines the medium of film, propaganda, documentary, and narrative fiction relevant to the history of the Holocaust. The use of film to shape, justify, document, interpret, and imagine the Holocaust. Beginning with the films produced by the Third Reich, the course includes films produced immediately after the events, as well as contemporary feature films. The focus will be how the film medium, as a medium, works to (re)present meaning(s). Usually offered every second year.
Ms. Rivo
NEJS
182a
Jewish Life in Film and Fiction
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Film and fiction are windows through which we can view transformations in American Jewish life. This course concentrates on cinematic and literary depictions of religious, socioeconomic, and cultural change over the past half-century. It does this through films and fiction, which reflect and help to shape shifting definitions of the American Jew. Usually offered every second year.
Ms. Fishman
POL
171b
National Intelligence: Theory, Practice, and Cinematic
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Examines the challenges of developing useful "intelligence" for policymaking, the nature of covert operations for intelligence, and how spy/espionage films shape popular understanding of intelligence and covert operations. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Burg
Electives: Courses in World Cinema
CHIN
130b
China on Film: The Changes of Chinese Culture
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Taught in English. All films viewed have English subtitles.
Focuses on the enormous changes under way in Chinese society, politics, and culture. Helps students to identify and understand these fundamental transformations through a representative, exciting selection of readings and films. Usually offered every second spring.
Staff
ENG
20a
Bollywood: Popular Film, Genre, and Society
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An introduction to popular Hindi cinema through a survey of the most important Bollywood films from the 1950s until today. Topics include melodrama, song and dance, love and sex, stardom, nationalism, religion, diasporic migration, and globalization. Usually offered every third year.
Ms. Anjaria
ENG
77a
Screening the Tropics
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How territories and modes of life are designated as "tropical," and how this is celebrated or "screened out" in film, photography, national policy, travelogues, and fiction. Films by Cozier, Cuaron, Duigan, Denis, Fung, Henzell, Ousmane, and Sissako. Usually offered every third year.
Ms. Smith
FREN
141b
Introduction to French Cinema: un certain regard
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Prerequisites: FREN 106b or the equivalent, or permission of the instructor.
Introduces students to the major trends in French cinema since the forties (New Wave, "cinema du Look," feminist cinema, cartoons, "comédie à la française," beur cinema, etc.) Students will learn the critical vocabulary necessary to describe the formal aspects of film and to analyze films from a variety of theoretical approaches. Films will also be viewed as cultural products influenced by their social, political contexts and their modes of production and diffusion ("l'exception française.") Usually offered every third year.
Ms. Voiret
GECS
167a
German Cinema: Vamps and Angels
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Open to all students. Conducted in English with readings in English translation.
From silent film to Leni Riefenstahl and Nazi cinema, from postwar cinema in the East and West to new German film after unification, this course traces aesthetic strategies, reflections on history, memory, subjectivity, and political, cultural, and film-historical contexts with an emphasis on gender issues. Usually offered every second year.
Ms. von Mering
HBRW
170a
Take I: Hebrew through Israeli Cinema
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Prerequisite: Five semesters of Hebrew or permission of the instructor. Four class hours per week.
An advanced culture course that focuses on the various aspects of Israeli society as they are portrayed in Israeli films and television. In addition to viewing films, the students will be asked to read Hebrew background materials, to participate in class discussions, and to write in Hebrew about the films. Usually offered every spring.
Mr. Ofengenden
HISP
192b
Latin American Global Film
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Prerequisites: HISP 109b, or HISP 110a, or HISP 111b, or permission of the instructor.
Studies films that re-imagine Latin America’s place in the world, focusing on how images are produced and consumed transnationally. ‘Traditional’ topics like cultural identity are refashioned for international consumption, and local issues are dramatized as already crisscrossed by global flows of which the films themselves partake. Close analysis of visual representation and film techniques will be complemented in each case by a study of historical and cultural background. Usually offered every second year.
Mr. Rosenberg
HIST
131a
Hitler's Europe in Film
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Takes a critical look as how Hitler's Europe has been represented and misrepresented since its time by documentary and entertainment films of different countries beginning with Germany itself. Movies, individual reports, discussions, and a littler reading. Usually offered every second year.
Ms. Kelikian
HIST
170a
Italian Films, Italian Histories
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Explores the relationship between Italian history and Italian film from unification to 1975. Topics include socialism, fascism, the deportation of Jews, the Resistance, the Mafia, and the emergence of an American-style star fixation in the 1960s. Usually offered every second year.
Ms. Kelikian
HIST
177a
The Politics of Soviet Cinema, 1921-1953
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Examines the role of politics in Soviet film-making, from the early 1920's to Stalin's death in 1953. It includes the screening of twenty major films, class discussions, and lectures on major themes and issues in Soviet cinema history. Usually offered every second year.
Mr. Freeze
JAPN
135a
Screening National Images: Japanese Film and Anime in Global Context
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All films and readings are in English.
An introduction to some major directors and works of postwar Japanese film and anime with special attention to such issues as genre, medium, adaptation, narrative, and the circulation of national images in the global setting. Usually offered every third year.
Mr. Fraleigh
NEJS
178b
Masculinity and Femininity in Israeli Film, Literature, and Culture
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Taught in English.
Focuses on Israeli film, literature, and culture, exploring how film and literature represent and establish masculinity and femininity. Examines the ways in which film and literature reflect the politics, religions, conflicts, and ideologies of Israeli society. Usually offered every second year.
Ms. Szobel
RECS
149b
Russian Modernism in: Culture and Arts
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Open to all students. Conducted in English. Students may choose to do readings either in English translation or in Russian.
An interdisciplinary immersion in the period, emphasizing the connections between historical and artistic trends and employing prominent theories of culture. Focuses on major figures, works, and events in film, literature, the performing and visual arts, and political, philosophical, and religious thought. Usually offered every fourth year.
Mr. Powelstock
RECS
150a
Russian and Soviet Cinema
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Open to all students. Conducted in English. Readings in English.
Examines the Russian/Soviet cinematic tradition from the silent era to today, with special attention to cultural context and visual elements. Film masterpieces directed by Bauer, Eisenstein, Vertov, Parajanov, Tarkovsky, Mikhalkov, and others. Weekly screenings. Usually offered every second year.
Mr. Powelstock
SAS
130a
Film and Fiction of Crisis
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Examines novels and films as a response to some pivotal crisis in South Asia: Independence and Partition, Communal Riots, Insurgency and Terrorism. We will read and analyze texts from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka in an effort to examine how these moments of crisis have affected literary and cinematic form while also paying close attention to how they contest or support the narrative of the unified nation. Usually offered every third year.
Ms. Singh
SAS
150b
Indian Film: The Three-Hour Dream
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A study of Hindi films made in India since 1947 with a few notable exceptions from regional film, as well as some recent films made in English. Students will read Hindi films as texts/narratives of the nation to probe the occurrence of cultural, religious, historical, political, and social themes. Usually offered every third year.
Ms. Singh
SAS
155b
Cinema and Society: History, Film, and Visual Culture in Pakistan
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Explores the rise, fall and reprise of the Pakistani film industry against a backdrop of the country's tumultuous past and present. Films, throughout, will be studied alongside history as complex works of art; as mirrors and construction-sites of national identity; as discourses generating and disciplining sexualities and genders; as expressions of desire and disavowal; anxiety and transgression. The course will increase students' knowledge of Pakistan and its film history; of cinema as a cultural form and mode of critical and artistic expression; and of cinema culture and cinephilia as part of Parkistan's visual and media landscape. Special one-time offering, spring 2014.
Mr. Ahmad
WMGS
141a
Gender in Iranian Cinema
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With a primary focus on gender, this class explores post-Revolutionary Iranian cinema. Topics include politics; family relationships; women's social, economic, and political roles; and Iran's religious structure. Usually offered every second year.
Ms. Shavarini
Electives: Courses in Creative Aspects of Film Production
COSI
65a
Introduction to 3-D Animation
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Covers the fundamental concepts of 3-D animation and teaches both the theory underlying 3-D animation as well as the skills needed to create 3-D movies. Students demonstrate their understanding of the concepts by creating several short animated movies. Usually offered every third year.
Mr. Hickey
COSI
153bj
Mobile Game Design
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Prerequisites: COSI 11a and 12b.
An introduction to the design, implementation, testing and analysis of mobile games including the architecture of 2D and 3D games, interaction with mobile input/output devices, networking for multi-person games, and mechanisms for marketing, distributing, and maintaining mobile games. Usually offered every second year. Offered as part of JBS program.
Mr. Hickey
ENG
49a
Scriptwriting for the Short Film
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Offered exclusively on a credit/no credit basis. Students will be selected after the submission of a sample of writing, preferably four to seven pages. Please refer to the Schedule of Classes for submission formats and deadlines within registration periods.
Addresses many facets of writing screenplays for short films (under eight pages). Students develop two to three scripts through creative exercises, rewriting, and critiques. Supplementary screenings and reading focuses on the particulars of short fiction and cinematic writing.
Staff
ENG
79a
Directed Writing: Beginning Screenplay
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This course may not be repeated by students who have taken ENG 129b in previous years. Offered exclusively on a credit/no credit basis. Students will be selected after the submission of a sample of writing of no more than five pages. Please refer to the Schedule of Classes for submission formats and deadlines within registration periods.
Fundamentals of screenwriting: structure, plot, conflict, character, and dialogue. Students read screenwriting theory, scripts, analyze files, and produce an outline and the first act of an original screenplay. Usually offered every third year.
Mr. Weinberg
ENG
139b
Intermediate Screenwriting
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Prerequisites: ENG 129b or ENG 79a. Offered exclusively on a credit/no credit basis. Students will be selected after the submission of a sample of writing of no more than five pages. Please refer to the Schedule of Classes for submission formats and deadlines within registration periods.
In this writing-intensive course, students build on screenwriting basics and delve more deeply into the creative process. Participants read and critique each other's work, study screenplays and view films, and submit original written material on a biweekly basis. At the conclusion of the course each student will have completed the first draft of a screenplay (100-120 pages). Usually offered every second year.
Mr. Weinberg
FILM
110a
Film Production I
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Preference given to Film,Television and Interactive Media majors and minors.
An introduction to the basic principles and techniques of fictional narrative motion picture production. Each student will produce three short films. The films will emphasize dramatic development and creative storytelling through image composition, camera movement, editing, and sound. Usually offered every year.
Staff
FILM
110b
Motion Picture Editing
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Preference given to film, television and interactive media majors and minors.
Students will develop visual literacy through a study of the editor's role in cinematic storytelling. The course provides an overview of the craft's history and theory and offers practical training in editing digital video with Final Cut Pro. Usually offered every year.
Staff
MUS
107a
Introduction to Electro-Acoustic Music
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ca
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Prerequisite: Any music course or permission of the instructor.
A course designed to give students basic studio skills and a context for listening to and working in electronic music. Topics include basic acoustics, sound design, digital and analog recording techniques, and assignments on the pioneers and current practitioners of electro-acoustic music. Involves hands-on experience in the use of MIDI-controlled synthesizers, samplers, production equipment, and includes individual studio projects based on individual studio time. Usually offered every second year.
Staff
THA
125a
Acting for the Camera
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A process-based acting class. Emphasis is on developing the actor's ability to work honestly and creatively in front of the camera. All work is videotaped. Students regularly review their performances in order to advance their critical understanding of the work. Usually offered two consecutive years with a third-year hiatus.
Staff