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Departmental Honors |
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student must have a cumulative GPA of 3.3, be proficient in
two European languages, and write an honors thesis or
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 Please
note:
The
courses listed here are in addition to the
General
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If
an FM course offered as an option course is
not chosen in the core, it may be taken as a
course in Group A; if a CM course offered as
an option course is not chosen in the core,
it may be taken as a course in Group B.
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Requirements for the Bachelor of Arts Degree*
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Films and Their Meanings (3 credits) |
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Students begin with an analysis of basic elements of film language
(signs, codes, syntax). They study the technology, economics and
politics of the film industry as it has developed in the United
States and Europe. In the latter half of the course they will
investigate the impact of television, video, computers and digital
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Media Analysis (3 credits) |
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Begins with the formal
analysis of newspaper writing, advertisements and logos, and moves
on to key elements of film language and narrative analysis of films,
advertising and video. Examines the processes by which media
products are differentiated and attributed value, and how they are
deployed to form taste. Considers these in relation to various
cultural and political contexts. |
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Principles of Video Production (3 credits) |
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The course is a basic primer on digital video and filmmaking. It
introduces students to digital video procedures, equipment,
techniques and options, including use of cameras and familiarity
with editing systems. Students will become proficient in the use of
digital video technology and see how to prepare program material for
the web, broadcast and other outlets. |
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Introduction to the History and Analysis of Narrative Film I: From Méliès through the Hollywood Studio Era and World War II (3 credits) |
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Studies film history, aesthetics, and techniques of film analysis. Illustrates the basic theories of film-making with specific films of important directors such as Griffith, Eisenstein, Stroheim, Chaplin, Keaton, Murnau, Sternberg, Lubitsch, Renoir, Hawks, Ford, Welles, and Sturges. |
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Introduction to the History and Analysis of Narrative Film II: From 1945 to the Present (3 credits) |
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Studies postwar cinema, including the Italian Neorealists, Film Noir, the French New Wave, Hitchcock, Fellini, Antonioni, Kurosawa, Coppola, Bergman, Bertolucci, Scorsese, Penn, Fassbinder, Jane Campion, Tarantino, Woody Allen, and Spike Lee. |
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Film Theory and Criticism (3 credits) |
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Examines film theory with two motives: how does it help us read individual films, and what does it tell us about this medium? Studies theorists such as Sergei Eisenstein, André Bazin, Robin Wood, Christian Metz, Joan Mellen, Laura Mulvey, and Gaylyn Studlar, in relation to certain seminal films -
Potemkin, Citizen Kane, Vertigo, A bout de souffle, and
Pulp Fiction. |
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Junior Seminar in Film Studies
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Involves a particularly
focused look at an important aspect of film theory or history, a
filmmaker, actor or actress, or a cinematic topic or genre. Subjects
will vary according to the particular interest of the professor,
with the course work aiming at developing methodical and critical
skills of analysis. |
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Film Pragmatics and the Art of Directing: Five of
the following (15 credits) |
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FM_CM218 |
Writing Fiction for Television |
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FM225 |
Set Design in Cinema |
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FM_CL228 |
The Art of Screenwriting |
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FM_CM232 |
Paris Documentaries (if not taken in Film Genres and Topics) |
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FM238 |
Producers and Producing |
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FM280 |
Film Directors: Orson Welles and His Inheritors |
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FM281 |
Film Directors: Alfred Hitchcock |
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FM282 |
Film Directors: Tarantino and His Many Fathers |
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FM330 |
Directors and Directing |
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FM338 |
The Pragmatics of Producing |
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FM339 |
Directing Fiction |
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FM363 |
Making a Documentary |
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FM381 |
The Editing Process |
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CM428 |
Advanced Video Production |
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Film Genres and Topics: Two of
the following (6 credits) |
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FM_CM232 |
Paris Documentaries (if not taken in Film Pragmatics) |
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FM286 |
Film
Directors: The American New Wave, 1967 - 1979 |
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FM290 |
Film Genres and Topics: Film Noir |
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FM291 |
Film Genres and Topics: The Western |
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FM292 |
Film Genres and Topics:
Women and Film |
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FM293 |
Film Genres and Topics:
Cinema and Poetry |
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FM_PL295 |
Film Genres and Topics:
Philosophy and Film |
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FM300 |
Topics in
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Topics: The Film Culture of Europe's Cities |
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ES_AH316 |
Society and Spectacle: Painting, Photography, and Film in Germany and Russia between the Two Wars |
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Shakespeare and Film |
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AN_CM349 |
Media and Ethnography |
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CM_GS353 |
Media and Gender |
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CM362 |
Media Semiotics |
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FM_CL369 |
The Aesthetics of Crime Fiction |
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FM_FS377 |
Du Livre ŕ l'Image |
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FM_FS379 |
Prostitution and Cinema |
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International Cinema: Two of
the following (6 credits) |
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FM495 Senior Project |
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General electives to total 120 credits can be chosen from any other degree
program in the university. See
AUP Catalog for details. |
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