FILM - Film and Media Studies Courses

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FILM 1 Introduction to Film: From Script to Screen
FILM 3 Introduction to Digital Arts and Culture
FILM 7 First-Year Seminars in Film and Media Studies
FILM 20 Film History I (Silent to Sound)
FILM 21 Film History II (1930-60)
FILM 22 Film History III (1960 to 1990)
FILM 23 Film History IV (1990-present)
FILM 30 Documentary Videomaking
FILM 31 Filmmaking I: Basic Elements of Film
FILM 32 Filmmaking II
FILM 33 Writing for the Screen I
FILM 34 Writing for the Screen II
FILM 35 Animation: Principles and Practice
FILM 36.01 Experimental Videomaking (Autobiography)
FILM 36.03 TV Production
FILM 37 Directing for the Camera
FILM 39 Advanced Videomaking: Group Documentary
FILM 39.01 Advanced Videomaking: Documentary and Experimental
FILM 40 Theories and Methodologies of Film and Media Studies
FILM 41.01 Infernal Affairs: Police on Film
FILM 41.02 Shades of Noir: Film, Fiction, Politics
FILM 41.04 Ethnographic Film
FILM 41.06 Bond and Beyond
FILM 41.07 Cinema and the Graphic Novel
FILM 41.08 The Cinematic City
FILM 41.09 History of Animation
FILM 41.10 Global Gothic
FILM 41.11 Genre: History of Visual Music
FILM 41.12 Screwball Comedy
FILM 41.13 Women in Musicals
FILM 41.14 The Western
FILM 41.15 20th-Century American Film Comedy
FILM 41.16 Space and Genre
FILM 41.17 Water In the Lake: Real Events for the Imagination
FILM 41.18 Latinx-ploitation
FILM 41.19 The Musical
FILM 41.20 Special Effects in Film History
FILM 41.21 Music and Media in Everyday Life
FILM 41.22 Feminist and Queer Video Art: "I’m asking – does it exist? What is it? Whom is it for?"
FILM 42.02 New Waves
FILM 42.03 New Latin American Cinema
FILM 42.08 Asian Animation as Socio-Political Artifact
FILM 42.09 African Cinema
FILM 42.13 Global Documentary and Transnational Cinema
FILM 42.14 Mexican Cinema
FILM 42.15 Nothing is True and Everything is Possible: Politics, Media, and Religion in Post-Soviet Russia
FILM 42.16 Cinema of Black Protest
FILM 42.17 Of Golems, Vampires, and Robots: The Haunted Screen of Weimar Cinema (in English)
FILM 42.18 Migration, Mobility and the Movies: German Film in Global Context
FILM 42.19 The Middle East in Film: Picturing the Past and Present
FILM 42.20 The Berlin School
FILM 42.21 Afro/Black Paris in Film and Life
FILM 42.22 Moviegoing in America
FILM 42.23 Travelers, Tourists, and Sojourners: Mobility in the Movies
FILM 43.01 Women Make Movies: Women and Film Authorship
FILM 43.02 Family Matters: Pedro Almodovar, Gender Reversals, and New Communities
FILM 43.04 Hitchcock
FILM 43.05 Truffaut and Godard
FILM 44 Theory Meets Practice
FILM 44.01 Handmade Cinema
FILM 44.02 Cut and Paste Cinema
FILM 44.03 Filming the Landscape
FILM 44.04 Sound: Practice and Theory
FILM 44.06 Storytelling in the Digital Age
FILM 44.07 Docu-Fantasy and the Speculative Narrative in Multi-Ethnic Cinema
FILM 44.08 The Art of Adaptation and Storytelling
FILM 44.09 Cinematography I: Lighting and Composition
FILM 44.10 Writing for Television
FILM 44.12 The Idea of Africa: Deconstructing Race in the Iconography of a Continent
FILM 44.13 Writers’ Room
FILM 45 U. S. Television History
FILM 46.01 Television and Histories of Gender
FILM 46.04 Broadcast Journalism and Electronic Journalism History
FILM 46.06 Topics in Television: Cop TV
FILM 46.07 Television and New Media
FILM 46.08 Television Without Borders: Local Communities, Global Audiences
FILM 46.09 Critical Approaches to Media Production
FILM 46.10 Transmissions: Histories and Theories of Broadcast Sound
FILM 46.11 Introduction to Media Industries Studies
FILM 47.01 Video Mashups
FILM 47.02 Theory and Practice of Editing
FILM 47.05 History of Documentary
FILM 47.06 Audio-Vision: Film, Music, Sound
FILM 47.07 Migration Stories
FILM 47.16 Film Festivals
FILM 47.17 Race and Place and Los Angeles Media
FILM 47.19 Krieger's Virtual Girlfriend: Japanese Anime and the idea of the Post-human
FILM 47.20 Curating and Microcinema
FILM 47.21 Scenes from the City: Urbanism and Modern American Visual Culture
FILM 47.22 Buddhism and Film
FILM 47.23 Berlin--New York--Hollywood: A Cultural History of Exile
FILM 47.24 Race & Gender in American Film
FILM 47.25 Black Noir
FILM 47.26 Film and Fashion: Dressing the Part
FILM 47.27 The Hollywood Studio System
FILM 47.28 Queer Cinema
FILM 47.29 Latinx Stage and Screen
FILM 47.30 Black Looks: A Survey of Race and Representation in Cinema and Visual Media
FILM 47.31 Sounding Out Power and Dissent
FILM 47.32 Sounds of Totalitarianism and Resistance
FILM 47.33 Performing Histories, Performing Us
FILM 47.34 International Cinema and WWII
FILM 48 The Map
FILM 48.01 The Map
FILM 48.02 Video Art
FILM 48.03 Data and Bodies
FILM 48.04 Social Justice and Computing
FILM 48.05 Postcolonial Media
FILM 48.06 Media and Migration
FILM 48.07 Analyzing Content: From Tik Toks to Tweets
FILM 49 Practicum in Digital Culture and New Media Technologies
FILM 49.02 Black Theatre & Storytelling Workshop in XR: Reimagining The Purple Flower (1928)
FILM 50.01 Cinematic Mirrors: Reflexivity and Authorship in Global Film History
FILM 50.02 Race, Media, Celebrity
FILM 50.03 Topics in Film Theory: Exploring the Archive
FILM 50.04 Video Games and the Meaning of Life
FILM 51 Game Design Studio
FILM 80 Independent Study
FILM 93 Major Project
FILM 95 Honors Project I
FILM 96 Honors Project II