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  • 4.00 Credits

    A critical and historical analysis of experimental film art that focuses on techniques, styles, and theories through lecture, discussion, and the viewing of film selections. Not a production course.
  • 4.00 Credits

    A critical and historical analysis of animated film that focuses on techniques, styles, and theories through lecture, discussion, and the viewing of film selections. Not a production course.
  • 4.00 Credits

    This class introduces anime, Japanese animation, including its history, genres, and cultural and social contexts. Through critical analyses, reflections, and interpretations of anime, this class provides its participants an understanding of postmodern visual culture, examining issues of globalization, visual simulation, nature and technologies, spectators' subjectivity, and representation of gender and sexuality.
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    Following the end of the Korean War in 1953, South Korea rapidly developed from one of the poorest nations in the world under a military dictatorship into an economic powerhouse that embraced democracy. The transformation of the nation is keenly reflected through the national cinema. This course examines how the cultural, social, and political issues and events that have transpired across the decades have informed the formation of the Korean cinema industry, as well as the cinematic output. Through lectures, seminars, and screenings, students will explore the political and cultural issues from the 1950s until today, and how such events informed the cinema industry as well as leading to cinematic trends and output. Students will critically engage with key films from Korean cinema history, examining how such films reflect and explore the issues of the respective era, in order to more fully understand how Korean cinema has evolved into its current contemporary state.
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    Development of dominant narrative patterns in American cinema from silent films to the present, with particular attention to how these films reflect values and ideas in American art and culture.
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    Examines specific periods in the film history of World Cinema from a cultural and/or historical perspective.
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    From its earliest days cinema has been the result of cross-border cooperation and the movements of its practitioners. In addition, some of the most perceptive cinematic images of societies have been made by those excluded or marginalized by such societies of foreign to them. Thus ex-patriot filmmakers have been significant parts of many national film industries-both those they join and those from which they hail. The goal of this class is to explore film making traditions and styles from a number of diverse cultures, as they interact with each other in the context of exiled and diasporic film makers.
  • 4.00 Credits

    This course provides an overview of the key theories and ideas supporting the critical analysis of convergence cultures. Through a variety of theoretical perspectives, the course explores the ways in which media have been reimagined with the advent of YouTube, online streaming, and other digital technologies.
  • 4.00 Credits

    This course provides an overview of the key theories and ideas supporting the critical analysis of contemporary U.S. independent media. Exploring the ways in which indie media has been understood from the 1970s to the present, this course will study the ways in which film, television, podcasts, and web series have been intertwined with independent mediamaking.
  • 4.00 Credits

    This course will give a comprehensive overview of the edit and post-production process on professional films, will develop your understanding of how specific edit choices shape the final film, and will introduce you to the major approaches to story and the edit of both fiction and nonfiction films. Prerequisites: 'B-' or better in FILM 2500.