01-02 LS&A Bulletin

Courses in Film and Video Studies (Division 368)

FILMVID 400. Filmmaking II.: F/V 300 or equivalent experience in filmmaking and permission of instructor. (3). Laboratory fee required.; Students learn experimental and artistic forms of filmic expression as well as traditional movie-making techniques in this intermediate-level film technique class.
FILMVID 401. Video Art II.: F/V 301 or equivalent experience with video production and permission of instructor. (3). Laboratory fee required.; An intermediate course in video technique that allows students to apply their skills to various video formats including experimental and documentary work as well as group projects such as the video magazine. The emphasis of the course is on the various artistic possibilities of the medium.
FILMVID 402. Television Studio II.: F/V 302 and permission of instructor. (3). Laboratory fee ($35) required.; An advanced course in multi-camera television studio production, including scripting, producing, directing and practical operation of studio equipment.
FILMVID 404. Interdisciplinary Collaborations in Visual Media.: A 300- (or 400-) level production course in the relevant emphasized area: F/V 300, 301, 302, or 405; and permission of instructor. (1-3). Laboratory fee ($50) required. May be repeated for a total of six credits.; This course provides an advanced experience in special production topics. Film, video, TV, digital production (or some combination of these) is focused upon a particular topical subject area or approach to the medium. Collaborations with other courses or units may also provide the course's focus.
FILMVID 405. Computer Animation I.: F/V 200, and permission of instructor. (3). Laboratory fee required.; A comprehensive course offering practical experience in creating two-dimensional computer animation on the Apple Macintosh.
FILMVID 406. Computer Animation II.: F/V 405 or equivalent experience with video production, and permission of instructor. (3). Laboratory fee required.; A hands-on intermediate level course that instructs students in the techniques of creating three-dimensional objects in motion on the Apple Macintosh.
FILMVID 410. Screenwriting II.: F/V 310. (3). Laboratory fee ($35) required. May be repeated for a total of six credits.; An intermediate course in the art and practice of screenwriting, stressing creative dramatic writing. Each student writes or re-writes a feature length screenplay.
FILMVID 414. Film Theory and Criticism.: (3). Laboratory fee ($35) required.; The development of film theory and criticism from the days of silent motion pictures to the present. The class reads selections from figures such as Eisenstein, Arnheim, Kracauer, and Bazin during the first half of the term, and from contemporary schools such as Marxism, psychoanalysis, feminism, and semiotics during the second half.
FILMVID 422. Topics in Avant-Garde Film.: (3). Laboratory fee ($35) required.; Historical and theoretical studies of topics in avant-garde film and video. The class examines the cultural contexts of the films as well as their formal innovations.
FILMVID 440 / CAAS 440. African Cinema.: AAS 200 recommended. (3). Laboratory fee ($35) required.; A critical and interdisciplinary look at the development of African cinema from its inception in the 1960s, at the height of the sociopolitical upheavals experienced by many nations in the transition from colonialism to independence, to the recent phase of introspection and diversification.
FILMVID 441. National Cinemas.: F/V 360. (3). Laboratory fee ($50) required. May be repeated for a total of six credits.; An in-depth exploration of the evolution and forms of a specific national or regional cinema in terms of its stylistic, socio-political, economic, and technological dimensions. Close study of the development of a cinema e.g., Japanese, Eastern European, British) or of a film movement, e.g., Italian Neorealism, German Expressionism, French New Wave.
FILMVID 442 / CAAS 442. Third World Cinema.: AAS 202 recommended. (3). Laboratory fee ($35) required.; The interrelationships and disruptions between dominant cinema practices and Third World and marginal cinema on the level of aesthetics, production, economic, social and cultural history. Cinema as ideological practice: the formulation of new approaches to film practice sympathetic to the cultural specifications of the producing nations.
FILMVID 450. Television Theory and Criticism.: F/V 230 or 236. (3). Laboratory fee ($35) required.; Introduction to various methodologies in study of commercial television programming: semiotic, linguistic, rhetorical, cultural, etc. Throughout the course, emphasis is upon inquiry into what television is saying and how messages are represented for mass comprehension.
FILMVID 451 / AMCULT 490. American Film Genres.: Junior standing. (4). Laboratory fee required.; The development of American film genres as a popular art form, considered within the broad context of American cultural development since the late nineteenth century.
FILMVID 455. Topics in Film Studies.: (3). Laboratory fee ($35) required. May be repeated for a total of nine credits.; Studies in various film topics: e.g., silent film, women and film, German Expressionism, Latin-American film.
FILMVID 460. Technology and the Moving Image.: F/V 230 or 236. (3). Laboratory fee ($35) required.; The course traces the impact of such technological innovations as sound, color, and wide screen on the history of the motion picture and the evolution beyond cinema of the new digital technology, virtual reality, and multi-media performances. It examines the aesthetics of technology and the ways in which technology through art influences individual psychology and society at large.
FILMVID 461 / WOMENSTD 461. Explorations in Feminist Film Theory.: Junior standing; and F/V 414 or Women's Studies 240. (3). Laboratory fee ($50) required.; The course offers an in-depth exploration of feminist theories that address film in relation to gender. Discussion focuses on contemporary feminist scholarship that draws upon a variety of viewpoints, including psychoanalysis, cultural theory, postmodernism, historical research and ideological theory.
FILMVID 470 / CAAS 470. Cultural Issues in Cinema.: (3). Laboratory fee ($35) required.; An exploration of developments in the cross-cultural use of media – from Hollywood feature films to ethnographic documentaries, from Caribbean liberationist literature to African allegories of Colonialism, from indigenous use of film and video to Black Diasporan "oppositional" film practice.
FILMVID 500. Directed Study in Film and Video.: Permission of instructor. (1-4). Laboratory fee may be required. (INDEPENDENT). May be repeated for a total of six credits.; Advanced course permitting intensive study of film and/or video subject under supervision of a Film/Video faculty member.
FILMVID 600. Seminar in Film Theory.: Film and Video 414 and Graduate standing. (3). Laboratory fee ($35) required.; Grounds students, along with FV 601, in the critical methodologies and theories of film and in the historical discourse about film as a complex technological, aesthetic, and cultural enterprise with international implications. Each seminar has a rotating topic. Specific content will vary depending on the interests of the particular instructor.
FILMVID 601. Seminar in Film Historiography.: Film and Video 350 and 360, and Graduate standing. (3). Laboratory fee ($35) required.; Grounds students, along with FV 600, in the critical methodologies and theories of film and in the historical discourse about film as a complex technological, aesthetic, and cultural enterprise with international implications. Each seminar has a rotating topic. Specific content will vary depending on the interests of the particular instructor.
FILMVID 602. Seminar in Cinematic Authorship.: Film and Video 414; Graduate standing. (3). Laboratory fee ($35) required.
FILMVID 603. Seminar in Film and Culture.: Graduate standing and permission of instructor. (3). Laboratory fee ($35) required.
FILMVID 604. Directed Research.: Graduate standing. Film and Video 600 and Film and Video 601, approval of advisor and F&V Graduate Committee. (3). (INDEPENDENT).; A minimum of three hours of directed research in film studies is required of all Certificate students. Every student is required to carry out a research project in film studies that represents the culmination of their Certificate studies. This written project will be based on individual reading and screening lists. Students who choose to write a dissertation which incorporates film to a significant degree are encouraged to use this directed research as preparation. In this case, the research project may take the form of a chapter of the dissertation, but the project is expected to vary according to the individual student. The directed research must be approved by the student's Certificate faculty advisor, the advisor in the home unit, and the Film & Video Studies Graduate Committee.

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