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Transfer Student Courses in Film and Video StudiesThis page was created at 7:14 PM on Mon, Jan 21, 2002. Winter Academic Term, 2002 (January 7 - April 26)Open courses in Film and Video Studies Wolverine Access Subject listing for FILMVID Winter Academic Term '02 Time Schedule for Film and Video Studies.
FILMVID 360. The History of World Film.
Section 001.Instructor(s): Frances Gateward (gateward@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (3). (HU). Laboratory fee ($35) required. Credits: (3). Lab Fee: Laboratory fee ($35) required. Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. This course is required for concentrators in the Program in Film and Video Studies, but is open to all students. The course examines the rich contribution of nations other than the United States to world cinema, understanding these films both as responses to the dominant American film industry and as unique expressions of their own national cultures. The course will also discuss the influences of these national cinemas on one another as well as on American film. By focusing on a series of classic films, the class will examine German Expressionism, Soviet Cinema, French Poetic Realism, Italian Neorealism, the French New Wave, post-war Japanese cinema, as well as the cinemas of Spain, India, and Eastern Europe. Students will write midterm and endterm papers of about eight pages each and take a midterm and final examination.
FILMVID 366. Topics in Film, Television and Popular Culture.
Section 001 – Introduction to New Media Studies.Instructor(s): James S Tobias (jstobias@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (3). (Excl). May be repeated for a total of nine credits. Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. This course will explore the cultural, political, and economic implications of new (i.e., digital) media technologies. Focused readings will provide a foundation for class discussions and will be supplemented by in-class screenings of contemporary films that engage issues of technology. The purpose of this course is to critically and thoughtfully interrogate the impact and consequences of new media technologies, with a concentration on the following thematic areas: (1) the "character" of technologies; (2) how new media shape human consciousness and cognition; (3) the role of the body and definition of what is "human"; and (4) identity, community, and digital culture.
FILMVID 451 / AMCULT 490. American Film Genres.
Section 001 – Sound and Romance: Musical, Melodrama, Romantic Comedy.Instructor(s): Catherine L Benamou (cbenamou@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: Junior standing. (4). (Excl). Laboratory fee required.
Credits: (4). Lab Fee: Laboratory fee required. Course Homepage: No homepage submitted.
FILMVID 455. Topics in Film Studies.
Section 001 – Dialogue of Violence: Cinema in WWII's Pacific Theater. Meets with Asian Studies 440.001.Instructor(s): Mark H Nornes (amnornes@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (3). (Excl). Laboratory fee ($35) required. May be repeated for a total of nine credits. Credits: (3). Lab Fee: Laboratory fee ($35) required. Course Homepage: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~amnornes/violence.html The course will explore the relationship of World War II's Pacific Theater to moving image media in two movements. First, a comparative history of Hollywood and Japanese filmmaking during the war looks at issues of race, nationality, propaganda, and violence. The second half of the course continues to analyze these problems by turning to post-1945 attempts to remember, critique, and commemorate (or forget) WWII in media as disparate as television, feature filmmaking, video art, and the Internet.
FILMVID 460. Technology and the Moving Image.
Section 001 – Moving Image: Music on Screen.Instructor(s): James S Tobias (jstobias@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: F/V 230 or 236. (3). (Excl). Laboratory fee ($35) required. Credits: (3). Lab Fee: Laboratory fee ($35) required. Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. This 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. This class 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.
Section 001 – Feminist Film Theory.Instructor(s): Kristen Whissel (kwhissel@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: Junior standing; and F/V 414 or Women's Studies 240. (3). (Excl). Laboratory fee ($50) required.
Credits: (3). Lab Fee: Laboratory fee ($50) required. Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. This 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.
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