FILM PROGRAM COURSES:

FILM 151 - Film Theory
A reading-intensive immersion in classical film aesthetics and a survey of the theoretical and critical canon of cinema literature.

FILM 152 - Genres of Film
An exploration of the relationship between cinematic structure and narrative content in various types of film.

FILM 153 - History of World Cinema I
The first semester covering 100 years of international cinematic history from an aesthetic and political point of view.

FILM 154 - History of World Cinema II
The second semester covering 100 years of international cinematic history from an aesthetic and political point of view.

CROSS-PROGRAM COURSES:

AMST 192/AH 157 - The American Cinema
History and criticism of American films. The course will enable the student to recognize and evaluate cinema techniques, to express the evaluation clearly in writing, and to understand the role of films in the context of American culture.

FREN 131 - Topics in the History of French Cinema
French cinema from its inception to the “New Wave.” The relationship of filmmaking and audience reception to the evolution of French society and political institutions. The language of cinema as it evolves according to periods and genres and as critics and filmmakers create a theoretical discourse specific to film.

FREN 132 - Topics in 20th-Century Francophone Literature and Cinema
Analysis of relations between France and its former colonies as manifested in the literature and cinema of France and the Francophone world. Race and gender relations; exile; nationalism; and identity and place as seen through various literary and cinematic responses to the discourses of metropolitan France by its former colonies.

GER 181 - History of German Cinema
A detailed historical and cultural survey of German cinema from the first moving picture devices (1895) to the expressionistic classics of the 1920s and the collapse of the Nazi film industry in 1945. All films are subtitled.

JAPN 162 - Japanese Culture Through Film
Survey of the Japanese cultural heritage presented through films. Topics include literature, philosophy, art, religion, and social history from prehistorical times to the modern era. Lectures and discussion in English.

PHIL 062 - Philosophy and Film
Philosophical problems and theories of perception, meaning, personal identity, and moral agency and their illustration in the context of cinema. Cinema and its derivatives (TV, video) as prime routes to experience of the natural and social worlds in an age of communication. Readings in classical and contemporary philosophy and in film theory; screening of a series of films.

SLAV 185 - Introduction to Russian Cinema I
From Russian silents to the introduction of sound and color (1896–1946). The great revolutionary directors—Eisenstein, Pudovkin, Dovzhenko. In English; all films subtitled.

SLAV 186 - Introduction to Russian Cinema II
From post-war to post-perestroika cinema (since 1946): war films, adventure, films about youth. In English; all films subtitled.

SPAN 131 - Topics in the Cinema of the Hispanic World
Film as a language of cultural and historical testimony in Spanish America and Spain. Topics may include the Silent Era, Surrealism, the Mexican Golden Age of the ’40s, the New Cinema of the ’50s, Peronist cinema in Argentina, socialist film in Cuba, and postmodern production in the Hispanic world. May be repeated for credit.