CRN	13414	Distribution	A
Course No.	FILM 114
Title	History of Cinema
Professor	Michael Raine
Schedule	Tu 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm PRESTON Screening: Su 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm PRESTON

Open to First-year students only. The one-year sequence, conducted as a lecture course, is designed to give the student a broad introduction to the history and aesthetics of film from a roughly chronological perspective. There are weekly screenings of major films widely acknowledged as central to the evolution of the medium as well as supplementary reading assignments which provide both a narrative history and a strong encounter with the leading critical and theoretical issues of cinema, often within a context of 20th century art and literature. While the student can take either half of the sequence, the program recommends that both parts of the course are taken, especially for any student contemplating film as a concentration. Mid-term and final exams; term paper. The second half of the sequence begins with crucial films in the transition to the technology and aesthetic of the sound film on an international scale, those by Lang, Sternberg, Bunuel, Vertov and Vigo. There follows a study of the evolution of the long-take, deep-focus aesthetic in the films of Renoir, Welles and Mizoguchi; of Hollywood genres in the films of Ford, Hitchcock, Hawks and Sturges; the rise of neo-realism in Rossellini, DeSica and Visconti; the contribution of the American avant-garde in Deren, Peterson, Brakhage, Anger, Smith, Conner and Breer; the French New Wave in Godard, Truffaut and Rohmer; the northern tradition in Dreyer and Bergman; selections of Aian filmic practice in films of Ray, Kurosawa, and Ozu; and finally, further European innovations in Antonioni, Varda, the Taviani Bros., Pasolini, et al. Readings by Bazin, Brakhage, Deren, Bresson, Sontag, et al.

CRN	13416	Distribution	F
Course No.	FILM 201 A
Title	Introduction to the Moving Image
Professor	Leah Gilliam
Schedule	Tu 9:30 am - 12:30 pm STUDIO B

Introduction to the basic problems (technical and theoretical) related to film and/or electronic motion picture production. Coupled with Film 202 (offered in Spring), this course is designed to be taken in the sophomore year and leads to a spring Moderation project in the Film and Electronic Arts Program.

CRN	13419	Distribution	F
Course No.	FILM 201 B
Title	Introduction to the Moving Image
Professor	Jacqueline Goss
Schedule	Wed 9:30 am - 12:30 pm STUDIO B

See description above.

CRN	13421	Distribution	F
Course No.	FILM 201 C
Title	Introduction to the Moving Image
Professor	Peggy Ahwesh
Schedule	Wed 1:30 pm -4:30 pm STUDIO B

See description above.

CRN	13424	Distribution	F
Course No.	FILM 201 D
Title	Introduction to the Moving Image
Professor	Peter Hutton
Schedule	Th 1:30 pm -4:30 pm STUDIO B

See description above.

CRN	13425	Distribution	F
Course No.	FILM 203
Title	Electronic Media Workshop
Professor	Jacqueline Goss
Schedule	Th 1:30 pm -4:30 pm OLD GYM

This is a course intended to give students a better understanding of live video production as a vehicle for artistic expression. Course participants develop ways of working with video's most unique property: its ability to produce an immediate and continuous stream of images and sounds. Surveillance, streaming media, spinning, call-in talk shows, and cell phone usage have primed audiences and spectators to expect immediate access to and feedback from their media. How does the media artist respond? Course participants will work on individual projects using cameras, monitors, switchers, surveillance systems, and software-based video mixers. We will also work collectively to produce one live piece which will be broadcast to an audience. In addition, we will carry on a continued discussion about the larger cultural and psychological impact of live video production. This conversation will be supplemented by readings and viewings of work by Nam Jun Paik, Richard Serra, Dan Graham, Rosalind Krauss, Raymond Carver, Julia Scher, the Surveillance Camera Players, and others.

CRN	13423	Distribution	F
Course No.	FILM 204
Title	Documentary History
Professor	Peggy Ahwesh
Schedule	Wed 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm PRESTON Th 10:00 am - 12:30 pm PRESTON

The course provides a historical overview and critique of the documentary form, with examples from ethnographic film, social documentary, cinema verité, propaganda films, and travelogues. The class investigates the basic documentary issue of truth and/or objectivity and critiques films using readings from feminist theory, cultural anthropology, general film history/theory, and other areas.

CRN	13422	Distribution	F
Course No.	FILM 236
Title	Graphic Film Workshop
Professor	Jennifer Reeves
Schedule	Wed 1:30 pm -4:30 pm STUDIO X

This class will explore and use materials and processes associated with graphic film production. The course consists of ongoing instruction and experimentation with a variety of image making technologies including animation, optical printing, rotoscoping and cameraless filmmaking (drawing, scratching, and dying film). The class will view and discuss a number of films that are primarily concerned with the visual and students will produce their own film projects using the techniques covered in class.

CRN	13413	Distribution	A
Course No.	FILM 239
Title	Cinema of Asia
Professor	Michael Raine
Schedule	Wed 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm PRESTON Screening: Mon 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm PRESTON

Cross-listed: Asian Studies

CRN	13420	Distribution	A/F
Course No.	FILM 267
Title	History of Video and New Media Art
Professor	Leah Gilliam
Schedule	Wed 1:30 pm -4:30 pm WEIS THTR. Th 1:30 pm -3:30 pm PRESTON

Cross-listed: Integrated Arts

CRN	13658	Distribution	F
Course No.	FILM 301 / IA
Title	Video Strategies: Space Sound and the Moving Image
Professor	Leah Gilliam
Schedule	Mon 1:30 pm -4:30 pm STUDIO B

Space, Sound, and the Moving Image is intended to refine students' video production skills and give students a better understanding of installation as a medium for artistic expression. Participants in this course will use video (as well as other materials and media) to design and build real environments that are meant to be experienced spatially. We will pay particular attention to using sound and light to transform existing spaces into site-specific installations. We will also attempt to use video monitors, projections, closed-circuit systems and surveillance equipment in innovative ways, and consider how to design spaces using time-based media and interactive elements.

CRN	13132	Distribution	F
Course No.	FILM 312
Title	Scriptwriting Workshop
Professor	Adolfas Mekas
Schedule	Wed 1:30 pm -4:30 pm PRESTON

An intensive seminar/workshop designed specifically for someone who plans to make a narrative, documentary or avant-garde film for moderation or senior project. In a seminar setting, we will work on each student's project to develop a concise (and interesting!) script to become a basis for a short film.

CRN	13592	Distribution	A
Course No.	FILM 315
Title	Cinemagic VIII
Professor	Adolfas Mekas
Schedule	Tu 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm PRESTON

This special course is offered once every two years. It is a personal journey through the idyllic times of the pre-World War II era, through the horrors of the war and labor camps, and into the wonders and magic of cinema. Many films will be screened - some good, some bad, and a few that will long endure. Each screening will be preceded by a theme song, a short film, and a lecture. The highlight of the course is the overnight screening of Kobayashi's "The Human Condition", a trilogy that is eleven hours long. Past and present political social conditions will be considered and reacted to from the specific and personal point of view of a man whose life has been devoted to cultural manifestations of his generation.

CRN	13417	Distribution	F
Course No.	FILM 316
Title	Film Production Workshop
Professor	Jennifer Reeves
Schedule	Tu 1:30 pm -4:30 pm PRESTON

Members of the class will act as a production team in planning, shooting and editing a short film. The hours will be irregular with some work on weekends. Under simulated typical production conditions, students will apply the knowledge acquired in various workshops and theory classes. Students will solve technical and aesthetic problems under the close supervision and instruction of the professor.

CRN	13428	Distribution	F
Course No.	FILM 317
Title	Film Production Workshop: The Film Image
Professor	Peter Hutton
Schedule	Fr 1:30 pm -4:30 pm STUDIO B

A junior level production workshop designed to give students working in film a more thorough understanding of a wide range of cinematic vocabularies and aesthetics that are unique to the language of film. Students will be required to finish short films that will explore the qualities of film through extensive in class exploration of film stocks, lighting techniques and cinemagraphic strategies. The class will visit a New York motion picture lab to better understand the photo/chemical implications of film in the age of digital imaging.

CRN	13427	Distribution	A
Course No.	FILM 319
Title	Film Aesthetics Seminar: Film Noir and the American Baroque
Professor	John Pruitt
Schedule	Fr 10:00 am -1:00 pm PRESTON Screening: Th 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm PRESTON

A seminar that focuses on an impressive type of mainstream narrative film whose significant manifestation emerged in the immediate post-war years in Hollywood. The stylistic traits of the films under scrutiny include narrative distortion through point of view, asymmetrical composition, and low key lighting. Major themes, often ones that express social instability, embrace extreme psychological situations of sexual repression and/or rebellion, madness, sadism, paranoia, etc. We will look at defining works of early noir like Shadow of a Doubt and Out of the Past; late, mature masterpieces like Touch of Evil and Kiss Me Deadly; baroque melodramas like Johnny Guitar and Written on the Wind; as well as so-called works of neo-noir, that is, self-conscious attempts to revive old aesthetic virtues in a fresh guise, films like Chinatown, Blue Velvet, Devil in a Blue Dress and Memento. We will read some of the vast critical literature on "noir" as well as primary texts, notably so-called pulp fiction from the thirties that helped give rise to the later cinematic trend. Required term paper project. Juniors and Seniors only. Enrollment preference will be given to those students who have already taken a film history course.