*There is a per semester fee of $100.00 for students taking one or more Film production classes. This fee aids in the cost of equipment and supplies.

Course	FILM 109 The History and Aesthetics Of Film
Professor	John Pruitt
CRN	15366
Schedule	Wed 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm Avery Film Center Th 10:00 am - 1:00 pm Avery Film Center
Distribution	OLD: A	NEW: Analysis of Arts

Open to First-Year students only.

A one-semester survey course comprising weekly screenings and lectures designed for first-year students, especially those who are considering film as a focus of their undergraduate studies. Films by Griffith, Chaplin, Keaton, Renoir, Rossellini, Hitchcock, Deren, and others are studied. Readings of theoretical works by authors including Vertov, Eisenstein, Pudovkin, Munsterberg, Bazin, and Arnheim.

Course	FILM / IA 167 Survey of Media Art
Professor	Leah Gilliam
CRN	15383
Schedule	Mon 8:30 - 11:00 pm Avery Film Center Wed 1:00 - 4:00 pm Avery Film Center
Distribution	OLD: A	NEW: Analysis of Arts

Cross-listed: Integrated Arts

Open to First-Year students only.

This course is designed to introduce the student to the language and history of the moving image in its analog and digital electronic forms. It seeks to provide an overview and critique of the ways in which artists have used communication technologies (radio, portable video, television, satellites, digital/interactive media and the internet) to explore ideas of radical content and experimental form. Class screenings, presentations and discussions will investigate the issues surrounding electronic and digital media as art forms and their relationships to established art practice and society in general.

Course	FILM 202 A: Introduction to the Moving Image II
Professor	Peggy Ahwesh
CRN	15194
Schedule	Tu 9:30am- 12:30 pm Avery Film Center
Distribution	OLD: F	NEW: Practicing Arts

A continuation of the study of basic problems (technical and aesthetical) related to the video medium.

Prerequisite: Film 201

Course	FILM 202 B: Introduction to the Moving Image II
Professor	Leah Gilliam
CRN	15197
Schedule	Tu 2:00 - 5:00 pm Avery Film Center
Distribution	OLD: F	NEW: Practicing Arts

A continuation of the study of basic problems (technical and aesthetical) related to the video medium.

Prerequisite: Film 201

Course	FILM 202C: Introduction to the Moving Image II
Professor	Peter Hutton
CRN	15198
Schedule	Th 1:30 - 4:30 pm Avery Film Center
Distribution	OLD: F	NEW: Practicing Arts

A continuation of the study of basic problems (technical and aesthetical) related to the film medium.

Prerequisite: Film 201

Course	FILM 211 Scriptwriting Workshop
Professor	Marie Regan
CRN	15201
Schedule	Tu 2:00 - 4:30 pm Avery Film Center
Distribution	OLD: B/F	NEW: Practicing Arts

Screenplays are the foundation of much of our popular culture, but can they be art? This intensive writing workshop examines the art and practice of the screenplay form, its root in classical narrative structure, how differs from the other written arts and how one can engage its particular tools to express original ideas. Weekly writing assignments and class critique form the heart of this workshop. Students should be prepared to share their work with others and participate fully in class discussion.

Course	FILM 212 Advanced Scriptwriting Workshop
Professor	Marie Regan
CRN	15196
Schedule	Wed 10:00 - 12:30 pm Avery Film Center
Distribution	OLD: B/F	NEW: Practicing Arts

In this intensive writing workshop, we will take the skills learned in Scriptwriting and use them to create a long form screenplay. We begin the workshop with screenplay analysis then move on to develop a script from outline through execution. Weekly writing assignments and class critique are at the core of this workshop although issues in adaptation, practicalities imposed by production and the role of screenwriting in the marketplace will also be discussed. The goal of the course is the completion of a long form script that reflects skillful use of the tools of screenwriting to express a complex original idea. Interested students need to submit a dramatic writing sample to Prof. Regan by December 1st; enrollment by permission of the instructor.

Course	FILM 232 Horror
Professor	Jean Ma
CRN	15199
Schedule	M W 2:30 - 3:50 pm Avery Film Center Th 7:00 - 10:00 pm Avery Film Center
Distribution	OLD: A	NEW: Analysis of Arts

Cross-listed: Asian Studies
This course considers horror films across a broad historical and 
geographical range, including the work of Murnau, Feuillade, Browning, Ulmer, Franju, Whale, Tourneur, Romero, Bava, Hooper, Polansky, de Palma, Jodorowsky, Cronenberg, Haneke, Boyle, Denis, Kobayashi, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Nakata, Miike. It will begin with generic definitions and transformations, then move into topics such as gender and sexuality, abjection, the uncanny, apocalypse, serial killing, wound culture, and the 
ideology of horror. All screenings will be double features, with some additional avant-garde shorts. Assignments consist of informal response papers, essays, and presentations.

Course	FILM / IA 301 Major Conference: Recording Techniques for Film and Music Makers
Professor	Peggy Ahwesh / Robert Bielecki
CRN	15243
Schedule	Mon 1:30 - 4:30 pm Avery Film Center
Distribution	OLD: F	NEW: Practicing Arts

Cross-listed: IA

This course will explore the principles and practices of sound recording for audio, video and film applications. Digital recording equipment, the mixing console, microphones, field recording techniques, sync and Foley for film / video will be covered in the recording studio and in a variety of site specific environments. Students will have access to the Bard Avery recording studio and use of the ProTools system for recording and post-production. Students are required to produce a number of short works in film / video, audio and / or installation. The class will travel locally on a number of field trips during the scheduled class time so students must be on time, mobile and able to participate.

Course	FILM 317 Film Production Workshop
Professor	Peter Hutton
CRN	15367
Schedule	Fr 1:30 - 4:30 pm Avery Film Center
Distribution	OLD: F	NEW: Practicing Arts

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.

Course	FILM 319 Film Aesthetics Seminar: The Essay Film
Professor	Peggy Ahwesh
CRN	15470
Schedule	Tu 7:00 - 10:00 pm Avery Film Center Wed 10:30 - 12:30 pm Avery Film Center
Distribution	OLD: F	NEW: Practicing Arts

Galvanized by the intersection of personal ruminations and the investigation of social history, the essay film has become the major force in nonfiction film for the past 20 years or so, evolving from Night and Fog by Resnais. The form is hybrid, includes the 'voice' of the maker, and operates on multiple discursive levels of political argumentation, intellectual inquiry and artistic innovation. Filmmakers to be discussed include; Godard, Harun Farocki, Marker, Raul Ruiz, Straub and Huillet, Akerman, Agnes Varda, Isaac Julien, and Errol Morris among others. The main requirement is a series of short papers on various subjected raised in the class or the production of a video on a related topic of interest. This is a screening class and although we will critique students' videos-in-progress and screen camera footage, there will be little tech instruction. For upper college majors and non-majors.

Course	FILM 327 Cinematic Time
Professor	Jean Ma
CRN	15200
Schedule	Mon 6:00 - 8:30 pm Avery Film Center Th 10:00 - 12:50 pm Avery Film Center
Distribution	OLD: A	NEW: Analysis of Arts

Cross-listed: Asian Studies 

This course brings together critical and theoretical views regarding the cinematic representation of time with films by directors whose stylistic signatures are distinguished by a particular approach to temporal form. Topics of discussion will include the aesthetics of time (“long take style,” ellipsis, realism, flashback); the narrative poetics of time (history and memory, the everyday); the relationship of cinema and photography; and how the ideas of duration, ephemerality, chance, stasis, and repetition are articulated through the technology of cinema. The screening program emphasizes work by East Asian filmmakers, including Mizoguchi Kenji, Kurosawa Akira, Aoyama Shinji, Jia Zhangke, Hou Hsiao-hsien, and Tsai Ming-liang. Readings consist of theoretical writings by Bazin, Pasolini, Barthes, Kracauer, Benjamin, Doane, Deleuze, among others. Assignments include essays, an in-class presentation, and an in-class exam.