Attempts to understand Hollywood's ambiguous attitude toward women during and after the studio system. What do roles played by women tell us about American culture and its fear of women? Also investigates women's roles in Fellini, Antonioni, Godard, and Truffaut, and the female image presented on the screen by directors such as Jane Campion, Diane Kurys, and Agnes Varda.
| Day | Start Time | End Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
Wednesday | 12:10 | 15:05 | M-013 |
This course explores the work of an individual film directors, whose films will be critically analyzed with respect to the cultural, political and artistic contexts of their production and reception. The course is offered every semester to fulfill the art of directing requirement in the film major, though the thematic focus and methodological perspective may change depending on the director in question. Students will have the opportunity to study a significant portion of the entire output of the filmmaker, whose influence and legacy will likewise feature in the discussions. Students will engage with the published scholarship on the director, perform close analysis of their films and investigate their critical reception, through combination of individual and group assignments.
| Day | Start Time | End Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
Wednesday | 09:00 | 11:55 | M-013 |
The course will help you learn to direct and produce complex, personally expressive short fictions films. We’ll do this through incremental exercises designed to help you explore storytelling structures, staging, expressive frames, working with actors, sound design, crew negotiation and editing. We’ll also learn essentials of producing, press and distribution. Conducted from the director/producer viewpoint, the course challenges students to create a film that matches form with content and develops production skills through all stages of the process. The class is also an immersive creative workshop, incubating everyone’s ideas with support from the group. Some students will direct their own films. Others will produce other students’ short films in lieu of directing their own film. For best results, it is advised that you have already taken Principles of Video Production and at least one Film Studies course.
| Day | Start Time | End Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
Thursday | 15:20 | 18:15 | C-501 |
This course explores Japanese New Wave Cinema by placing the films within the wider discourses of historical, political, social and cultural contexts. We will investigate the ways in which Japanese filmmakers of the period used cinema as a political tool and a weapon in a cultural struggle, while working in a rigid system of commercial film production.
| Day | Start Time | End Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
Tuesday | 15:20 | 18:15 | M-013 |
Courses will be developed from time to time which examine various aspects of film studies, focusing on different problems, phenomena, practices and personalities. These are taught by permanent or visiting faculty, and will be generally specific to their specialization.
| Day | Start Time | End Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
Wednesday | 15:20 | 18:15 | C-501 |
The Senior Seminar is the Capstone for Film Studies majors, where they develop an independent project (critical paper, short film, feature script)under the guidance of the instructors.
| Day | Start Time | End Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
Monday | 12:10 | 13:30 | C-501 |
Thursday | 12:10 | 13:30 | C-501 |
Firstbridge courses are offered to degree seeking freshmen and registration is done via webform in pre-arrival checklist.
| Day | Start Time | End Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
Monday | 13:45 | 15:05 | Q-A101 |
Thursday | 13:45 | 15:05 | Q-A101 |
Firstbridge courses are offered to degree seeking freshmen and registration is done via webform in pre-arrival checklist.
| Day | Start Time | End Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
Monday | 13:45 | 15:05 | SD-3 |
Thursday | 13:45 | 15:05 | SD-3 |
This course is an introduction to French and is intended to help students acquire the basic elements of spoken and written French. Students will learn how to express themselves in everyday life situations. The students’ basic needs for linguistic and cultural information will be the main focus of this course. In class, work will be supplemented by multimedia activities and real-life situations in the city of Paris.
| Day | Start Time | End Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
Monday | 09:00 | 10:20 | SD-1 |
Wednesday | 09:00 | 10:20 | SD-1 |
Thursday | 09:00 | 10:20 | SD-1 |
This course is an introduction to French and is intended to help students acquire the basic elements of spoken and written French. Students will learn how to express themselves in everyday life situations. The students’ basic needs for linguistic and cultural information will be the main focus of this course. In class, work will be supplemented by multimedia activities and real-life situations in the city of Paris.
| Day | Start Time | End Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
Monday | 10:35 | 11:55 | SD-1 |
Tuesday | 10:35 | 11:55 | SD-1 |
Thursday | 10:35 | 11:55 | SD-1 |