ENGFLM 1683/FMST 1540 - Documentary Film
This course explores the nature and impact of the non fiction film, its changing forms, strategies for movies, and claims to veracity and objectivity. It is concerned with identifying types of documentary, the "motives" of such films, their audience and the problems posed by "documenting reality." This is a Critical Studies course and counts for Category II towards the Film and Media Studies major and minor.
Arts Gen Ed
B-08 CL, Wednesday 1:00pm-4:50pm
Instructed by Neepa Majumdar
ENGFLM 1487/FMST 1415 - Film Censorship and American Culture
This course considers some of the most important censorship battles in American history. As the first mass medium to pose a serious threat to the cultural hegemony of the genteel middle class, the movies initiated both a debate about the place of media in our society and a series of struggles over the control of commercialized leisure. This course seeks a deeper appreciation of the complexities of contemporary media politics through an engagement with the history of motion picture regulation. This is a Critical Studies course and counts for Category II towards the Film and Media Studies major and minor.
DSAS Historical Analysis Gen Ed
Undergraduate Research Gen Ed Requirement
SCI Polymathic Contexts: Soc/Beh
B-08 CL, Tuesday 1:00pm-4:50pm
Instructed by Mark Lynn Anderson
ENGFLM 1585/FMST 1585 - Cinema and Revolution
This course investigates the relationship between Black power era, Black American cinema, and the third cinema movement, which are traditionally understood to be distinct movement/moments only loosely related through overlapping politics. In the course, our primary focus will be third world and Black American film making, and the postcolonial, pan-national and militant theoretical texts and movements that influenced the directors. This is a Critical Studies course and counts for Category II towards the Film and Media Studies major and minor.
DSAS Cross-Cult Awareness Gen Ed
DSAS Diversity Gen Ed
SCI Diversity Gen Ed
SCI Polymathic Contexts: Global & Cross Cultural Gen Ed
African Studies
407 CL, Monday 1:00pm-4:50pm
Instructed by Elizabeth Reich
ENGFLM 1485/FMST 1410 - Film & Politics: Cinemas of Solidarity
Cinema has been an essential space for political and social solidarities to take shape and develop. This class focuses on solidarity-from Latin solidum (whole sum), neuter of solidus (solid)—as a framework to reflect on the political role of cinema in forging alliances and overcoming injustices throughout different times and geographies. We will think about on screen representation to see how films build bridges between different communities addressing revolutions, labor movements, immigration, ethnic identities, civil and reproductive rights, environmental justice and other crucial issues. Beyond film narratives, we will consider the different stages of filmmaking from inception and production to circulation and exhibition to understand the full spectrum of the political potency of cinema.
Arts Gen Ed
Writing Intensive Course (WRIT)
SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic Gen Ed
B-08 CL, Monday 6:00pm-9:50pm
Instructed by Raed El Rafei
ENGFLM 1790/FMST 1411 - Film and Literature
Cinema has enjoyed a close relationship with literature, borrowing from literary source texts and forms. Yet this relationship is not uncomplicated, nor is it unidirectional: the cinema offers new possibilities for source texts, poses interesting problems for authors and readers alike and provokes a reconsideration of age-old debates of the divide between words and images. This course examines film's convergence with, and divergence from, literary forms. Poised at the intersection of the study of film and the study of literature, it enables us to explore what is most unique -- and perhaps most interesting -- about each of the media as we consider their overlap, in writing and videographic forms ourselves.
Arts Gen Ed
Writing Intensive Course (WRIT)
SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic Gen Ed
___, Tuesday 9:00am-12:50pm
Instructed by Ali Patterson
