Location

Lechase Room 163 (TR 9:40AM - 10:55AM)

This course provides a broad overview and introduction to media. We will cover histories of different types of media (internet, radio, audio recordings, television, cable, film, journalism, magazines, advertising, public relations, etc.) as well as various theories and approaches to studying media. No prior knowledge is necessary, but a real interest and willingness to explore a variety of media will come in handy. Occasional outside screenings will be required (but if you cannot attend the scheduled screenings, you may watch the films on your own time through the Multimedia Center reserves.) Students will be evaluated based on assigned writing, classroom discussion leading, participation, short quizzes, midterm exam and final exam.

Location

Meliora Room 203 (TR 12:30PM - 1:45PM)

This course introduces the basic aesthetic and technical elements of video production. Emphasis is on the creative use and understanding of the video medium while learning to use the video camera, video editing processes and the fundamental procedures of planning video projects. Strategies for the use of video as an art-making tool will be explored. Works by artists and directors critically exploring media of film and video will be viewed and discussed. Video techniques will be studied through screenings, group discussions, readings, practice sessions and presentations of original video projects made during the course. Sophomores and Juniors with officially declared FMS and SA majors are given priority registration; followed by sophomores and juniors with officially declared FMS and SA minors. Studio arts supplies fee: $50.

Location

Sage Arts Center Room 104 (MW 10:00AM - 12:40PM)

In this course, students will examine the portrayal of religion in American, European, and Israeli film, both contemporary and classic. The course will address issues such as immigration and assimilation, gender and the status of women, religious reform, responses to the Holocaust, with close attention to the significant impact and influence of American representations of Jewish life. Select readings will sharpen our analysis of film as well as situate the films within the historical and cultural contexts in which they were produced.

Location

Meliora Room 218 (MW 10:25AM - 11:40AM)

This course merges contemporary art production with technologies and social interventions. Students will combine historical, inter-media approaches with new, evolving trends in social practice. This course offering uses cyberpunk, a subgenre of science fiction, as a framework for examining contemporary art and media production in both theory and practice. Students will deploy introductory level techniques to create new works at the intersection of art, design, and technology. Not open to seniors. $50 Studio Fee. If the course fills and you would like to be added to the waitlist, fill out the form found at this link: https://www.sageart.center/resources.

Location

Sage Arts Center Room 102 (TR 4:50PM - 7:30PM)

This course offers 1) a comprehensive grass roots? study of anime as film form and cultural phenomenon; and 2) a more specific and guided investigation of the work of Hayao Miyazaki and the world view and visual sensibilities of his creation, Studio Ghibli. We begin by investigating where anime comes from: historical precedence, significant sources, defining influences and routes of cultural exchange. We then focus on Miyazakis work and the Ghibli corpus in order to examine the specifics of animated cinematic construction that distinguish his work (e.g., iconography, visual landscape, character design, narrative tropes, music); methods of adaptation, influence, and genre variation; reception and fan culture; and animes potential for providing unique perspectives on race, gender, landscape, identity, and Japan's historical and mythological past.

Location

Lechase Room 141 (TR 11:05AM - 12:20PM)

This course explores Hollywood's fascination with race and gender as social issues and as spectacles. In particular, we will focus on the ways that social difference have become the sites of conflicted narrative and visual interactions in our films. To examine competing representations of racial difference and sexual difference in US culture, we analyze popular films from the 1950s to the present.

Location

Morey Room 504 (MW 3:25PM - 4:40PM)

This course is a survey of Polish modern culture, with special focus on literature and cinema, from two perspectives. On the one hand, it examines the notion of Polish culture as a closed one, inward-oriented, focused on its particular topics and issues, and therefore inaccessible and not easily understood from the outside. On the other hand, it shows Polish culture that is (or tries to be) present in the global market, aspiring towards universality, aiming to transcend the restrictions imposed by a difficult language, little understood and spoken outside the Polish communities, and history, thwarting the accumulation of cultural capital and the efforts to reach an important place in the global cultural market. In this approach, Polish culture might be thought of as a ‘minor’ one (Deleuze & Guattari), or an element of a global perspective (Casanova; Damrosch).

Location

Lechase Room 148 (TR 9:40AM - 10:55AM)

Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini made some of the most challenging and controversial films in the history of cinema. He created scandal with his radical critique of Italy’s modernization and rising consumer culture in the 1960s. This course gives students a solid understanding of his major films by examining how each work addresses Italy’s transformation from a premodern, agrarian and artisanal civilization, to a modern, capitalist one. Films include: Accattone, Mamma Roma, The Hawks and the Sparrows, Theorem, The Decameron and Salò. To provide students with foundations in Pasolini’s thought and film analysis, discussions will focus on both thematic and formal issues, such as Marxism, the sacred, sexuality, violence and pastiche. Assignments include: historical, biographical and critical readings, film screenings, short papers and a final essay. Readings will be in English and films will be shown with English subtitles

Location

Genesee Hall Room 323 (MW 2:00PM - 3:15PM)

Moving images recorded on analog film defined the 20th century in an unprecedented way. This course considers the tangible object that is the source of the image onscreen, and the social, cultural, and historical value of a reel of film as an organic element with a finite life cycle. We focus on the analog photographic element and its origins (both theatrical and small gauge), the basics of photochemical film technology, and the state of film conservation and preservation worldwide. Guest lectures by staff of the Moving Image Department of George Eastman Museum provide a first-hand look at film preservation in action, allowing us to consider analog film as an ephemeral form of material culture: a multipurpose, visual record that is art, entertainment, evidentiary document, and historical artifact. Weekly film assignments. Class meets on River Campus and at George Eastman Museum (900 East Ave, no admission fee but students provide own transportation). No audits, no pre-requisites. Enrollment limited by hands-on nature of course.

Location

Wegmans Room 1009 (R 2:00PM - 4:40PM)

The city in film and literature is never just a physical space - discourses of modernity and urban life are mapped onto real and imagines urban spaces. In this course we will explore how the relationship between the spaces of the city and the stories told about and through them shape our understanding of urban life. Some of the texts we will examine are: Fritz Langs M, Arthur Schnitzlers Dream Story, and Lloyd Bacons 42nd Street.

Location

Morey Room 501 (MW 10:25AM - 11:40AM)

"It’s not climate change—it’s everything change," novelist Margaret Atwood has said. This course

uses video and moving image to examine the deep intertwined and intersectional roots of the

Ecological crisis, from viral pandemics and racial justice to the disruption of our climate and all the

other apocalyptic scenarios we currently find ourselves in. To guide our development of Eco cinematic

consciousness, we will study French philosopher Félix Guattari's foundational text, “The

Three Ecologies”, to understand how ecologies of mind, media, and environment are interrelated and

to complicate our understandings of "nature." Student Projects will involve installation, single channel,

sound, and networked-based approaches. Works will be examined within a critical

environmental arts framework through readings, critiques, viewings and discussions.

Permission of instructor. $50 studio fee.

Location

Sage Arts Center Room 102 (MW 2:00PM - 4:40PM)

An introduction to the three-act film structure. Students will read and view numerous screenplays and films, and develop their own film treatment into a full-length script.

Location

Hylan Building Room 306 (M 2:00PM - 4:40PM)

This course will trace the history of music in film from the inception of silent motion pictures in the late 19th century to present-day productions. Will consider how the aural and visual aspects of the medium interact dramatically and how the music can enhance or otherwise influence interpretation of what is happening on the screen.

Location

Dewey Room 1305 (TR 2:00PM - 3:15PM)

This course invites students to undertake a virtual engagement with museums in France, investigate periods of migration from the mid-19th century up to date, and bring visual arts into dialogue with literary, socio-cultural, and historical perspectives for a critical inquiry on questions of social and spatial configuration of ‘otherness’ in relation to migration.  Bilingual potential for research in French and/or English (knowledge of French is not a prerequisite); multidisciplinary, interactive, and generative course design in an open-pedagogy and OER-oriented learning environment.  This course is offered in collaboration with the MLC Librarian to support and facilitate the design and implementation of student OER-oriented projects with the potential for submission to OER repositories, and production of digital and on-campus exhibits. 

Location

Lechase Room 104 (MW 2:00PM - 3:15PM)

The 21st century has seen an exciting array of fiction and film emerge from the African continent, a development that contributes vitally to global black culture. Mainstays of this new generation of narrative include sci-fi, fantasy, and horror; themes of climate change, transnational migration, and the space of LGBTQ life; as well as a proliferation of generic and formal experiments across media and platforms. In this course, we’ll study novels, short stories, narrative films, and web film series by artists from Nigeria, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Morocco and elsewhere to understand how artists from the continent imagine the relationship between culture and history, hope and anxiety, home and world. Writers and filmmakers will include Chimamanda Adichie, Wanuri Kahiu, NoViolet Bulawayo, Dilman Dila, Nnedi Okorafor, Andrew Dosunmu, among others. 

Location

Meliora Room 218 (TR 11:05AM - 12:20PM)

Apart from his infamous cameos, Alfred Hitchcock was a filmmaker who wanted his presence—seen or unseen—felt by his audience. When you watch a Hitchcock film, you are meant to be acutely aware that it is Hitchcock’s film. This course examines how exactly that works.More than a proper noun, “Hitchcock” implies a formal style, a dramatic genre and a paradigm of postwar Autuerism and influence. This course revolves around a close examination of fifteen out of the director’s fifty films, as well as samples from his television series. Without pardoning his socially insensitive shortcomings (i.e. misogynist “heros,” mistreatment of leading ladies, use of blackface, etc.) we will unpack just what constitutes the “Hitchcock” touch. From his British silents to his Hollywood “masterpieces” to his final works, this course considers the ways in which Hitchcock devised a relation among narrative, spectator and character point of view, so as to yield his singular configuration of suspense, sensation and perception. 

Location

Morey Room 504 (TR 2:00PM - 3:15PM)

This class will provide an overview of postcolonial studies and investigate recent theories. It includes some study of short literary works and films. No prerequisites. Work includes discussion leading, research essays, and short writing assignments.

Location

Morey Room 502 (M 2:00PM - 4:40PM)

Registration for Independent Study courses needs to be completed thru the instructions for online independent study registration.

Registration for Independent Study courses needs to be completed thru the instructions for online independent study registration.

Registration for Independent Study courses needs to be completed thru the instructions for online independent study registration.

This course offers 1) a comprehensive grass roots? study of anime as film form and cultural phenomenon; and 2) a more specific and guided investigation of the work of Hayao Miyazaki and the world view and visual sensibilities of his creation, Studio Ghibli. We begin by investigating where anime comes from: historical precedence, significant sources, defining influences and routes of cultural exchange. We then focus on Miyazakis work and the Ghibli corpus in order to examine the specifics of animated cinematic construction that distinguish his work (e.g., iconography, visual landscape, character design, narrative tropes, music); methods of adaptation, influence, and genre variation; reception and fan culture; and animes potential for providing unique perspectives on race, gender, landscape, identity, and Japan's historical and mythological past.

Location

Lechase Room 141 (TR 11:05AM - 12:20PM)

This course explores Hollywood's fascination with race and gender as social issues and as spectacles. In particular, we will focus on the ways that social difference have become the sites of conflicted narrative and visual interactions in our films. To examine competing representations of racial difference and sexual difference in US culture, we analyze popular films from the 1950s to the present.

Location

Morey Room 504 (MW 3:25PM - 4:40PM)

This course invites students to undertake a virtual engagement with museums in France, investigate periods of migration from the mid-19th century up to date, and bring visual arts into dialogue with literary, socio-cultural, and historical perspectives for a critical inquiry on questions of social and spatial configuration of ‘otherness’ in relation to migration.  Bilingual potential for research in French and/or English (knowledge of French is not a prerequisite); multidisciplinary, interactive, and generative course design in an open-pedagogy and OER-oriented learning environment.  This course is offered in collaboration with the MLC Librarian to support and facilitate the design and implementation of student OER-oriented projects with the potential for submission to OER repositories, and production of digital and on-campus exhibits. 

Location

Lechase Room 104 (MW 2:00PM - 3:15PM)