Spring Term Schedule
Spring 2022
Number | Title | Instructor | Time |
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FMST 109-1
Victoria Taormina
TR 9:40AM - 10:55AM
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This course will analyze how gender roles are constructed for teens on screen. As a genre, teen film—as well as the very category of ‘the teenager’—is a relatively recent invention of the postwar period. In this class we will trace how the development of the genre both reflects and generates our contemporary understandings of femininity and masculinity. An essential part of our investigation will also be charting how these gender roles shift and vary in relation to race and sexuality. How does the masculinity of black boys on screen differ from that of their white counterparts? Why is there a substantial absence of films starring black girls? When black girls do appear on screen, what are their stories? What role does friendship play in these films and how neatly can we delineate when same sex relationships—as well as interracial friendships—are platonic, homoerotic, or both? This is an interdisciplinary course that sits at the nexus of both gender and film studies, but we will also draw on popular culture and critical race theory to help with our analyses.
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FMST 131-1
James Rosenow
TR 12:30PM - 1:45PM
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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.
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FMST 161-2
Cary Adams
MW 10:25AM - 1:05PM
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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.
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FMST 184-1
Jennifer Hall
MW 10:25AM - 11:40AM
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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.
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FMST 205-1
Andrew Salomone
TR 4:50PM - 7:30PM
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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.
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FMST 207-1
Joanne Bernardi
TR 11:05AM - 12:20PM
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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.
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FMST 213-1
Sharon Willis
MW 3:25PM - 4:40PM
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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.
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FMST 220-1
Jakub Czernik
TR 9:40AM - 10:55AM
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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).
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FMST 240-1
Andrew Korn
MW 2:00PM - 3:15PM
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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
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FMST 243-1
Joanne Bernardi
R 2:00PM - 4:40PM
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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.
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FMST 246-2
June Hwang
MW 10:25AM - 11:40AM
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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.
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FMST 257-1
Cary Adams
MW 2:00PM - 4:40PM
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"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.
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FMST 260-1
Stephen Schottenfeld
M 2:00PM - 4:40PM
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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.
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FMST 261-1
Jacquelyn Sholes
TR 2:00PM - 3:15PM
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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.
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FMST 267-1
Julie Papaioannou
MW 2:00PM - 3:15PM
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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.
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FMST 280-1
Matthew Omelsky
TR 11:05AM - 12:20PM
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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.
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FMST 288-1
James Rosenow
TR 2:00PM - 3:15PM
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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.
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FMST 391-1
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Registration for Independent Study courses needs to be completed thru the instructions for online independent study registration. |
FMST 392-1
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Registration for Independent Study courses needs to be completed thru the instructions for online independent study registration. |
FMST 394-2
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Registration for Independent Study courses needs to be completed thru the instructions for online independent study registration. |
FMST 407-1
Joanne Bernardi
TR 11:05AM - 12:20PM
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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.
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FMST 413-1
Sharon Willis
MW 3:25PM - 4:40PM
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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.
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FMST 467-1
Julie Papaioannou
MW 2:00PM - 3:15PM
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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.
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Spring 2022
Number | Title | Instructor | Time |
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Monday | |
FMST 260-1
Stephen Schottenfeld
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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. |
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Monday and Wednesday | |
FMST 161-2
Cary Adams
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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. |
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FMST 184-1
Jennifer Hall
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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. |
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FMST 246-2
June Hwang
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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. |
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FMST 240-1
Andrew Korn
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|
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 |
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FMST 257-1
Cary Adams
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"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. |
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FMST 267-1
Julie Papaioannou
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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. |
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FMST 467-1
Julie Papaioannou
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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. |
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FMST 213-1
Sharon Willis
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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. |
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FMST 413-1
Sharon Willis
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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. |
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Tuesday and Thursday | |
FMST 109-1
Victoria Taormina
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This course will analyze how gender roles are constructed for teens on screen. As a genre, teen film—as well as the very category of ‘the teenager’—is a relatively recent invention of the postwar period. In this class we will trace how the development of the genre both reflects and generates our contemporary understandings of femininity and masculinity. An essential part of our investigation will also be charting how these gender roles shift and vary in relation to race and sexuality. How does the masculinity of black boys on screen differ from that of their white counterparts? Why is there a substantial absence of films starring black girls? When black girls do appear on screen, what are their stories? What role does friendship play in these films and how neatly can we delineate when same sex relationships—as well as interracial friendships—are platonic, homoerotic, or both? This is an interdisciplinary course that sits at the nexus of both gender and film studies, but we will also draw on popular culture and critical race theory to help with our analyses.
|
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FMST 220-1
Jakub Czernik
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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). |
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FMST 207-1
Joanne Bernardi
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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. |
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FMST 280-1
Matthew Omelsky
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|
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. |
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FMST 407-1
Joanne Bernardi
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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. |
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FMST 131-1
James Rosenow
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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. |
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FMST 261-1
Jacquelyn Sholes
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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. |
|
FMST 288-1
James Rosenow
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|
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. |
|
FMST 205-1
Andrew Salomone
|
|
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. |
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Thursday | |
FMST 243-1
Joanne Bernardi
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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. |