FILM-Film and Digital Media

FILM 80B Seeing Through the '80s: Film and Television

Study of film and television culture in Reagan-era America, focusing on concepts of ideology, post-modernism, and spectacle through an examination of such phenomena as MTV, teen pics, indie cinema, and Rambo.

Credits

5

FILM 141 Information Architecture: Representing Digital Information

Combines critical studies and production exercises that explore how visual information for interactive media is conceptualized, structured, and represented. Readings on historical and contemporary information architecture and interactive design offer models for weekly assignments and a final project.

Credits

5

Requirements

Prerequisite(s): FILM 178. Enrollment restricted to film and digital media majors.

FILM 163 Movies on the Border

Surveys a range of cinematic representations of the US-Mexico border region from the 1950s to the present-Hollywood, independent, Chicano/Latino, Mexican. Examines border as concrete physical (trans)location, site of metaphor and projection, and trope for new ways of knowing and being.

Credits

5

Instructor

Julianne Burton-Carvajal

Requirements

Enrollment restricted to film and digital media and Latin American and Latino studies majors.

FILM 167 Issues in Cross-Cultural Representation

A critical exploration of how cultural differences of race, class, gender, and nation are represented in documentary film and video, experimental film, reportage, and fiction film. Changing focus on one or more topics with selected theoretical, critical, and historical readings. Students are billed for a course fee.

Credits

5

FILM 171E Structure of Hollywood

Examines current structure of American film industry tracing history of shifting industrial practices. Who has power in Hollywood? How does the exercise of power affect the creative process? How does it change what we see?

Credits

5

Requirements

Enrollment restricted to film and digital media majors.

FILM 178C Introduction to Digital Media Production

Study of computer tools involving interactive forms and formats. Students will develop both personal and/or collaborative projects for dissemination as digital media, both on screen and online in networked information and communications spaces. Prerequisite(s): course 170A; admission by application at first class meeting; priority given to students who have been accepted into the production concentration. Other students who are not in the production concentration and who have completed course 170 may apply by submitting sample of production work at first class meeting. See the enrollment conditions section in the quarterly Schedule of Classes for other application instructions that may apply.

Credits

5

Instructor

Lawrence Andrews

FILM 185B African American Film

Survey of African American participation and representation within American film which examines the cultural and historical context of racist images in film as well as recent critical and theoretical work on the issues of race and representation. Students are billed for a course fee.

Credits

5

FILM 185C The Exploitation Film

Created to make a quick profit by shocking and titillating audiences with sensational topics, the exploitation film is addressed in terms of its historical significance. Topics include important filmmakers and movements including the drug scare film, the burlesque and nudist camp film, the work of Russ Meyer, John Waters, Doris Wishman, etc. Students are billed for a course fee.

Credits

5

Instructor

Margaret Morse

Requirements

Prerequisite(s): FILM 120 or FILM 136A.

FILM 190 Advanced Critical Studies Seminar

Intensive research and writing on a changing topic chosen to demonstrate critical mastery in a specific area of film and/or digital media studies. Prerequisite(s): course 120. Enrollment restricted to senior film and digital media majors accepted into the critical studies concentration.

Credits

5

FILM 191 Critical Studies Thesis Preparation Seminar

Intensive seminar prepares students for writing a critical studies thesis. Designed to be taken prior to enrolling in course 195, seminar guides students through the process of choosing a thesis topic, preparing a bibliography, and drafting a detailed outline. Prerequisite(s): course 190. Enrollment restricted to senior film and digital media majors accepted into the critical studies concentration.

Credits

5