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CAMS 100 Rock ‘n’ Roll in Cinema 6 credits
This course is designed to explore the intersection between rock music and cinema. Taking a historical view of the evolution of the "rock film," this class examines the impact of rock music on the structural and formal aspects of narrative, documentary, and experimental films and videos. The scope of the class will run from the earliest rock films of the mid-1950s through contemporary examples in ten weekly subunits.
Held for new first year students
- Fall 2024
- AI/WR1, Argument & Inquiry/WR1 IDS, Intercultural Domestic Studies
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Student is a member of the First Year First Term class level cohort. Students are only allowed to register for one A&I course at a time. If a student wishes to change the A&I course they are enrolled in they must DROP the enrolled course and then ADD the new course. Please see our Workday guides Drop or 'Late' Drop a Course and Register or Waitlist for a Course Directly from the Course Listing for more information.
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CAMS 100.00 Fall 2024
- Faculty:Jay Beck 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WWeitz Center 136 9:50am-11:00am
- FWeitz Center 136 9:40am-10:40am
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CAMS 165 Sound Design 6 credits
This course examines the theories and techniques of sound design for film and video. Students will learn the basics of audio recording, sound editing and multi-track sound design specifically for the moving image. The goal of the course is a greater understanding of the practices and concepts associated with soundtrack development through projects using recording equipment and the digital audio workstation for editing and mixing.
Sound Design is offered at both the 100 and 200 levels; coursework will be adjusted accordingly. Students who have taken CAMS 111 should register for CAMS 265; students who have not taken CAMS 111 should register for CAMS 165.
Extra Time Required. CAMS 165 students will complete additional workshops during the first two weeks of class in order to be familiarized with the audio recording hardware.
- Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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Not open to students who have taken CAMS 265.
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CAMS 165.00 Spring 2025
- Faculty:Jay Beck 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WWeitz Center 138 9:50am-11:00am
- FWeitz Center 138 9:40am-10:40am
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CAMS 186 Film Genres 6 credits
In this course we survey four or more Hollywood film genres, including but not limited to the Western, musical, horror film, comedy, and science-fiction film. What criteria are used to place a film in a particular genre? What role do audiences and studios play in the creation and definition of film genres? Where do genres come from? How do genres change over time? What roles do genres play in the viewing experience? What are hybrid genres and subgenres? What can genres teach us about society? Assignments aim to develop skills in critical analysis, research and writing.
Sophomore Priority
Extra Time Required: Evening screenings
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CAMS 186.00 Spring 2025
- Faculty:Carol Donelan 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 132 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FWeitz Center 132 2:20pm-3:20pm
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Sophomore Priority, Extra Time for Evening screenings
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CAMS 187 Cult Television and Fan Cultures 6 credits
This course focuses on the history, production, and consumption of cult television. The beginning of the seminar will be focused on critically examining a number of theoretical approaches to the study of genre and fandom. Building on these approaches, the remainder of the course will focus on cult television case studies from the last eight decades. We will draw on recent scholarship to explore how cult television functions textually, industrially, and culturally. Additionally, we will study fan communities on the Internet and consider how fansites, webisodes, and sites like YouTube and Netflix transform television genres.
Extra time for evening screenings
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CAMS 187.00 Spring 2025
- Faculty:Candace Moore 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWeitz Center 132 3:10pm-4:55pm
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CAMS 210 Film History I 6 credits
This course surveys the first half-century of cinema history, focusing on film structure and style as well as transformations in technology, industry and society. Topics include series photography, the nickelodeon boom, local movie-going, Italian super-spectacles, early African American cinema, women film pioneers, abstraction and surrealism, German Expressionism, Soviet silent cinema, Chaplin and Keaton, the advent of sound and color technologies, the Production Code, the American Studio System, Britain and early Hitchcock, Popular Front cinema in France, and early Japanese cinema. Assignments aim to develop skills in close analysis and working with primary sources in researching and writing film history.
Extra Time Evening Screenings
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CAMS 210.00 Fall 2024
- Faculty:Carol Donelan 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWeitz Center 132 1:15pm-3:00pm
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CAMS 212 Contemporary Spanish Cinema 6 credits
This course serves as a historical and critical survey of Spanish cinema from the early 1970s to the present. Topics of study will include the redefinition of Spanish identity in the post-Franco era, the rewriting of national history through cinema, cinematic representations of gender and sexuality, emergent genres, regional cinemas and identities, stars and transnational film projects, and new Spanish auteurs from the 1980s to the present.
Extra Time required. Evening Screenings.
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CAMS 212.00 Fall 2024
- Faculty:Jay Beck 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 133 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FWeitz Center 133 1:10pm-2:10pm
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CAMS 214 Film History III 6 credits
This course is designed to introduce students to recent film history, 1970-present, and the multiple permutations of cinema around the globe. The course charts the development of national cinemas since the 1970s while considering the effects of media consolidation and digital convergence. Moreover, the course examines how global cinemas have reacted to and dealt with the formal influence and economic domination of Hollywood on international audiences. Class lectures, screenings, and discussions will consider how cinema has changed from a primarily national phenomenon to a transnational form in the twenty-first century.
Extra Time required for evening Screenings.
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CAMS 214.00 Spring 2025
- Faculty:Jay Beck 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 133 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FWeitz Center 133 1:10pm-2:10pm
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CAMS 229 CAMS Production in Los Angeles Program: Experimental Los Angeles 3 credits
Los Angeles is well known as the center of the film and television industry. This course will explore the lesser-know experimental and avant-garde cinematic histories and current practices in Los Angeles through readings and screenings. Site visits will include filmmaker and media artist studios, archives, and film festivals. Students will reflect on their experiences with course materials through short writings and creative projects.
Acceptance in the Carleton OCS CAMS Production in Los Angeles Program.
- Spring 2025
- LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis
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Acceptance into the Carleton OCS CAMS Production in Los Angeles program.
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CAMS 230 CAMS Production in Los Angeles Program: Iconic Los Angeles 3 credits
This course explores the second largest city in the United States through its relationship to cinema history. In its complexities and contradictions, romantic notions of “Tinsel Town” coexist with the realities of a multicultural metropolis. Readings, screenings, and field trips will contextualize Los Angeles as a place where the built environment and natural world collide, as well as the center of the American entertainment industry. Short writings will give students the necessary opportunity to reflect and synthesize their experiences.
Acceptance in the Carleton OCS CAMS Production in Los Angeles Program.
- Spring 2025
- LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis
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Student has completed any of the following course(s): CAMS 111 with a grade of C- or better AND acceptance into the Carleton OCS CAMS Production – Los Angeles Program.
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CAMS 236 Israeli Society in Israeli Cinema 6 credits
This course will introduce students to the global kaleidoscope that is Israeli society today. Since the 1980s the Israeli public has increasingly engaged with its multicultural character, particularly through films and documentaries that broaden national conversation. Our approach to exploring the emerging reflection of Israel's diversity in its cinema will be thematic. We will study films that foreground religious-secular, Israeli-Palestinian, gender, sexual orientation, and family dynamics, as well as Western-Middle Eastern Jewish relations, foreign workers or refugees in Israel, army and society, and Holocaust memory. With critical insights from the professor's interviews with several directors and Israeli film scholars. Conducted in English, all films subtitled. Evening film screenings.
In Translation. Extra Time required for Evening Screenings.
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CAMS 236.00 Winter 2025
- Faculty:Stacy Beckwith 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 132 9:50am-11:00am
- FWeitz Center 132 9:40am-10:40am
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CAMS 258 Feminist and Queer Film Theory 6 credits
The focus of this course is on spectatorship—feminist, lesbian, queer, transgender. The seminar interrogates arguments about representation and the viewer’s relationship to the moving image in terms of identification, desire, masquerade, fantasy, power, time, and embodied experience. The course first explores the founding essays of psychoanalytic feminist film theory, putting these ideas into dialogue with mainstream cinema. Second, we consider the aesthetic, narrative, and theoretical interventions posed by feminist filmmakers working in contradistinction to Hollywood. Third, “queering” contemporary media, we survey challenges and revisions to feminist film theory presented by considerations of race and ethnicity, transgender experience, and queerness.
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CAMS 258.00 Winter 2025
- Faculty:Candace Moore 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWeitz Center 133 3:10pm-4:55pm
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CAMS 265 Sound Design 6 credits
This course examines the theories and techniques of sound design for film and video. Students will learn the basics of audio recording, sound editing and multi-track sound design specifically for the moving image. The goal of the course is a greater understanding of the practices and concepts associated with soundtrack development through projects using recording equipment and the digital audio workstation for editing and mixing.
Sound Design is offered at both the 100 and 200 levels; coursework will be adjusted accordingly. Students who have taken CAMS 111 should register for CAMS 265; students who have not taken CAMS 111 should register for CAMS 165.
- Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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Students must have completed the following course(s): CAMS 111 with a grade of C- or better. Not open to students who have taken CAMS 165.
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CAMS 265.00 Spring 2025
- Faculty:Jay Beck 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WWeitz Center 138 9:50am-11:00am
- FWeitz Center 138 9:40am-10:40am
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CAMS 270 Nonfiction 6 credits
This course addresses nonfiction media as both art form and historical practice by exploring the expressive, rhetorical, and political possibilities of nonfiction production. A focus on relationships between form and content and between makers, subjects, and viewers will inform our approach. Throughout the course we will pay special attention to the ethical concerns that arise from making media about others’ lives. We will engage with diverse modes of nonfiction production including essayistic, experimental, and participatory forms and create community videos in partnership with Carleton’s Center for Community and Civic Engagement and local organizations. The class culminates in the production of a significant independent nonfiction media project.
Extra Time
- Fall 2024
- ARP, Arts Practice IDS, Intercultural Domestic Studies
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Student has completed any of the following course(s): CAMS 111 with grade of C- or better.
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CAMS 270.00 Fall 2024
- Faculty:Laska Jimsen 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THWeitz Center 133 10:10am-11:55am
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CAMS 271 Fiction 6 credits
Through a series of exercises, students will explore the fundamentals of making narrative films. Areas of focus in this course include visual storytelling and cinematography, working with actors, and story structure. Through readings, screenings, and writing exercises, we will analyze how mood, tone, and themes are constructed through formal techniques. Course work includes individual and group exercise, and culminates in individual short narrative projects.
- Winter 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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Student has completed any of the following course(s): CAMS 111 with grade of C- or better.
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CAMS 271.00 Winter 2025
- Faculty:Catherine Licata 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THWeitz Center 132 1:15pm-3:00pm
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CAMS 272 CAMS Production in Los Angeles Program: Narrative Short Film Production 6 credits
Narrative films are the product of many artists working in concert toward a shared artistic vision. In this course, students will explore the essential crew roles on narrative films and choose an area in which they would like to specialize during the making of a collaborative project in Los Angeles. In addition to a focus on story and directing actors, specialized equipment and craft labs will expand students' technical skills. Through the term, students will learn the ins-and-outs of filmmaking in Los Angeles while moving through production of a narrative short film, with each student taking on a specific crew position in a collaborative project.
Acceptance in the Carleton OCS CAMS Production in Los Angeles Program.
- Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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Acceptance into the Carleton OCS CAMS Production in Los Angeles program.
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CAMS 277 CAMS Production in Los Angeles Program: In the Writers’ Room 6 credits
In this course, students will explore the art and craft of writing for television as they learn, from writers' room insiders, how TV series are conceived and created. We'll break the writing process into a series of manageable steps, from pilot premise to polishing. Topics will include: story structure, character development, tone, stakes, theme, and more. In-class conversations with working, award-winning television writers, as well as visits to sets and show tapings, will complement the classroom curriculum.
Acceptance in the Carleton OCS CAMS Production in Los Angeles Program.
- Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice WR2 Writing Requirement 2
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Student has completed any of the following course(s): CAMS 111 with a grade of C- or better AND acceptance into the Carleton OCS CAMS Production – Los Angeles Program.
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CAMS 330 Cinema Studies Seminar 6 credits
The purpose of this seminar is guide students in developing and consolidating their conceptual understanding of theories central to the field of cinema studies. Emphasis is on close reading and discussion of classical and contemporary theories ranging from Eisenstein, Kracauer, Balazs, Bazin and Barthes to theories of authorship, genre and ideology and trends in contemporary theory influenced by psychoanalysis, phenomenology and cognitive studies.
- Fall 2024
- LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis
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Student has completed any of the following course(s): CAMS 110 with a grade of C- or better.
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CAMS 330.00 Fall 2024
- Faculty:Carol Donelan 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WWeitz Center 132 1:50pm-3:35pm
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CAMS 370 Advanced Production Workshop I 6 credits
In this course, students will develop a concept and complete pre-production for their CAMS production comps. Students will draw inspiration from a variety of sources that are personal, cultural, and observational, and in doing so, develop confidence in their own artistic practice and perspective. We will refine technical and formal strategies, consider audience reception, and practice giving and receiving constructive critique. Prior to registering for the course, students must submit a project proposal to the instructor. Final enrollment is based on the quality of the proposal. Note: This course is intended to prepare students for a Comps production project in winter term and it is the first in a two part sequence with CAMS 371. If you have any questions about enrolling in this course, please email the instructor.
Extra Time Required
Instructor Consent Required
- Fall 2024
- ARP, Arts Practice
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Student has completed any of the following course(s): CAMS 111 AND either CAMS 270 or CAMS 271 with a grade of C- or better.
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CAMS 370.00 Fall 2024
- Faculty:Laska Jimsen 🏫 👤
- Size:10
- T, THWeitz Center 231 3:10pm-4:55pm
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Extra Time, Instructor Consent required, Waitlist only
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CAMS 371 Advanced Production Workshop II 6 credits
Advanced Production Workshop II is taken in conjunction with CAMS 400 for students completing production comps. Production projects are inherently collaborative; this course supports collaboration through workshops, crewing, and informed critique. This course is the second in the advanced production workshop sequence with a focus on production and post-production. Please contact instructor for further information.
Project Proposal required
- Winter 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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Student has completed any of the following course(s): CAMS 370 with a grade of C- or better.
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CAMS 371.00 Winter 2025
- Faculty:Catherine Licata 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THWeitz Center 132 10:10am-11:55am