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CAMS 100 American Film Genres 6 credits
In this course we survey a number of popular American film genres, including but not limited to the western, the musical, the woman's film, the war film, horror and science-fiction. Who defines genres? What are the conventions and expectations associated with various genres? What is the cultural function of genre storytelling? Do genres change over time? Assignments aim to develop skills in film analysis, research and writing. Requirements include two screenings per week.
Held for new first year students.
Extra Time Required: Evening screenings
- Fall 2025
- 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 100.01 Fall 2025
- Faculty:Carol Donelan 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WWeitz Center 132 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FWeitz Center 132 2:20pm-3:20pm
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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 210.01 Winter 2026
- Faculty:Carol Donelan 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWeitz Center 132 1:15pm-3:00pm
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CAMS 211 Film History II 6 credits
This course charts the continued rise and development of cinema 1948-1968, focusing on monuments of world cinema and their industrial, cultural, aesthetic and political contexts. Topics include postwar Hollywood, melodrama, authorship, film style, labor strikes, runaway production, censorship, communist paranoia and the blacklist, film noir, Italian neorealism, widescreen aesthetics, the French New Wave, art cinema, Fellini, Bergman, the Polish School, the Czech New Wave, Japanese and Indian cinema, political filmmaking in the Third World, and the New Hollywood Cinema. Requirements include class attendance and participation, readings, evening film screenings, and various written assignments and exams.
Extra Time required. Evening Screenings.
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CAMS 211.01 Spring 2026
- Faculty:Carol Donelan 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWeitz Center 132 1:15pm-3:00pm
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CAMS 215 American Television History 6 credits
This course offers a historical survey of American television from the late 1940s to today, focusing on early television and the classical network era. Taking a cultural approach to the subject, this course examines shifts in television portrayals, genres, narrative structures, and aesthetics in relation to social and cultural trends as well as changing industrial practices. Reading television programs from the past eight decades critically, we interrogate various representations of consumerism, class, race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, lifestyle, and nation in the smaller screen while also tracing issues surrounding broadcasting policy, censorship, sponsorship, business, and programming.
Extra time
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CAMS 215.01 Fall 2025
- Faculty:Candace Moore 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 132 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWeitz Center 132 12:00pm-1:00pm
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Extra Time Required: Evening screenings
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CAMS 216 American Cinema of the 1970s 6 credits
American cinema from 1967-1979 saw the reconfiguration of outdated modes of representation in the wake of the Hollywood studio system and an alignment of new aesthetic forms with radical political and social perspectives. This course examines the film industry’s identity crisis through the cultural, stylistic, and technological changes that accompanied the era. The course seeks to demonstrate that these changes in cinematic practices reflected an agenda of revitalizing American cinema as a site for social commentary and cultural change.
Extra time
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CAMS 216.01 Winter 2026
- Faculty:Jay Beck 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 133 9:50am-11:00am
- FWeitz Center 133 9:40am-10:40am
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CAMS 225 Film Noir: The Dark Side of the American Dream 6 credits
After Americans grasped the enormity of the Depression and World War II, the glossy fantasies of 1930s cinema seemed hollow indeed. During the 1940s, the movies, our true national pastime, took a nosedive into pessimism. The result? A collection of exceptional films populated with tough guys and dangerous women lurking in the shadows of nasty urban landscapes. This course focuses on classic American noir as well as neo-noir from a variety of perspectives, including mode and genre, visual style and narrative structure, postwar culture and politics, and race, gender, and sexuality. Requirements include two screenings per week and several short papers.
Extra Time required. Evening Screenings.
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CAMS 225.01 Fall 2025
- Faculty:Carol Donelan 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWeitz Center 132 1:15pm-3:00pm
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Extra Time Required: Evening screenings
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CAMS 231 Film, Literature, and Culture in Mumbai and Seoul Program: Korean Cinema 3 credits
In recent decades, Korean cinema has emerged from the shadow of Japanese and Hong Kong cinema to become a globally significant and influential force. In this class students will study the history and aesthetics of Korean cinema, its global circulation, and its place in the imagining, representation and critique of Korean identity.
2nd Five Weeks
Extra Time Required
Requires participation in OCS Program: Film, Literature, and Culture in Mumbai and Seoul | New Media OCS Program
- Second Five Weeks, Spring 2026
- IS, International Studies LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis
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Acceptance in the Carleton OCS Film, Literature and Culture in Mumbai and Seoul program.
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CAMS 233 Film, Literature, and Culture in Mumbai and Seoul Program: K-Drama 3 credits
The mass appeal of Korean television dramas, or K-Drama, now radiates well beyond the borders of the Korean peninsula. Korean dramas are among the most popular offerings on streaming networks around the world. In this class students will learn about the history, social contexts and major genres of these forms of popular culture and the interplay of their popularity in Korea and beyond.
2nd Five Weeks
Requires participation in OCS Program: Film, Literature, and Culture in Mumbai and Seoul
- Second Five Weeks, Spring 2026
- IS, International Studies LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis
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Acceptance in the Carleton OCS Film, Literature and Culture in Mumbai and Seoul program.
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CAMS 246 Documentary Studies 6 credits
This course explores the relevance and influence of documentary films by closely examining the aesthetic concerns and ethical implications inherent in these productions. We study these works both as artistic undertakings and as documents produced within a specific time, culture, and ideology. Central to our understanding of the form are issues of technology, methodology, and ethics, which are examined thematically as well as chronologically. The course offers an overview of the major historical movements in documentary film along more recent works; it combines screenings, readings, and discussions with the goal of preparing students to both understand and analyze documentary films.
Extra Time Required, weekly evening in-person screenings Tuesdays
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CAMS 246.01 Winter 2026
- Faculty:Cecilia Cornejo 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWeitz Center 133 10:10am-11:55am
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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 2025
- 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 270.01 Fall 2025
- Faculty:Rini Matea 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THWeitz Center 133 10:10am-11:55am
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Extra Time Required:
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CAMS 271 Fiction 6 credits
In this course, students will explore the fundamentals of making narrative films. Areas of focus include visual storytelling and cinematography, working with actors, and story structure. Through readings, screenings, and exercises, we will analyze how mood, tone, and themes are constructed through formal techniques. Course work culminates in individual short narrative film projects.
- Spring 2026
- 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 271.01 Spring 2026
- Faculty:Catherine Licata 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THWeitz Center 132 10:10am-11:55am
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CAMS 279 Screenwriting 6 credits
This course explores the fundamentals of screenwriting and the practice of developing stories for narrative films. We will learn the fundamentals of dramatic tools, use these tools to make screen ideas evolve, consider audience reception, and practice giving and receiving constructive critique. Weekly assignments include writing short scenes, dialogue exercises, character work, and developing outlines and synopses. By the end of term, students will have completed two short screenplays and developed ideas for future short films.
- Winter 2026
- ARP, Arts Practice WR2 Writing Requirement 2
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CAMS 279.01 Winter 2026
- Faculty:Catherine Licata 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THWeitz Center 133 1:15pm-3:00pm
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CAMS 295 Cinema in Chile and Argentina — Storytelling in Context 6 credits
This course offers a broad historical and cultural overview of Chile and Argentina through a study of fiction and documentary films. It examines significant political and cultural developments including New Latin American Cinema, cinematic diasporas, dictatorship and the return of democracy, commercial consolidation of film industries, and recent films targeting international audiences. The goals of the class are to provide cinematic and culture histories from the 1960s through the present, to equip students with critical and cultural approaches for interpreting and analyzing cinematic practices, and to prepare students for the December OCS study trip to Santiago and Buenos Aires.
Open only to participants in Carleton OCS CAMS Cinema and Storytelling in Chile and Argentina Winter Break Program
- Fall 2025
- IS, International Studies LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis CX, Cultural/Literature
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Student is a member of the OCS Cinema and Storytelling in Chile and Argentina winter program.
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CAMS 295.01 Fall 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 296 Chile and Argentina–Modes of Storytelling 6 credits
This course is the second part of a two-term sequence and begins with a study trip to Santiago and Buenos Aires in December 2025. The study trip concentrates on cinema while examining other forms of storytelling. Our time abroad is spent visiting filmmakers, scholars, and cultural organizations that shape cinematic practices. Back on campus we unpack the study trip and work on projects proposed in fall term. Paper drafts, rough cuts, and preliminary curatorial work are due at midterm and students present their work to the Carleton community in a gallery exhibition and symposium in weeks nine and ten.
Open only to participants in Carleton OCS CAMS Cinema and Storytelling in Chile and Argentina Program
- Winter 2026
- ARP, Arts Practice IS, International Studies
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Student has completed any of the following course(s): CAMS 295 with a grade of C- or better.
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CAMS 296.01 Winter 2026
- Faculty:Cecilia Cornejo 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WWeitz Center 133 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FWeitz Center 133 1:10pm-2:10pm
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CAMS 320 Sound Studies Seminar 6 credits
This course presents the broader field of Sound Studies, its debates and issues. Drawing on a diverse set of interdisciplinary perspectives, the seminar explores the range of academic work on sound to examine the relationship between sound and listening, sound and perception, sound and memory, and sound and modern thought. Topics addressed include but are not limited to sound technologies and industries, acoustic perception, sound and image relations, sound in media, philosophies of listening, sound semiotics, speech and communication, voice and subject formation, sound art, the social history of noise, and hearing cultures.
- Spring 2026
- 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 320.01 Spring 2026
- Faculty:Jay Beck 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WWeitz Center 133 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 2025
- 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 370.01 Fall 2025
- Faculty:Rini Matea 🏫 👤
- Size:10
- T, THWeitz Center 136 3:10pm-4:55pm
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Extra Time Required
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 2026
- 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 371.01 Winter 2026
- Faculty:Catherine Licata 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THWeitz Center 133 3:10pm-4:55pm