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Your search for courses · during 2023-24 · tagged with CAMS 200 Level History · returned 5 results
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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
- Fall 2017, Spring 2019, Fall 2020, Fall 2021
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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CAMS 210.00 Fall 2017
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 133 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWeitz Center 133 12:00pm-1:00pm
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CAMS 210.00 Spring 2019
- Faculty:Carol Donelan 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWeitz Center 132 10:10am-11:55am
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CAMS 210.00 Fall 2020
- Faculty:Carol Donelan 🏫 👤
- Size:28
- M, WLocation To Be Announced TBA 10:00am-11:10am
- FLocation To Be Announced TBA 9:50am-10:50am
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CAMS 210.00 Fall 2021
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 132 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FWeitz Center 132 1:10pm-2:10pm
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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.
- Spring 2018, Spring 2020, Winter 2022, Fall 2022, Winter 2024
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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CAMS 211.00 Spring 2018
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 132 9:50am-11:00am
- FWeitz Center 132 9:40am-10:40am
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CAMS 211.00 Spring 2020
- Faculty:Carol Donelan 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWeitz Center 132 1:15pm-3:00pm
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CAMS 211.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 132 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FWeitz Center 132 1:10pm-2:10pm
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CAMS 211.00 Fall 2022
- Faculty:Carol Donelan 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWeitz Center 132 1:15pm-3:00pm
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CAMS 211.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 133 9:50am-11:00am
- FWeitz Center 133 9:40am-10:40am
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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. Evening Screenings.
- Winter 2017, Winter 2019, Winter 2020, Winter 2021, Winter 2023, Spring 2024
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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CAMS 214.00 Winter 2017
- Faculty:Jay Beck 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWeitz Center 133 10:10am-11:55am
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CAMS 214.00 Winter 2019
- Faculty:Jay Beck 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 133 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWeitz Center 133 12:00pm-1:00pm
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CAMS 214.00 Winter 2020
- Faculty:Jay Beck 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 132 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FWeitz Center 132 1:10pm-2:10pm
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CAMS 214.00 Winter 2021
- Faculty:Jay Beck 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLocation To Be Announced TBA 1:00pm-2:10pm
- FLocation To Be Announced TBA 1:50pm-2:50pm
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CAMS 214.00 Winter 2023
- 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 214.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 133 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWeitz Center 133 12:00pm-1:00pm
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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
- Fall 2019, Spring 2022, Fall 2023
- Intercultural Domestic Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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CAMS 215.00 Fall 2019
- Faculty:Candace Moore 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 133 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWeitz Center 133 12:00pm-1:00pm
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CAMS 215.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 132 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWeitz Center 132 12:00pm-1:00pm
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CAMS 215.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Candace Moore 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 132 9:50am-11:00am
- FWeitz Center 132 9:40am-10:40am
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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
- Winter 2017, Winter 2018, Winter 2019, Winter 2021, Winter 2022, Winter 2023
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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CAMS 246.00 Winter 2017
- Faculty:Cecilia Cornejo 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 132 9:50am-11:00am
- FWeitz Center 132 9:40am-10:40am
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CAMS 246.00 Winter 2018
- Faculty:Cecilia Cornejo 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 132 9:50am-11:00am
- FWeitz Center 132 9:40am-10:40am
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CAMS 246.00 Winter 2019
- Faculty:Cecilia Cornejo 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 133 9:50am-11:00am
- FWeitz Center 133 9:40am-10:40am
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CAMS 246.00 Winter 2021
- Faculty:Cecilia Cornejo 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLocation To Be Announced TBA 10:20am-12:05pm
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CAMS 246.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty:Cecilia Cornejo 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWeitz Center 132 10:10am-11:55am
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CAMS 246.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty:Cecilia Cornejo 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWeitz Center 132 10:10am-11:55am