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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 melodrama, the western, the musical, 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 one evening screening per week.
Held for new first year students, Extra time
- Fall 2019, Fall 2023
- Argument and Inquiry Seminar Intercultural Domestic Studies Writing Requirement
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CAMS 100.00 Fall 2019
- Faculty:Carol Donelan 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WWeitz Center 231 9:50am-11:00am
- FWeitz Center 231 9:40am-10:40am
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CAMS 100.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Carol Donelan 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WWeitz Center 231 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FWeitz Center 231 2:20pm-3:20pm
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CAMS 100 Media & Misinformation 6 credits
While the relationship between media and misinformation is not new, rapid technological change, including the emergence of major social media platforms, has resulted in an information environment where we are constantly confronted by conspiracy theories, manipulated statistics, doctored images, hyperpartisan clickbait, questionable ‘research’ studies, and everything in between. Left unchecked, this flow of misinformation can exacerbate social inequalities and undermine trust in the foundations of a democratic society. This course explores how misinformation spreads across a variety of networked media channels and examines the technical, social, and economic structures that enable this spread. Using current events to ground our inquiry, we will investigate topics such as algorithmic bias and recommendation systems; the evolution of conspiracy theories; memes and visual disinformation; media manipulation tactics; and the cultural capital of social media influencers. We will also develop best practices that can help orient us within our increasingly polluted information environment.
Held for new first year students
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CAMS 100.00 Fall 2021
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:15
- M, WWeitz Center 132 9:50am-11:00am
- FWeitz Center 132 9:40am-10:40am
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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, extra time, evening screens
- Fall 2020, Fall 2022
- Argument and Inquiry Seminar Intercultural Domestic Studies Writing Requirement
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CAMS 100.00 Fall 2020
- Faculty:Jay Beck 🏫 👤
- Size:14
- M, WLocation To Be Announced TBA 7:00pm-8:10pm
- FLocation To Be Announced TBA 7:00pm-8:00pm
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CAMS 100.00 Fall 2022
- Faculty:Jay Beck 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THWeitz Center 136 1:15pm-3:00pm
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CAMS 175 Studio Filmmaking 6 credits
This course will explore the techniques and formal filmmaking strategies that can be employed when working on a soundstage, as well as a grounding in the historical uses of studio filmmaking. Topics will include lighting, set design, blocking/performance, and cinematography with an eye towards how these tools can be deployed in a controlled environment. Students will gain an understanding of the technical and creative tools at their disposal in a studio setting, as well as the ways these tools may be applied for a broader filmmaking practice.
- Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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CAMS 175.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Noah Schamus 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WWeitz Center 136 12:30pm-3:00pm
- M, WWeitz Center 040 12:30pm-3:00pm
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CAMS 177 Television Studio Production 6 credits
In this hands-on studio television production course, students learn professional studio methods and techniques for creating both fiction and nonfiction television programs. Concepts include lighting and set design, blocking actors, directing cameras, composition, switching, sound recording and scripting. Students work in teams to produce four assignments, crewing for each other’s productions in front of and behind the camera, in the control room, and in post-production.
Extra Time
- Winter 2017, Fall 2017, Winter 2018, Fall 2018, Winter 2019, Fall 2019, Winter 2020, Fall 2021, Winter 2022, Fall 2022, Winter 2023
- Arts Practice
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CAMS 177.00 Winter 2017
- Faculty:Paul Hager 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THWeitz Center 133 1:15pm-3:00pm
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CAMS 177.00 Fall 2017
- Faculty:Paul Hager 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THWeitz Center 133 3:10pm-4:55pm
- T, THWeitz Center 040 3:10pm-4:55pm
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CAMS 177.00 Winter 2018
- Faculty:Paul Hager 🏫 👤
- Size:18
- T, THWeitz Center 133 1:15pm-3:00pm
- T, THWeitz Center 040 1:15pm-3:00pm
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CAMS 177.00 Fall 2018
- Faculty:Paul Hager 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WWeitz Center 136 8:30am-11:00am
- M, WWeitz Center 040 8:30am-11:00am
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CAMS 177.00 Winter 2019
- Faculty:Paul Hager 🏫 👤
- Size:18
- M, WWeitz Center 231 12:30pm-3:00pm
- M, WWeitz Center 040 12:30pm-3:00pm
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CAMS 177.00 Fall 2019
- Faculty:Paul Hager 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WWeitz Center 136 8:30am-11:00am
- M, WWeitz Center 040 8:30am-11:00am
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CAMS 177.00 Winter 2020
- Faculty:Paul Hager 🏫 👤
- Size:18
- M, WWeitz Center 136 8:30am-11:00am
- M, WWeitz Center 040 8:30am-11:00am
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CAMS 177.00 Fall 2021
- Faculty:Paul Hager 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WWeitz Center 136 8:30am-11:00am
- M, WWeitz Center 040 8:30am-11:00am
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CAMS 177.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty:Paul Hager 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WWeitz Center 136 8:30am-11:00am
- M, WWeitz Center 040 8:30am-11:00am
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CAMS 177.00 Fall 2022
- Faculty:Alexa Feeney 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WWeitz Center 136 8:30am-11:00am
- M, WWeitz Center 040 8:30am-11:00am
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CAMS 177.00 Winter 2023
- Size:15
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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, Evening screenings
- Spring 2017, Spring 2019, Fall 2022, Winter 2024
- Literary/Artistic Analysis Writing Requirement
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CAMS 186.00 Spring 2017
- Faculty:Carol Donelan 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- T, THWeitz Center 132 1:15pm-3:00pm
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Sophomore Priority, Extra Time
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CAMS 186.00 Spring 2019
- Faculty:Carol Donelan 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WWeitz Center 132 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWeitz Center 132 12:00pm-1:00pm
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CAMS 186.00 Fall 2022
- Faculty:Carol Donelan 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 132 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FWeitz Center 132 2:20pm-3:20pm
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CAMS 186.00 Winter 2024
- 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
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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, evening screenings
- Winter 2021, Spring 2023
- Literary/Artistic Analysis Writing Requirement
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CAMS 187.00 Winter 2021
- Faculty:Candace Moore 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLocation To Be Announced TBA 7:00pm-8:45pm
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CAMS 187.00 Spring 2023
- Faculty:Candace Moore 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- T, THWeitz Center 233 8:15am-10:00am
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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 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
- Spring 2018, Spring 2022
- Intercultural Domestic Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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CAMS 216.00 Spring 2018
- Faculty:Jay Beck 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWeitz Center 132 10:10am-11:55am
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CAMS 216.00 Spring 2022
- 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 218 Contemporary Global Cinemas 6 credits
This course is designed as a critical study of global filmmakers and the issues surrounding cinema and its circulation in the twenty-first century. The class will emphasize the close reading of films to study different cultural discourses, cinematic styles, genres, and reception. It will look at national, transnational, and diasporic-exilic cinema to consider how films express both cultural forms and contexts. Aesthetic, social, political, and industrial issues also will be examined each week to provide different approaches for cinematic analysis.
Extra Time Required, evening screenings
- Spring 2023
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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CAMS 218.00 Spring 2023
- 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 219 African Cinema: A Quest for Identity and Self-Definition 6 credits
Born as a response to the colonial gaze and discourse, African cinema has been a deliberate effort to affirm and express an African personality and consciousness. Focusing on the film production from West and Southern Africa since the early fifties, this course will entail a discussion of major themes such as colonialism, nationalism and independence, and the analysis of African symbolisms, world-views, and their links to narrative techniques. In this overview, particular attention will be given to the films of Ousmane Sembène, Souleymane Cissé, Mweze Ngangura, Zola Maseko, Oliver Schmitz, Abderrahmane Sissako and many others.
Extra Time
- Spring 2017, Spring 2024
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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CAMS 219.00 Spring 2017
- Faculty:Chérif Keïta 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 132 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FWeitz Center 132 1:10pm-2:10pm
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CAMS 219.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Chérif Keïta 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 231 9:50am-11:00am
- FWeitz Center 231 9:40am-10:40am
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CAMS 222 Collaborative Narrative Filmmaking 6 credits
Narrative films are the product of many specialized 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. Through the term, we will move through film development, pre-production, production, post-production, and distribution with each student taking on a specific role in a group project. The term culminates in the exhibition of films that were made over the previous 10 weeks.
Extra Time
- Fall 2022, Fall 2023
- Arts Practice
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Cinema and Media Studies 111
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CAMS 222.00 Fall 2022
- Faculty:Catherine Licata 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WWeitz Center 136 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FWeitz Center 136 2:20pm-3:20pm
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CAMS 222.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Catherine Licata 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THWeitz Center 231 3:10pm-4:55pm
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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 chocked full of tough guys and bad women lurking in the shadows of nasty urban landscapes. This course focuses on classic as well as neo-noir from a variety of perspectives, including genre and mode, visual style and narrative structure, postwar culture and politics, and gender and race.
Extra Time required. Evening Screenings.
- Fall 2017, Fall 2020, Winter 2023, Spring 2024
- Intercultural Domestic Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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CAMS 225.00 Fall 2017
- Faculty:Carol Donelan 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWeitz Center 132 1:15pm-3:00pm
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CAMS 225.00 Fall 2020
- Faculty:Carol Donelan 🏫 👤
- Size:28
- T, THLocation To Be Announced TBA 1:45pm-3:30pm
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CAMS 225.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty:Carol Donelan 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWeitz Center 132 1:15pm-3:00pm
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CAMS 225.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Carol Donelan 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 132 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FWeitz Center 132 2:20pm-3:20pm
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CAMS 228 Avant-Garde and Experimental Cinema 6 credits
This course examines the history and theory of avant-garde and experimental cinema practices from the 1920s to the present, focusing upon radical innovations in style and technique. The course places particular emphasis on the social and historical contexts that have shaped alternative and underground film movements. Attention will be paid not only to the influence of parallel modern art movements, but the ways in which filmmakers have challenged conventional means of production, exhibition, and distribution. Topics include city symphonies, abstraction, found footage, seriality, Surrealism, psychedelia, experimental documentaries, video art, essay films, feminist critiques, and the transition from analogue to digital. Requirements include class attendance and participation, readings, evening film screenings, and various written assignments.
Extra time, evening film screenings
- Winter 2024
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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CAMS 228.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 233 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FWeitz Center 233 1:10pm-2:10pm
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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.
Requires participation in OCS Program: Film, Literature, and Culture in Mumbai and Seoul
- Winter 2024
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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Participation in the Film, Literature and Culture in Mumbai and Seoul OCS 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.
Requires participation in OCS Program: Film, Literature, and Culture in Mumbai and Seoul
- Winter 2024
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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Participation in the Film, Literature and Culture in Mumbai and Seoul OCS 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. Evening Screenings.
- Spring 2022
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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CAMS 236.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty:Stacy Beckwith 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 133 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FWeitz Center 133 1:10pm-2:10pm
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CAMS 245 The Essay Film 6 credits
This course explores a hybrid cinematic genre whose critical and creative energies spring from the collision of traditionally separated spheres: documentary and fiction, text and image, private and public, reason and intuition. We focus on the intersection where creative practice and intellectual inquiry meet through theoretical readings, film screenings, and the fulfillment of various production exercises aimed at the production of original film work. Screenings include works by Carmen Castillo, Chris Marker, Ignacio Agüero, Jem Cohen, Agnés Varda, Harun Farocki, Jonas Mekas, and other filmmakers who have explored this hybrid form.
Extra Time required, evening screenings
- Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2022, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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Cinema and Media Studies 111
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CAMS 245.00 Spring 2019
- Faculty:Cecilia Cornejo 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THWeitz Center 132 3:10pm-4:55pm
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CAMS 245.00 Spring 2020
- Faculty:Cecilia Cornejo 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THWeitz Center 138 3:10pm-4:55pm
- T, THWeitz Center 133 3:10pm-4:55pm
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CAMS 245.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty:Cecilia Cornejo 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THWeitz Center 133 10:10am-11:55am
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CAMS 245.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Cecilia Cornejo 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THWeitz Center 133 1:15pm-3:00pm
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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
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CAMS 252 Media Archaeology: History and Theory of New Media 6 credits
This course offers a historical survey of developments in media technology from the nineteenth century to the present day. Particular attention will be given to the ways in which moving images, video games, computers, tape recorders, videocassettes, photography, the internet, virtual reality, and artificial intelligence have been instrumental in shaping human interaction and augmenting the senses. Individual units will examine how the origins of our contemporary media culture can be traced back to earlier—often obsolete—formats and technologies. Weekly screenings will demonstrate how filmmakers have grappled with the cultural and social impacts of emerging technologies. Requirements include attendance and participation, readings, and various written assignments.
Extra time for evening screenings
- Spring 2024
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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CAMS 252.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 132 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FWeitz Center 132 1:10pm-2:10pm
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CAMS 254 Cinematic Spectacle 6 credits
This course traces developments in film technology from the nineteenth century to the present-day information age. Individual units will consider the ways in which technical and aesthetic innovations have further bolstered cinema’s status as a medium of mass entertainment. Particular attention will be given to immersive formats that have inaugurated seismic shifts in cinematic storytelling. Topics will include special effects, CinemaScope, Cinerama, Technicolor, World’s Fairs, theme parks, 3-D cinema, the emergence of the Hollywood blockbuster, IMAX, expanded cinema, digital cinematography, and computer-generated imagery. Requirements include attendance and participation, weekly screenings, readings, and various written assignments.
Extra time
- Fall 2023
- Literary/Artistic Analysis
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CAMS 254.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 136 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWeitz Center 136 12:00pm-1:00pm
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CAMS 257 Video Games and Identity 6 credits
As video games have emerged as a dominant cultural form, they have become deeply intertwined with broader cultural debates around identity. By analyzing a variety of specific games as well as the industry that creates them and the communities who play them, we will think through topics such as liberal multiculturalism, neoliberal capitalism, feminism, queerness, ethical design, the military-entertainment complex, GamerGate, and discourses of political correctness. This course will avoid categorizing games as having “positive” or “negative” social effects and will instead focus on how video games function as a window into issues of identity in U.S. culture.
- Winter 2018, Winter 2022
- Literary/Artistic Analysis
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CAMS 257.00 Winter 2018
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 132 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FWeitz Center 132 1:10pm-2:10pm
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CAMS 257.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty: Staff
- 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 Media 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.
- Spring 2020, Fall 2022
- Intercultural Domestic Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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CAMS 258.00 Spring 2020
- Faculty:Candace Moore 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- T, THWeitz Center 132 3:10pm-4:55pm
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Extra time required, evening screenings
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CAMS 258.00 Fall 2022
- Faculty:Candace Moore 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- T, THWeitz Center 132 10:10am-11:55am
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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.
- Spring 2018, Winter 2020, Spring 2022, Winter 2023
- Arts Practice
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Cinema and Media Studies 111 or instructor permission
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CAMS 265.00 Spring 2018
- Faculty:Jay Beck 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WWeitz Center 138 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWeitz Center 138 12:00pm-1:00pm
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CAMS 265.00 Winter 2020
- 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 265.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty:Jay Beck 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WWeitz Center 138 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FWeitz Center 138 2:20pm-3:20pm
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CAMS 265.00 Winter 2023
- 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 CCCE and local organizations. The class culminates in the production of a significant independent nonfiction media project.
Extra Time
- Fall 2017, Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Fall 2022, Fall 2023
- Arts Practice
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Cinema and Media Studies 111 or instructor consent
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CAMS 270.00 Fall 2017
- Faculty:Laska Jimsen 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THWeitz Center 231 3:10pm-4:55pm
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CAMS 270.00 Fall 2018
- Faculty:Laska Jimsen 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THWeitz Center 231 1:15pm-3:00pm
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CAMS 270.00 Fall 2019
- Faculty:Laska Jimsen 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THWeitz Center 233 10:10am-11:55am
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CAMS 270.00 Fall 2020
- Faculty:Laska Jimsen 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THLocation To Be Announced TBA 10:20am-12:05pm
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CAMS 270.00 Fall 2021
- Faculty:Laska Jimsen 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THWeitz Center 133 10:10am-11:55am
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CAMS 270.00 Fall 2022
- Faculty:Laska Jimsen 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THWeitz Center 133 10:10am-11:55am
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CAMS 270.00 Fall 2023
- 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.
Extra Time required
- Spring 2017, Winter 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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Cinema and Media Studies 111 and one additional Cinema and Media Studies course, or instructor permission
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CAMS 271.00 Spring 2017
- Faculty:Catherine Licata 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THWeitz Center 136 10:10am-11:55am
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Extra Time
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CAMS 271.00 Winter 2018
- Faculty:Catherine Licata 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THWeitz Center 132 3:10pm-4:55pm
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CAMS 271.00 Spring 2019
- Faculty:Catherine Licata 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THWeitz Center 133 1:15pm-3:00pm
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CAMS 271.00 Spring 2020
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:15
- T, THWeitz Center 136 10:10am-11:55am
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CAMS 271.00 Spring 2021
- Faculty:Catherine Licata 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THLocation To Be Announced TBA 10:20am-12:05pm
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CAMS 271.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty:Catherine Licata 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THWeitz Center 132 1:15pm-3:00pm
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CAMS 271.00 Spring 2023
- Faculty:Catherine Licata 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THWeitz Center 132 1:15pm-3:00pm
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CAMS 271.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Noah Schamus 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THWeitz Center 133 3:10pm-4:55pm
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CAMS 273 Digital Editing Workshop 6 credits
This course introduces students to the art of motion picture editing by combining theoretical and aesthetic study with hands-on work using the non-linear digital video editing software Adobe Premiere. We explore graphic, temporal, spatial, rhythmic and aural relationships in a variety of moving image forms including classical narrative continuity and documentary storytelling. Underscoring the strong links between concept, direction, shooting, and editing, this course examines the close ties between production and post-production. Through editing assignments and class critique, students develop expressive techniques and proficiency in basic video and sound editing and post-production workflow.
- Winter 2018, Winter 2020, Winter 2024
- Arts Practice
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CAMS 273.00 Winter 2018
- Faculty:Catherine Licata 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THWeitz Center 138 1:15pm-3:00pm
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CAMS 273.00 Winter 2020
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:15
- T, THWeitz Center 132 3:10pm-4:55pm
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CAMS 273.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Noah Schamus 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THWeitz Center 138 3:10pm-4:55pm
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CAMS 278 Writing for Television 6 credits
TV is a very specific, time-driven medium. Using examples from scripts and DVDs, students will learn how to write for an existing TV show, keeping in mind character consistency, pacing, tone, and compelling storylines. Students will also get a taste of what it’s like to be part of a writing staff as the class itself creates an episode from scratch. Topics such as creating the TV pilot, marketing, agents, managers, and more will be discussed. Finally, general storytelling tools such as creating better dialogue, developing fully-rounded characters, making scene work more exciting, etc., will also be addressed.
- Spring 2018, Fall 2019, Winter 2022, Winter 2024
- Arts Practice Writing Requirement
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Cinema and Media Studies 110 or 111 or instructor permission
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CAMS 278.00 Spring 2018
- Faculty:Andrew Rosendorf 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THWeitz Center 136 8:15am-10:00am
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CAMS 278.00 Fall 2019
- Faculty:Andrew Rosendorf 🏫 👤
- Size:18
- T, THWeitz Center 136 8:15am-10:00am
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CAMS 278.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty:Andrew Rosendorf 🏫 👤
- Size:18
- T, THWeitz Center 136 8:15am-10:00am
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Winter 2022: CAMS 278 will be offered as a hybrid course, with fewer than 50% of classes held over Zoom and the majority of classes in-person.
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CAMS 278.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Andrew Rosendorf 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THWeitz Center 136 10:10am-11:55am
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CAMS 279 Screenwriting 6 credits
This course teaches students the fundamentals of screenwriting. Topics include understanding film structure, writing solid dialogue, creating dimensional characters, and establishing dramatic situations. Art, craft, theory, form, content, concept, genre, narrative strategies and storytelling tools are discussed. Students turn in weekly assignments, starting with short scenes and problems and then moving on to character work, synopses, outlines, pitches and more. The goal is for each student to write a 15 to 25 page script for a short film by the end of the term.
- Spring 2017, Fall 2017, Fall 2018, Fall 2020, Winter 2023
- Arts Practice
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Cinema and Media Studies 110 or 111 or instructor permission
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CAMS 279.00 Spring 2017
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- T, THWeitz Center 133 8:15am-10:00am
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CAMS 279.00 Fall 2017
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:18
- T, THWeitz Center 136 8:15am-10:00am
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CAMS 279.00 Fall 2018
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:18
- T, THWeitz Center 136 8:15am-10:00am
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CAMS 279.00 Fall 2020
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:18
- T, THLocation To Be Announced TBA 8:15am-10:00am
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CAMS 279.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:18
- T, THWeitz Center 136 8:15am-10:00am
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CAMS 280 Advanced Screenwriting 6 credits
Topic: Advanced Writing for Television. This is an intensive writing practicum for motivated students to complete a well-structured original television pilot. The course will explore dramatic structure, character motivation and action, and the complex interplay between plot and character. Students will refine their tools for television writing as they develop and revise their pilot’s logline, tone, stakes, theme, and more. Over ten weeks students will move from concept to outline and then to a full draft of their original pilot. Weekly feedback provides students with an honest evaluation of their material in a dynamic and supportive environment.
- Spring 2021, Spring 2023
- Arts Practice Writing Requirement
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Cinema and Media Studies 264, 278 or 279, or instructor consent
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CAMS 280.00 Spring 2021
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:12
- T, THLocation To Be Announced TBA 8:15am-10:00am
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CAMS 280.00 Spring 2023
- Faculty:Bob Daily 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THWeitz Center 136 3:10pm-4:55pm
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CAMS 288 Experimental Film & Video Production 6 credits
A process-based production course focused on the conceptual and technical concerns of experimental film, video, and other time-based arts. We will explore the personal, cultural, political, and formal/aesthetic aspects of experimental media through readings, writings, screenings, and the production of experimental media projects. Key course concerns include medium specificity and relationships between sound and image, form and content, and theory and practice. We will consider “experimental” as a working practice rather than a genre–a way of testing hypotheses and a process of discovery.
Extra Time
- Spring 2018, Spring 2023
- Arts Practice
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Prerequisite: Cinema and Media Studies 111 and one additional Cinema and Media Studies course or instructor permission
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CAMS 288.00 Spring 2018
- Faculty:Laska Jimsen 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THWeitz Center 231 1:15pm-3:00pm
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CAMS 288.00 Spring 2023
- Faculty:Laska Jimsen 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THWeitz Center 136 10:10am-11:55am
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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 2017, Winter 2018, Spring 2020, Fall 2021
- Literary/Artistic Analysis
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Cinema and Media Studies 110 or instructor permission
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CAMS 320.00 Spring 2017
- Faculty:Jay Beck 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WWeitz Center 136 1:50pm-3:35pm
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CAMS 320.00 Winter 2018
- Faculty:Jay Beck 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WWeitz Center 136 1:50pm-3:35pm
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CAMS 320.00 Spring 2020
- Faculty:Jay Beck 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WWeitz Center 136 1:50pm-3:35pm
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CAMS 320.00 Fall 2021
- Faculty:Jay Beck 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WWeitz Center 136 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FWeitz Center 136 2:20pm-3:20pm
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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.
- Winter 2017, Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Winter 2020, Spring 2022, Spring 2023
- Literary/Artistic Analysis
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Cinema and Media Studies 110 or instructor permission
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CAMS 330.00 Winter 2017
- Faculty:Carol Donelan 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WWeitz Center 132 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWeitz Center 132 12:00pm-1:00pm
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CAMS 330.00 Spring 2018
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:15
- M, WWeitz Center 132 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FWeitz Center 132 1:10pm-2:10pm
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CAMS 330.00 Fall 2018
- Faculty:Carol Donelan 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WWeitz Center 132 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWeitz Center 132 12:00pm-1:00pm
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CAMS 330.00 Winter 2020
- Faculty:Carol Donelan 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WWeitz Center 132 1:50pm-3:35pm
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CAMS 330.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:15
- T, THWeitz Center 132 3:15pm-4:55pm
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CAMS 330.00 Spring 2023
- 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 340 Television Studies Seminar 6 credits
This seminar aims to develop students into savvy critical theorists of television, knowledgeable about the field, and capable of challenging previous scholarship to invent new paradigms. The first half of the course surveys texts foundational to television studies while the second half focuses primarily on television theory and criticism produced over the last two decades. Television Studies covers a spectrum of approaches to thinking and writing critically about television, including: semiotics; ideological critique; cultural studies; genre and narrative theories; audience studies; production studies; and scholarship positioning post-network television within the contexts of media convergence and digital media.
- Spring 2021, Spring 2024
- Literary/Artistic Analysis
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Cinema and Media Studies 110 or instructor permission
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CAMS 340.00 Spring 2021
- Faculty:Candace Moore 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THLocation To Be Announced TBA 1:45pm-3:30pm
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CAMS 340.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Candace Moore 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THWeitz Center 132 10:10am-11:55am
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CAMS 370 Advanced Production Workshop 6 credits
Working in a variety of genres and technical formats, students design, test, and execute an in-depth, individual media project during the course of the term. Students are expected to work at advanced technical and conceptual levels to expand specific skills and aesthetics. Weekly class critiques will help students develop formal approaches, audio and visual language, and work flows specific to their projects. As students enter the production and post-production phases, further critiques will help them shape their material for the greatest, most precise expression. Students may enroll in this course multiple times. Prior to registering for the course, students must submit a project proposal to the instructor. Please contact instructor for further information. Final enrollment is based on the quality of the proposal.
Extra Time, Instructor Consent required, Waitlist only
- Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Fall 2019, Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Fall 2022, Fall 2023
- Arts Practice
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Cinema and Media Studies 111, and either Cinema and Media Studies 270 or 271 or instructor consent
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CAMS 370.00 Spring 2017
- Faculty:Laska Jimsen 🏫 👤
- T, THWeitz Center 136 3:10pm-4:55pm
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CAMS 370.00 Spring 2018
- Faculty:Catherine Licata 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WWeitz Center 132 1:50pm-3:35pm
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CAMS 370.00 Fall 2019
- Faculty:Laska Jimsen 🏫 👤
- M, WWeitz Center 231 1:50pm-3:35pm
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CAMS 370.00 Fall 2020
- Faculty:Laska Jimsen 🏫 👤
- T, THLocation To Be Announced TBA 7:00pm-8:45pm
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CAMS 370.00 Fall 2021
- Faculty:Laska Jimsen 🏫 👤
- T, THWeitz Center 133 1:15pm-3:00pm
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CAMS 370.00 Fall 2022
- Faculty:Catherine Licata 🏫 👤
- M, WWeitz Center 132 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FWeitz Center 132 1:10pm-2:10pm
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CAMS 370.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Catherine Licata 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THWeitz Center 133 1:15pm-3:00pm
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CAMS 371 Senior Production Workshop 6 credits
Senior Production Workshop is taken in conjunction with CAMS 400 for students competing 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. Prior to registering for the course, students must submit a project proposal to the instructor. Please contact instructor for further information. Final enrollment is based on the quality of the proposal.
Project Proposal required, Extra Time
- Fall 2018, Winter 2020, Winter 2021, Winter 2022, Winter 2023, Winter 2024
- Arts Practice
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Cinema and Media Studies 370 or instructor consent
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CAMS 371.00 Fall 2018
- Faculty:Laska Jimsen 🏫 👤
- M, WWeitz Center 231 1:50pm-3:35pm
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CAMS 371.00 Winter 2020
- Faculty:Laska Jimsen 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THWeitz Center 136 1:15pm-3:00pm
- T, THWeitz Center 138 1:15pm-3:00pm
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CAMS 371.00 Winter 2021
- Faculty:Catherine Licata 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THLocation To Be Announced TBA 10:20am-12:05pm
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CAMS 371.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty:Catherine Licata 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THWeitz Center 132 1:15pm-3:00pm
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CAMS 371.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty:Laska Jimsen 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WWeitz Center 132 1:50pm-3:35pm
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CAMS 371.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Laska Jimsen 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THWeitz Center 133 1:15pm-3:00pm
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HIST 220 From Blackface to Blaxploitation: Black History and/in Film 6 credits
This course focuses on the representation of African American history in popular US-American movies. It will introduce students to the field of visual history, using cinema as a primary source. Through films from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, the seminar will analyze African American history, (pop-)cultural depictions, and memory culture. We will discuss subjects, narrative arcs, stylistic choices, production design, performative and film industry practices, and historical receptions of movies. The topics include slavery, racial segregation and white supremacy, the Black Freedom Movement, controversies and conflicts in Black communities, Black LGBTQIA+ history, ghettoization and police brutality, Black feminism, and Afrofuturism.
- Winter 2023, Spring 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry Intercultural Domestic Studies Writing Requirement
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HIST 220.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty:Rebecca Brueckmann 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 426 10:10am-11:55am
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HIST 220.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Rebecca Brueckmann 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 426 10:10am-11:55am