Lecture and discussion. Priority given to declared film majors. Fee: $75. Basic principles of film study--film aesthetics (mise-en-scene, cinematography, editing, sound); film history (interaction of historical, economic, ideological, and technological determinants); film theory (realism, cinema specificity, relationship of film to other arts); and film criticism (feminist, Marxist, structuralist, semiotic, psychoanalytic, auteurist, and generic approaches).Discussion Section Required.

Film screening, lecture, and discussion. Fee: $75. Documentary film from the late 1890s to the mid-1980s. Attention focuses on the documentary as a means of either supporting or attacking the status quo, on the relationship between the creators and consumers, on claims to truth and objectivity, and on how new technology influences the oldest form of filmmaking.

Discussion Section Required.

Prerequisites: FILM W4098.

Fee: $75. Exercises in the use of video for fiction shorts. For film majors only.

Prerequisites: Film W3001.

Fee: $75. Survey of the early history of film aesthetics and technology, including the impact of Griffith and Eisenstein, German Expressionism, the French avant-garde, the consolidation of Hollywood, the relationship between film and theatre, changing approaches to performance, and the place of women and minorities in early cinema.Discussion Section Required.

Prerequisites: FILM W3001.

Film screening, lecture, and discussion. Priority given to declared film majors. Fee: $75. Stylistic and thematic development from the dawn of the sound film through World War II and beyond in German, French, Italian, Japanese, and Scandinavian cinema. Key works by Pagnol, Renoir, Lang, Vigo, Rossellini, Dreyer, Ophnls, Fellini, Bergman, Kurosawa, Mizoguchi, and Ozu.

Discussion Section Required.

Prerequisites: FILM W3001.

Lecture and discussion. Fee: $50. The dramatic and cinematic principles of screen storytelling, including dramaturgy, character and plot development, use of camera, staging, casting, sound, editing, and music. Diverse narrative techniques, story patterns, dramatic structures, and artistic and genre forms are discussed, and students do screenwriting exercises.Discussion Section Required.

Prerequisite: FILM W3001. Fee: $50. An introduction to classical film theory, from its beginnings to the early structuralist work of Christian Metz.Discussion Section Required.

Prerequisites: FILM W3001 or W3100.

Fee: $50. Course content changes yearly.

Discussion Section Required.

Lecture and discussion. Priority given to declared film majors. Fee: $75. Basic principles of film study--film aesthetics (mise-en-scene, cinematography, editing, sound); film history (interaction of historical, economic, ideological, and technological determinants); film theory (realism, cinema specificity, relationship of film to other arts); and film criticism (feminist, Marxist, structuralist, semiotic, psychoanalytic, auteurist, and generic approaches).Discussion Section Required.

Prerequisites: FILM W3050.

Fee: $75. Exercises in the use of video for documentary shorts. Only for film majors who have taken "The Documentary Tradition."

Prerequisites: FILM W4098.

Fee: $75. Exercises in the use of video for fiction shorts. For film majors only.

Fee: $75. Priority given to film majors. A survey of masterpieces of the American sound film with a focus on genres including the gangster film, Western, screwball comedy, and musical. Personal directorial styles and cultural contexts are explored in the work of Hawks, Ford, Welles, Lubitsch, Kazan, Wilder, and Kubrick.

Discussion Section Required.

Prerequisites: Film W3001 or W3100.

Fee: $75. Priority given to film majors and seniors. American Film History from l960 - 90.

Discussion Section Required.

Prerequisites: FILM W3001.

Film screening, lecture, and discussion. Priority given to declared film majors and seniors. Fee: $75. The Nouvelle Vague and beyond, from Paris to the Pacific Rim, and the first revolutionary stirrings from Russia, Eastern Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East. Stylistic and thematic developments in the works of Godard, Antonioni, Jancso, Rocha, and Kiarostami.

Discussion Section Required.

Prerequisites: FILM W3001 or W3100.

Fee: $75. Film screening, lecture, and discussion. Course content changes yearly. The Hollywood "film noir" emerged in the 1940s as a creative force in the cinema. Films to be studied include "Laura," "Double Indemnity," "The Big Sleep," "Out of the Past," "Force of Evil" and "In a Lonely Place."Discussion Section Required.

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.

Prospective students must submit writing samples by November l5. Students evaluate classical and current film criticism, with special attention paid to the rise of independent cinema and sociological film criticism. Students write brief reviews for each session.

Prerequisites: FILM W3001 or W3100.

Fee: $50. Course content changes yearly.

Discussion Section Required.

Prerequisites: FILM W3001.

Priority given to declared film majors and seniors. Fee: $50.

Survey of major films and filmmakers, with special emphasis on the relationships between these national cinema and non-regional film styles and forms of narration. Directors include Youssef Chahine, Mohammad Malas, Ousmane Sembene, and Souleymane Cisse.Discussion Section Required.

Prerequisites: FILM W3001.

Fee: $50. A survey of the history of producing in the U.S. from pre-Hollywood filmmaking to the poststudio era of independent producers, agency packaging, and industry conglomerates. Hollywood producers such as Thomas Ince, Jesse Lasky, Irving Thalberg, David O. Selznick, and Dore Schary are considered. Emphasis is also placed on independent productions as an alternative method of filmmaking.

Discussion Section Required.