01:354:201 Introduction to Film (3) Film study, with emphasis on basic concepts of film analysis (narrative, editing, mise-en-scène, and sound) and the historical development of cinema as an institution.

01:354:202 Introduction to Film (3) Film study, with emphasis on commercial cinema as an institution (genres, directors, and stars) and on nonnarrative types of film (documentary, experimental).

01:354:210 Close Readings of Cinema (3) Formal analyses of six or seven individual films; emphasis on visual track, sound track, and scenario-narrative construction.

01:354:308 Screenwriting (3) Nature and theory of the screenplay; practice in writing for the screen, from short scenes to longer projects.

01:354:312 Cinema and the Arts (3) Relationship between film and aesthetic movements in literature and the arts, such as expressionism, cubism, futurism, constructivism, and surrealism.

01:354:315 American Cinema I (3) American film from the silent period to 1940; emphasis on the development of American cinema both as a social institution and a symbolic form.

01:354:316 American Cinema II (3) American film from 1940 to the present; emphasis on the height of the Hollywood studio and its decline in the late 1950s and 1960s.

01:354:320 World Cinema I (3) Developments in French, Italian, British, Russian, and other national cinemas from 1896 to World War II; also examines cross-influences between foreign and American cinema. Credit not given for both this course and 01:195:320 or 01:175:320.

01:354:321 World Cinema II (3) Developments in French, Italian, British, Russian, Japanese, and other national cinemas after World War II; also examines cross-influences between foreign and American cinema. Credit not given for both this course and 01:195:321 or 01:175:321.

01:354:330,331 Critical Methodology in Film (3,3) Critical methodology, reviewing genre theory, theories of authorship, Marxist, feminist, cultural-materialist, and psychoanalytic criticism as applied to film.

01:354:350,351 Major Filmmakers (3,3) Questions of meaning in film through the work of such major directors as Ford, Renoir, Hawks, Ophuls, Bergman, Mizoguchi, and Hitchcock.

01:354:370 Film Genres (3) Analysis of film genres, such as the western, comedy, horror film, film noir, and the musical; theory of genre; and history of genre criticism. May cover more than one genre.

01:354:373 The Documentary (3) History, theory, and practice of documentary film, including ethnographic film, propaganda, newsreel, direct cinema, video verite, social activist film, postmodern documentary, and antidocumentary.

01:354:375 Film and Society (3) Analysis of films in their sociopolitical contexts, including issues of race, class, and gender; relation between film as art form and the politics of culture.

01:354:385 Theories of Women and Film (3) Basic concepts in feminist film theory; the female voice in cinema; representations of women in classical Hollywood film; and films made by women.

01:354:391,392 Special Topics in Film Studies (3,3) Intensive study of a particular national cinema, period in film history, studio, or genre. Sections designed by individual instructors; consult departmental announcement.

01:354:420 Seminar: Film Theory (3) Major developments in film theory from the silent era to the present; writings on film by Eisenstein, Kracauer, Bazin, Metz, Barthes, and others; practice in using different methods to analyze films. Prerequisites: 01:355:101 or equivalent plus any 200-level English department film course (01:354:201, 202, or 210).