110 Film and Writing
Other years: Offered in
Fall 2011,
Spring 2012,
Fall 2012,
Spring 2013,
Fall 2013,
Spring 2014,
Fall 2014,
Spring 2015,
Fall 2015,
Spring 2016,
Fall 2016,
Spring 2017,
Spring 2018,
Fall 2018,
Fall 2019,
Spring 2020,
Fall 2020,
Fall 2021,
Fall 2022,
Spring 2023,
Fall 2023,
Fall 2024210 Coming to Terms: Cinema
Other years: Offered in
Fall 2011,
Spring 2012,
Fall 2012,
Spring 2013,
Spring 2014,
Spring 2015,
Fall 2015,
Fall 2016,
Fall 2017,
Fall 2018,
Spring 2022,
Spring 2023,
Fall 2023215 Topics in Film Study: Knowing Television
2024-25: Not offered
Other years: Offered in
Fall 2010,
Spring 2013,
Fall 2013,
Fall 2016,
Fall 2019220 Foundations and Integrations: Film and Media Studies
2024-25: Not offered
Other years: Offered in
Spring 2012,
Spring 2013,
Spring 2014,
Spring 2016,
Spring 2017222 Production Workshop in the Moving Image
2024-25: Not offered
Other years: Offered in
Fall 2007,
Spring 2011,
Spring 2013,
Spring 2021225 Image, Movement, Sound
2024-25: Not offered
Other years: Offered in
Spring 2011,
Fall 2011,
Fall 2012228 Introduction to Super 8 Film and Digital Video
2024-25: Not offered
Other years: Offered in
Spring 2012,
Fall 2013,
Spring 2015,
Fall 2016,
Fall 2020,
Fall 2021240 Screenwriting
2024-25: Not offered
Other years: Offered in
Fall 2007,
Fall 2008,
Fall 2009,
Fall 2010,
Spring 2012,
Spring 2013,
Spring 2014,
Fall 2015242 The Role and the Self
(Offered as FAMS 242 and THDA 155.) We “act” everyday. We play roles as students, as friends, as city-people, country-people, cosmopolitans. But what does it mean to present oneself publicly, either as “oneself” or in a role of another? The goal of this course is to demystify the acting process, to imagine together how we might “act naturally” in a world that is overwhelmed by technological forms of communication that both enable exchange with one another and that hamper it.
We will read a range of texts, from Erving Goffman’s Self and Everyday Life, to poetry and drama, and we will watch a series of films. Our attention to these works will be to understand the choices we can make as actors, and what choices directors make in their work with actors. Ultimately, the goal of this course is to understand human behavior itself.
Limited to 30 students. Fall semester. Croxton Lecturer Howard.
2024-25: Not offered
Other years: Offered in
Fall 2012310 Global Sound
2024-25: Not offered
Other years: Offered in
Fall 2009,
Fall 2010,
Spring 2013312 Pioneer Valley Soundscapes
Other years: Offered in
Spring 2012,
Spring 2014,
Fall 2014,
Spring 2017,
Fall 2018,
Spring 2023,
Fall 2024313 The Soviet Experience
2024-25: Not offered
Other years: Offered in
Fall 2021314 Representing Slavery
2024-25: Not offered
Other years: Offered in
Spring 2012316 Performance
2024-25: Not offered
Other years: Offered in
Spring 2014,
Fall 2017,
Fall 2020,
Spring 2023320 Japan on Screen
2024-25: Not offered
Other years: Offered in
Spring 2013,
Spring 2014,
Spring 2016,
Fall 2018,
Fall 2020,
Fall 2022321 Russian and Soviet Film
2024-25: Not offered
Other years: Offered in
Fall 2012,
Spring 2024322 South Asian Feminist Cinema
2024-25: Not offered
Other years: Offered in
Spring 2011,
Spring 2012,
Fall 2014,
Fall 2015,
Spring 2019323 Weimar Cinema: The "Golden Age" of German Film
2024-25: Not offered
Other years: Offered in
Spring 2010,
Spring 2012,
Spring 2015,
Spring 2020324 Popular Cinema
2024-25: Not offered
Other years: Offered in
Spring 2014,
Fall 2023325 Mother India: Reading Gender and Nation in South Asia
2024-25: Not offered
Other years: Offered in
Spring 2016,
Spring 2021327 Toward the New Wave
Other years: Offered in
Fall 2011,
Fall 2014328 Representation and Reality in Spanish Cinema
2024-25: Not offered
Other years: Offered in
Spring 2013,
Spring 2021,
Fall 2022331 Readings in Media Theory and History
2024-25: Not offered
Other years: Offered in
Fall 2011341 Video Production: Bodies in Motion
2024-25: Not offered
Other years: Offered in
Spring 2012,
Fall 2012,
Spring 2014,
Fall 2016,
Spring 2024345 Performance Studio
2024-25: Not offered
Other years: Offered in
Fall 2007,
Fall 2008,
Fall 2009,
Fall 2010,
Fall 2011,
Fall 2012,
Fall 2013,
Fall 2014,
Fall 2015,
Fall 2016,
Fall 2017,
Fall 2020,
Fall 2021351 Cinema and Everyday Life
2024-25: Not offered
Other years: Offered in
Spring 2013,
Fall 2015,
Spring 2020358 Spike Lee’s Joints
2024-25: Not offered
Other years: Offered in
Spring 2013,
Spring 2016,
Spring 2020370 Traumatic Events
2024-25: Not offered
Other years: Offered in
Fall 2008,
Fall 2010,
Fall 2014,
Fall 2018371 Film, Myth, and the Law
2024-25: Not offered
Other years: Offered in
Fall 2007,
Spring 2009,
Spring 2010,
Spring 2011,
Spring 2012,
Spring 2015,
Fall 2016,
Fall 2021372 Passing in Literature and Film
2024-25: Not offered
374 Borderlands and Barrios: Latino/a Representation in Film and Television
2024-25: Not offered
Other years: Offered in
Spring 2022375 Jazz Film: Improvisation, Narrativity, and Representation
2024-25: Not offered
Other years: Offered in
Fall 2011,
Spring 2019,
January 2021,
Spring 2024378 Visual Anthropology
Other years: Offered in
Spring 2013,
Spring 2016,
Spring 2017,
Fall 2024380 Cinema and the Avant-Garde
Other years: Offered in
Fall 2011,
Spring 2012,
Spring 2013,
Spring 2014,
Spring 2015,
Spring 2018,
Spring 2022,
Fall 2024421 Inventing Film Theory
2024-25: Not offered
Other years: Offered in
Spring 2017422 Cinephilia
2024-25: Not offered
Other years: Offered in
Spring 2014,
Spring 2015,
Fall 2017426 Feminism and Film: A Study of Practice and Theory
2024-25: Not offered
Other years: Offered in
Fall 2012442 Cine-Eye
2024-25: Not offered
Other years: Offered in
Fall 2011443 Experiments in Narrative
2024-25: Not offered
Other years: Offered in
Fall 2018,
Fall 2020451 Ghosts in Shells? Virtuality and Embodiment from Passing to the Posthuman
2024-25: Not offered
Other years: Offered in
Spring 2012,
Spring 2013,
Fall 2015456 Media Archaeology and Historiography
2024-25: Not offered
Other years: Offered in
Spring 2013484 Animating Cinema and New Media
2024-25: Not offered
Other years: Offered in
Spring 2012,
Fall 2013485 Word / Life / Image
2024-25: Not offered
Other years: Offered in
Fall 2012490 Special Topics
Independent Reading Courses.
Fall and spring semester. The Department.
Other years: Offered in Fall 2011, Spring 2012, Fall 2012, Spring 2013, Fall 2013, Spring 2014, Fall 2014, Spring 2015, Fall 2015, Spring 2016, Fall 2016, Spring 2017, Fall 2017, Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Spring 2021, Fall 2021, Spring 2022,
Fall 2022,
Spring 2023,
Fall 2023, Spring 2024,
Fall 2024498, 499 Senior Honors
Admission with consent of the instructor. Spring semester.
Other years: Offered in Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020,
Spring 2021,
Spring 2022,
Spring 2023,
Spring 2024Non-Language Departmental Courses
326 An Introduction to Contemporary Chinese Cinema
2024-25: Not offered
Other years: Offered in
Spring 2008,
Fall 2009,
Spring 2017Non-Language Courses
373 SPACE
2024-25: Not offered
Other years: Offered in
Fall 2014