Film and Media Studies

2024-25

108 True Crime: Unlearning Media

2024-25: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Fall 2022, Spring 2024

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 2024

130, 377 Women, Gender, and Pop Culture

Other years: Offered in Spring 2015, Spring 2017, Fall 2019, Spring 2021, Fall 2024

182 Constructing Childhood: From Page to Screen

2024-25: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Fall 2021

185 Ecomedia

2024-25: Not offered

210 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 2023

211 Introduction to Film Histories

2024-25: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2024

212 Introduction to Film Studies: The History of American Cinema, 1895-1960

2024-25: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Spring 2012, Fall 2013, Spring 2015, Fall 2016, Fall 2020, Fall 2021

213 Knowing Cinema

Since its origin in the late nineteenth century, cinema has had a powerful impact on our ways of visualizing and knowing the world. This course will help students understand how films work and work on us and introduce students to the wide-ranging efforts of theorists to know cinema since its beginnings. Our emphasis will be on narrative film, but we will also explore experimental, documentary, and animated works. We will examine a wide range of films from many parts of the world. Through exposure to the great variety of filmmaking and writing about cinema, from the silent era to the digital revolution, students will receive a comprehensive introduction to the formal features of film and to the major debates that inform film studies. Two eighty-minute class meetings and one evening film screening per week.

Other years: Offered in Spring 2024

216 Coming to Terms: Media

2024-25: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Spring 2018, Spring 2020, Spring 2022, Fall 2023

221 Foundations in Video Production

Other years: Offered in Fall 2014, Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Spring 2024, Fall 2024

227 Moving Pictures: The History of Silent Cinema

2024-25: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Fall 2007, Spring 2011, Spring 2013, Spring 2021

234 Television Narratives

2024-25: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Spring 2021, Fall 2022

251 Representing Reality

2024-25: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Spring 2023

309 Writing Together: Film and Feminist Collectivity

2024-25: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Spring 2024

311 Introduction to Art and Code

Other years: Offered in Spring 2023, Fall 2023

312 Soundscapes of the Connecticut River Valley

Other years: Offered in Spring 2012, Spring 2014, Fall 2014, Spring 2017, Fall 2018, Spring 2023, Fall 2024

316 Performance

2024-25: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Spring 2014, Fall 2017, Fall 2020, Spring 2023

317 Victorian Sensations, or, When Old Media Were New

2024-25: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Fall 2020

318 Introduction to Sound Art

2024-25: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Spring 2023, Spring 2024

321 Gender and Bollywood Cinema

2024-25: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Fall 2012, Spring 2024

324 New Latin American Documentary

2024-25: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Spring 2014, Fall 2023

327 Fascism, War, and Freedom: Spain and Japan On Screen

Other years: Offered in Fall 2011, Fall 2014

334 Listening to Podcasts

2024-25: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Fall 2022, Fall 2023

335 Experiments in 16mm Film

Other years: Offered in Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Spring 2022, Fall 2023, Fall 2024

337 Movie Censorship in American History

2024-25: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Fall 2022

338 Latin American Cinema

Other years: Offered in Fall 2019, Spring 2023, Fall 2024

345 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 2021

357 Sergei Eisenstein's Cinema and Thought

Other years: Offered in Spring 2015, Fall 2017, Spring 2019

360 Intimate Film Cultures

2024-25: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Spring 2018, Spring 2022

361 Remixing and Remaking: Adaptation in Contemporary Black Literature

Other years: Offered in Fall 2014, Spring 2016, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Fall 2023, Fall 2024

368 Bad Black Women

2024-25: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2015, Spring 2018, Spring 2022

369 Cinematic Worlds

2024-25: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Fall 2021, Spring 2023

370 Traumatic Events

2024-25: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Fall 2008, Fall 2010, Fall 2014, Fall 2018

374 Gothic/Horror: Literature, Film, Television

2024-25: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Spring 2022

378 Music Technology from Analog to AI

Other years: Offered in Spring 2013, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Fall 2024

380 SPACE

Other years: Offered in Fall 2011, Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2018, Spring 2022, Fall 2024

382 After COPS: Police, Media, and Prison Abolition

2024-25: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Spring 2022

384 Making Memorials

2024-25: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Fall 2012, Fall 2016, Fall 2021, Spring 2024

385 Television Detection

2024-25: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Fall 2011, Fall 2023

388 Screenwriting

Other years: Offered in Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Fall 2015, Spring 2023, Spring 2024

411 The Film Essay

Other years: Offered in Spring 2015, Fall 2021, Fall 2024

412 Films That Try: Essay Film Production

Other years: Offered in Fall 2014, Spring 2020, Spring 2022

415 Disability, Media, and the Art of Access

2024-25: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Spring 2015, Spring 2023

424 “It was the ’70s”: US Film, History, and the Cultural Imagination

2024-25: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Spring 2012, Fall 2013, Spring 2023

425 Post-WWII American Cinema

2024-25: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Fall 2014, Fall 2021, Spring 2024

431 Fashion / Media / Modernity

2024-25: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Spring 2022

438 The City in Literature and Early Film

2024-25: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Spring 2021

455 The Confession: Theory and Practice

2024-25: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Fall 2015, Spring 2019, Fall 2022

462 Curating Film and Video

2024-25: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Spring 2016, Fall 2017, Fall 2022

470 Melodrama and Film Noir

2024-25: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Spring 2014, Fall 2022

490 Special Topics

Independent reading course.

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 2024

498, 499 Senior Honors

Admission with consent of the instructor. Spring semester. The Department.

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 2024

Non-Language Departmental Courses

320 Japan on Screen

2024-25: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2016, Fall 2018, Fall 2020, Fall 2022

430 Ozu Crossing Borders

2024-25: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Spring 2021, Spring 2023

437 A Media History of Anime

Other years: Offered in Fall 2019, Fall 2021, Fall 2024

Non-Language Russian Courses

305 Identity and Ideology: The Cinema of Moscow, Berlin, and Hollywood

2024-25: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Spring 2014, Fall 2016, Spring 2021, Fall 2022

341 Russian and Soviet Film

2024-25: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Spring 2012, Fall 2012, Spring 2014, Fall 2016, Spring 2024

352 Russia and the Representation of Race

Other years: Offered in Spring 2018, Spring 2020, Fall 2021, Fall 2024