| source Yale (X) |
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department Film Studies (X) |
M 7.00-9.00p Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 36) 12/14/2009 M 2.00 Areas Hu Permission of instructor required
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T 7.00-11.00p Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 26) 12/15/2009 T 2.00 Skills WR Areas Hu A survey of film studies concentrating on theory, analysis, and criticism. Students learn the critical and technical vocabulary of the subject and study important films in weekly screenings.
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Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Hu The idea of cinema that developed in the wake of World War II as French critics inaugurated the New Wave school. The intellectual development of directors such as Truffaut, Godard, and Rohmer examined via texts by Bazin, Rivette, Robbe-Grillet, and Barthes. The new film aesthetic shaped by postwar cultural life, from Bresson and Cocteau, through the masterworks of the New Wave, to Assayas and Desplechin today.
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TTh 1.00-2.15 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Hu Korean national cinema from the early 1960s to the present. Cinematic representations in the context of such themes as history, nationhood, gender, identity, and traditional culture. Attention to formal aspects of the films, including film styles and cinematography.
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MW 4.00-5.15 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Skills WR Areas Hu Permission of instructor required Critical introduction to popular cinema of South Asia, its history, culture, and politics. Topics include nationalism, partition, gender, secularism, development, globalization, and diaspora.
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Su 7.00-9.00p Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Hu, So A study of political development combining three types of material: films, historical case studies, and theoretical studies. Topics include nation and state formation, democracy and authoritarianism, decolonization and state building in the periphery, distributional conflicts, revolution, civil war, and genocide. Films include
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M 2.30-5.20 Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 37) 12/18/2009 F 2.00 Areas Hu Permission of instructor required Meets during reading period A study of the great American film comedians and an investigation into the psychology of laughter. Comedians from Chaplin and Keaton to the Marx brothers and Fields examined against a background of European comedy. Topics include comic form and technique, and their relevance to the American scene. Not a history of American film comedy.
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MW 10.30-11.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Hu Introduction to film theory from its beginnings to c.1930, including its emphasis on the spectator?s experience. Ways in which early theory highlighted characteristics of modern life such as speed, economy, contingency, and excitation. The role of national identity in defining topics of theoretical research explored through comparison of American and European debates.
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MW 1.30-2.20 Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 36) 12/14/2009 M 2.00 Permission of instructor required Changes in Hollywood narrative, form, and industrial structure from 1975 to the present. Ways in which media conglomeration and technologies such as video and digitalization affect genre and style. Films include
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Th 3.30-5.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Permission of instructor required A beginning course in screenplay writing. Foundations of the craft introduced through the reading of professional scripts and the analysis of classic films. A series of classroom exercises culminates in intensive scene work.
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M 3.30-5.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Hu Permission of instructor required An introductory overview of Latin American cinema, with an emphasis on post-World War II films produced in Cuba, Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico. Examination of each film in its historical and aesthetic aspects, and in light of questions concerning national cinema and 'third cinema.' Examples from both pre-1945 and contemporary films.
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Th 1.30-3.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Hu Permission of instructor required An in-depth examination of selected films by Milos Forman and the representatives of the New Wave,
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M 6.30-10.30p Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Hu Permission of instructor required Meets during reading period Examination of documentary and related nonfiction forms in the last three decades. Issues include film truth, performance, ethics, race and gender, and the filmmaker as participant-observer. Filmmakers include Frederick Wiseman, William Greaves, Chris Choy, Errol Morris, Lourdes Portillo, Trin T. Minh-Ha, Sue Friedrich, and Marlon Riggs.
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T 1.30-3.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Hu Permission of instructor required Analysis of film practices such as adaptation, remake, prequel, sequel, quotation, formula, and genre that also operate in fiction, TV, painting, and other arts. Examination of repetition from the point of view of semiotics (Barthes, Eco), cultural history (Benjamin), and philosophy (Deleuze).
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T 7.00-10.00p Fall 2009 No regular final examination Permission of instructor required Meets during reading period A workshop designed primarily for Film Studies majors making documentaries as senior projects.
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1 HTBA Fall 2009 No regular final examination Permission of instructor required For students who wish to explore an aspect of film studies not covered by existing courses. The course may be used for research or directed readings and should include one lengthy essay or several short ones as well as regular meetings with the adviser. To apply, students should present a prospectus, a bibliography for the work proposed, and a letter of support from the adviser to the director of undergraduate studies. Term credit for independent research or reading may be granted and applied to any of the requisite areas upon application and approval by the director of undergraduate studies.
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Th 12.30-4.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Permission of instructor required A yearlong workshop designed primarily for Art and Film Studies majors making senior projects. Each student writes and directs a short fiction film. The first term focuses on the screenplay, production schedule, storyboards, casting, budget, and locations. In the second term students rehearse, shoot, edit, and screen the film. Materials fee: $150.
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Th 1.30-3.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Permission of instructor required Students write a feature-length screenplay. Emphasis on multiple drafts and revision. Admission in the fall term based on acceptance of a complete step-sheet outline for the story to be written during the coming year.
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1 HTBA Fall 2009 No regular final examination Permission of instructor required An independent writing and research project. A prospectus signed by the student?s adviser must be submitted to the director of undergraduate studies by the end of the second week of the term in which the essay project is to commence. A rough draft must be submitted to the adviser and the director of undergraduate studies approximately one month before the final draft is due. Essays are normally thirty-five pages long (one term) or fifty pages (two terms).
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1 HTBA Fall 2009 No regular final examination Permission of instructor required For students making a film or video, either fiction or nonfiction, as their senior project. Senior projects require the approval of the Film Studies Committee and are based on proposals submitted at the end of the junior year. An interim project review takes place at the end of the fall term, and permission to complete the senior project can be withdrawn if satisfactory progress has not been made. For guidelines, consult the director of undergraduate studies.
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FILM 601 01 (11057) /CPLT917 Th 9.25-11.15 Fall 2009 A series of distinct approaches to a series of problems in film studies, meant to provide an anchor for graduate students who want to participate in the professional discourse of this field. Formalist, semiotic, and cognitive analyses of films are broadened by hermeneutics and various historical approaches that go beyond texts to their contexts. The obtuse voices of the films examined each week are allowed to take the lead in our discussions. Three eight-page papers.
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FILM 625 01 (10610) /CPLT903/HSAR726/HUMS282/FILM450/LITR354 T 1.30-3.20 Fall 2009 An analysis of such common practices as adaptation, remake, prequel, sequel, quotation that operate in film, above all, but in fiction, television, painting, and in every art. Examples are taken from various media, as repetition is examined from the point of view of semiotics (Barthes, Eco), cultural history (Benjamin), and philosophy (Deleuze).
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FILM 724 01 (10227) /AMST813/AMST430/FILM426 M 6.30-10.30p Fall 2009
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FILM 757 01 (11058) Fall 2009 This lecture course lays out "the idea of cinema" that developed in the wake of WWII as French critics inaugurated the New Wave school around 1960. The intellectual development of directors such as Truffaut, Godard, and Rohmer is seen via texts by Bazin, Rivette, Robbe-Grillet, Barthes. Postwar cultural life led to a new film aesthetic from Bresson and Cocteau through the masterworks of the New Wave, affecting the 1968 generation right up to Assayas and Desplechin today. Graduate discussion section.
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FILM 806 01 (14117) /HSAR709 Th 1.30-3.20 Fall 2009
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