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City University of New York - History of Film I

An introduction to the major developments in the history of film from its nineteenth-century, pre-cinematic origins through the coming of sound in the 1920s to the wartime productions of the early forties. The significant aesthetic innovations that have marked the growth of film as an art form will be studied, together with the social implications of the medium and its relationship to other arts. Screenings of American and international films, with emphasis on such major figures as Griffith, Eisenstein, Renoir, and Hitchcock. Readings and written reports required.
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City University of New York - History of Film II

A survey of the major developments in American and international film from the mid-forties to the present. Film will be studied as a medium of artistic expression and as an increasingly significant force in reflecting and shaping social and political thought. Major film movements and the films of important contemporary directors will be examined. Readings and written reports required.
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City University of New York - History of French Cinema

This course is a survey of French cinema from its beginnings until the present time. We will begin with the work of the Lumiere brothers and Melies, through the golden age of French cinema in the 1930s, the period during and after the Second World War, and to the New Wave and beyond. We will consider the aesthetic as well as the socio-political and historical aspects of films. The filmmakers studied will include, among others, Jean Renoir, Francois Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Agnes Varda, Robert Bresson, Jean-Pierre Melville and Claude Chabrol.
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City University of New York - Immigration Cinema: Migrations and Border Crossings to the U.S. and Europe

This course explores patterns of representation of the immigrant subject in recent films made in Europe, the U.S. and Latin America. It focuses on the role of cinema as a cultural and ideological apparatus representing the intersection of race, gender, sexuality, and class. It includes topics such as: social policies towards immigrants and refugees, criminalization of immigration, integration versus assimilation, the correlation between xenophobia/racism and political or economic nationalism.
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City University of New York - Critical Approaches to Film

Critical Approaches to Film provides students with an in-depth understanding of a specific film genre, filmmaker, national cinema, or critical issue. It is a communication-intensive course in which students engage theoretical and methodological topics through the close study of specific films.
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City University of New York - Language of Film I

Introduction to films, filmmakers, and the vocabulary of filmmaking. The creation of movies from script to screen. Relation between form and content. Gender, genre, ethnic, and cultural approaches. Analyses and screenings of works by Hitchcock, Welles, and contemporary directors.
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City University of New York - Language of Film II

Close textual analysis of selected films. Detailed examinations of films of contrasting styles; the range of analytic approaches applicable to a given film.
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City University of New York - Literature and Film

Investigation of significant films derived from literature through comparison of genres. Defining film as an art form in its relation to a particular literary source. Screening of such works as Ford's The Grapes of Wrath, Welles's The Trial, Bresson's Diary of a Country Priest, Visconti's The Stranger, Lean's Great Expectations, Truffaut's Shoot the Piano Player, Olivier's Henry V, and Kurosawa's Throne of Blood.
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City University of New York - History of Film I

Survey of motion pictures from 1895 to 1941. Development of film as an art form and distinctive medium of communication. Relationship of film to other arts and to social and political climates in which cinematic forms and techniques evolved.
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City University of New York - History of Film II

Motion pictures from 1941 to the present. International nature of cinematic development. Screening of films that illustrate major theories of cinema. Discussion of outstanding directors and critical reactions to their work.
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City University of New York - Cultural Perspectives in Film

Analysis of cultural and theoretical issues in a cross-section of thematically linked historical and contemporary films. Topics may include specific investigations into such issues as censorship, gender, race, ethnicity, and/or sexuality in film.
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City University of New York - Current Cinema and Criticism

Intensive analysis of contemporary films; study of major trends in contemporary film criticism.
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City University of New York - Language of Film II

Close analysis of selected films. Detailed examinations of films of contrasting styles; the range of analytic approaches applicable to a given film.
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City University of New York - The Nonfiction Film

Introduction and overview of the development of a documentary tradition in international filmmaking. Lectures, screenings, and discussions will be geared toward analyzing nonfiction film as a medium of observation, education, persuasion, activism, and aesthetic expression.
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City University of New York - Women in Film

The various images of women in film from the beginning to the present. Readings and discussions of myths, fears, and fantasies that have led to the production of such images. The star system and its relationship to women performers. Screenings include films made by and about women.
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City University of New York - American Film Comedy

Consideration of the masterworks of a number of major silent and sound film comedians and filmmakers. Lectures and class discussions consider such matters as the serious intent of comedy; the connections between comic form and content; the creation and repetition of the personae of major comedians; erotic, aggressive, and infantile dimensions of the comic sensibility.
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City University of New York - Experimental, Underground, and Avant-Garde Films

Examination of experiments in film technique, form, and content. Examples for screening drawn from significant works outside the commercial film industry.
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City University of New York - The Director's Cinema

Intensive analysis of the style and themes of one major director (such as Bergman, Fellini, or Hitchcock) or of two directors (such as Renoir and Lang or Eisenstein and Lee).
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City University of New York - Film Technology and Aesthetics

Analysis of a specific film technology and its impact on film form.
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City University of New York - National Cinema

Survey of a major cinema reflecting the intellectual and artistic traditions of a nation such as India, Australia, or Japan.
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City University of New York - Film Genres

Studies in genre types and techniques. Narrative structure, theory, popular appeal of archetypal patterns, character stereotypes. Each term focuses on an individual genre (westerns, science fiction, crime).
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City University of New York - Film Theory, Aesthetics, and Criticism

Theoretical writings of Eisenstein, Pudovkin, Kracauer, Arnheim, Bazin, Lacan, Metz, Mulvey, Cavell, and others. Their application in cinema. Writing workshop for students interested in contemporary film criticism, supplemented by historical survey of film criticism in newspapers, magazines, and film journals. Course aims at film scholarship rather than journalistic reviewing.
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City University of New York - Global Cinema

Survey of a major cinema tradition that transcends national borders. Topics selected according to regional, political, social, and/or cultural traditions shared by people across the globe. Topics include African cinema, postcolonial cinema, and the cultural exchange between Hollywood and different national cinemas.
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City University of New York - The Business of Film

The study of film as a commercial enterprise, from Hollywood studios to New York independents, from the international marketplace to ancillary markets like cable and home video.
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City University of New York - Introduction to Film Genres

Introduction to genre as a popular film form and method of analysis. Special emphasis on American film genres.
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