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137 Film Studies Syllabi
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Advanced Topics in Hispanic Literature and Film: The Films of Luis Buñuel
Course Description
This course considers films spanning the entire career of pioneering Spanish filmmaker Luis Buñuel (1900–1983), from his silent surrealist classic of 1929,
Un perro andaluz, to his last film,
Ese oscuro objeto del deseo (1977). We pay special attention to his Mexican period, in exile, and the films he made in, and about, Spain, including his work in documentary. It explores Buñuel's early friendship with painter Salvador Dalí and poet Federico García Lorca, surrealist aesthetics, the influence of Freud's ideas on dreams and sexuality, and the director's corrosive criticism of bourgeois society and the Catholic church. We will focus on historical contexts and relevant film criticism.
About This Course on OpenCourseWare
The instructor of this course, Elizabeth Garrels, is a Professor Emeritus at MIT. She retired in 2014 after 35 years at the Institute. Professor Garrels taught this course for over 15 years, and it evolved over this time period. Normally, a course on OCW represents the version of a course taught during a specific semester and year. However, for this course we hope to represent the evolution of the course during the main years it was taught. The materials you see here are not from a particular iteration of the course, but are drawn from all of the years the course was taught. (last updated: 23 Sep 2016)
https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/global-studies-and-languages/21g-735-advanced-topics-in-hispanic-literature-and-film-the-films-of-luis-bunuel-fall-2013/index.htm?utm_source=OCWHomePage&utm_medium=CarouselSm&utm_campaign=FeaturedCourse African American Cinema
University of Southern California. (last updated: 23 Oct 2018)
https://web-app.usc.edu/soc/syllabus/20091/18098 Alfred Hitchcock and the Critics:
Thomas W. Benson, Rhetoric of Film and Television, Pennsylvania State University. (last updated: 12 Apr 2011)
http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/t/3/t3b/courses/SpCom%20415%20Spring%202000/spcom415s2000.htm American Cinema
Familiarizes the student with the three major critical methods applied to the American cinema: genre study, the auteur theory, and the star system. Topics for spring 2004: film noir, director Howard Hawks and actor Humphrey Bogart; and melodrama, director Douglas Sirk, and actress Lana Turner. Jeremy Butler, University of Alabama.. (last updated: 16 Sep 2016)
https://tcf.ua.edu/Classes/Jbutler/T440/s09/syllabus.php American Cinema (Spring 2012)
Study of selected topics in United States film.. "The student will learn the three major critical methods applied to the American cinema: genre study, the auteur "theory," and the star "system." We will begin with the film noir, director Howard Hawks and actor Humphrey Bogart, and then, during the second half of the semester, turn our attention to the melodrama, director Douglas Sirk, and actress Lana Turner.
Our focus will shift back and forth from the primary texts (the films themselves) to the writings on them. The latter will eventually lead us into considerations of feminism, Marxism, structuralism and semiotics." (last updated: 14 Jan 2019)
http://uaops.ua.edu/syllabus/201210/10282 American Film as Literature Spike Lee: An American Director
Fernando Pérez, Bellevue College (last updated: 8 Nov 2018)
https://bc.instructure.com/courses/1301210/assignments/syllabus American Film, 1930-60
Class taught by Shelley Stamp at the University of California, Santa Cruz. (last updated: 16 Sep 2016)
https://people.ucsc.edu/~stamp/134A/FILM_134A/Home.html American Indians in Cinema
Jonathan Tomhave, University of Washington (last updated: 8 Nov 2018)
https://ais.washington.edu/courses/2015/autumn/ais/360/a American Indians in Film
Nancy Marie Mithlo, Occidental College (last updated: 8 Nov 2018)
http://nancymariemithlo.com/images/links/196-Occidental-ARTH250-2014-syllabus.pdf American Indians Through Film, TV & Popular Culture
Ozzie Monge, San Diego State University (last updated: 8 Nov 2018)
https://sdsu-dspace.calstate.edu/bitstream/handle/10211.3/190847/Syllabus%20-%20AMIND-435%20-%20Spring%202017%20-%20Monge.pdf?sequence=1 American Melodrama
The Hollywood melodrama, both as a genre and with a focus on the unique styles and themes of key directors such as Douglas Sirk, Vincente Minnelli, Frank Borzage, Max Ophuls, and George Cukor. Fred Camper, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.. (last updated: 12 Apr 2011)
http://www.fredcamper.com/Melodrama/index.html Art of Film
Rebecca Sheehan, Harvard University (last updated: 2 Oct 2018)
https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/katrinschamun/files/syllabus_for_ves_70_the_art_of_film.pdf Cinematic Multimedia
Jennifer Proctor, Grand Valley State University (last updated: 8 Nov 2018)
http://www.jenniferproctor.com/CinematicSyl.htm Contemporary Film Theory
Chuck Kleinhans, Northwestern University, 1977. (PDF of Ditto original.) (last updated: 14 Sep 2018)
http://screensite.org/wp-content/themes/directorypress/thumbs//Syllabus-D87-2-Contemporary-Film-Theory-Spring-1977.pdf Course File on Experimental Film (Part 1) (1982)
(last updated: 16 Sep 2016)
https://www.jonathanrosenbaum.net/1982/01/course-file-on-experimental-film-part-1-1982/ Course File on Experimental Film (Part 2) (1982)
(last updated: 16 Sep 2016)
https://www.jonathanrosenbaum.net/1982/01/couse-file-on-experimental-film-part-2-1982/ Directing for Film and Video
Towson University (last updated: 23 Oct 2018)
https://www.towson.edu/cofac/departments/mediafilm/undergrad/mediafilm/documents/emf-455-syllabus-sample.pdf Documentary Film & Video
Towson University (last updated: 23 Oct 2018)
https://www.towson.edu/cofac/departments/mediafilm/undergrad/mediafilm/documents/emf-461-syllabus-sample.pdf Documenting Culture
This course challenges distinctions commonly made between documentary and ethnographic films to consider how human cultural life is portrayed in both. (last updated: 20 Jan 2015)
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/anthropology/21a-337j-documenting-culture-spring-2004 Documenting Culture
Course Description
How — and why — do people seek to capture everyday life on film? What can we learn from such films? This course challenges distinctions commonly made between documentary and ethnographic films to consider how human cultural life is portrayed in both. It considers the interests, which motivate such filmmakers ranging from curiosity about "exotic" people to a concern with capturing "real life" to a desire for advocacy. Students will view documentaries about people both in the U.S. and abroad and will consider such issues as the relationship between film images and "reality," the tensions between art and observation, and the ethical relationship between filmmakers and those they film. (last updated: 23 Sep 2016)
https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/anthropology/21a-337j-documenting-culture-spring-2004/ Documenting Science through Video and New Media
Course wherein tudents engage in digital video production as well as social and media analysis of science documentaries. (last updated: 20 Jan 2015)
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/anthropology/21a-550j-dv-lab-documenting-science-through-video-and-new-media-fall-2012 DV Lab: Documenting Science Through Video and New Media
Course Description
This course is an introductory exploration of documentary film theory and production, focusing on documentaries about science, engineering, and related fields. Students engage in digital video production as well as social and media analysis of science documentaries. Readings are drawn from social studies of science as well as from documentary film theory. The courses uses documentary video making as a tool to explore the worlds of science and engineering, as well as a tool for thinking analytically about media itself and the social worlds in which science is embedded. The course includes a hands-on lab component devoted to digital video production, in addition to classroom lectures and in-class film screenings. (last updated: 27 Sep 2016)
https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/anthropology/21a-550j-dv-lab-documenting-science-through-video-and-new-media-fall-2012/ Ecocinema: Environmentalism and film
Antonio Lopez, John Cabot University (last updated: 11 Oct 2018)
http://www.openmediaeducation.net/cms345/ Experimental Film
Chuck Kleinhans, Northwestern University, 1977. (PDF of Ditto original.) (last updated: 27 Sep 2018)
http://screensite.org/wp-content/themes/directorypress/thumbs//Syllabus-C80-Experimental-Film-Spring-1977.pdf Experimental Film and Video History
Jennifer Proctor, Grand Valley State University (last updated: 8 Nov 2018)
http://jenniferproctor.com/ExpFilmSyl.htm Feminism and Film
Vanderbilt University (last updated: 23 Oct 2018)
https://my.vanderbilt.edu/wgs272/syllabus/ FILM 130: Silent Cinema
Class taught by Shelley Stamp at the University of California, Santa Cruz. (last updated: 16 Sep 2016)
https://people.ucsc.edu/~stamp/130/FILM_130/Home.html FILM 162: Female Filmmakers
Class taught by Shelley Stamp at the University of California, Santa Cruz. (last updated: 16 Sep 2016)
https://people.ucsc.edu/~stamp/162female/162_Female_Fmkrs/Home.html FILM 20A: Intro to Film Studies
Class taught by Shelley Stamp at the University of California, Santa Cruz. (last updated: 16 Sep 2016)
https://people.ucsc.edu/~stamp/20A/FILM_20A/Home.html Film and Environment
Emory University (last updated: 23 Oct 2018)
http://piedmont.emory.edu/documents/2015/Cook%202015.pdf Film and Media Theory
Jennifer Fay, Vanderbilt University (last updated: 4 Oct 2018)
https://as.vanderbilt.edu/cinemamediaarts/people/film_theory_updated_17.pdf Film and Television Interpretation: American Cinema
Jennifer Proctor, Grand Valley State University (last updated: 8 Nov 2018)
http://jenniferproctor.com/AmCinemaSyllabus.htm Film and Video Autobiography
Julia Lesage, University of Oregon (last updated: 2 Oct 2018)
http://screensite.org/wp-content/themes/directorypress/thumbs//Julia-Lesage-Film-Autobiography.pdf Film Appreciation 101
(last updated: 12 Apr 2011)
http://www.universalclass.com/i/course/film/syllabus.htm FILM APPRECIATION: INTRODUCTION TO CINEMA
Professor Trish Loomis, JEFFERSON COLLEGE. (last updated: 7 Sep 2011)
http://homepage.smc.edu/laffey_sheila/PDF/Cin%209.pdf Film as History
Instructor Julia Peterson, KEYSTONE COLLEGE. (last updated: 7 Sep 2011)
http://www.nepdec.org/resources/PDF/j_peterson_keystone_college_film.pdf Film as Visual and Literary Mythmaking
(last updated: 20 Jan 2015)
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/linguistics-and-philosophy/24-264-film-as-visual-and-literary-mythmaking-fall-2005 Film Genres | Film Noir
Class taught by Shelley Stamp at the University of California, Santa Cruz. (last updated: 16 Sep 2016)
https://people.ucsc.edu/~stamp/160/FILM_160/Home.html Film History
Kirsten Moana Thompson, Seattle University (last updated: 8 Nov 2018)
https://www.seattleu.edu/media/college-of-arts-and-sciences/departments/english/documents/Film-3020-17SQ-Syllabus.pdf Film History and Theory
University of Washington (last updated: 4 Oct 2018)
https://canvas.uw.edu/courses/910963/assignments/syllabus Film History/Theory
Mark Lynne Anderson, University of Pittsburgh (last updated: 3 Oct 2018)
http://www.filmstudies.pitt.edu/sites/default/files/L2451SP2007.pdf Film Narrative
Sarah Childress, Bowdoin College (last updated: 23 Oct 2018)
https://www.bowdoin.edu/faculty/s/schildre/pdf/bowdoin-narrative-film-syllabus.pdf Film Noir: City Subjects, Alienated Desires, Millennial Thinking
Ken Hillis. Communication Studies. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. (last updated: 12 Apr 2011)
http://www.unc.edu/~khillis/filmnoir.html Film Production
Professor Cherish Aileen A. Brillon. (last updated: 12 Apr 2011)
http://theintellectualrebel.wordpress.com/2008/06/23/cnm-103-syllabus-film-production/ Film Theory
Jun Okada, State University of New York at Geneseo (last updated: 4 Oct 2018)
https://wiki.geneseo.edu/display/engl/Film+Studies+349%3A+Film+Theory+SAMPLE+SYLLABUS Film Theory and Criticism
Kristopher Cannon, Northeastern University (last updated: 4 Oct 2018)
https://www.kristophercannon.com/professional/previous-courses/film4750-spring2013/ Film Theory and Criticism
Marty Norden, University of Massachusetts Amherst (last updated: 4 Oct 2018)
https://people.umass.edu/norden/546syll.html Film Theory and Criticism
Dan Gilfillan, Arizona State University (last updated: 4 Oct 2018)
https://www.asu.edu/courses/fms394/Blackboard/Spring%20Syllabi/Gilfillan_fms461.pdf Film Theory: Comedy
Professor Dirk Eitzen, Franklin & Marshall College. (last updated: 7 Sep 2011)
http://tdf363.wordpress.com/author/deitzen/ Film, Art, and Literature
Professor Kimberly M. Radek, Illinois Valley Community College'. This course looks closely at the relationship of film, visual art, and literature, focusing most specifically upon the interaction between them from a historical perspective, i.e., how this relationship has changed as the art forms have changed since their inception. Required comparative readings and film and art viewings are a component of this course. (last updated: 14 Aug 2011)
http://www2.ivcc.edu/flm2010/Syllabus.html Film/Video Production: Alternative Forms
Jennifer Proctor, University of Iowa (last updated: 8 Nov 2018)
http://jenniferproctor.com/VloggingSyllabusWeb.htm FOREIGN AND INDEPENDENT FILM
Instructor B. Weitz, Florida International University . (last updated: 12 Apr 2011)
http://www.fiu.edu/~weitzb/ENC4355_Syllabus_Spring03.htm Forms of Western Narrative
Course Description
This class will investigate the ways in which the formal aspects of Western storytelling in various media have shaped both fantasies and perceptions, making certain understandings of experience possible through the selection, arrangement, and processing of narrative material. Surveying the field chronologically across the major narrative genres and sub-genres from Homeric epic through the novel and across media to include live performance, film, and video games, we will be examining the ways in which new ideologies and psychological insights become available through the development of various narrative techniques and new technologies. Emphasis will be placed on the generic conventions of story-telling as well as on literary and cultural issues, the role of media and modes of transmission, the artistic significance of the chosen texts and their identity as anthropological artifacts whose conventions and assumptions are rooted in particular times, places, and technologies. Authors will include: Homer, Sophocles, Herodotus, Christian evangelists, Marie de France, Cervantes, La Clos, Poe, Lang, Cocteau, Disney-Pixar, and Maxis-Electronic Arts, with theoretical readings in Propp, Bakhtin, Girard, Freud, and Marx. (last updated: 27 Sep 2016)
https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/literature/21l-012-forms-of-western-narrative-spring-2004/ French Film and Culture; 1895-present
Professor Elizabeth Vitanza, UCLA . (last updated: 12 Apr 2011)
http://evitanza.bol.ucla.edu/filmsyllabus.html Gender and Flm
Christina Stojanova. Film Studies. WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY Waterloo, Ontario. (last updated: 7 Sep 2011)
http://www.filmreference.com/encyclopedia/Criticism-Ideology/Gender-GENDER-AND-FILM.html Global Hollywood
Masha Shpolberg, Yale University (last updated: 4 Oct 2018)
https://summer.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/Syllabi/2018/FILM%20S274%20-%20Global%20Hollywood.pdf History of Motion Pictures (Fall 2012)
(last updated: 27 Sep 2018)
http://mariasuzanneboyd.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/film-2700-fall-12-syllabus.doc History of Motion Pictures (Spring 2011)
(last updated: 27 Sep 2018)
http://mariasuzanneboyd.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/film-2700-history-of-motion-pictures-syllabus-medium-sized-class-syllabus-spring-2011.doc History of Motion Pictures (Summer 2013)
(last updated: 20 Jan 2015)
https://mariasuzanneboyd.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/film-2700-history-of-motion-pictures-large-lecture-syllabus-summer-2013.doc History of the Cinema II
Inga Meier, Stephen F. Austin State University (last updated: 8 Nov 2018)
https://orion.sfasu.edu/courseinformation/syl/201602/THR3711.pdf?635896940396565929 Horror in Film & Story
Professor Roger Hickey, Hartwick College . (last updated: 12 Apr 2011)
http://users.hartwick.edu/hickeyr/SyllabusHorr.html Humanities, Film Appreciation
Instructor Susan Rich, Highline Community College . "Movies may be the cultural currency of our time; perhaps even more so than television or theatrical productions, they shape our view of the larger world. Although we all begin this class with a strong sense of what we like or dislike in a given film; our individual tastes will take a backstage position to our methods of analysis this quarter. The question, instead, is what can we learn from a film, what type of knowledge concerning camera angles, lighting, color, sound, character and film theory can we bring to bear on each piece of art --- for a classic film is certainly a work of art." (last updated: 26 May 2012)
http://flightline.highline.edu/srich/FilmSylw05.htm Integrative Arts 110
Professor Patrick Trimble, The Pennsylvania State University. (last updated: 12 Apr 2011)
http://www.psu.edu/dept/inart10_110/inart110/110syllabus.html Interactive and Non-Linear Narrative: Theory and Practice
Course Description
This course explores the properties of non-linear, multi-linear, and interactive forms of narratives as they have evolved from print to digital media. Works covered in this course range from the Talmud, classics of non-linear novels, experimental literature, early sound and film experiments to recent multi-linear and interactive films and games. The study of the structural properties of narratives that experiment with digression, multiple points of view, disruptions of time, space, and of storyline is complemented by theoretical texts about authorship/readership, plot/story, properties of digital media and hypertext. Questions that will be addressed in this course include: How can we define 'non-linearity/multi-linearity', 'interactivity', 'narrative'. To what extend are these aspects determined by the text, the reader, the digital format? What kinds of narratives are especially suited for a nonlinear/ interactive format? Are there stories that can only be told in a digital format? What can we learn from early non-digital examples of non-linear and interactive story telling? (last updated: 28 Sep 2016)
https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/comparative-media-studies-writing/21w-765j-interactive-and-non-linear-narrative-theory-and-practice-spring-2004/ International Cinema: The French Film
Jeremy Butler, University of Alabama, Telecommunication and Film. The study of motion pictures produced throughout the world. Subjects may change each time course is offered. Fall semester 2013, the course dealt with French cinema. (last updated: 15 Aug 2013)
http://www.tcf.ua.edu/Classes/Jbutler/T340/F13/outlineoftopics.php Intro to Film
Gregory Zinman, Georgia Tech (last updated: 23 Oct 2018)
http://blogs.iac.gatech.edu/film2018/syllabus/ Intro to Film Production
Remington Smith, University of Louisville (last updated: 23 Oct 2018)
http://commcourses.com/syllabi/301Film.pdf Intro to Film Studies
Shelley Stamp, UC Santa Cruz. (last updated: 13 Sep 2016)
https://people.ucsc.edu/~stamp/20A/FILM_20A/Home.html Intro to Film Studies
(last updated: 2 Oct 2018)
https://people.ucsc.edu/~stamp/20A/FILM_20A/Syllabus+Assignments.html Intro to Film Studies
Susan Ryan, The College of New Jersey (last updated: 23 Oct 2018)
https://saccurriculum.pages.tcnj.edu/files/2016/03/COM-117-INTRO-FILM-STUDIES-2015-fall.pdf Intro to Screen Studies
(last updated: 8 Nov 2018)
http://files.cargocollective.com/18691/ISSSyl2016.pdf Introduction to Film
Tom Isbell, University of Minnesota Duluth (last updated: 4 Oct 2018)
https://www.d.umn.edu/~tisbell/Courses/introtofilm.html Introduction to Film and Media Studies
(last updated: 2 Oct 2018)
https://works.swarthmore.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1060&context=fac-german Introduction to Film and Video Analysis
What does it mean to "read" a film or video? How can we analyze moving image media in the manner that we interpret literary texts or appreciate form in the fine arts? What are the differences between film, video and these older media? How does film communicate meaning? This course introduces basic analytical tools and concepts to begin to answer these questions. Chris Cagle, Temple Univ.. (last updated: 12 Apr 2011)
http://astro.temple.edu/~ccagle/IntroFilmAnalysisSp10.htm Introduction to Film History and Criticism
Paddy Whannel, Northwestern University, 1977. (PDF of Ditto original.) (last updated: 27 Sep 2018)
http://screensite.org/wp-content/themes/directorypress/thumbs//Syllabus-B84-Introduction-to-Film-History-and-Criticism-spring-1976-77.pdf INTRODUCTION TO FILM STUDIES
Pennsylvania State University. (last updated: 12 Apr 2011)
http://www2.yk.psu.edu/~jmj3/150syll.htm Introduction to Film Studies
Harlan Wilson, Wright State University (last updated: 3 Oct 2018)
http://www.wright.edu/~david.wilson/fms1310/syllabus.pdf Introduction to Film Theory
Caetlin Benson-Allott, Georgetown University (last updated: 3 Oct 2018)
https://english.georgetown.edu/sites/english/files/Intro%20to%20Film%20Theory%20%28Benson-Allott%29.pdf Introduction to Film Theory and Criticism
Amelie Hastie, University of California, Santa Cruz (last updated: 4 Oct 2018)
http://film.ucsc.edu/sites/default/files/FILM%20120%20syllabus%202009_0.pdf Introduction to Media Production
Bill Barrett, Webster University (last updated: 8 Nov 2018)
http://www2.webster.edu/~barrettb/courses/mediaproduction.htm Introduction to Media Studies
Course Description
This course provides a critical analysis of mass media in our culture. Various types of media such as books, films, video games, and online interactions will be discussed and reviewed. This course will also evaluate how information and ideas travel between people on a large scale (last updated: 27 Sep 2016)
https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/comparative-media-studies-writing/cms-100-introduction-to-media-studies-fall-2014/ Introduction to Russian Film
Professor Evgenii (Zhenya) Bershtein, Reed College, . (last updated: 12 Apr 2011)
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=62&url=http%3A%2F%2Facademic.reed.edu%2Frussian%2Fcourses%2F435syllabus.doc&ei=PMu2Svz9KdTO8QaWiLyTDw&usg=AFQjCNHvh2QiXQbdTFeL307TdDGd8dIDWw Introduction to Scoring for Movies and Television
Eric Schmidt, University of Southern California (last updated: 23 Oct 2018)
https://web-app.usc.edu/soc/syllabus/20183/42301.pdf Issues of Representation
Jennifer Proctor, Grand Valley State University (last updated: 8 Nov 2018)
http://jenniferproctor.com/IssuesofRepSyl.htm Japan in the Age of the Samurai: History and Film
(last updated: 20 Jan 2015)
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/history/21h-522-japan-in-the-age-of-the-samurai-history-and-film-fall-2006 Japanese Literature and Cinema
(last updated: 16 Sep 2016)
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/global-studies-and-languages/21g-065-japanese-literature-and-cinema-fall-2013/ Literature and Film
Brian T. Murphy. (last updated: 12 Apr 2011)
http://www.brian-t-murphy.com/Lit218.htm Major Media Texts
Course Description
This class does intensive close study and analysis of historically significant media "texts" that have been considered landmarks or have sustained extensive critical and scholarly discussion. Such texts may include oral epic, story cycles, plays, novels, films, opera, television drama and digital works. The course emphasizes close reading from a variety of contextual and aesthetic perspectives. The syllabus varies each year, and may be organized around works that have launched new modes and genres, works that reflect upon their own media practices, or on stories that migrate from one medium to another. At least one of the assigned texts is collaboratively taught, and visiting lectures and discussions are a regular feature of the subject. (last updated: 30 Sep 2016)
https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/comparative-media-studies-writing/cms-796-major-media-texts-fall-2006/ Mass Media
Darrell M. West, Brown University. (last updated: 12 Apr 2011)
http://www.insidepolitics.org/ps111/PS111.html Media Industries
A grad course on Media Industries; Alisa Perren, Department of Communication, Georgia State University.. From the Website:
How do the contemporary media industries work? How did they develop in this fashion? How can an analysis of the “business of entertainment” enable a greater understanding of contemporary media aesthetics and culture? In other words, why does it matter that News. Corp. owns Harper Collins publishing, Twentieth Century Fox, Fox News, the FOX network, myspace.com, the New York Post and many, many other entities around the world?
Three main objectives will guide us throughout the semester:
First, we will trace the development – and increasing interrelatedness – of the media industries from the early twentieth century to the present. We will consider the ways in which regulatory and technological shifts, as well as growing impulses toward globalization, have intersected with industrial changes.
Second, we will look at the range of theoretical and critical approaches which have been taken toward the media industries. In the process, we will read several “case studies” that provide examples of each of these theoretical approaches.
Third, we will explore the emerging field of “media industry studies.” This field, which incorporates work in film, media, communications and cultural studies, argues for the importance of integrating analysis of media structures with consideration of cultural and textual matters.
This course will prove useful not only to media studies students but also to filmmakers and screenwriters interested in understanding how and why certain media products do (and do not) get produced and distributed. Although our readings will focus most heavily on the film and television industries, students are encouraged to explore such areas as video games, music, comic books, publishing, and radio in their final projects. (last updated: 2 Sep 2013)
http://mediaindustriesandotherstuff.blogspot.com/2010/01/syllabus-media-industries-graduate.html Modes of Film & Video Production
Jennifer Proctor, University of Iowa (last updated: 8 Nov 2018)
http://jenniferproctor.com/SyllabusSummerModesweb.htm Multimedia Production
Ken Loge, Lane Community College (last updated: 8 Nov 2018)
https://media.lanecc.edu/users/logek/mmp/resources/syllabus.html Native American Film and Video: Performing Self-representation Through Media
Amalia Cordova, New York University (last updated: 8 Nov 2018)
http://www.nyu.edu/content/dam/gallatin/documents/syllabi/2011/FA/ARTS-UG1604.pdf Native Americans and Film
Brian Klopotek, University of Oregon (last updated: 8 Nov 2018)
https://cpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/blogs.uoregon.edu/dist/c/10063/files/2016/04/ES370_Fall16-13hcx5b.pdf Philosophy In Film and Other Media
Course Description
This course examines works of film in relation to thematic issues of philosophical importance that also occur in other arts, particularly literature and opera. Emphasis is put on film's ability to represent and express feeling as well as cognition. Both written and cinematic works by Sturges, Shaw, Cocteau, Hitchcock, Joyce, and Bergman, among others, are considered. There are no tests or quizzes, however students write two major papers on media/philosophical research topics of their choosing. (last updated: 23 Sep 2016)
https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/linguistics-and-philosophy/24-209-philosophy-in-film-and-other-media-spring-2004/ Philosophy of Film
(last updated: 20 Jan 2015)
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/linguistics-and-philosophy/24-213-philosophy-of-film-fall-2004 Philosophy of Film (Fall 2008)
Dr. Aaron Smuts, Temple University. (last updated: 12 Apr 2011)
http://sites.google.com/site/asmuts/teaching/classes-taught/philosophy-of-film-fall-2008/philosophy-of-film-fall-2008---syllabus Politics and Film
An undergraduate course about politics and the Hollywood Film industry. Indiana University.. (last updated: 12 Apr 2011)
http://www.indiana.edu/~polfilm Problems in Film Scholarship (Technology)
Chuck Kleinhans, Northwestern University, 1977. (PDF of Ditto original.) (last updated: 27 Sep 2018)
http://screensite.org/wp-content/themes/directorypress/thumbs//Syllabus-E84-Problems-in-Film-Scholarship-Technology-Winter-1978.pdf Race and Gender in Cinema - TV
Antonio Lopez, John Cabot University (last updated: 11 Oct 2018)
http://www.openmediaeducation.net/race-gender-14/ Reading Film and Cultural Texts
Dr Timothy White & Dr Valerie Wee, DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE & LITERATURE, National University of Singapore. (last updated: 12 Apr 2011)
http://courses.nus.edu.sg/course/elltrw/Film/Reading.html Regency Film Costume
(last updated: 12 Apr 2011)
http://www.sensibility.com/filmsyl.htm Screen Women: Body Narratives in Popular American Film
(last updated: 20 Jan 2015)
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/womens-and-gender-studies/wgs-640-screen-women-body-narratives-in-popular-american-film-spring-2014 Screening History: The Construction of American History in Hollywood Films
New York University (last updated: 23 Oct 2018)
https://steinhardt.nyu.edu/scmsAdmin/media/users/sr99/ug_syl/E59.1140_Screening_History.pdf Screening the Machine: Technology, Anxiety & The Movies
University of California. (last updated: 12 Apr 2011)
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/Film24Syllabus.html Seminar in American Cinema
Jeremy Butler, University of Alabama.. Genre, director and star are examined. (last updated: 14 Jan 2019)
http://www.tcf.ua.edu/Classes/Jbutler/T440/s11/outlineoftopics.php Seminar in Rhetoric of Narrative Film
Tom Benson, Department of Speech and Communication, Pennsylvania State University. (last updated: 12 Apr 2011)
http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/t/3/t3b/courses/SpCom515Fall1999/515syllabus99.2.htm Small Wonders: Media, Modernity, and the Moment: Experiments in Time
Course Description
The "small wonders" to which our course will attend are moments of present time, depicted in the verbal and visual media of the modern age: newspapers, novels and stories, poems, photographs, films, etc. We will move between visual and verbal media across a considerable span of time, from eighteenth-century poetry and prose fiction to twenty-first century social networking and microblogging sites, and from sculpture to photography, film, and digital visual media. With help from philosophers, contemporary cultural historians, and others, we will begin to think about a media practice largely taken for granted in our own moment. (last updated: 27 Sep 2016)
https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/literature/21l-325-small-wonders-media-modernity-and-the-moment-experiments-in-time-fall-2010/ Special Topics in Cinematic Storytelling
(last updated: 20 Jan 2015)
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/media-arts-and-sciences/mas-845-special-topics-in-cinematic-storytelling-spring-2004 Storytelling in Film & Media (Fall 2012)
Explores how narrative structures and models operate differently between film, television, and digital media such as videogames. Jason Mittell, Middlebury College.. "All artistic and popular media offer their own particular techniques of storytelling. This course explores how narrative structures and models operate differently between film, television, and digital media such as videogames. Drawing heavily on various theories of narratology developed to understand the structures, techniques, and impacts of narrative for literature and film, we will consider how different media offer possibilities to creators and viewers to tap into the central human practice of storytelling. We will focus on works that challenge convention in a variety of ways, centered on contemporary media and trends in narrative technique." (last updated: 14 Jan 2019)
http://courses.middlebury.edu/hub/MCUG/2012-2013/fall/FMMC/0357A/syllabus Studies in Film
This course investigates relationships between two media, film and literature, studying works linked across the two media by genre, topic, and style. (last updated: 20 Jan 2015)
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/literature/21l-706-studies-in-film-fall-2005 Studies in Film
Course Description
This course investigates relationships between two media, film and literature, studying works linked across the two media by genre, topic, and style. It aims to sharpen appreciation of major works of cinema and of literary narrative. The course explores how artworks challenge and cross cultural, political and aesthetic boundaries. It includes some attention to theory of narrative. Films to be studied include works by Akira Kurosawa, John Ford, Francis Ford Coppolla, Clint Eastwood, Orson Welles, Billy Wilder, and Federico Fellini, among others. Literary works include texts by Aeschylus, Sophocles, Shakespeare, Cervantes, Honoré de Balzac, Henry James and F. Scott Fitzgerald. (last updated: 27 Sep 2016)
https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/literature/21l-706-studies-in-film-fall-2005/ Studies in Film Authorship (Melodrama)
Chuck Kleinhans, Northwestern University, 1977. Syllabus, plus program for the Northwestern University Film Division Graduate Seminar on Melodrama, November 19, 1977--with Kleinhans, Val Almendarez, Bill Horrigan, and Thomas Elsaesser. (PDFs of Ditto originals.) (last updated: 27 Sep 2018)
http://screensite.org/wp-content/themes/directorypress/thumbs//Syllabus-C80-Studies-in-Film-Authorship-Melodrama-Fall-1977-and-Seminar-Program-19-Nov-1977.pdf Studies in Film Scholarship (Ideology)
Chuck Kleinhans, Northwestern University, spring 1978. (last updated: 14 Sep 2018)
http://screensite.org/wp-content/themes/directorypress/thumbs//Syllabus-E84-Studies-in-Film-Scholarship-Ideology-Spring-1978.pdf Studies in Literary History: Modernism: From Nietzsche to Fellini
Course Description
How do literature, philosophy, film and other arts respond to the profound changes in world view and lifestyle that mark the twentieth century? This course considers a broad range of works from different countries, different media, and different genres, in exploring the transition to a decentered "Einsteinian" universe. (last updated: 27 Sep 2016)
https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/literature/21l-709-studies-in-literary-history-modernism-from-nietzsche-to-fellini-fall-2010/ Studies of Cross-Cultural Analysis in Radio/TV/Film
Professor Chuck Kleinhans, Northwestern University. (last updated: 12 Apr 2011)
http://www.ejumpcut.org/gatewaypages/kleinhansfolder/13/426crosscult/crosscultMedia.html Tales from the Teaching Crypt: American Film Genres (Summer 2000)
(last updated: 26 May 2012)
http://bavatuesdays.com/tales-from-the-teaching-crypt-american-film-genres-syllabus-from-summer-2000/ Television & American Culture
Professor Jason Mittell, Middlebury College, Fall 2009.. (last updated: 25 Aug 2013)
http://courses.middlebury.edu/hub/MCUG/2012-2013/fall/FMMC/0104A/syllabus Television Symposium
(last updated: 12 Apr 2011)
http://ctcs467.livejournal.com/ The African American Image in Film
Ronnie Dunn, Cleveland State University (last updated: 23 Oct 2018)
http://cua6.urban.csuohio.edu/syllabi/spring12/UST251_Dunn.pdf The American Family in Film and Television
Wende Garrison, Portland State University (last updated: 23 Oct 2018)
http://psucurriculumtracker.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/90974640/CFS%20330U%20Course%20Syllabus.pdf The Documentary Body: Advanced Media Production
Vicky Funari, Haverford College (last updated: 8 Nov 2018)
https://scholarship.tricolib.brynmawr.edu/bitstream/handle/10066/20415/VIST_H353B_01.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y The Film Experience
This course concentrates on close analysis and criticism of a wide range of films, including works from the early silent period, documentary and avant-garde films, European art cinema, and contemporary Hollywood fare. . (last updated: 18 Sep 2016)
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/literature/21l-011-the-film-experience-fall-2013/ The History of the Movie Industry
Brooklyn College (last updated: 8 Nov 2018)
http://userhome.brooklyn.cuny.edu/anthro/jbeatty/COURSES/hist/syllabus.html The Inner City in American Film
Amy Corbin, Muhlenberg College (last updated: 8 Nov 2018)
http://www.mediapolisjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Inner-City-syllabus-spring-10-SIG.pdf The Rise of Film Noir
(last updated: 20 Jan 2015)
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/comparative-media-studies/cms-s61-special-subject-the-rise-of-film-noir-january-iap-2012 Theatre, Art, Music, Film
Professor Anatoly Antohin, University of Alaska Fairbanks. (last updated: 12 Apr 2011)
http://afronord.tripod.com/classes/200.html Topics in African American Film
Chris Johnson (last updated: 8 Nov 2018)
http://blackvistas.com/film/media/film_syllabus.pdf Transmedia Storytelling: Modern Science Fiction
Course Description
Transmedia narratives exist across multiple storytelling platforms, using the advantages of each to enhance the experience of the audience. No matter which medium nor how many, the heart of any successful transmedia project is a good story. In this class we will spend time on the basics of solid storytelling in speculative fiction before we move on to how to translate those elements into various media. We will then explore how different presentations in different media can complement and enhance our storytelling. While we will read scholarly articles and discuss ideas about transmedia, this is primarily a class in making speculative fiction transmedia projects. We will analyze the strengths and weaknesses of various mediums and consider how they complement each other, and how by using several different media we can give the audience a more complete, rewarding, and immersive experience. (last updated: 28 Sep 2016)
https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/comparative-media-studies-writing/21w-763j-transmedia-storytelling-modern-science-fiction-spring-2014/ United States History through Film
Rob P. Zarkowski (last updated: 8 Nov 2018)
http://www.dcstigers.org/Syllabi/Mr.%20Zarkowski/History%20Through%20the%20Media.pdf Visual Histories: German Cinema 1945 to Present
(last updated: 18 Sep 2016)
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/global-studies-and-languages/21g-056-visual-histories-german-cinema-1945-to-present-fall-2003/ Women & the Silent Screen
Class taught by Shelley Stamp at the University of California, Santa Cruz. (last updated: 16 Sep 2016)
https://people.ucsc.edu/~stamp/284/FILM_284/Home.html Women and Film
Julia Lesage, University of Oregon (last updated: 2 Oct 2018)
http://screensite.org/wp-content/themes/directorypress/thumbs//Julia-Lesage-Women-and-Film.pdf Women in Cinema
A reference guide. (last updated: 12 Apr 2011)
http://www.people.virginia.edu/~pm9k/libsci/womFilm.html Women in Film
Donna Davidson-Symonds, University of Maryland. (last updated: 27 Sep 2018)
http://mith.umd.edu/womensstudies/Syllabi/ArtMusicFilm/cinema-125-davidson World Film History 1945-Present
Eleni Palis, University of Pennsylvania (last updated: 3 Oct 2018)
https://www.sas.upenn.edu/summer/sites/neutron_sas.summer/files/CIMS-102-910.pdf Writing on Contemporary Issues: Imagining the Future
Course Description
Turn-of-the-century eras have historically been times when people are more than usually inclined to scrutinize the present and speculate about the future. Now, the turn not just of a century but of a millennium having recently passed, such scrutiny and speculations inevitably intensify. What will the future that awaits us in this twenty-first century and beyond be like? And how do visions of that future reflect and respond to the world we live in now? In this course we will read and write about how some writers and filmmakers have responded to the present as a way of imagining—and warning about—possible worlds to come. Guided by our reading and discussion, we will scrutinize our own present and construct our own visions of the future through close readings of the texts as well as of some aspects of contemporary culture—urban and environmental crises, economic imperialism, sexual and reproductive politics, the ethics of biotechnologies, issues of race and gender, the romance of technology, robotics and cyborg cultures, media saturation, language and representation—and the persistent questions they pose about what it means to be human at this start of a new millennium. (last updated: 28 Sep 2016)
https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/comparative-media-studies-writing/21w-730-5-writing-on-contemporary-issues-imagining-the-future-fall-2007/
