2007-08 Cinema Studies Courses

Fall 2007 Courses

Spring 2008 Cinema Studies Courses

Introductory Cinema Studies Core Course
Cinema Studies majors are required to take Cinema Studies 101 (Form, Style, and Meaning in Cinema), which is the foundation for future study in the discipline.

Prerequisites: Cinema Studies 101 has no prerequisites. Some spaces are reserved for first- and second-year students.

101. Form, Style, and Meaning in Cinema, 4 hours / 4HU
-01 (11163): MWF 2:30-3:20 + Tu 7-10 pm + Sun 1-4 pm, B. Doan
-02 (14148): MWF 11:00-11:50 + Tu 7-10 pm + Sun 1-4 pm, B. Doan
This course considers the cinema as a particular media form and explores issues and methods in cinema studies. The class focuses on questions of film form and style (narrative, editing, sound, framing, mise-en-scène) and introduces students to concepts in film history and theory (industry, auteurism, spectatorship, the star system, ideology, genre). Students develop a basic critical vocabulary for examining the cinema as an art form, an industry, and a system of culturally meaningful representation. Enrollment Limit: 30.

Introductory Cinema Studies Production Course
This is the preferred gateway to advanced production courses, which are listed in Advanced Cinema Studies courses below.

Prerequisites: Cinema Studies 101.

CINE 201 (14199). Sound and Image Workshop, 3 hours / 3HU
TuTh 1:30-2:45 + W 7-10 pm, B. Kashmere
This workshop follows the idea that we may understand film by making as well as analyzing it. We will explore basic issues in cinema through hands-on experience, marrying critical study (How are movies structured and why? How do they affect audiences?) to production work (exercises and projects in cinematography, mise-en-scène, sound, and editing). In short, we will probe the broad question of how films generate meaning by composing with sounds and images. Serves as prerequisite for advanced production courses. Consent by instructor required. Prerequisite: CINE 101. Enrollment Limit: 12.

Cinematic Traditions Courses
Cinema Studies majors are required to take at least one Cinematic Traditions course taught by the Cinema Studies faculty or cross-referenced by the Cinema Studies Program.

Prerequisites: Cinema Studies 101 is strongly recommended as preparation for Cinematic Traditions Courses. Unless otherwise noted, Cinematic Traditions courses are open to students who have completed any Writing Intensive (WRi) course, or have gained Writing Certification (WR) in any course in the Humanities. They are also open to those who have achieved a 5 on the AP exam in English Language/Composition or English Literature/Composition, or a score of 710 or better on the SAT II writing test. Other students may be admitted by consent of the instructor, with the understanding that students should be able to demonstrate the ability to handle writing, discussion, and analysis in ways typically taught in Writing Intensive classes.

CINE 221 (13920). Documentary Forms, 4 hours / 4HU, WR
MWF 2:30-3:20 + W 7-10 pm, G. Pingree

This course has been cancelled.

This course examines and compares various traditions in documentary cinema by considering how each has framed its pursuit of the "real." Using documentary films from diverse times and places, the class introduces students to basic questions and issues -- structure, mimesis, politics, authorship, ethics, history -- central to the notion and enterprise of documentary cinema. Enrollment Limit: 30.

242. (13921) Masters Of World Cinema: Focus On Bergman, 2 hours / 2HU
MW 3:30-4:20 + Tu 3:00-5:00, D. Goulding
First Module. A selected viewing and close analysis of Ingmar Bergman's most acclaimed films from his earlier comedies to his epic Fanny and Alexander. The evolution of Bergman’s central thematic concerns and the development of his distinctive cinematic style is traced out in Smiles of a Summer Night, The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries, Through a Glass Darkly, Winter Light, The Silence, Persona, and Fanny and Alexander. This course has no prerequisites. Enrollment Limit: 40.

243. (13922) Masters Of World Cinema: Focus On Polanski, 2 hours / 2HU
MW 3:30-4:20 + Tu 3:00-5:00, D. Goulding
Second Module. A focused discussion and critical analysis of Polanski's most significant films from his earliest works in his native Poland, his British, Hollywood, and French periods, to his recent award-winning international co-productions Death and the Maiden and The Pianist. Emphasis will be placed on continuities and discontinuities of artistic influences, thematic treatment, sociocultural content, and aesthetic form and imagery as Polanski moved from the political East to the political West and from one film culture to another. This course has no prerequisites. Enrollment Limit: 40.

247 (14147). Bollywood Cinema: Cinematic Constructions of Gender, Sexuality, and Nation, 3 hours / 3HU, CD
MW 2:30-3:45 + Sun 7:00-10:00, P. Sundar
This course examines how mainstream Hindi cinema, or Bollywood, constructs gender, sexuality, and nation. Studying films from a range of different genres and periods -- from the "socials" of the 1950s to "designer" movies of the present -- we will ask how Hindi cinema manages the tensions between tradition and modernity, the individual and the collective, and desire and social order. We will also attend to the new meanings and audiences Bollywood accrues in its transnational travels. This course also counts towards the English major. Prerequisite: See headnote above. Enrollment Limit: 25.

270 (14200). Comics, Animation and American Film Culture, 4 hours / 4HU, WR
MWF 1:30-2:20 + Sun 1-4 pm, B. Doan
This class looks at the intersections of comics, animated films and live-action cinema in relationship to American film culture, and how all three forms offer their audiences a unique form of visual communication throughout the twentieth century. By thinking about these three forms in detail, we will also explore how what one artist has called "sequential literature" challenges paradigms of reading, and by extension, writing, criticism and theory. This course also counts towards the English major. Prerequisite: See headnote above. Enrollment Limit: 30.

Intermediate Cinema Studies Core Course
Cinema Studies majors are required to take CINE 299 (Persistence of Vision: Approaches to Cinema Studies). Majors will receive priority at registration.

Prerequisites: Cinema Studies 101, or consent of instructor.

CINE 299. (13923) Persistence of Vision: Approaches to Cinema Studies, 4 hours / 4HU, WR
MWF 10:00-10:50 + Tu 7-10 pm + Sun 7-10 pm, W. P. Day
This course will explore a variety approaches to cinema studies as a discipline, including issues involving production. In addition to close discussion of a variety of movies, theoretical and critical readings will include works on aesthetics and the nature of cinema, the history of cinema as an art form and a industry, and cultural and social issues in cinema studies. We will also play close attention to the issue of writing about cinema. Prerequisite: See headnote above. N.B. Cinema 299 is required of all Cinema Studies majors who declared after August 2007. Enrollment limit: 25.

Advanced Cinema Studies Courses
Unless otherwise indicated, these 300- and 400-level courses taught by Cinema Studies faculty require as prerequisites CINE 101 and a Cinematic Traditions course or CINE 299; or CINE 101 and consent of the instructor.

320. (13415) Documentary Production, 4 hours / 4HU, WR
TuTh 1:30-2:45 + W 7-10 pm, G. Pingree

This course has been cancelled.

This course explores documentary form in both critical and creative ways. The class introduces students to various ways to think about and understand documentaries (in terms of structure, purpose, audience, etc.) and then gives them the opportunity to practice basic documentary production (camera, lighting, sound, non-linear editing). After engaging in various individual and small group exercises, students spend the balance of the semester working together to produce a short documentary video. Prerequisite: See headnote above. Completed application (download here) and consent by instructor required. Enrollment limit: 12.

322 (14162). Advanced Media Production, 3 hours / 3HU
TuTh 3:00-4:15 + Sun 4-7 pm, B. Kashmere
The course aims to activate and amplify students' creativity, and to stir passion for time-based media that transcend mainstream conventions. Students will be introduced to specialized production methods and techniques and post-production strategies; produce short experiments and exercises; and complete an individual studio project. Students will be exposed to a wide range of contemporary screen practices and hybrid forms, including the essay-film, auto-ethnography, abstract cinema, audiovisual collage, installation, speculative biography, animation, and experimental documentary. Consent of instructor required. Prerequisite: See headnote above. Enrollment limit: 12.

365 (13932). Cultural Studies, 4 hours / 4HU, WR
TuTh 11:00-12:15 + Sun 4:00-7:00, J. Pence
Through a series of case studies, combined with theoretical readings, this course will examine the methodological assumptions and implications of a variety of contemporary critical approaches that are gathered together under the loose rubric of Cultural Studies. This course also counts towards the English major. Prerequisite: See headnote above. Enrollment limit: 25.

385 (14201). Special Topic: Alternative Global Cinemas, 4 hours / 4HU, CD, WR
TuTh 1:30-2:45 + MW 7:00-9:30, T. Takahashi
This course investigates documentary and aesthetic concerns in a wide range of alternative global cinemas from the 1960s-1970s. Through the lenses of postcolonial and cosmopolitan theory, this class asks how individuals and communities have sought to tell the truth about -- and potentially change -- their worlds. Texts may be taken from Third Cinema, Cinema Verite, Brazil’s Cinema Novo, the New American Cinema, the British avant-garde, and the Czech, French and Japanese New Waves. Prerequisite: See headnote above. Enrollment limit: 18.

399 (14149). Cinema Studies Practicum, 1-3 hours / 1-3 HU
W 7:00-10:00 pm, G. Pingree, B. Kashmere
This course allows qualified students to pursue independent projects in documentary work and other types of production within the collaborative context of a practicum. Students must demonstrate previous production training and experience, submit specific and feasible proposals, and receive permission from the instructor. Students will develop projects in consultation with the instructor and work in small groups to provide each other critical and technical support. Consent of the instructor required. Prerequisite: See headnote above. Enrollment limit: 22. Download the application and send completed form to Mr. Pingree.

Senior Tutorials, Seminars, and Honors Projects
Senior Tutorials and Senior Seminars are designed primarily for Cinema Studies majors, and fulfill the 400-level requirement for the Cinema Studies major. Rising senior Cinema Studies majors should apply for tutorials and seminars through a common application available at the Program office, not through individual instructors. Some places in seminars may be available for other qualified students after all Cinema Studies majors have been accommodated, by application to the Program.

Honors in Cinema Studies also fulfills the 400-level requirement for the Cinema Studies major; it is only open to invited students who have been admitted through the application process.

Prerequisite: Admission based on a completed application form. (Explanatory letter and application form can be downloaded here; they are also available in the Program office, Rice 130. Email the completed form to Director or drop it off in Rice 130.)

498. Senior Tutorial 1-4 hours / 1-4HU,WR
-01 (11719), W.P. Day / -02 (14202), E. Hamilton / -03 (12956), J. Pence / -05 (13419), G. Pingree
Students should consult with the Director of the Program about arranging a Senior Tutorial. Prerequisite: Admission based on a completed application form (available at Program office). Consent of instructor required. Enrollment limit: 9.

499. (11351). Honors Project 1-4 hours / 1-4HU, WR
TBA, J. Pence
Honors in Cinema Studies is only open to invited students who have been admitted through the application process. Prerequisite: Admission based on a completed application form (available at Program office). Consent of instructor required.

995. Private Reading 0.5-3 hours / 0.5-3HU
Consent of instructor required.

*Cross-Referenced Courses
These elective courses count towards the Cinema Studies major. Students should register for these courses using the number in the department or program of origin. For course description, please see the relevant department or program in this catalog.

*CRWR 360 (13935). Screenwriting Workshop, 4 hours / 4 HU
M 7-10 pm, D. Chaon
The elements of translating written work into a visual medium. Students will examine the art and craft of film scripting from a writer’s perspective, focusing on both adaptation and original work. Admission based on completed application and writing sample (due in Program office by Friday, January 4, 2008). Consent of instructor required. Recommended preparation: CRWR 201. Enrollment Limit: 12. This course is cross referenced with Cinema Studies and also counts towards that major.

*ENGL 373 (13972). American Literature, Movies, and Culture in the 1930s: Art and Social Value, 4 hours / 4HU, WR
MWF 11:00-11:50 + Tu 7:00-10:00 pm + Sun 1:00-4:00, W. P. Day
This course focuses on American culture in the 1930s with particular reference to the relation between the novel and cinema, though other arts and media such as photography, painting, and music will also be addressed. We will consider not only the relation of these arts to each other but to the social crisis of the Great Depression. Enrollment limit: 25. This course is cross referenced with Cinema Studies and also counts towards that major.

*GERM 345 (13993). The Seventies, the Germanies, the Cinema, 3 hours / 3HU, CD, WR
TuTh 3:00-4:15 + M 7-9 pm, E. Hamilton
East and West Germany formed the geographical front line of the Cold War. The ideological and political division that began in 1949 shaped two states in which cinema played pivotal, though differing roles. This course explores the dynamic cultural developments of 1970's West and East Germany through a comparative study of these parallel national cinemas. Lecture and discussion in English. Films in German with English subtitles. Prerequisite: CINE 101 or the equivalent of one German course. Enrollment limit: 30. This course is cross referenced with Cinema Studies and also counts towards that major.

*MHST 332 (13675). History of Film Music, 3 hours
TuTh 3:00-4:15, C. Roust
A comprehensive survey of film music history from the silent era through the present day. Issues discussed will include compositional developments (growth of instrumentation; use of Leitmotivic structure; expansion of diegetic versus non-diegetic music); music as narrative aid (generating continuity; providing momentum; subliminal commentary); and using music as an iconographic character or plot device. Films viewed will include those with soundtracks by major 20th-century composers as well as specialized soundtrack composers. Consent of instructor required. Enrollment Limit: 20. This course is cross-referenced with Cinema Studies, and also counts towards that major.

*RUSS 210 (14115). Soviet Blockbusters, 1-2 hours / 1-2HU, CD, WR
MW 2:30-3:20 + SunTu 7-9 pm, A. Forman
First Module. A course that boldly goes where no traditional Soviet film course has gone before. Our mission: to seek out and explore those movies beloved by generations of viewers back in the USSR. These classics include war movies, musicals, Soviet "easterns," comedies, and "chick-flicks." Our goal: to determine the basis of their popularity through an examination of their aesthetics and their surrounding social and political context. Taught in English. This course is cross-referenced with Cinema Studies, and also counts towards that major.

*RUSS 212 (14116). Russian Blockbusters, 1-2 hours / 1-2HU, CD, WR
MW 2:30-3:20 + SunTu 7-9 pm, A. Forman
Second Module. This course focuses on Russian film after the fall of the Soviet Union and the Soviet film industry. We will examine the aesthetic and socio-political dimensions of post- Soviet comedies, epic and costume dramas, gangster films, fantasy and other genres in order to explore the pressures facing new Russian cinema. Taught in English. This course is cross-referenced with Cinema Studies, and also counts towards that major.

*RUSS 446 (7219). In Print and On Screen: Russian Cinematic Adaptations, 3 hours / 3HU, CD
Th 7-9 pm, A. Forman
From tsarist times to the present, filmmakers in Russia have drawn inspiration from the country's rich literary tradition. We will study cinematic adaptations of Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenev, Tolstoy, Bulgakov, to name but a few, to explore the role that literary adaptations have played in the development of Russian cinema. Through a comparison of the original texts with their filmic transformations, we will examine how directors from different eras approached the problem of bringing another's words to the big screen. Seminar format, taught in Russian. Prerequisite: RUSS 311 or consent of the instructor. This course is cross-referenced with Cinema Studies, and also counts towards that major as an advanced Cinema Studies course - not as a Cinema Studies senior seminar.

Fall 2007 Cinema Studies Courses

First-Year Seminars
First-year seminars do not count toward the Cinema Studies major, but are recommended as an introduction to deeper-level skills in reading, viewing, analysis, writing and discussion. The successful completion of a first-year seminar will serve as one of the ways to satisfy the prerequisite for Cinematic Traditions courses.

FYSP 150 ( 7443) Contemporary East Asian Cinema, 4 hours/ 4HU, Wri
TuTh 1:00-2:15 + M 7-10 pm, H-C. Deppman
This course compares the emergence of "New Cinema" in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, and Korea since the 1980s. We will examine the major cultural and socio-political contexts in which each cinematic movement is produced, and pay attention to the specific issues raised in individual films. Consent of instructor required. Enrollment limit: 14 first-year students only.

FYSP 171 (7493) Media and Meaning, 4 hours/ 4HU, Wri
TuTh 9:35-10:50 + Tu 7-10 pm, G. Pingree
Television shows, movies, newspapers, magazines, CDs, DVDs, websites -- these all profoundly influence the ways we understand and experience the world. In this course we will explore how such media produce meaning. To do this, we will examine a variety of different media "texts" and learn to read them more self-consciously, expanding our sense of what they mean to include how and why they mean what they do. Consent of instructor required. Enrollment limit: 14 first-year students only.

Cinema Studies Introductory Core Course
Cinema Studies majors are required to take Cinema Studies 101 (Form, Style, and Meaning in Cinema), which is the foundation for future study in the discipline.

Prerequisites: Cinema Studies 101 has no prerequisites. Some spaces are reserved for first- and second-year students.

101. (4729) Form, Style, and Meaning in Cinema, 4 hours / 4HU
TuTh 9:35-10:50 + MW 7-10 pm, T. Takahashi
This course considers the cinema as a particular media form and explores issues and methods in cinema studies. The class focuses on questions of film form and style (narrative, editing, sound, framing, mise-en-scène) and introduces students to concepts in film history and theory (industry, auteurism, spectatorship, the star system, ideology, genre). Students develop a basic critical vocabulary for examining the cinema as an art form, an industry, and a system of culturally meaningful representation. Enrollment Limit: 60.

Introductory Cinema Studies Production Course
This is the preferred gateway to advanced production courses, which are listed in Advanced Cinema Studies courses below.

Prerequisites: Cinema Studies 101.

CINE 201. (7696) Sound and Image Workshop, 3 hours / 3HU
TuTh 3:00-4:15 + Th 7-10 pm, G. Pingree, E. Cowan
This workshop follows the idea that we may understand film by making as well as analyzing it. We will explore basic issues in cinema through hands-on experience, marrying critical study (How are movies structured and why? How do they affect audiences?) to production work (exercises and projects in cinematography, mise-en-scène, sound, and editing). In short, we will probe the broad question of how films generate meaning by composing with sounds and images. Serves as prerequisite for advanced production courses. Consent by instructor required. Prerequisite: CINE 101. Enrollment Limit: 12.

CINE 270. (7468) Comics, Animation and American Film Culture, 4 hours / 4HU, WR
MWF 1:30-2:20 + Sun 1-4 pm, B. Doan
This class looks at the intersections of comics, animated films and live-action cinema in relationship to American film culture, and how all three forms offer their audiences a unique form of visual communication throughout the twentieth century. By thinking about these three forms in detail, we will also explore how what one artist has called "sequential literature" challenges paradigms of reading, and by extension, writing, criticism and theory. Prerequisite: See headnote above. Enrollment Limit: 30.

320. (7539) Documentary Production, 4 hours / 4HU, WR
TuTh 1:30-2:45 + W 7-10 pm, G. Pingree, N. Mahbub
This course explores documentary form in both critical and creative ways. The class introduces students to various ways to think about and understand documentaries (in terms of structure, purpose, audience, etc.) and then gives them the opportunity to practice basic documentary production (camera, lighting, sound, non-linear editing). After engaging in various individual and small group exercises, students spend the balance of the semester working together to produce a short documentary video. Prerequisite: See headnote above. Completed application (download here) and consent by instructor required. Enrollment limit: 12.

340. (6797) Technology and Contemporary American Culture, 4 hours / 4HU, WR
TuTh 11:00-12:15 + Sun 4-7 pm, J. Pence
Innovation in technology is often seen as either a starry dream or a dystopian nightmare. This course seeks to move beyond such polarized judgments by looking closely at representations of technology in film, literature, visual art, and electronic resources as well as critical and theoretical works on technology and aesthetic and social experience. This course is cross-referenced with English, and also counts towards that major. Prerequisite: See headnote above. Enrollment limit: 25.

390. (7470) . Selected Directors: Rossellini, Truffaut, Linklater, 4 hours / 4HU, WR
MWF 3:30-4:20 + SunTu 7-10 pm, B. Doan
"Rossellini is the father of us all," Francois Truffaut wrote, and the Italian director's innovations would prove a huge influence on Truffaut and the French New Wave. The New Wave, in turn, would influence subsequent generations of young filmmakers around the globe. This course will examine questions of cinematic "parentage," by exploring the work of three interrelated filmmakers -- Roberto Rossellini, Francois Truffaut and Richard Linklater -- and tracing this influence across different national cinemas and time periods. Prerequisite: See headnote above. Enrollment limit: 25.

399. (7252) .Cinema Studies Practicum, 1-3 hours / 1-3 HU
TuTh 7:00-8:30 pm, G. Pingree

This course has been cancelled for Fall semester.

This course allows qualified students to pursue independent projects in documentary work and other types of production within the collaborative context of a practicum. Students must demonstrate previous production training and experience, submit specific and feasible proposals, and receive permission from the instructor. Students will develop projects in consultation with the instructor and work in small groups to provide each other critical and technical support. Consent of the instructor required. Prerequisite: See headnote above. Enrollment limit: 15.

425. (7469) Senior Seminar: The Anecdote and Writing Film History, 4 hours / 4HU, WR
W 7:00-9:00 pm + M 7-10 pm, B. Doan

This course was cancelled.

From Benjamin to Barthes to Greil Marcus, there is a "secret history" of theory that favors the anecdote as a mode of analysis, but film studies has largely ignored anecdotes as a model for writing its own history, one which might, like the movies themselves, be full of mysterious allure. What might a more anecdotal approach look like? This course will map out the approach’s history, and ask students to write "anecdotal" histories of course films. Consent of instructor required. Enrollment limit: 12.

Honors in Cinema Studies also fulfills the 400-level requirement for the Cinema Studies major; it is only open to invited students who have been admitted through the application process.

425. (7469) Senior Seminar: The Anecdote and Writing Film History, 4 hours / 4HU, WR
W 7:00-9:00 pm + M 7-10 pm, B. Doan

This course was cancelled.

From Benjamin to Barthes to Greil Marcus, there is a "secret history" of theory that favors the anecdote as a mode of analysis, but film studies has largely ignored anecdotes as a model for writing its own history, one which might, like the movies themselves, be full of mysterious allure. What might a more anecdotal approach look like? This course will map out the approach’s history, and ask students to write "anecdotal" histories of course films. Consent of instructor required. Enrollment limit: 12.

498. Senior Tutorial 1-4 hours / 1-4HU,WR
-01 (4736) / -02 (6374) / -03 (6375) / -04 (6534),TBA, W.P. Day, E. Hamilton, J. Pence, G. Pingree
Students should consult with the Director of the Program about arranging a Senior Tutorial. Prerequisite: Admission based on a completed application form (available at Program office). Consent of instructor required. Enrollment limit: 9.

499. (5783) Honors Project 1-4 hours / 1-4HU, WR
TBA, J. Pence
Honors in Cinema Studies is only open to invited students who have been admitted through the application process. Prerequisite: Admission based on a completed application form (available at Program office). Consent of instructor required.

995. Private Reading 0.5-3 hours / 0.5-3HU
Consent of instructor required.

*Cross-Referenced Elective Courses
These elective courses count towards the Cinema Studies major. Students should register for these courses using the number in the department or program of origin. For course description, please see the relevant department or program in this catalog.

*AAST 261. (7219) "Framing Blackness": African-Americans & Film in US, 1915-Pres, 3 hours / 3HU, CD, WRi
TuTh 11:00-12:20 + Th 7-10 pm, C. Jackson-Smith
Through an interrogation of Hollywood’s construction of Black images and the development of African American independent cinema, this class will examine the multifaceted relationship of African American people to the powerful medium of film. Drawing its title from Ed Guerrero’s book of the same name, “Framing Blackness” will draw on historical and critical readings as well as film viewing. The course will also track the rise of independent Black voice in film and the development of a distinctively Afrocentric aesthetic. Discussions and paper will be used for evaluation. Enrollment Limit: 25.

*ARTS 082 (7689). Problems: Creative Resistance, 3 hours / 3HU
MW 9:00-noon, J. Christensen
Current history and theory of media-based protest arts, including hacktivism, tactical media, and public intervention will be explored. We will learn how artists utilize digital tools to create acts of resistance, and how this relates to the history of protest in the arts. Ideas about new technologies as art-making tools (GPS, cellular technology, hand-held devices, wi-fi) will be introduced and explored. We will stage and enact media interventions, using digital tools and performance. Experience with Dreamweaver/HTML and/or Final Cut Pro suggested. Consent of instructor required. Enrollment Limit: 12.

*GERM 333. (7319) Special Topics in English Translation: Berlin in Literature and Film, 3 hours / 3 HU, CD
TuTh 3:00-4:15 + M 7-9 pm, T. Wild
Throughout Germany’s turbulent twentieth-century history, Berlin has been its political and cultural capital. Here, literature and film provide exceptional insights. In our course, we shall explore these interconnections through poems, essays, novels (e.g. Döblin’s Berlin Alexanderplatz), and films (e.g. Wilder’s One, Two, Three). We shall learn about different periods, such as the “Russian Berlin”, the divided city, or the multicultural Berlin of today. One overarching question will be: To what extent can literature and film be an archive of its time? Enrollment Limit: 30.

*HISP 355. The New Hollywood-México Connection, 1.5 hours / 1.5HU, CD
-01 (7515) : W 11:00-11:50 + Tu 7:30-10 pm, P. O'Connor
-02 (7516) : W 3:30-4:20 + Tu 7:30-10 pm, P. O'Connor
First Module. This 7-week course celebrates the synergy between two film centers through one U.S. Latino and three Mexican directors: Rodríguez, Cuarón, González Iñárritu, and del Toro. New uses of old genres; kitsch and melodrama in the U.S. versus México; adaptation; the independent cinema world; multi-plot narrative cinema. Discussion sections either in English or in Spanish. For letter-grade credit, students will write some response papers and a final 5-7 pp. paper. HISP major credit for all work done in Spanish. Enrollment Limit: 25.