The new major in Cinema and Digital Media is now open, as of
Fall 2015.
Students who wish to declare will be majoring in
Cinema and Digital Media from now on. See
complete details about the new major here, including the major
checklist PDF, which lists all courses in the new
major. Cinema and Digital Media courses are currently
designated with the letters CTS. Also please see TCS and
FMS courses
for additional course descriptions.
Lecture/discussion—3 hours; laboratory—3 hours; fieldwork—6
hours. Prerequisite: Cinema & Technocultural Studies 20 or
equivalent; one course in Women and Gender Studies, or consent of
instructor. Media production as a mode of cultural criticism,
furthering feminist and social justice goals. Fundamentals of
camera, editing and distribution via a social engagement model.
Study and hands-on response to key historic and contemporary
feminist and social justice media discourses. (Same course as
Women’s Studies 165.) Offered in alternate years.
Lecture/Discussion—3 hour(s); Film Viewing—3
hour(s). Analysis of the contribution of outstanding
designers for cinema, television and filmed entertainment. Study
of diverse aesthetic theories of production design and art
direction, costume design, or cinematography. Introductory
principles and practice, history. May be repeated up to
2 time(s) when topic differs. (Same course as DRA
116.) GE credit: AH, VL. Effective: 2013 Fall
Quarter.
Lecture/Discussion—4 hour(s). Prerequisite(s): DRA 024;
or Consent of Instructor. Pass One restricted to Theatre &
Dance majors. Theory and practice of the art and business of
film costume design. Script analysis, costume research,
developing design concepts, budgeting, and current production
practices and methods. Execution of designs for period and
contemporary films. Viewing of current films. (Same course
as DRA 124E.) GE
credit: AH, OL, VL. Effective: 2017 Spring
Quarter.
Lecture/Discussion—3 hour(s); Film Viewing—3
hour(s). Prerequisite(s): Upper division standing, or
consent of instructor. Iranian cinema of the 20th century in
the context of profound cultural and social changes in Iran
especially since the Iranian Revolution. Productions by
representative directors such as Kiarostami, Makhmalbaf, Bahram
Beizaie are included. Knowledge of Persian not
required. (Same course as MSA 131A.) GE
credit: AH, OL, VL, WC, WE. Effective:
2013 Fall Quarter.
Lecture/Discussion – 3.0 hours, Film Viewing – 3.0 hours
Prerequisites-Upper-division standing or consent of instructor.
South Asian cinema of last 100 years in the context of
cultural, social, and political changes. South Asian history,
Independence, Partition, urban life, class, migration,
postcolonial identity, diaspora, gender, sexuality, religion,
sport, performance, etc. Same course as MSA 131B/ANT147.GEcredit:
SocSci | AH, SS, VL, WC, WE. –
English language survey of Chinese film, from its inception to
the end of the twentieth century. Chinese films as important
texts for understanding national, transnational, racial, gender,
and class politics of modern China.
Taught in English and designed for undergraduates and graduate
students with no prior background in Japanese language,
literature, or history, this course aims to introduce various
manifestations of Japanese cultural paradigms and imagination
through the medium of film by some of the most prominent talents
in the Japanese cinema from the 1920s to the present-day.
Survey of films based on works of Japanese literature,
emphasis on pre-modern and early modern texts. Introduction to
major directors of Japan, with a focus on cinematic adaptation.
Lectures and readings in English. Films in Japanese with English
subtitles. (Same course as Japanese 156.) Offered in alternate
years.
Lecture—2 hour(s); Discussion—1 hour(s); Film Viewing—3 hour(s);
Extensive Writing. Critical and theoretical approaches to
the emergence of new technologies since the invention of
photography. Examine various approaches to media (formalist,
semiotic, structuralist, Frankfurt School, cybernetics, visual
and gamer theory). (Same course as STS 151.) GE
credit: AH, OL, SS, VL, WE. Effective:
2014 Fall Quarter.
Lecture—3 hour(s); Film Viewing—3 hour(s); Term
Paper. Prerequisite(s): TCS 001 or STS 020. Study
of the ubiquitous presence of CCTV, face recognition software,
global tracking systems, biosensors, and data mining practices
that have made surveillance part of our daily life. Study
boundaries between security and control, information and
spying. (Same course as STS 162.) GE
credit: ACGH, AH, OL, SS, VL, WE. Effective:
2015 Winter Quarter.
Rather than treat “videogames and culture” as two distinct
categories that play off one another, in this course we will
examine the community histories and material practices that have
evolved alongside videogames as a mass medium, cultural
commodity, and digital technology.
Lecture—3 hour(s); Extensive Writing/Discussion—1
hour(s). Prerequisite(s): TCS 001 or ENL 003 or STS
001; or equivalent of these courses. Critical approaches to
the study of video games, focusing on formal, historical, and
cultural modes of analysis. History of software and hardware in
North American and global contexts. Relations of games to
society, politics, economics, literature, media, and the
arts. (Same course as STS 172, ENL 172.) GE
credit: ACGH, AH, SS, VL. Effective:
2014 Fall Quarter.
Lecture—2 hours; discussion—1 hour; film viewing—3 hours.
Analysis of film form and narrative, including cinematography,
editing, and sound. Issues in film studies, including authorship,
stardom, race, gender, class, and cultural identity. Includes
introduction to selected cinematic movements and national film
traditions. GE credit: ArtHum, Wrt | AH, OL, VL, WC, WE.
Lecture-2 hour(s); Discussion-1 hour(s); Film Viewing-3 hour(s).
History of representations of vampires and horror generally from
the 19th-21st centuries. Emphasis on transnational history of the
horror genre; psychologies of horror effects; issues of race,
gender, and class; intersections with prejudice, medicine,
modernity. (Same course as GER 045.) GE credit: ACGH, AH, DD, OL,
VL, WC, WE.
Prerequisite: course 1. Exploration of representations of
Italian-American identity in American (U.S.) cinema. Analysis of
both Hollywood and independently produced films, especially as
they represent ethnicity, gender, and social class of Italian
Americans.
Prerequisite: course 1 and upper-division standing, or consent of
instructor. Italian cinema of the 21st century in the context of
profound cultural and social changes in Italy since World War II.
Productions by representative directors such as Amelio, Giordana,
Moretti, Muccino are included. Knowledge of Italian not required.
Lecture—3 hours; film viewing—3 hours. Prerequisite: course 1.
Study of an
aspect of American film history (such as the silent era; the
studio system; U.S. avant-garde cinema), including the influences
of technological, economic, regulatory, cultural, and artistic
forces. Not open for credit to students who have completed
Humanities 124 unless topic differs. May be repeated two times
for credit if topic differs. GE credit: ArtHum, Wrt | ACGH, AH,
DD, OL, VL, WE.
Lecture—3 hour(s); Film Viewing—3
hour(s). Prerequisite(s): FMS 001. A study of one
or more of the film genres (such as the documentary, the musical,
film noir, screwball comedy, or the western), including genre
theory and the relationship of the genre(s) to culture, history,
and film industry practices. May be repeated up to
2 time(s) when topic differs. Not open for credit
to students who have completed HUM 125, unless topic
differs. GE
credit: AH, OL, VL, WE. Effective: 2012
Fall Quarter.
Lecture/Discussion—3 hour(s); Film Viewing—3
hour(s). Prerequisite(s): FMS 001; or Consent of
Instructor. Survey of the conceptual frameworks used to
study film (including semiotics, psychoanalysis, spectatorship,
auteur, genre and narrative theories). Historical survey of major
film theorists. GE
credit: AH, OL, VL, WC, WE. Effective:
2012 Fall Quarter.
History of Russian film; film and social revolution, the cult of
Stalin, dissident visions; film and the collapse of the Soviet
empire; gender and the nation in Russian film. Course taught in
English; films are in Russian with English subtitles.
