DMF Courses
DMF 101 Film & Media Action (1 Credit) Foundation Course (A) 100 level
NO SENIORS. This required introductory-level course for the new Digital Media & Film major engages students' interest in digital content creation, new media, social justice, and the desire to make positive change in the world. It grounds their beginning film- and media-making projects in considerations of the ethical and social implications of media dissemination and creation while attuning students to global histories of activist, resistant, and protest media and filmmaking. Fulfills ARTS distribution.
DMF 103 Stagecraft (1 Credit) Production Course 100 level
The study and practice of creating scenery for the stage, this course also explores the operation of the theater's physical plant. Material is presented in lectures and is further illustrated through the activities of the production studio. This course will require a total of 48 hours of production time outside of scheduled class time. Fulfills ARTS Distribution (2013 curriculum). Fulfills QLR distribution (2013 curriculum) Also offered as PCA 103.
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DMF 107 Beginning Acting (1 Credit) Production Course 100 level
NO SENIORS – 1st & 2nd DAY OF REGISTRATION - OPEN TO ALL ON 3RD DAY. An introduction to the basic mental and physical skills used in acting, including use of imagination, understanding of the self, character analysis, body flexibility and expression, and voice and diction. Coursework includes exploratory and centering exercises, improvisational techniques and scene and monologue study. Fulfills ARTS Distribution (2013 curriculum). Also Offered as PCA 107.
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DMF 169 Intro Sociology: Media & Society (1 Credit) Foundation Course (C) 100 level
NO SENIORS. In this course, we will study the relationship between media technologies and society. We will engage with theoretical concepts and critical approaches in the analysis of media forms from broadcast mass media, such as TV and Radio, as well as the Internet and network culture, and ask how the ways in which we relate to the world around us and to each other changed in each media epoch. We will build an understanding of the media industries, media ownership, and the critical infrastructure of media, and analyze the effects, affordance, and public discourse around emerging technologies and their sociocultural impacts on society. The aim is to have a better grasp of the dynamic nature of media in contemporary society as a student of social sciences, as well as a media literate member of the information society. Fulfills SS Distribution (2013 curriculum). Also offered as SOC 169.
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DMF 201 Introduction to Journalism (1 Credit) Production Course 200 level
A general study of journalistic principles and methods, as well as extensive practice in the gathering and writing of news. In the first half of the semester, students learn to analyze and compose basic types of stories in a style particular to new media, with an emphasis on accuracy, clarity and efficiency. In the second half of the semester, students practice and refine their reporting skills in an atmosphere cl osely resembling the conditions of a modern newsroom. They cover actual events of local, state, national and international importance as they unfold in real time-all under the pressure of real deadlines.Fulfills ARTS Distribution (2013 curriculum).
DMF 211 Introduction to Film Studies (1 Credit) Foundation Course (B) 200 level
NO SENIORS. This is the first course in a sequence that examines the structures, techniques, history, and theory of film. Questions of history and theory are treated only in passing; the prime focus is on learning to identify, analyze and articulate what we see when we watch a film. The course studies the terminology used to describe film techniques and applies this terminology to the films viewed. The goal is to pass from close analysis of film technique and film construction to interpretation. Students learn not only how a film is constructed, but also how the techniques employed contribute to its values and meaning. Fulfills HU Distribution (2013 curriculum).
Requisites: None
DMF - 220 Music and Technology (1 Credit) Production Course 200 level
An in-depth look at the practical and artistic issues involved in making music with computers. This includes a study of some fundamental concepts and a practical application of these concepts using the resources of the Newell Center for Arts Technology. The course is divided into two broad sections - (1) the MIDI protocol: what it is, how it works and what you can do with it; (2) digital audio: a brief introduction to acoustics, a study of how audio is recorded and played back digitally and a consideration of the uses of digital signal processing. Offered every semester. Fulfills ARTS Distribution (2013 curriculum). Also offered as MUS 220.
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Pre-req: MUS-100 or MUS-101 or MUS-200 or MUS-201 or Permission of Instructor - Must be completed prior to taking this course.
DMF 221 Latin America in Film (1 Credit) Film, Media, & Society 200 level
This class examines how Latin America is represented in films by directors from Hispanic America, Brazil, Europe, and the United States. The films form the basis of conversation and research on themes related to contemporary history, interethnic conflict, traditional gender roles and immigration. The class is conducted entirely in Spanish, though some of the theoretical and technical readings on film are in English. Fulfills HU Distribution (2013 curriculum). Also offered as CLAS 221 & SPAN 221.
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Pre-req: CLAS-201 or CLAS-202 or SPAN-201 or SPAN-202 - Must be completed prior to taking this course.
DMF 222 Documentary Filmmaking (1 Credit) Production Course 200 level
Students study style and technique in the documentary film and make a short documentary film. In looking at documentary films, the course discusses questions of truth and value as they come into play for filmmakers and filmgoers. In making documentary films, we consider how to collect and represent different truths and values. Fulfills ARTS Distribution (2013 curriculum).
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DMF 232 Chinese Culture thr Fiction & Film (1 Credit) Film, Media, & Society 200 level
This course is designed to introduce the history and culture of China from its earliest beginnings to the late 19th century, covering Chinese institutions, philosophical trends, religions, literature, arts, and special topics such as gender and family, love and friendship, dream, and soul, among others. Materials include Confucian and Taoist classics, Buddhist scriptures, literary and artistic works, and films, as well as modern scholarly publications. All readings are in English. No knowledge about China and Chinese language is required. Fulfills HU Distribution (2013 curriculum). Fulfills DIV13 Distribution (2013 curriculum). Also offered as ASIA 232, CHIN 232, HIST 232, & LTRN 234.
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DMF 234 Chinese Literature and Film (1 Credit) Film, Media, & Society 200 level
This course provides an overview of Chinese literature and film. The first half surveys traditional Chinese literature with a focus on masterpieces in the golden ages of various genres. The second half introduces modern Chinese literature with a focus on film, including representative works by well-known writers Lu Xun and Ba Jin, and famous film directors such as Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige, Wang Xiaoshuai and others. The aim is to enhance students' interests and skills in reading and analysis of Chinese literature and film, and improve students' understanding of the history, society, and culture of China. All works are read in English translation. Fulfills HU Distribution (2013 curriculum). Also offered as ASIA 234 & CHIN 234.
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DMF 239 Media Industries (1 Credit) Foundation Course (C) or Film, Media, & Society 200 Level
This course surveys the historical development of traditional media industries such as newspapers, magazines, books, television, radio, film, music recording, video games, as well as the issues related to the emergence of digital technologies epitomized by the Internet. It likewise focuses on the historical evolution of two other closely related fields - advertisement and public relations. Fulfills SS Distribution (2013 curriculum). Also offered as PCA 239.
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Pre-req: PCA-127 or FILM-211 or FILM-251 - Must be completed prior to taking this course.
DMF 241 New Media Conflict & Control (1 Credit) Film, Media, & Society 200 level
The focus of this 200-level course is to explore and explain the increasing role of new media tools in conflict and democracy, as well as to take a deeper look at the paradoxical potential for surveillance that these technologies also afford. As seen through the recent examples from the Arab Spring and Occupy movements, social media can serve an integral function in democratic mobilizations. At the same time, digital media have also been effectively employed by governments and cooperating institutions to assert both direct and indirect forms of control. Thus, this course will explore the many ways in which social media afford journalistic, communicative, and controlling functions. How and to what effects new media technologies are leveraged is thus contingent upon many interwoven factors. By applying sociological knowledge about conflict and surveillance to the discussion of emerging media, students will learn new and revealing ways to think about the social and political implications of new media technologies. In addition to learning about emerging forms of media, this course will also require all participants to work with new media in both research and discussion. Fulfills SS Distribution (2013 curriculum). Also offered as SOC 240.
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DMF 244 Screenwriting (1 Credit) Production Course 200 level
An introductory study of basic technical problems of produced screenplays and formal film technique, along with writing scene exercises, builds toward construction of a short (50-minute) script. Fulfills ARTS Distribution (2013 curriculum). Also offered as ENG 244 & PCA 244.
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DMF 251 History of Cinema (1 Credit) Foundation (B) or Film, Media, & Society 200 level
This course examines the development of film technology and film technique from the 19th century to 1960, and the place of the new medium in the evolving cultural-social contexts of the 20th century. Subjects include early experiments in photography; the beginnings of narrative cinema; special effects; new camera dynamics; the development of cinema stars; theories of editing and montage; the introduction of sound; film aesthetics; deep focus photography and realism; and color photography. The course studies films by Lumière, Méliès, Eisenstein, Chaplin, Lang, Renoir, Rossellini, Welles, Truffaut, and others. Movements and genres studied include German Expressionism, poetic realism, forms of comedy, film noir, Italian neo-realism, and French New Wave. Fulfills the HU distribution (2013 curriculum).
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DMF 259 Photography I (1 Credit) Production Course 200 level
Photo I introduces black-and-white film photography's history, theory, techniques, and processes. This course will emphasize photography's potential for creative problem-solving and self-expression. Students will learn about basic photographic theory, as well as historically relevant art movements. This class will consist of slide lectures, presentations, and screenings featuring historical and contemporary artists, camera demonstrations, in-class exercises, reading discussions, and, most importantly, critiques of students’work. Students can provide their own film SLR camera or check out a film camera from the department. Also offered as AAH 259.
Requisites: Pre-req: AAH-131 or DMF-211 or DMF-251 or DMF-271 or DMF- 3099 - Must be completed prior to taking this course.
DMF 262 Video Art (1 Credit) Production Course 200 level
Video Art focuses on creating videos, basic animations, and four-dimensional (moving) artworks. Students will learn about the history of video art and how technological advancements in the 60s and 70s created new ways of working in conceptual art, performance, and experimental films. In addition, students will learn about contemporary artists who use video, animation, installation, and interactivity in their work. Student projects will experiment with the visual language of moving images while also learning professional editing skills. By the end of the semester, the class will collaborate with music composition students to make an exhibition of final video installations. Also offered as AAH 262.
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Pre-req: AAH-131 or DMF-211 or DMF-251 or DMF-271 or DMF- 3099 - Must be completed prior to taking this course.
DMF-269 Digital Media and Culture I (1 Credits) Production Course 200 level
This course is a combination studio art (2/3) and seminar course (1/3). Over the semester, using Adobe Creative Cloud software, students will learn how to create and express themselves with Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign. At the same time, through readings and examination of various media, group discussions, and exercises, we will explore concepts of visual literacy and some of the major issues surrounding digital communications and technology, and how they affect contemporary society/ life/ identity. Fulfills ARTS Distribution (2013 curriculum). Also offered as AAH 269.
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Pre-req: AAH-121 or AAH-131 - Must be completed prior to taking this course.
DMF 269SOPH SophSEM: Digital Media & Culture (1 Credit) Production Course 200 level
SOPHOMORE SEMINAR: SOPHOMORES ONLY. In this combination studio/seminar course we will explore the major theoretical issues surrounding digital technologies and their impact on various aspects of contemporary culture including aesthetics and perception, creative production, morality, entertainment, identity, consumerism, social control and constructs of intimacy and deviance. Studio projects will investigate the creative potentials of pod casting, digital video, cell phones, eBay, online dating sites, SecondLife.com, digital imaging, animation, and hypertext. It is helpful if you have some comfort using digital technology, and particularly helpful if you have used digital imaging software, but it is not mandatory. Fulfills ARTS Distribution (2013 curriculum).
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DMF 270 Desires Dreams & Madness (1 Credit) Film, Media, & Society 200 level
Fulfills HU Distribution (2013 curriculum). Fulfills DIV13 Distribution (2013 curriculum). Also offered as GNDR 270 & ENG 271.
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DMF 271 World Cinema (1 Credit) Foundation (B) or Film, Media, & Society 200 level
NO SENIORS. This course complements Film 251 by exploring the history of film outside Western Europe and the United States. Films for each semester are typically selected from four or five regions: recent regional emphases have included East Asia, South Asia, the Middle East, Eastern Europe, West Africa, and Latin America. Along with developing skills in analyzing film, students read about the history of film in different countries, consider the ways directors fit into both local and global histories of cinema, and explore the social terrain upon which filmmakers work. Offered occasionally. Fulfills HU Distribution (2013 curriculum). Fulfills DIV13 Distribution (2013 curriculum).
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DMF 281 Music Video (1 Credit) Production Course 200 level
Music television created new ways of visualizing music, new ways of seeing sound. This course looks at the rise of music videos in the 1980s, their predecessors and their influences. While we focus primarily on the history and criticism of music videos, the course also contains a substantial production component that includes creating and editing sound and video files. Offered occasionally. Fulfills ARTS Distribution (2013 curriculum). Also offered as MUS 281.
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DMF-282 New German Cinema (1 Credit) Film, Media, & Society 200 level
Taught in English. 200-level. Beginning in the 1960s a new generation of German directors contributed to a rebirth of artistic, politically minded filmmaking in the Federal Republic of Germany. Dubbed "New German Cinema," a diverse and loosely associated group of young German filmmakers grappled with pressing issues like left-wing terrorism, feminist politics, immigration, colonialism, Germany's Nazi past, and more recent Cold War divisions. This course introduces students to the cultural, political, and formal study of West German filmmaking since the 1960s in direct comparison with current popular cinema, East German film, and the lasting legacies of New German Cinema today. Films and texts by Herzog, Wenders, von Trotta, Fassbinder, Schlöndorff, Akin, Maccarone, Petzold, and others. No prior knowledge or coursework in DMF or German required. Fulfills HU Distribution (2013 curriculum). Also offered as EUR 282 and GER 282.
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DMF 283 Berlin Hollywood (1 Credit) Film, Media, & Society 200 level
Taught in English. Hollywood's fascination with modern German history is evident in the constant stream of films about the Holocaust, Nazism, and World War II. This history influenced not only the themes and images of Hollywood cinema, but also its personnel and production. With the rise of Hitler, many German and Austrian directors, actors, and writers fled Europe for southern California and helped shape the political, cultural, and stylistic direction of Hollywood. This course explores the intersection of German and American history and film culture from the 1930s to the present with a focus on World War II, including its lead-up and aftermath. Also covered are key theories of modernism, mass culture, historical memory, and representations of the Holocaust. Films and texts by Lang, Riefenstahl, Chaplin, Wilder, Brecht, Adorno, Staudte, Spielberg, Verhoeven, Levy, Coen Brothers, and Tarantino. Fulfills HU Distribution (2013 curriculum). Also offered as GER 283.
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DMF 301 Masculinities (1 Credit) Film, Media, & Society 200 level
"This course explores the meaning of masculinity and how maleness is gendered by looking at representation and construction of masculinity in different movies. There is not one version of masculinity, but rather multiple masculinities influenced by gender, race, ethnicity, class, nationality, sexuality, disability, and subcultures. As such, we will be conducting an intersectional exploration into how masculinity is embodied and lived out in culture and cultural products which in this course is film. The system of masculinity and its dominant form are also not created in isolation. We will explore how notions of femininity interact and influence masculinity and vice versa. The course is interdisciplinary, and students will watch 24 movies through the semester to aid examining theories. Exploring on how masculinity is formed, maintained, and represented in movies would be part of assignments."
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Pre-req: GNDR-103 or FILM-211 - Must be completed prior to taking this course.
DMF 302 TheoriesGlobCultStudies (1 Credit) Film, Media, & Society & Media Ethics 300 level
DMF & GS MAJORS/MINORS ONLY. An introduction to the growing field of cultural studies through examination of its major theoretical paradigms, particularly as these bear on the question of unequal global power relations. These may include Marxism, critical theory, post-structuralism, feminist theory and emerging work in postmodernism and post-colonial studies. Students explore strategies for "reading" cultural practices and texts not simply as reflections of reality, but as political interventions, expressions of desire, attempts to persuade and producers of power. Through a combination of theoretical criticism and analysis of specific materials, students prepare to undertake independent research with an informed understanding of how cultural studies challenge and enrich traditional social science and humanities approaches. Fulfills HU Distribution (2013 curriculum). Also offered as GS 302.
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Pre-req: GS 101 or GS 102 - Must be completed prior to taking this course.
DMF 309 AW: Feature Writing (1 Credit) Production Course 300 level
AW: Feature Writing/Literary Journalism. In this course, students study the basic techniques of literary journalism, a specific genre that combines best practices of journalistic reporting with creative writing. Students survey examples of excellent feature stories, develop their own topics, and produce a series of feature stories, experimenting with various sub-genres, story lengths and literary approaches. Fulfills ARTS Distribution (2013 curriculum). Also offered as ENG 309.
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Pre-req: ENG-201 or ENG-221 or ENG-243 or ENG-295 or ENVS-295 - Must be completed prior to taking this course.
DMF 310 Culture and Media (RI) (1 Credit) Film, Media, & Society 300 level
The course goal is for participants to become capable of entering critical dialogues that analyze our mediated everyday experience. In the movie The Truman Show, Truman Burbank is adopted by a TV corporation and grows up in a world that is exclusively constructed for him by the producer of a television show and his team. In the words of the show's producer, Truman voluntarily accepts the reality of the world with which he was presented. Why? Because he was not aware of the factors that shaped his understanding of the world. We should all ask ourselves to what extent Truman's story is a metaphor of our own human condition. Print or electronic mediating technologies have accompanied humans for more than five centuries and at some point people started questioning the extent to which they influenced, or as we will learn to say, co-constructed our everyday reality. In this class we will survey some of the important intellectual contributions to this inquiry - media theories and seminal studies. At the same time, we will follow some of the most significant contemporary debates that reflect the symbiotic relationship between the media and our own culture. Fulfills HU Distribution (2013 curriculum). Also offered as PCA 310.
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Pre-req: DMF-211 or DMF-251 or GNDR-127 or PCA-111 or PCA-127 or PCA 239 - Must be completed prior to taking this course.
DMF 311 Film Theory (1 Credit) Film, Media, & Society or Media Ethics 300 level
This seminar offers a survey of film theory: its history, its important concepts and figures and its key theoretical movements. We begin with "classical" film theory, including auteur theory, realism, genre theory and political criticism. Much of the course, however, is given to contemporary film theory: semiotics, Marxism, psychoanalysis, feminism/masculinity studies, African American film studies, postmodernism, postcolonial and global studies. To ground all this theory, we view, discuss, and write about an eclectic collection of films.
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Pre-req: FILM-211 or FILM-251 - Must be completed prior to taking this course.
DMF-325 Sexuality Education (1 Credit) Film, Media, & Society 300 level
The field of sexuality education can be examined through various disciplinary lenses, including but not limited to, law, medicine, journalism, religion, literature, and sociology. As such, this course will look at an array of sources, both scholarly and popular, to make sense of debates in the field. Students will deeply engage with issues of disability, heteronormativity, stigma, patriarchy, and morality, as they relate to sexuality education, from a variety of perspectives. Sexuality education is more than just learning about our body's biological and anatomical systems; there are deep historical, social, and cultural factors that influence this area of public health. Issues of diversity, equity, and positionality have profound effects on who is included and excluded from conversations about sexuality education. This course will push back on the status quo of sexuality education that has long excluded marginalized groups (e.g., the LGBTQ community, women, people with disabilities) in harmful, dehumanizing ways. Counts as Public Health elective. Also offered as EDUC 325 & GNDR 325.
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DMF-332 Directing (1 Credit) Production Course 300 level
This course provides the advanced student with practical skills and an understanding of directing methods, including intensive script analysis, concept development and articulation, composition/picturization and collaboration with other theater artists. Fulfills ARTS Distribution (2013 curriculum). Also offered as PCA 332.
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Pre-req: PCA-103 or PCA-107 or PCA-113 or PCA-125 or Permission of Instructor - Must be completed prior to taking this course.
DMF-337 Postcolonial India: Film & Lit (1 Credit) Film, Media, & Society 300 level
NO FIRST YEAR STUDENTS. This course is an exploration of South Asian religions and postcolonialism through fiction and film, taking as its starting point that postcolonialism refers both to the temporal period following colonialism as well as a deep engagement with and critique of the colonial experience. We will examine how novels and cinema have provided an enduring medium over the past 70 years to grapple with notions of religious identity, history, myth, gender, and sexuality. Each week, a particular fictionalized narrative will be read through the lens of postcolonial theory, so that students can explore the aforementioned themes alongside interrogations of modernity, nationalism, Orientalism, and ideas of the "subaltern." Fulfills HU distribution (2013 curriculum). Also offered as ASIA 337, ENG 337, REL 337, & GS 338.
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Pre-req: Any course from ASIA, FILM, REL, GS, or ENG - Must be completed prior to taking this course.
DMF 340 Blogging the Globe (1 Credit) Production Course 300 level
This course fosters the tools necessary to be critical readers and viewers of the news in a complex, globalized media environment while also giving students the opportunity to become investigative journalists themselves. In addition to examining patterns in how global events are covered in mainstream and independent/ alternative media outlets in the U.S. and elsewhere, the course explores deeper structural issues concerning discourse, ideology, and the representation of "other" cultures; the relationship between media, corporate and state power; and the role of institutions in defining the bounds of "legitimate" knowledge. Students in the course contribute to The Weave, an online public Intellectual project, by researching and blogging about under reported stories. Also offered as GS 340 & PCA 342.
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Pre-req: GS-101 or GS-102 - Must be completed prior to taking this course.
DMF 357 AT:PostcolonialFlimLit&Theory (1 Credit) Film, Media, & Society 300 level
NO PASS/FAIL OPTION. Throughout the mid- to late-twentieth century, formerly colonized people from around the world gained independence and established new nations. It meant the end of a particular form of oppression but also the enormous challenge of producing new cultural norms, governance, social relations, and intellectual habits. Decolonization gave as much rise to civil wars and coup d'états as to a rich body of art that imagines unseen possibilities while registering the realities of intergenerational trauma, survival, and diaspora. We will explore how new media capture these experiences by encountering films and novels by Ousmane Sembène, Michel Khleifi, Atom Egoyan, Sohrab Salles, Trinh T. Minh-ha, Tayeb Salih, and Arundhati Roy, to name a few. We will supplement our reading and viewing with major architects and theorists of anti-colonial revolutions like Franz Fanon and C.L.R. James. Fulfills HU distribution (2013 curriculum). Also offered as ENG 357, GS 357, & PHIL 357.
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Pre-req: DMF-211 or DMF-251 or ENG-250 or GS-101 or GS-102 or PHIL-100 - Must be completed prior to taking this course.
DMF 369 Making Sexualities (1 Credit) Media Ethics 300 level
Sexuality culturally operates as a central trope by which we come to "know" ourselves as sexed people (that is, female or male) and how we come to understand our desire. In this course we unpack sexuality from a cultural and gendered perspective - we discuss how we have come to know sexuality culturally, materially and in our everyday lives. In doing so, we explore topics such as the invention of modern notions of sexualities, queer identity, love, pornography and sex work through reading, writing, artistic expression, and research. This course is reading- and writing-intensive. Also offered as GNDR 369.
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DMF 379 Independent Study (1 Credit) 300 level
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DMF 380 Independent Study (1 Credit) 300 level
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DMF 404 History of French Cinema (1 Credit) Film, Media, & Society 400 level
The cinema - or the Seventh Art as the French call it - was born in Paris on December 28, 1895, when in the Grand Salon of the Grand-Café (14 Boulevard des Capucines, 8th Arrondissement) the Lumière Brothers projected for 33 paying customers (1 franc each) a program of ten short films. Since that time French filmmakers have made some of the most important films in the history of cinema. This course will be a survey of the films from the most important movements in France: Cinema of Attractions, Early Comedy, Impressionism, Surrealism, Poetic Realism, Cinema of Quality, the Nouvelle Vague, le Cinema du Look. Filmmakers studied will include the Lumière Brothers, Méliès, Max Linder, Feuillade, Dreyer, Jean Vigo, Renoir, Carné, Tati, Bresson, Melville, Truffaut, Godard, Resnais, Kassovitz, Jeunet. Attention: All the work in this course - reading, writing, classroom discussions and presentations - will be conducted in FRENCH. Also offered as FR 404.
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DMF 479 SYE: Independent Study (1 Credits) 400 level
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DMF 489 SYE: Independent Study (1 Credits) 400 level
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DMF 490 SYE: Independent Study (1 Credits) 400 level
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DMF 498 SYE: Honors Project (1 Credits) 400 level
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DMF 499 SYE: Honors Project (1 Credits) 400 level
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DMF 3002 Podcasting (1 Credits) Production Course 200 level
Podcasts have become a major source of audio content in our increasingly digital culture. As one of the newest forms of education and entertainment, the world of podcasting is diverse in its presenters, topics, and styles. Through this class, we will examine some of the tools and methods that make for a successful show and learn how to use the technology and equipment involved. Students will work in teams to produce their own original podcasts throughout the semester. Fulfills ARTS Distribution (2013 curriculum). Also offered as MUS 3002 & PCA 3014.
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DMF 3012 ArabSocthrGraphicNovel&Films (1 Credits) Film, Media, & Society 200 level
Taught in English. This course examines Arabic society through films, graphic novels, and songs from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Special attention will be given to family, personal rights, gender relations, religion, freedom of speech, the Arab experience in the U.S., Arab American relations, and the general stereotypes associated with the region. A good deal of the course is intended to increase students' sensitivity to racial bias and sharpen their awareness of multicultural issues. The course material will be explored through films, songs, graphic novels, readings, and discussions based on the assigned readings and lectures. The films screened as part of the course will be analyzed as socially produced narratives that reveal some of the central tensions and concerns of the culture from which they emerged. Students will be introduced to various genres that characterize Arab cinema, such as epic, comedy, drama, documentary, and historical. This course fulfills the ARTS distribution (2013 curriculum). Also offered as AFS 3038 & ARAB 203.
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DMF 3015 Mediterranean Cult'r thr Cine (1 Credits) Film, Media, & Society 200 level
Taught in English: The Mediterranean is a fascinating region with rich traditions and vibrant societies. This course will provide an introduction to Mediterranean societies by shedding light on the diversity of the region as well as its shared concerns and challenges. We will analyze select movies and texts, exploring how Mediterranean filmmakers represent social, political, and economic realities in their societies. Some topics include nationalism and national identity, gender identities, social justice, the recent revolts, colonialism, ethnic, religious, civil conflicts, oppression and censorship, gender and sexuality, poverty, and the rural and the urban. Students will read critical essays and book chapters on the screened films and related themes. No prior knowledge of or course work in DMF or languages is required. Students who have completed through Arabic 103 or equivalent may earn Arabic foreign-language credit for this course by completing select written assignments in Arabic and participating in an extra Arabic-language discussion section, or they can count this course as one of the two courses in English that counts toward minors in Arabic, Italian, or majors in French and Spanish. Fulfills the ARTS distribution (2013 curriculum). Also offered as ARAB 3015, FR 3057, ITAL 3016, & SPAN 3034.
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DMF 3017 Chinese Film & Society (0.83 Credits) 200 level
Off Campus Program-China
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DMF 3020 Ame Ind Cinema Since 1960 (1 Credits) Film, Media, & Society 200 level
NO RISING SENIORS. In 1989, Jibran Khan declared that "Films were yet again in the hands of big film studio executives as the American new wave was finally dead." Hollywood studios wanted to repeat the success of special effect blockbusters, but not every filmmaker wanted to make those films, and the mid 1980s and early 1990s saw a surge of indie films that pushed the boundaries of cinematic form, social expectations, and often good taste: Van Sant's Drugstore Cowboy, Jarmusch's Stranger than Paradise, Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs. We will begin with the 60s 'new wave' (Easy Rider, The Wild Bunch) then move to the revolutionary 80s and 90s. We will end with more recent indie filmmakers-- Wes Anderson, Sofia Coppola, and Harmony Korine. No previous study of film is required: only a willingness to explore the provocative, sometimes freaky margins of American cinematic art.
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DMF 3024 Scandinavian Moods in Cinema (0.83 Credits) 200 level
Off Campus Program: Denmark
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DMF 3025 Laptop Music (1 Credits) Production Course 100 level
This course is for any student interested in creating their own music on a computer. Topics will include software concepts, audio hardware, fleshing out ideas, instrumentation, arranging, and other topics depending on the interest of the students enrolled. Class assignments are largely project-based and make use of GarageBand and Logic Pro, but the skills learned will easily transfer to other software tools. Students who intend to major or minor in Music are encouraged to enroll in Music 220 Music & Technology instead, which covers some of the same material. No prerequisites. Fulfills ARTS distribution (2013 curriculum). Also offered as MUS 3025.
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DMF 3028 Film/Sound (1 Credits) Production Course 100 level
Film never lived in a silent world. We might say we're going to watch a movie, or we're going to see a film, but of course we're going to listen too. This course explores a variety of film/sound relations: the performance of live music for silent films, the creation of sound effects, the development of a film score, and more. While we'll have to use our ears throughout, there will be some hands-on work with sound as well. Fulfills ARTS Distribution (2013 curriculum). Also offered as MUS 3028.
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DMF 3037 Hollywood & Europe (0.83 Credits) 200 level
Off Campus Program-Prague
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DMF 3038 Holocaust Film & Lit A. Lusti (0.83 Credits) 200 level
Off Campus Program: Prague
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Off Campus
DMF 3067 Comedie Francaise (1 Credits) Film, Media, & Society 200 level
« Car le rire est le propre de l'homme ». -- François Rabelais This course, conducted entirely in French - reading, writing, viewing, class - will explore the forms the comic imagination has assumed in French culture. Instead of concentrating on one genre or one period, we will do a broad overview of French comedy: from ribald tales to classic theatre, to contemporary cinema. Works by Rabelais, Molière, and Marivaux will be studied; films screened will include Les Vacances de M. Hulot, Les Visiteurs, Gazon maudit, and Le Dîner des cons. You are sure to laugh a lot in this course, and you should also come away with a good idea of why you are laughing. Also offered as EUR 3014 & FR 3042.
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DMF 3070 Cinema City (1.5 Credits) 200 level
New York City Program
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DMF 3092 European Cinema (1 Credits) Film, Media, & Society 200 level
Taught in English. Europe's complex 20th- and 21st-century histories - of revolution, war, reconstruction, precarity and affluence, migration, and shifting political boundaries and multicultural identities - have been compellingly represented in some of the most fascinating films ever made. European filmmakers have often sought to intervene in their contemporary political moments not only through representations of history and modern life, but also through the conditioning and reshaping of human perception through cinematic forms and technologies. Focusing on the films of major European directors like Buñuel, Eisenstein, Renoir, Rossellini, Resnais, Reed, Godard, Varda, Forman, Gorris, Fassbinder, Kaurismäki, Wenders, Bollaín, Haneke, von Trier, Akin, and Petzold, this course introduces students to the study of European cinema with a focus on its intersections with history, politics, social transformation, and formal experimentation, as well as its considerable (if contentious) overlaps with Hollywood cinema. No prior knowledge or coursework in Film Studies or German required. Students who have completed through GER 103 or equivalent have the option of earning German-language credit by completing select assignments in German. Fulfills HU Distribution (2013 curriculum).
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DMF 3096 IndigenousPeople-LatAmeCultur (1 Credits) Film, Media, & Society 200 level
This course explores the formation of Indigenous identities, their struggle for survival against colonization, and their leadership in environmental justice in Latin America. Some of the questions we are raising are the following: What does it mean to be "indigenous" in Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, or Bolivia (countries with a "mestizo" national identity)? What was the impact on behalf of state institutions and economic development centers towards the Indigenous peoples? Why are they viewed as the "last defenders" of the natural environment in the current global climate crisis? We review the weight of modernization processes, particularly the human exploitation and ecological damage of resource-based economies in a globalized market. Some examples are mining in the Andean highlands, rubber extraction, and lodging in the Amazon basin. Moreover, students will recognize the tropes of media representation of Indigenous Peoples and the current trend of films in Indigenous languages and by Indigenous filmmakers. The class is conducted in English. Also CLAS 3035 & SPAN 3037.
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DMF 3098 Italian Cinema (1 Credits) Film, Media, & Society 200 level
TAUGHT IN ENGLISH. Italy is a country with a rich variety of cultural, historical, and culinary traditions. This course will provide an introduction to Italian society by shedding light on regional specificities (re: art, culture, and food), but also to the unique history of Italian cinema. Students who have completed Italian 102 or equivalent may earn Italian language credit by completing select written assignments in Italian and participating in an extra Italian-language discussion section (in this case, please register via ITAL103) OR they can count this course as one of the two courses in English that counts toward minors in Arabic, Italian, or majors in French and Spanish (in this case register here). Fulfills the ARTS distribution.
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DMF 3099 Film & Media Action (1 Credits) Foundation Course (A) 200 level
NO SENIORS. This required introductory-level course for the new Digital Media & Film major engages students' interest in digital content creation, new media, social justice, and the desire to make positive change in the world. It grounds their beginning film- and media-making projects in considerations of the ethical and social implications of media dissemination and creation while attuning students to global histories of activist, resistant, and protest media and filmmaking. Fulfills ARTS distribution.
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DMF 3104 Voices of Freedom (1 Credits) Film, Media, & Society 200 level
Voices of freedom in Contemporary Francophone Cinema 200 level. Taught in English. This course offers an introduction to Francophone film through its voices, actions, and activism. It will focus on the place different directors give to freedom, equality, and kinship, and the way in which they express it cinematically. Students will be familiarized with the key ideas and objectives that have inspired and driven these films. With emphasis on filmic analysis, we will focus on framing, point of view, narrative, camera work as ways to convey meaning and give voice. The course is conducted in English and requires no prior knowledge of the field. All films are accessible via Canvas. Required readings are provided online, and no book purchases are necessary. Francophone majors and minors are required to do the reading and writing in French. Also offered as FR 3080.
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DMF 3105 Hollywood Genres (1 Credits) Film, Media, & Society 200 level
Genres like horror, science fiction, westerns, pulps, musicals, and melodrama have long existed as categorical and organizational means to make sense of affiliated and distinct texts. The general types and parameters of narrative genres predate cinema in literature and theater, and, more broadly, in any of the other "Seven Arts" of which cinema is simply the most recent. This course examines the evolution of popular Hollywood genres from their literary and theatrical incarnations to key genre films by directors like John Carpenter, Kathryn Bigelow, and Julia Docarnou. Through 2-3 weeks on each genre, we as a class will trace the cycles and mutations that continue to inform the dominant cinematic entertainments up to the present moment. No prior knowledge or coursework in DMF required. Fulfills HU Distribution (2013 curriculum).
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DMF 3106 Germany History Through Film (1 Credits) Film, Media, & Society 200 level
"How does a nation riven by political contradiction make sense of its past and present polarization and violent social hierarchy? This question is as broadly topical in the United States today as it has been for a very long time in German Studies, where film scholars since Siegfried Kracauer have analyzed Germany's history through the lens of its cinema and vice versa. This course introduces students to films that shed light on 20th century German history by addressing issues of colonialism, gender, race, and class struggle. We will analyze both the politics of representation and the representation of politics in popular but less frequently studied German cinema at major stages of its development before, after, and on either side of the Cold War-era East-West divide, paying special attention to its historical context through the lens of feminist, Marxist, and decolonial perspectives. Films will be shown with English subtitles. Key filmmakers include, among others, Fritz Lang, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, and Fatih Akin. Students will write weekly reflections on the assigned viewings and readings, one or more of which will serve as the basis for a formal term paper or video essay. Fulfills HU distribution (2023 curriculum). Also offered as GER 3021 & HIST 3112.
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DMF 3107 Cinema, Tech & Social Change (1 Credits) Film, Media, & Society 200 level
This course examines the history of media infrastructures and social change via the cinematic lens offered by sci-fi, fantasy, and non-fiction genres in the 21st century. Changing media technologies have impacted our social worlds, altered how we communicate, and mediate how we engage in collective action. In this seminar, we will trace the past, present, and future of digital technologies, analyze changing representations in contemporary cinema, and revisit the theories and methodologies in the fields of digital media theory, networked movements, digital action, and critical Internet studies. Key issues to explore include: What is the infrastructure of the global Internet and who made it? What is the logic of networked action online and how effective is it? Have the supposed democratic rules of the Internet brought about positive social transformations? What is the impact of ever-increasing Internet surveillance? The aim is to learn about the role of digital technologies in emboldening democratic principles, as well as its use as a tool for strict governmental control via methods of total digital surveillance. Fulfills SS distribution (2013 curriculum). Also offered as SOC 3123.
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DMF 3700 SophoSEM: Digital Storytelling (1 Credits) Film, Media, & Society 200 level
SOPHOMORES ONLY. Participants in this sophomore seminar will develop a variety of digital storytelling and production skills. Topics to be covered include web design, digital photography, story maps, audio recording and editing, and more. Classes will include hands-on instruction and practice with digital tools and platforms, such as the Adobe Creative Cloud suite. Students will have regular access to the Digital Scholarship Studio in ODY Library for producing audio-based projects. All participants will create a digital portfolio that showcases their work for the course, including a final project that brings together the skills they have acquired throughout the semester. Also offered as PCA 3075.
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DMF-4000 Shining On: Kubrick & Cinemat (1 Credits) Film, Media, & Society 300 level
"Shining On: Stanley Kubrick and His Cinematic Inheritors." Stanley Kubrick (1928-99) is indisputably one of America's greatest filmmakers and, given the lengths to which he went in controlling the creation of his movies, he is probably the ultimate American film auteur. Dr. Strangelove (1961), 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), and A Clockwork Orange (1971) are Kubrick's best-known films, but his cinematic work spans from 1953 to 1999, and includes, of course, The Shining (1980). The stunning ambitiousness of his films means that he released few enough of them that "Shining On" can cover them all, one masterwork per week; we will consider, as well, movies clearly influenced by Kubrick made by filmmakers Paul Schrader, Steven Spielberg, and Martin Scorsese. Our purpose is to attempt to understand what cinematic genius is as it was embodied in one obsessively driven filmmaker whose devotion to the technical and visual elements of his craft led some critics to argue that his films deliberately emphasize effect over affect, that they subjugate character to cinematic form. Also offered as GNDR 4047.
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Pre-req: Any DMF course or GNDR-103 - Must be completed prior to taking this course.
DMF 4001 Filmmaking Workshop (1 Credits) Production Course 300 level
This course will help students to develop and improve their filmmaking production skills alongside critical study of example cinematic works across multiple genres. The emphasis will be on creative and collaborative filmmaking projects that encourage students to hone their abilities in camera work, editing, performance, sound recording, and writing for film. Fulfills ARTS distribution.
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Take 1 of the following: DMF-211 or DMF-222 or DMF-251 or DMF-271 or DMF-3050 or Permission of the Instructor. - Must be completed prior to taking this course.
DMF 4011 Cinema, Tech & Social Change (1 Credits) Film, Media, & Society 300 level
This course examines the history of media infrastructures and social change via the cinematic lens offered by sci-fi, fantasy, and non-fiction genres in the 21st century. Changing media technologies have impacted our social worlds, altered how we communicate, and mediate how we engage in collective action. In this seminar, we will trace the past, present, and future of digital technologies, analyze changing representations in contemporary cinema, and revisit the theories and methodologies in the fields of digital media theory, networked movements, digital action, and critical Internet studies. Key issues to explore include: What is the infrastructure of the global Internet and who made it? What is the logic of networked action online and how effective is it? Have the supposed democratic rules of the Internet brought about positive social transformations? What is the impact of ever-increasing Internet surveillance? The aim is to learn about the role of digital technologies in emboldening democratic principles, as well as its use as a tool for strict governmental control via methods of total digital surveillance. Fulfills SS distribution (2013 curriculum).
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DMF 4022 Gender, Film, & the Unconscious (1 Credits) Film, Media, & Society 300 level
Federico Fellini: "Talking about dreams is like talking about movies since the cinema uses the language of dreams; years can pass in a second, and you can hop from one place to another. It is a language made of images. And in the real cinema, every object and every light mean something, as in a dream." So, what can cinema tell us about the unconscious processes of the human mind, and what can such understanding do to aid our gender analysis? This class will view cinematic attempts to illustrate unconscious human psychology, including dreams, motivations, repetition compulsion, castration anxiety, and other psychodynamic processes, as they manifest in the intersubjective field defined in narrative cinematic arcs. We will then attempt to relate them to gendered analytic concepts so that they can become useful sources of knowledge about feminism. The course focuses on the ability to unpack unconscious dynamics in a film as it is done in psychoanalysis. Also offered as GNDR 4020.
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Pre-req: DMF 211 or GNDR-103 - Must be completed prior to taking this course.
DMF 4028 AT: Lit & Film At Borderlands (1 Credits) Film, Media, & Society 300 level
Since Gloria Anzald a theorized the U.S.-Mexican border as "una herida abierta where the Third World grates against the first and bleeds," borders have become simultaneously more porous and more impenetrable in increasingly complex ways. This course explores representations of Latinx, Chicanx, Caribbean, and Middle Eastern border crossing and borderlands culture in contemporary literature and film, moving from mid-twentieth-century representations to our current global displacement crisis. Examining the ways in which the various settlers, crossers, migrants, exiles, and refugees portrayed in these stories restructure notions of place and belonging, our goal is to gain a richer understanding of how mobility is enabled and foreclosed through geopolitical, economic, and environmental shifts. Building on a rich array of fiction, non-fiction, film, theory, and criticism, students will have the opportunity to work on their own border projects. Fulfills ARTS Distribution (2013 curriculum). Also offered as CLAS 4013, ENG 4035, & GS 4008.
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DMF 4029 Make/Collaborate: Media Cap. (1 Credits) Media Capstone Project 300 level
Make/Collaborate: Media Capston Project. Students in this required capstone seminar for the Digital Media & Film major will synthesize their skills, knowledge, and passions to contribute to the creation of a multi-faceted digital media project. Participants will hone skills in digital media production, project management, web design/publishing, and more while engaging in critical reflection of the various technologies involved and the responsibilities we have as digital content creators. All students will create a polished WordPress portfolio that both documents their ongoing work for the collaborative project and showcases their individual digital-media-and-film-related work. Open to Seniors only.
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