Course Descriptions
Fall Quarter
| Dept | Course No and Title | Instructor |
|---|---|---|
| FLM&MDA (F25) | 85 INTRO FILM ANALYSIS | MIMURA, G. |
| Introduces the language and techniques of visual and film analysis. Teaches students to analyze the moving image; emphasize framing, camera movement, and sound; and conveys how editing produces meaning, reproduces historical ideologies, fosters or disrupts narrative, and cues spectators. Materials fee. Prerequisite: Satisfaction of the UC Entry Level Writing requirement. | ||
| FLM&MDA (F25) | 101C CONTEMPORARY ERA | DAULATZAI, S. |
| The aesthetic, industrial, and socio-historical developments of cinema in the U.S. and internationally from the late 1960s to the present. Includes New Hollywood and independent U.S. films, ethnic cinemas, postcolonial cinemas, East-Asian new waves, and digital filmmaking. Materials fee. Prerequisite: Satisfactory completion of the Lower-Division Writing requirement. | ||
| FLM&MDA (F25) | 110 FILM & MEDIA THEORY | LIU, C. |
| Survey of major directions in film and media theory. Various theories of mass culture, realism, auteurism, semiotics, feminism, cultural studies, and theories of other media, with an emphasis on developing the student’s ability to analyze and articulate a theoretical argument. Materials fee. Prerequisite: FLM&MDA 85 and FLM&MDA 86 and FLM&MDA 87 and (FLM&MDA 101A or FLM&MDA 101B or FLM&MDA 101C or FLM&MDA 101D or FLM&MDA 101E). Satisfactory completion of the Lower-Division Writing requirement. | ||
| FLM&MDA (F25) | 110 FILM & MEDIA THEORY | LIU, C. |
| Survey of major directions in film and media theory. Various theories of mass culture, realism, auteurism, semiotics, feminism, cultural studies, and theories of other media, with an emphasis on developing the student’s ability to analyze and articulate a theoretical argument. Materials fee. Prerequisite: FLM&MDA 85 and FLM&MDA 86 and FLM&MDA 87 and (FLM&MDA 101A or FLM&MDA 101B or FLM&MDA 101C or FLM&MDA 101D or FLM&MDA 101E). Satisfactory completion of the Lower-Division Writing requirement. | ||
| FLM&MDA (F25) | 117A INTRO SCREENWRITING | CARTIER, M. |
| Students learn about "the world of the screenwriter" by reading and studying screenplays, and writing parts of them-including the beat outline, treatment and character biography. Assignments include reading, viewing and analyzing selected films; and writing short essay responses to prompts that explore facets of the screenplay such as structure, character and theme. The final grade is based on participation, attendance, discussion board posts, and a traditional feature length screenplay project. | ||
| FLM&MDA (F25) | 120A BASIC PRODUCTION | CANE, E. |
| This course introduces the fundamentals of filmmaking using digital video. It is designed for students who have little or no production experience. There will be lectures, workshops and discussions. Assignments provide hands-on learning of the basic elements of filmmaking. From cinematography, lighting, and sound, to writing a short script and editing with Adobe Premiere Pro, this class takes you through the production process culminating in each student's completion of their own short 3-5 minute digital film. At times students will be divided into production teams and will be expected to collaborate. Class is organized as a workshop; everyone will know your characters, your script, etc. You will be expected to share and participate at every stage of the production process. | ||
| FLM&MDA (F25) | 120A BASIC PRODUCTION | KAMALAKANTHAN, P. |
| Introduction to the basic apparatus of video/film production. The elementary essentials of production, including the use of camera and lenses, lighting, editing, and sound. Materials fee. Prerequisite: FLM&MDA 85. Satisfactory completion of the Lower-Division Writing requirement. | ||
| FLM&MDA (F25) | 130 SOLIDARITY CINEMA | DAULATZAI, S. |
| Investigation of media representations of gender, race, and sexuality in the United States. Topics include media images of and by one or more minority groups in the United States, including African Americans, Asian Americans, Chicano/Latinos, Native Americans, gays, and lesbians. Prerequisite: Satisfactory completion of the Lower-Division Writing requirement. Repeatability: Unlimited as topics vary. | ||
| FLM&MDA (F25) | 130 INDIGENOUS FILM | GAMBER, J. |
| This class engages in central issues of Indigeneity and explores contemporary film, video games, and literature created by Indigenous people from nations including those currently called Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Taiwan, and Sweden. Primary questions we will address this include: What does it mean to be Indigenous? How do contemporary Indigenous people represent themselves? What issues are important to specific Indigenous communities? What issues are important across Indigenous communities? We will further pay particular attention to representations of gender and sexuality and human relationships to the other-than-human across these works. | ||
| FLM&MDA (F25) | 130 ASNAM DOCUMTRY | CHO, J. |
| We begin with the elements and evolution of documentary film language and genres in the United States as a foundation for understanding how Asian American media artists utilize mediums of film and video toward particular communication goals. We will also trace movements of documentary subjects and techniques in the context of Asian Americans’ historical exclusions, racialized representations, and social roles in nonfiction films. As we view a range of works by and about Asian Americans, we will consider how various makers engage strategies for production style and content, target audiences, subjectivity, emotional truth in evolving environments of technology and access, social movements, ethnic notions. Students will pose their critical understanding of cinematic language and social meaning to the considerations and challenges a creator or storyteller faces to record lived experiences, and acts of stewardship for a documentary film. | ||
| FLM&MDA (F25) | 130 ARAB/MUSLIM REPRESENTATION | KAMIL, M. |
| Investigation of media representations of gender, race, and sexuality in the United States. Topics include media images of and by one or more minority groups in the United States, including African Americans, Asian Americans, Chicano/Latinos, Native Americans, gays, and lesbians. Prerequisite: Satisfactory completion of the Lower-Division Writing requirement. Repeatability: Unlimited as topics vary. | ||
| FLM&MDA (F25) | 139W WRITING ON FILM&MDA | HAGGINS, B. |
| Writing on cinema, television, and/or digital culture, emphasizing identification of reliable sources, close readings, addressing academic, professional, and/or popular audiences. Requires at least 4,000 words of assigned composition. Prerequisite: FLM&MDA 85 or FLM&MDA 86 or FLM&MDA 87. Satisfactory completion of the Lower-Division Writing requirement. Restriction: Film and Media Studies Majors only. | ||
| FLM&MDA (F25) | 139W WRITING ON FILM&MDA | HAGGINS, B. |
| Writing on cinema, television, and/or digital culture, emphasizing identification of reliable sources, close readings, addressing academic, professional, and/or popular audiences. Requires at least 4,000 words of assigned composition. Prerequisite: FLM&MDA 85 or FLM&MDA 86 or FLM&MDA 87. Satisfactory completion of the Lower-Division Writing requirement. Restriction: Film and Media Studies Majors only. | ||
| FLM&MDA (F25) | 139W WRITING ON FILM&MDA | KRAPP, P. |
| We live in a world full of computing devices, networked and portable, "smart" and almost invisible. One aim of a history of computing is to explore how the computer becomes a meta-medium. This course traces neither a history of the industry, nor a history of calculating devices, but follows the contours of debating the history of computing. Historicizing the conceptual inventory of digital culture from analog and early digital machines to mainframes and from minicomputers and microcomputers to the creation of decentralized networks, this course asks how the world got into the computer. | ||
| FLM&MDA (F25) | 144 SURVEILLANCE | KAMIL, M. |
| Computing and digital technologies were developed during the Cold War and WWII. The foundations of new media technologies are imbricated in questions of surveillance. In this course, we will trace anxieties around surveillance technology from postwar Germany to 9/11 era legislation to contemporary concerns about targeted advertisements and algorithmic logics. | ||
| FLM&MDA (F25) | 144 DISINFORMATION | KRAPP, P. |
| Long before computer networks and social media, disinformation had been recognized as a dangerous development of mass media. But arguably digital media have even more successfully weaponized disinformation. That awareness in turn has led to the competing development of regulation attempts and of exploitation techniques. This course will focus less on ideological debates around what partisans (on one side or another) call 'fake news' | ||
| FLM&MDA (F25) | 144 GAME NARRATIVES | SODERMAN, A. |
| Advanced analysis of the technologies, texts, theories, and cultures of computers, video games, networks, or platforms. Prerequisite: FLM&MDA 87. Satisfactory completion of the Lower-Division Writing requirement. Repeatability: Unlimited as topics vary. | ||
| FLM&MDA (F25) | 160 KOREAN CINEMA | KIM, K. |
| National schools, period styles, or cultural movements beyond U.S. cinema, as defined by national borders or by geographic regions, such as Latin America. May be approached from a comparative perspective. Prerequisite: Satisfactory completion of the Lower-Division Writing requirement. Repeatability: Unlimited as topics vary. | ||
| FLM&MDA (F25) | 192 DIRECTING NARRATIVE | DAUCHAN, D. |
| Focuses on special topics in production. Culminates in final 6-10-minute group film projects. Topics include producing, acting, and/or directing in short films, experimental films, documentaries, television, and other media. Prerequisite: FLM&MDA 120A. Satisfactory completion of the Lower-Division Writing requirement. Repeatability: Unlimited as topics vary. | ||
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