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FLS 150 Introduction to Film Studies
This course offers an overview of cinema as an artistic, industrial, ideological and social force. Students will become familiar with the aesthetic elements of cinema (visual style, editing, cinematography, sound, performance, narration and formal structure, etc.), the terminology of film production, and the relations among industrial, ideological, artistic, and social issues. Films (both classic and contemporary, mainstream and experimental) will be discussed from aesthetic, historical and social perspectives, enabling students to approach films as informed and critical viewers. Enrollment limited to 60. Priority given to Smith College Film Studies Minors and Five College Film Studies Majors. Formerly FLS 150. {A} 4 credits
Jennifer Malkowski
Offered Fall 2012
FLS 241 Genre/Period
Topic: Screwball Comedy
Classic screwball comedies were produced in a ten-year period, from Capra’s It Happened One Night (1934) to Sturges’s Miracle at Morgan’s Creek (1944). The class will screen 20 films from these years, although it will include a few later films: Wilder’s Some Like It Hot (1959), Mann’s Lover Come Back (1962), and the Coen Brothers’ Intolerable Cruelty (2003). We will examine the genre in its historical context and examine elements of the system – studios, writers, producers, clothes and set designers, actors – that produced this astonishingly witty and short-lived film genre. (E) {A} 4 credits
Margaret Bruzelius
Offered Fall 2012
FLS 280 Introduction to Video Production: First Person Documentary
This course provides a foundation in the principles, techniques, and equipment involved in making short videos. In it, students will make short documentary films from the first-person point of view. We will use our own stories as material, but we will look beyond self-expression, using video to explore places where our lives intersect with larger historical, economic, environmental, or social forces. We will develop our own voices while learning the vocabulary of moving images and gaining production and post-production technical training. Through in-class critiques, screenings, readings and discussion, students will explore the aesthetics and practice of the moving image while developing their own original projects.
Prerequisite: Introduction to Film Studies. Application and permission of instructor required. Enrollment limited to 12.
{A} 4 credits
Bernadine Mellis
Offered Fall 2012
FLS 400 Special Studies
1-4 credits
Offered both semesters each year
Crosslisted Courses
FRN 252 French Cinema
Martine Gantrel
Offered Spring 2013
FYS 119 Performance and Film Criticism
Kiki Gounaridou (Theatre)
Offered Fall Fall 2012
FYS130 Lions: Science and Science Fiction
Virginia Hayssen (Biological Sciences)
Offered Fall 2012
FYS 175 Love Stories
Ambreen Hai (English Language & Literature)
Offered Fall 2012
GER 231 Topics in German Cinema
Topic: Nazi Cinema
Joel Westerdale
Offered Fall 2012
THE 242 Acting II
Topic: Acting and Directing for the Camera
Daniel Elihu Kramer
Offered Spring 2013
THE 318 Movements in Design
Topic: Productio Design for Film
Edward Check
Offered Spring 2013
THE 361 Screenwriting
Andrea Hairston
Offered Spring 2013
THE 362 Screenwriting
Andrea Hairston
Offered Spring 2013
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