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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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