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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
Lokeilani Kaimana
Offered Fall 2013
FLS 241-01 Genre/Period
Topic: Screen Comedy
Lectures, with frequent discussion, on film comedies from a variety of places and times: American screwball comedies and British Ealing comedies; battles of the sexes; the silent or nonverbal comedy of Chaplin, Keaton, and Jacques Tati; parodies of other film genres; political satire; musical comedy; adaptations of comic novels; fast-talking comedy by the Marx Brothers, Monty Python, Woody Allen, and Howard Hawks; and to sum things up, Ingmar Bergman’s Smiles of a Summer Night, plus a film chosen by the class. Some attention to animated cartoons; regular readings in film criticism, film history, and the theory of comedy. No scheduled screenings; assigned films will be streamed via Moodle. Prerequisite: a college course in film or literature or permission of the instructor. {L/A} 4 credits. Click here for more information
Jefferson Hunter
Offered Fall 2013
FLS 241-02 Genre/Period
Topic: Women and American Cinema: Representation, Spectatorship, Authorship
This course provides a broad survey of women in American films from the silent period to the present. It examines the topic at three levels: 1) how women are represented on film, and how those images relate to actual contemporaneous American society, culture and politics; 2) formulations, expectations and realities of female spectatorship as they relate to genre, the star and studio systems, dominant codes of narration, and developments in digital and new media modes; 3) how women as stars, writers, producers and directors shape and respond to, work within and against, dominant considerations of how women look. In other words, we'll be examining how women are seen, how women see, how women are expected to see and be seen, and consider how fields of moving images contribute to what constitutes "women," "Woman," "womanhood," "female," and other terms that refer to bodies, identities, communities, discourses and selves. Among the figures and films we will examine: Marlene Dietrich, Katharine Hepburn, Dorothy Arzner, Marilyn Monroe, Madonna, Su Friedrich, Carolee Schneemann, Julie Dash, Kathryn Bigelow, the vamp, the femme fatale, the sacrificial mother, the action heroine, chick flicks, Thelma and Louise, Boys Don't Cry, a range of contemporary works that may include Sex and the City, Girls, Bridesmaids, The Kids Are Alright, and a selection of Internet works.
Alexandra Keller
Offered Fall 2013
FLS 400 Special Studies
1-4 credits
Offered both semesters each year
Crosslisted Courses
CLS 220 Greek Tragedy and Its Cinematic Reception
Pending CAP Approval
Barry Spence
Offered Fall 2013
EAS 214 Korean Film and Culture
Topic: Cinemas of North and South Koreas: Films and Historical Understanding
Jina Kim
Offered Fall 2013
FYS 170 Crime and Punishment
Jefferson Hunter
Offered Fall 2013
FYS 185 Style Matters: The Power of the Aethetic in Italian Cinema
Anna Botta
Offered Fall 2013
GER 231 Topics in German Cinema
Topic: Weimar Film
Joel Westerdale
Offered Spring 2014
JUD 235 Perspectives on Israeli History
Topic: The History of Israeli Cinema
Pending CAP Approval
Miri Talmon
Offered Fall 2013
JUD 236 Documentary Film in Contemporary Israel
Pending CAP Approval
Miri Talmon
Offered Spring 2014
JUD 237 Forbidden Love: Cinematics of Desire in Israel and Beyond
Pending CAP Approval
Miri Talmon
Offered Spring 2014
THE 318 Movements in Design
Topic: Production Design in Film
Edward Check
Offered Spring 2014
THE 361 Screenwriting
Andrea Hairston
Offered Spring 2014
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