The Film Studies Program provides interested students a coherent, interdisciplinary education in this major art form, an art form that is--along with television--the predominant way in which Western cultures represent themselves.
Besides being a part of many Americans' daily lives, film has become an increasingly significant part of the Humanities curriculum at the College. Students will encounter courses about film and courses that use films to...
The Critical Studies concentration is meant to prepare students for careers as writers or critics, or to prepare students for graduate school and an eventual career as a researcher and teacher. The program requires that students complete the Foundations of Film & Video sequence which involves a blend of both studies and basic production classes.
Students then may take more focused courses in history and critical studies. Required concentration courses...
The Documentary curriculum, taught wholly in the specially equipped Michael Rabiger Center for documentary, is dedicated to a vision of documentary filmmaking that places people above product; exploration and discovery above pre-conception. We validate tolerance and understanding, and emphasize the power and responsibility documentary makers have in a world where communication is dominated by the moving image media. Students are encouraged ’to grasp...
Objective: To give the student a broad understanding of the technical, creative, and business aspects of both the film and television/video industries, as well as the opportunity to focus in depth on one or two areas of special interest. This provides hands-on training in the operation of professional equipment and state-of-the-art techniques and intellectual exposure to the wider world of media and liberal arts studies, and assists in the creation...
The major in film studies is scholarly, international in scope, and writing-intensive. Students choose to major in film if they want to learn more about the art form, from technology to cultural significance; want to work in the film industry; or are interested in a major that combines arts and humanities. Students usually declare the major toward the end of the second year by meeting with the departmental adviser; together, they create a program...
We live in a world filled with constructed images. All of us encounter a steady stream of moving pictures delivering messages blatant and subtle that solicit us, elicit our emotions, and play key roles in framing our perceptions of the world. In order to truly understand our culture - even perhaps to understand ourselves - we need to understand how filmic representations work, and work on us.
At Connecticut College we take film studies to be a vital...
The film program at Cornell University embraces the study and practice of film within artistic, theoretical, and cultural contexts. Students who major in film take a balanced selection of film studies and production courses. The film production program offers classes in 16mm filmmaking and video production, as well as state-of-the-art film editing equipment. The department offers advanced study in filmmaking to students who qualify on the basis of...
The following courses, a few of which are available through the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, are offered to students: Accents and Dialects, Acting I & II, Basic Design for the Theatre, Conceptual Foundations of the Modern Theatre, Directing I & II, Dramatic Arts and Christian Thought I & II, Film courses (16 cr. hours) via The Los Angeles Film Studies Center, History of Costume, Introduction to Theatre, Introduction to Musical Theatre,...
The purpose of the BA program in film studies is to afford students the opportunity to study in depth the aesthetic, cultural, sociological, political, philosophical, and psychological elements of the cinema.
The film studies major and minor are composed of film courses offered by a number of departments in the Divisions of the Arts and Humanities and the Social Sciences.
THE MAJOR Students majoring in film studies (36 credits) will plan their program...
Film and Media Studies offers distance learning designed for the diverse ways students learn. Like our brick and mortar courses, distance learning courses emphasize interactivity and include numerous clips from movies and television shows. Their distinct feature as online courses, however, is that they are built around streaming audio lectures synchronized with visual slides. All of the learning materials...
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