110 Film and Writing
Other years: Offered in Fall 2011, Spring 2012, Fall 2012, Spring 2013, Fall 2013, Spring 2014, Fall 2014, Spring 2015, Fall 2015, Spring 2016, Fall 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Fall 2021,
Fall 2022,
Spring 2023,
Fall 2023,
Spring 2025210 Coming to Terms: Cinema
Other years: Offered in Fall 2011, Spring 2012, Fall 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Fall 2015, Fall 2016, Fall 2017, Fall 2018,
Spring 2022,
Spring 2023,
Fall 2023,
Spring 2025213 Knowing Cinema
Soviet filmmaker Dziga Vertov claimed that the movie camera is different from, even superior to, human vision and thus allows us to see in new ways. Many others have echoed this idea about cinema’s powerful impact on our ways of seeing and knowing the world. As an introduction to the study of cinema, this course cultivates in students what Vertov called “the Kino-eye.” Our emphasis will be on narrative film, but with some attention paid to experimental, documentary, and animated works as well. This course treats cinema as an international art form: we will examine a wide range of films from many countries over the past century and more. Through exposure to the great variety of filmmaking and writing about film around the world, from the silent era to the digital revolution, students will receive a comprehensive introduction to the key formal features of film and to the major debates that inform film studies.
Limited to 35 students. Omitted 2019-20.
Other years: Offered in
Spring 2025215 Knowing Television
2023-24: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Fall 2010, Spring 2013, Fall 2013, Fall 2016, Fall 2019
216 Coming to Terms: Media
Other years: Offered in Spring 2018, Spring 2020,
Spring 2022,
Fall 2023218 Introduction to Film Theory
2023-24: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Spring 2019
221 Foundations in Video Production
Other years: Offered in Fall 2014,
Fall 2022,
Spring 2023,
Fall 2023,
Fall 2024,
Spring 2025238 Latin American Cinema
2023-24: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Fall 2016, Spring 2019
312 Pioneer Valley Soundscapes
2023-24: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Spring 2012, Spring 2014, Fall 2014, Spring 2017, Fall 2018,
Spring 2023,
Fall 2024316 Performance
2023-24: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Spring 2014, Fall 2017, Fall 2020,
Spring 2023321 Bollywood: A Cinema of Interruptions
Other years: Offered in Fall 2012,
Spring 2025322 South Asian Feminist Cinema
2023-24: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Fall 2014, Fall 2015, Spring 2019
323 Weimar Cinema: The "Golden Age" of German Film
2023-24: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Spring 2010, Spring 2012, Spring 2015, Spring 2020
324 New Latin American Documentary
Other years: Offered in Spring 2014,
Fall 2023332 Sound Design
Other years: Offered in Fall 2012, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Fall 2018, Fall 2019,
Spring 2023333 Videogames and the Boundaries of Narrative
2023-24: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Spring 2015, Spring 2018
335 Experiments in 16mm Film
Other years: Offered in Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2019, Fall 2019,
Spring 2022,
Fall 2023,
Fall 2024345 Performance Studio
2023-24: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Fall 2007, Fall 2008, Fall 2009, Fall 2010, Fall 2011, Fall 2012, Fall 2013, Fall 2014, Fall 2015, Fall 2016, Fall 2017, Fall 2020, Fall 2021
351 Cinema and Everyday Life
2023-24: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Spring 2013, Fall 2015, Spring 2020
352 Russia and the Representation of Race
2023-24: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Spring 2018, Spring 2020, Fall 2021,
Fall 2024353 A Decade Under the Influence: U.S. Film of the 1970s
2023-24: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Spring 2011, Spring 2014, Spring 2017, Spring 2019
354 Sound Design Studio
2023-24: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Spring 2020
355 Disability Media
2023-24: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Fall 2019
357 Sergei Eisenstein's Cinema and Thought
2023-24: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Spring 2015, Fall 2017, Spring 2019,
Fall 2024358 Spike Lee's Joints
2023-24: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Spring 2013, Spring 2016, Spring 2020
359 Andy Warhol, Filmmaker
2023-24: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Fall 2018
360 Intimate Film Cultures
2023-24: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Spring 2018,
Spring 2022370 Traumatic Events
2023-24: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Fall 2008, Fall 2010, Fall 2014, Fall 2018
375 Jazz Film: Improvisation, Narrativity, and Representation
Other years: Offered in Fall 2011, Spring 2019, January 2021
377 Women, Gender and Popular Culture
2023-24: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Spring 2015, Spring 2017, Fall 2019, Spring 2021,
Fall 2024379 Black Feminist Literary Traditions
2023-24: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Fall 2013, Fall 2014, Spring 2016, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Fall 2021
382 Television and Experience
2023-24: Not offered
Other years: Offered in
Spring 2022383 The Documentary Impulse
2023-24: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Fall 2015, Spring 2017, Fall 2018, Fall 2019
423 The Film Essay
2023-24: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Fall 2018, Spring 2020, Fall 2021
437 A Media History of Anime
2023-24: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Fall 2019, Fall 2021,
Fall 2024441 Documentary Production
Other years: Offered in Fall 2015, Fall 2016, Spring 2018, Fall 2019,
Fall 2023443 Fictional Narrative Video Production
2023-24: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Fall 2018, Fall 2020
444 Films That Try: Essay Film Production
2023-24: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Fall 2013, Fall 2014, Spring 2020,
Spring 2022445 Advanced Projects in Video Production
2023-24: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Spring 2020
455 The Confession: Theory and Practice
2023-24: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Fall 2015, Spring 2019,
Fall 2022462 Film and Video Curation
2023-24: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Spring 2016, Fall 2017,
Fall 2022471 Deep Time: Memory, Media, and Ecological Imagination in the Americas
2023-24: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Spring 2019
478 "Having a Voice": Theories of Voice and Documentary
2023-24: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Fall 2016, Spring 2018
479 Problems in Documentary
2023-24: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Spring 2019
481 Conversations with Experimental Filmmakers
2023-24: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Fall 2016, Fall 2019
490 Special Topics
Independent reading course.
Fall and spring semester. The Department.
Other years: Offered in Fall 2011, Spring 2012, Fall 2012, Spring 2013, Fall 2013, Spring 2014, Fall 2014, Spring 2015, Fall 2015, Spring 2016, Fall 2016, Spring 2017, Fall 2017, Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Spring 2021, Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Fall 2022,
Spring 2023,
Fall 2023,
Fall 2024498, 499 Senior Honors
Admission with consent of the instructor. Spring semester. The Department.
Other years: Offered in Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021,
Spring 2022,
Spring 2023,
Spring 2025Non-Language Departmental Courses
320 Japan on Screen
2023-24: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2016, Fall 2018, Fall 2020,
Fall 2022422 Apocalypse Japan
2023-24: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Fall 2017
Non-Language Courses
368 SPACE
2023-24: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2015, Spring 2018,
Spring 2022