CINE

Required History of Cinema Course (3 Credits)

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CINE

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course

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2026-2027

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Credit(s): 4 Component(s): Seminar Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This first-year seminar explores the many different ways in which space and place are represented in cinema, while also teaching students how to closely observe and critically analyze films. Drawing from cinema history and criticism, it examines how films instill spaces with meaning and transform them into distinctive places. Through screenings of a broad array of films, we will tour a variety of cinemas from throughout the world and investigate such topics as the role of settings in film narratives, and contemporary experiences of displacement and marginalization. Seminar: First Year Seminar Course Catalog ID: 041132 Course Offer Number: 1

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CINE

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course

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2026-2027

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Formerly: Cinema Histories I: Origins to 1950 Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) 493

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CINE

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course

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2026-2027

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CLSICS 281 - Greek Civilization: Multi-Cultural Perspectives CLSICS 282 - Roman Civilization

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CINE

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course

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2026-2027

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Credit(s): 3 494

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CINE

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course

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2026-2027

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Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: In this course, students will learn the art of cinematic editing and learn to recognize the impact of continuity and discontinuity editing. For two hours per week, the course will focus on looking at specific films that creatively engage editing techniques; for the remaining hour each week, students will learn the basics of editing language by putting together their own short sequences. Prior knowledge of editing is not required, but those students with some editing experience will also be able to engage anew with editing by learning from the masters of the trade in the history of cinema. This course is cross-listed as: ART 213L Distribution Area: Arts Course Catalog ID: 040181 495

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CINE

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course

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2026-2027

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Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This course focuses on the flowering of American cinema through decades of social, political, and cultural change. It examines both classic representations of "The American Experience" and films which challenge such classic representations. The relations between film and other arts, and between film, history, and ideology, are an ongoing concern. Course Note: AMST 215L and CINE 215L are the same course. This course is cross-listed as: AMST 215L Distribution Area: Arts Diversity Area: United States Course Catalog ID: 009403 Course Offer Number: 2

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CINE

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course

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2026-2027

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Credit(s): 3.0 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This course explores adaptation across moving image media, literary, theatrical, and other kinds of texts. While principally focused on feature-length movie adaptations, it also considers the way intellectual property has been flexibly repurposed across a variety of media and over the full course of moving image history. Through a set of specific case studies, the course considers aesthetic, formal, cultural, technological, and economic aspects of adaptations. It starts with a comparative approach (one text versus another) before expanding to more complex relationships among original texts and their various intertexts. After exposure to a range of classic and contemporary examples, theories of and approaches to adaptation studies, students will research an adapted text of their own choice for an individual final project. 496

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CINE

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course

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2026-2027

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Formerly: Europe at the Movies: a History of Postwar Cinema Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This course will investigate the most significant developments of film history int he major European countries after World War II. National cinemas of France, Italy, Germany, Scandinavia, and Eastern Europe will be studied in detail through weekly screenings of classic films by some of Europe's most accomplished filmmakers. Films will be analyzed both in a broad socio-historical framework and in respect to authors' specific styles. Course Note: MDNLNG 235L and CINE 235L are the same course. This course is cross-listed as: MLLC 235L Distribution Area: World Cultures Course Catalog ID: 037594 Course Offer Number: 2

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CINE

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course

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2026-2027

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Formerly: Studies in Contemporary Cinema Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This course focuses on special topics in contemporary cinema, which will change from semester to semester. Through recent films from manifold different regions, nations and cultures, and using a variety of theoretical and analytical approaches, the themes explored in this 497

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CINE

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course

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2026-2027

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Electives

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CINE

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12

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12

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course

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2026-2027

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Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: Improvisation and the Art of Comedy is a theatre arts and cinema studies course that allows students to explore, study and perform popular forms of Improvisation and Comedy in theatre and film. The class provides the physical performance training and academic study necessary to pursue the craft of creating comedy in theatre and film performances and improvisational comedy. Students will find this class helps them in basic life skills and professional skills spanning a wide variety of fields. Course Note: THRART 20L and CINE 260L are the same course. This course is cross-listed as: THRART 260L Distribution Area: Arts Course Catalog ID: 038375 Course Offer Number: 2

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CINE

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course

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2026-2027

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Formerly: CINE 365L Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: An exploration and evaluation of techniques of television production, with particular emphasis on common industry practices. Course Note: THRART 265Land CINE 265L are the same course. This course is cross-listed as: THRART 265L 499

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CINE

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course

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2026-2027

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Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: An introduction to the art and the technical aspects of writing scripts for film and television. Involves analyses of screenplays, study of screen writers past and present, the relationship between director and writer, aesthetics of film writing. Project: the completion of a full- length screenplay from first treatment (synopsis) through first and second drafts and final script. Course Note: THRART 275L and CINE 275L are the same courses. This course is cross-listed as: THRART 275L Course Catalog ID: 029201 Course Offer Number: 2

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CINE

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course

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2026-2027

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CLSICS 278 - Cities of Vesuvius: Pompeii and Herculaneum CLSICS 282 - Roman Civilization CLSICS 284 - Greek and Roman Mythology CLSICS 285 - Greek and Roman Tragedy CLSICS 288 - Image and Reality: The Women of Rome CLSICS 289 - Rome in Hollywood

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CINE

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2026-2027

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CINE

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2026-2027

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Formerly: History of French Cinema Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This course will acquaint students with films and filmmakers that have made an impact on French cinema and society from the early 20th century to today. It provides a broad survey of cinematic practices in France and explores the major social issues political debates, and historical memories that have preoccupied French society. The course focuses on how French film interrogates social and national identity in France, but also in Africa and Europe more broadly. Course Note: FRENCH 285L and CINE 285L and MLLC are the same course. This course is cross-listed as: FRENCH 285L and MLLC 285L Course Catalog ID: 038686 Course Offer Number: 2

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CINE

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course

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2026-2027

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Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Repeatable - total credits: 18 / total completions: 6 Description: Various introductory special topics in cinema studies and related fields are offered experimentally, once or twice, under this heading. Topics are announced each semester during pre-registration. 501

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CINE

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course

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2026-2027

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Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This course introduces students to the history of sex in American cinema by tracing the history of the representation of sex and sexuality from early cinema and the vaudeville tradition to contemporary engagements with queerness, non-normative desires, and artificial intelligence. Students will examine key moments in film history related to sex and censorship, including the scandals of pre-code Hollywood, the rise of the Hays Codes, the development of underground and the exploitation cinemas, and the emergence of the Motion Picture Rating System, as well a range of issues related to sexuality and desire, including same-sex desire, repression, sexual violence, the AIDS crisis, and sex and technology. Students will watch both mainstream, commercial films and smaller, independent art films, as well as B-movies and low budget films, to examine how sex and sexuality have been represented and censored across the broad spectrum of American cinema. Course Note: This course will occur on the schedule on a rotating and irregular basis. ENGL 292L and CINE 292L are the same course. This course is cross-listed as: ENGL 292L Distribution Area: Humanities Diversity Area: United States Enrollment Requirements: Prerequisite: ENGL 102 . Course Catalog ID: 040435 Course Offer Number: 2

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CINE

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course

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2026-2027

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Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture 502

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CINE

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course

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2026-2027

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and Histories s part of this requirement. s 148

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CINE

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2026-2027

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Credit(s): 3 503

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CINE

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course

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2026-2027

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Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This class focuses on television's evolution as a cultural practice from a historical and theoretical perspective. Taking a humanistic approach, it examines the nature, institutions, technologies, aesthetics, and socio-political functions of commercial and public-service broadcast television. Further, it scrutinizes contemporary technological and cultural changes, such as the rise of digital and transnational television phenomena, questioning how television formats, programs and institutions are influencing and influenced by major shifts in global mediascapes. Distribution Area: Humanities Enrollment Requirements: Prerequisite: ENGL 101 or ENGL 102 or permission of instructor 504

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CINE

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course

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2026-2027

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Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: An introduction to the major works, filmmakers, and movements of French cinema. We will develop a basic knowledge of French film through the analysis of different genres. Through cinema we will also study social, historical and political issues. The course will be taught in French. Course Note: FRENCH 306L and CINE 306L are the same course. This course is cross-listed as: FRENCH 306L Distribution Area: World Languages Enrollment Requirements: Prerequisite: FRENCH 202 or permission of instructor Course Catalog ID: 036820 Course Offer Number: 2

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CINE

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course

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2026-2027

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Subject

CINE

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course

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2026-2027

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Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This course examines the independently-produced films and videos by Asian American filmmakers and artists. Asian American independent cinema first emerged as early as the 1910s, but developed most significantly in the civil rights era and closely connected to both the Asian American political movement and the development of the Third World Independent 505

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CINE

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course

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2026-2027

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Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This course explores the history of cult film in America and its relationship to the mainstream industry and other fringe cinemas. The course focuses particularly on the way that cult cinema challenges our ideas of quality, taste, and acceptability. At the same time, it explores questions related to cult audiences, exhibition spaces (drive-ins, art house theaters, midnight movies) fandom and cinephilia, and cult film nostalgia. Course Note: ENGL 316L and CINE 316L are the same course. This course is cross-listed as: ENGL 316L Course Catalog ID: 040178 Course Offer Number: 2

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CINE

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course

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2026-2027

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Credit(s): 3 506

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CINE

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course

Edition

2026-2027

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Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: Focused on experimental moving images, this course addresses the ways in which some female film artists, lacking support for or interest in commercial and mainstream modes of production, distribution and exhibition, have turned instead to alternative networks. Whether in fully experimental mode, through the larger art world, or through alternative narrative filmmaking, such filmmakers engage a unique perspective - often in dialogue with feminist movements from the suffragists to 1970s feminist film theorists to more recent movements like #TimesUp. Course Note: ART 318L and CINE 318L are the same course. This course is cross-listed as: ART 318L Distribution Area: Arts Diversity Area: United States Enrollment Requirements: Prerequisite: 507

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CINE

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course

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2026-2027

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Formerly: Studies in Film Directors Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This course addresses topics related to particular directors. Its specific focus changes from semester to semester, depending on the director or directors being studied. Regardless of the exact focus, the class will spend significant time exploring the concept of authorship as it related to film production, and students will critically engage with the history and politics of auteur theory. Distribution Area: Arts Enrollment Requirements: Prerequisite: ENGL 101 or ENGL 102 Course Catalog ID: 040269 Course Offer Number: 1

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CINE

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course

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2026-2027

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Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: Film festivals play a key role in today's global independent motion picture industry. They shape contemporary film culture and greatly impact communities outside of the film industry. In this course, students will be introduced to the history, structures and practices of today's film festival world and their political, economic and aesthetic impact from a local and global, theoretical 508

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CINE

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course

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2026-2027

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CINE

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course

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2026-2027

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Formerly: Doppelganger: The Uncanny Double in World Literature and Film Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: For more than two centuries, the figure of the doppelganger has played a major role in global folklore, fiction, popular culture and film. A doppelganger is a ghostly double of a living person and typically appears as his or her twin, shadow or mirror image, representing evil or misfortune. This course examines the doppelganger as a figure of supernatural horror that simultaneously facilities inquiries into questions of personal identity and the nature of the cinematic medium. Taught in English. Course Note: MLLC 330L and CINE 330L and GERMAN 330L are the same course. This course is cross-listed as: MLLC 330L and GERMAN 330L Distribution Area: Humanities Enrollment Requirements: Prerequisite: ENGL 101 or permission of instructor Course Catalog ID: 040677 Course Offer Number: 2 509

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CINE

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course

Edition

2026-2027

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Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: It is difficult to think of any American who has had greater influence on narrative and visual culture around the world than Walt Disney. Yet the quality of Disney's creations has given rise to much debate, famously leading one critic to ask: "It's Disney, but is it art?" This course traces the first 65 years of the Walt Disney Animation Studios in an attempt to answer that question. A major focus will be the company's heavy reliance in these years on 'high art' from the Middle Ages and Renaissance. From illuminated manuscripts to palatial architecture, European art "especially French, Italian, and German" is pervasive in Walt Disney Studios storytelling. Beyond questions of adaptation, class discussion will also center issues of social commentary, analyzing how gender, sexuality, race, class, and ability were presented onscreen, and how they were treated in Studio culture. Through formalist, narrative, and sociohistorical analysis, students will achieve a better understanding of how European art shaped Disney, and how that art has engaged (or failed to engage) with societal change. Assignments are built around Disney's feature films, to be supplemented by the premodern texts and visual arts that inspired them, as well as relevant critical studies. Course taught in English; readings available in English and in original languages, where relevant. This course is cross-listed as: FRENCH 337L and GERMAN 337L and ITAL 337L and MLLC 337L Enrollment Requirements: Prerequisite: ENGL 102 Semester(s) typically offered: Fall Course Catalog ID: 042092 Course Offer Number: 4

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CINE

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course

Edition

2026-2027

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Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This course is designed to encourage multidisciplinary analysis of gender, cultural representations, and film in the 20th and early 21st century. Among the topics that students will explore are: ethnographic film and gendered practices in ethnographic filmmaking; how ideologies 510

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CINE

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course

Edition

2026-2027

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Formerly: Studies in Film Genre Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This course addresses topics related to particular film genres. Its specific focus changes from semester to semester, depending on the genre or genres being studies. Regardless of the exact focus, the class will spend significant time exploring the fundamentals of genre theory as students think historically and culturally about the shape and function of film genre. Distribution Area: Arts Enrollment Requirements: Prerequisite: ENGL 101 or ENGL 102 Course Catalog ID: 040185 Course Offer Number: 1

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CINE

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course

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2026-2027

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CINE

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course

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2026-2027

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Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture 511

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CINE

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course

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2026-2027

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Formerly: Topics in American Cinema Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This course offers various ways of surveying American movies from the perspective of the dominant Hollywood model and from its margins. It is designed to allow a variety of topics in American cinema to be taught or the cinema studies minor. Specific course descriptions change based on each iteration of the course. Drawing on the elect range of American voices, this course might focus on a historical moment, a specific group of Americans as filmmakers or audiences, and/or aesthetic questions related to American cinema. It may consider the changing aesthetics of Hollywood films by looking at films made across the complex and shifting production circumstances before, during and after the decline of the studio system; it may look as well to filmmakers working outside of the mainstream to explore how the processes by which American identities are reflected upon and challenged through movies varies according to the perspectives and methods of engagement of those who make movies. Taking into account artistic, cultural, and commercial aspects of American cinema, the course examines any number of its roles as a system of representation and communication. 512

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CINE

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course

Edition

2026-2027

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Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This course explores the ways in which filmmakers have engaged with the notion of ingenuousness primarily through feature film and documentary forms over the last 40 years. The course will look at films directed, produced and written by indigenous and non-indigenous film- makers. We will examine films from a number of different geographical areas, concentrating on North America (the United States and Canada), Aotearoa/New Zealand, Australia, and Southern Africa. We will also be looking at a select number of films from other areas in relationship to specific issues, these include Tuvalu, Kazakhstan and Guatemala. As part of the course structure, we will also be engaging with a number of specific issues. These include colonialism, identity, the importance of land, environmental destruction, gender, coming of age, new media platforms, the impact of commercial media, and commodification and appropriation of indigenous peoples. A select number of film-makers will also be joining the course as guest lecturers. Course Note: ANTH 361L and CINE 361L are the same course. This course is cross-listed as: ANTH 361L Distribution Area: World Cultures Diversity Area: International Course Catalog ID: 040818 Course Offer Number: 2

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CINE

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course

Edition

2026-2027

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Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) 513

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CINE

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course

Edition

2026-2027

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Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: German cinema constitutes one of the most creative, influential and exciting of all filmic traditions. In this course students will analyze masterpieces of the German cinema and develop an understanding of their expressive modes and formal structures. Topics may include Nazi cinema, cinema and technology, minority filmmaking, German filmmakers in American exile, German New Wave, women filmmakers, and contemporary German cinema. Taught in English. Course Note: GERMAN 372L and CINE 372Land MLLC 372L are the same course. This course is cross-listed as: GERMAN 372L and MLLC 372L Distribution Area: Arts Diversity Area: International Enrollment Requirements: Prerequisite: ENGL 101 or permission of instructor Course Catalog ID: 039760 514

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CINE

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course

Edition

2026-2027

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Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This course will provide an introduction to Indian cinema and to Indian culture and society through the study of films. The Indian film industry is the largest producer of feature films in the world. In this class we will examine the films as entertainment as well as cultural narratives and commentaries on society, exploring themes such as social change, the family and gender. The course will combine content analysis of film texts with study of the public culture of film reception. Course Note: ASAMST 375L and COMM 375L and SOCIOL 375L and CINE 375L are the same course. This course is cross-listed as: SOCIOL 375L, COMM 375L, and ASAMST 375L Distribution Area: World Cultures Diversity Area: International Enrollment Requirements: Prerequisite: SOCIOL 101 Course Catalog ID: 033824 Course Offer Number: 4

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CINE

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course

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2026-2027

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CINE

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course

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2026-2027

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Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This course examines some of the film cultures of Brazil, Portugal, and Lusophone Africa (more specifically, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, Cabo Verde, and Angola), including their representations of popular culture, poverty and famine, underdevelopment, favelas and 515

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CINE

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course

Edition

2026-2027

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CHINSE 276 - Modern Chinese Cinema

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CINE

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course

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2026-2027

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Credit(s): 3 516

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CINE

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course

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2026-2027

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Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Repeatable - total credits: 8 / total completions: 2 Description: This course helps foster the development of a personal vision within a historical and critical framework of emerging digital technology. Workshops may be devoted to specific genres and/or specific technical or conceptual concerns. Topics and digital projects to be explored and discussed include notions of "Documentary", "Animation", "Experimental Film and Video", "Video Performance and Projection", "Sight and Sound" and "Time and Motion", as well as non- conventional production methodologies. Course Note: May be repeated for credit. ART 395L and CINE 395L are the same course. 517

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CINE

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course

Repeatable

May be repeated for credit.

Edition

2026-2027

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Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This course examines cinematic narratives of social injustices, across the world, with a special focus on gender and feminism. We study the stylistic, generic, and artistic choices made by filmmakers across geographic regions to understand how, rather than a neutral medium, cinema is often ideologically constructed to reinforce imperialistic and gendered power relations. Further, we study how cinema can be a powerful mode of dissent and advocacy. We engage with the central question, How do we determine a feminist impulse, narration and motivation in cinematic production about human rights struggles, and what difference does that make? Students will examine cinema from critical interdisciplinary and intersectional perspectives on human rights, aesthetics and gender. This is a hands-on, interactive course designed with the support of the Mellon Foundation. Course Note: CINE 412L and WGS 412L are the same course. This course is cross-listed as: WGS 412L Distribution Area: Humanities Diversity Area: International Enrollment Requirements: Prerequisite: ENGL 101 or ENGL 102 or permission of instructor Course Catalog ID: 041517 Course Offer Number: 1 518

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CINE

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course

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2026-2027

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Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: The focus of this course will be a comprehensive history of the interrelationship between politics and film in wide geographical and cultural contexts and in distinct time periods, starting from World War II. Film will be studied that was created in Europe, North America, Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa. In particular the course will frame and analyze various political issues, themes, and ideologies, zeroing in on all the different ways in which these have been used or represented on screen. We will investigate, compare and contrast films and other relevant texts through a number of different lenses (political, cultural, ethical) and using diverse means (written assignment, class discussions, online forum) in order to develop informed opinions on their meaning, cultural significance, and ideological implications. Since its early days, film has been instrumental in advancing political agendas, supporting specific policies, championing ideologies (both overtly and surreptitiously), and influencing national and global audiences. Issues of historical significance and global concern such as the effects of propaganda and totalitarianism, the right to self-determination of peoples, and dominant ideological discourses, among others, will be studied in detail through weekly screenings of relevant classic films. Films will be analyzed both in a broad socio-cultural and historical framework and in respect to authors' specific style. Distribution Area: World Cultures Course Catalog ID: 040740 Course Offer Number: 1

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CINE

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course

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2026-2027

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Credit(s): 1-4 Component(s): Independent Study Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Repeatable - total credits: 6 / total completions: 6 Description: This course is an independent investigation in cinema studies under the supervision 519

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CINE

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course

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2026-2027

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• At least one elective must focus on non-US cinema:

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CINE

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course

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2026-2027

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