9 courses with the subject FMS, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
FMS 150Films That Change Us: Global Cinema from Kurosawa to Korean Horror
Instructor Jackson This class is an introduction to an entire world of movies whose fresh and unpredictable stories have moved global audiences and expanded the possibilities of cinema. We will focus on important non-Western directors like Akira Kurowsawa-whose work shaped science fiction, film noir, and samurai movies-as well as vibrant genres such as Hong Kong action films, Japanese anime, and Korean horror. Each week we will watch and discuss influential films from the 1940s through the present day, learning about the rich cinematic histories of countries including China, Japan, India, Thailand, Iran, Senegal, and more. Satisfies Visual and Performing Arts requirement. Satisfies Film, Media and Digital Studies major Satisfies Film and Media Studies minor.
Instructor Kokdil E. Making films is more than just pointing your camera at a subject, recording an event or conveying interesting information. Your film will be a historical document and a work of art filtered through your worldview, experiences and personal vision. Directing your film means making difficult choices: from initial story concept to your first screening. Both documentaries and narrative fiction films are based on a series of tools and techniques. Employing these tools, Filmmaking will focus on students choosing how best to tell their story, design their production, develop their aesthetic and how to capture their story on film. Through the screening of selected film clips, reading, in-class pre-production, production and post-production instruction and weekly assignments, the class will provide an understanding of the art of filmmaking: from concept to screen. By the end of the class, each student will produce, film, edit and screen their own fiction- or non-fiction film. The goal of the class will be to develop the skills needed to enable the student to fulfill their vision via the art of cinema. Satisfies an interdisciplinary minor requirement in Film and Media Studies and Digital Studies. Satisfies English major requirement. Satisfies the Visual and Performing Arts requirement.
Instructors Lerner, McCarthy An introduction to the history and analysis of screen media, with an emphasis on film (feature films, documentaries, animation, and experimental) together with an examination of ways cinematic techniques of storytelling do and do not find their ways into later media like television and video games. Lectures and discussions supplemented by theoretical readings and weekly screenings. Satisfies a requirement in the Communication Studies interdisciplinary major and minor. Satisfies the Visual and Performing Arts requirement. Required course for fulfilling the Film and Media Studies Interdisciplinary Minor. Satisfies a requirement in the Gender and Sexuality Studies major.
FMS 240What Hollywood Can’t Do: The Rise of American Independent Cinema
Instructor Jackson This alternate history of American cinema celebrates the vibrant film communities and genres that thrived outside of Hollywood, including horror, B-movies, Blaxploitation, experimental film, and midnight movies. The course also highlights maverick filmmakers who pioneered new forms and expressed ideas and experiences about race, gender, sexuality, and class that were excluded from the mainstream movies. We will explore how this exciting work subverted American cinematic and social norms, changed censorship laws, influenced movements such as punk and hip hop, and eventually infiltrated the mainstream. Each week will watch movies from the 1940s through the 1990s, examining their historical contexts and unique artistic qualities.
Instructor Kokdill, E. This course is focused on the development of a filmmaking practice. Students learn the iterative process of audiovisual storytelling by embracing risk, failure, and constructive feedback among peers as necessary to the creative process. Students will learn to construct short films through all three stages of production, building skills in camerawork, editing, use of artificial lighting, and sound design. Students also learn traditional three-act structure as part of larger scale works. Assignments include progressively complex short films and video art. Prerequisites & Notes FMS 211
Instructor Sample A close study of selected video games using an interdisciplinary blend of methodologies culled from cultural studies, film and media studies theory, literary criticism, and history. Satisfies a requirement in the Communication Studies interdisciplinary major and minor. Film and Media Studies Interdisciplinary Minor Credit. Satisfies the Visual and Performing Arts requirement. Prerequisites & Notes FMS 220 or ENG 293.
Instructor Staff An intensive investigation of digital media and film production. Screenings, discussions, and readings will explore the theory and practice of a selected cinematic tradition. Significant production component will include videography, non- linear video editing, lighting, and sound recording. Satisfies Film and Media Studies Interdisciplinary Minor requirement. Satisfies Visual and Performing Arts requirement.
Instructor Lerner Historical, stylistic, and analytic study of video game music from its origins in the arcade games of the 1970s to the present. Emphases on close readings of music in relation to gameplay, and vice versa. Includes training in digital audio manipulation to create sound design and musical sequences. Satisfies the Liberal Studies requirement. Prerequisites & Notes Normally offered in alternate years; not offered in 2016-17.
FMS 421Seminar in Film and Media Studies: Horror Film
Instructor Lerner Horror films present visions, ideas, and arguments that probe and play with deeply rooted fears and anxieties of the Other, of the transgressive, and of ourselves. This seminar will survey significant horror films from the earliest moments of the genre (e.g., Nosferatu, 1922) through to contemporary examples (e.g., Get Out , 2017), with careful attention given to the historical development, rhetorical potency, and ideological significance of various cinematic elements, particularly cinematography, editing, sound, and music. Assignments will include readings and films, and graded projects will include scholarly writing responding to films and assigned readings as well as production exercises.
