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Film Studies
| Film Studies 020E, An Introduction to Film | |
| | Description: A broad introduction to the study of films that will teach the basic vocabulary of film studies, provide an overview of the types of film and videos being made, and examine various critical approaches. By considering a variety of texts, students will learn to analyze and discuss film and video. | | 5 hours including screening, 1.0 course. | | back to top |
| Film Studies 152F/G, Contemporary American Cinema | |
| | Description: This course examines contemporary American film, including Hollywood, independent narrative, documentary, and experimental practice. Topics include the rise of entertainment conglomerates, independent festivals, and digital production and distribution. | | 2 lecture/seminar hours, 1 3-hour lecture/screening, 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Film Studies 154E, Film Comedy/Film Genres | |
| | Description: This course will provide an introduction to the study of cinema through an examination of a variety of popular film comedies and film genres: silent comedy, the musical, private-eye, or representative films of individual directors. In all, 26 programs will be presented. | | 1 lecture hour, 1 seminar/tutorial hour, 1 3-hour screening, 1.0 course. | | back to top |
| Film Studies 158F/G, Contemporary Canadian Cinema | |
| | Description: In this course contemporary documentary, fictional and short Canadian films are studied. Topics include industrial factors; historical influences; the aesthetics of new narratives; the innovations of Canadian documentarians; experimental work in new media; the short film; internationalist, nationalist, regionalist and multicultural debates. | | 2 lecture/seminar hours, 1 3-hour lecture/screening, 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Film Studies 190E, Special Topics in Film Studies | |
| | Description: Please consult Department for current offerings. | | 2 lecture/tutorial hours, 1 3-hour screening, 1.0 course. | | back to top |
| Film Studies 191F/G-192F/G, Special Topics in Film Studies | |
| | Description: Please consult Department for current offerings. | | 2 lecture/tutorial hours, 1 3-hour screening, 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Film Studies 193, Special Topics in Film Studies | |
| | Description: Please consult Department for current offerings. | | 2 lecture/tutorial hours, 1 3-hour screening, 1.0 course. | | back to top |
| Film Studies 194a/b-198a/b, Special Topics in Film Studies | |
| | Description: Please consult Department for current offerings. | | 2 lecture/tutorial hours, 1 3-hour screening, 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Film Studies 199E, Special Topics in Film Studies | |
| | Description: Please consult Department for current offerings. | | 2 lecture/tutorial hours, 1 3-hour screening, 1.0 course. | | back to top |
| Film Studies 200F/G, Film Criticism and Critical Methods | |
| | Description: Students will learn a variety of critical methods to move beyond merely watching films to understanding them as active, critically engaged readers. An examination of auteur and genre criticism, introduction to psychoanalytic theory, ideas derived from semiotics, structuralism and feminism will be introduced as methodological approaches to understanding film texts. | | Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in Film Studies 020E, and at least 60% in all subsequent Film Studies courses, or permission of the Department. | | 2 lecture/seminar hours, 1 3-hour lecture/screening, 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Film Studies 210F/G, Special Topics in Film | |
| | Description: Please consult the Department for current offerings. | | Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in Film Studies 020E, and at least 60% in all subsequent Film Studies courses, or permission of the Department. | | 2 lecture /seminar hours, 1 3-hour lecture/screening, 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Film Studies 211F/G, Special Topics in Film | |
| | Description: Please consult the Department for current offerings. | | Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in Film Studies 020E, and at least 60% in all subsequent Film Studies courses, or permission of the Department. | | 2 lecture /seminar hours, 1 3-hour lecture/screening, 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Film Studies 212F/G, Special Topics in Film | |
| | Description: Please consult the Department for current offerings. | | Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in Film Studies 020E, and at least 60% in all subsequent Film Studies courses, or permission of the Department. | | 2 lecture /seminar hours, 1 3-hour lecture/screening, 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Film Studies 213F/G, Special Topics in Film | |
| | Description: Please consult the Department for current offerings. | | Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in Film Studies 020E, and at least 60% in all subsequent Film Studies courses, or permission of the Department. | | 2 lecture /seminar hours, 1 3-hour lecture/screening, 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Film Studies 214F/G, Special Topics in Film | |
| | Description: Please consult the Department for current offerings. | | Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in Film Studies 020E, and at least 60% in all subsequent Film Studies courses, or permission of the Department. | | 2 lecture /seminar hours, 1 3-hour lecture/screening, 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Film Studies 215F/G, Special Topics in Film | |
| | Description: Please consult the Department for current offerings. | | Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in Film Studies 020E, and at least 60% in all subsequent Film Studies courses, or permission of the Department. | | 2 lecture /seminar hours, 1 3-hour lecture/screening, 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Film Studies 216F/G, Special Topics in Film | |
| | Description: Please consult the Department for current offerings. | | Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in Film Studies 020E, and at least 60% in all subsequent Film Studies courses, or permission of the Department. | | 2 lecture /seminar hours, 1 3-hour lecture/screening, 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Film Studies 217F/G, Special Topics in Film | |
| | Description: Please consult the Department for current offerings. | | Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in Film Studies 020E, and at least 60% in all subsequent Film Studies courses, or permission of the Department. | | 2 lecture /seminar hours, 1 3-hour lecture/screening, 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Film Studies 218F/G, Special Topics in Film | |
| | Description: Please consult the Department for current offerings. | | Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in Film Studies 020E, and at least 60% in all subsequent Film Studies courses, or permission of the Department. | | 2 lecture /seminar hours, 1 3-hour lecture/screening, 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Film Studies 219F/G, Special Topics in Film | |
| | Description: Please consult the Department for current offerings. | | Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in Film Studies 020E, and at least 60% in all subsequent Film Studies courses, or permission of the Department. | | 2 lecture /seminar hours, 1 3-hour lecture/screening, 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Film Studies 220F/G-229F/G, Special Topics in Film | |
| | Description: Please consult the Department for current offerings. | | Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in Film Studies 020E, and at least 60% in all subsequent Film Studies courses, or permission of the Department. | | 2 lecture /seminar hours, 1 3-hour lecture/screening, 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Film Studies 242F/G, National Cinemas: Special Topics | |
| | Description: Historically and critically, this course will survey significant film 'movements' within one or more national cinemas (e.g., France/Russia/Italy/Japan, etc.) and their sources or causes. The specific national cinema to be considered will change from year to year. | | Antirequisite(s): Film Studies 243F/G and Film Studies 244E (may be waived by permission of the Department). | | Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in Film Studies 020E, and at least 60% in all subsequent Film Studies courses, or permission of the Department. | | 1 3- hour lecture/screening, 2 lecture/seminar hours, 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Film Studies 243F/G, National Cinemas: Special Topics | |
| | Description: Historically and critically, this course will survey significant film 'movements' within one or more national cinemas (e.g., France/Russia/Italy/Japan, etc.) and their sources or causes. The specific national cinema to be considered will change from year to year. | | Antirequisite(s): Film Studies 242F/G and Film Studies 244E (may be waived by permission of the Department). | | Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in Film Studies 020E, and at least 60% in all subsequent Film Studies courses, or permission of the Department. | | 1 3- hour lecture/screening, 2 lecture/seminar hours, 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Film Studies 244E, National Cinemas: Special Topics | |
| | Description: Historically and critically, this course will survey significant film 'movements' within one or more national cinemas (e.g., France/Russia/Italy/Japan, etc.) and their sources or causes. The specific national cinema to be considered will change from year to year. | | Antirequisite(s): Film Studies 242F/G and Film Studies 243F/G (may be waived by permission of the Department). | | Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in Film Studies 020E, and at least 60% in all subsequent Film Studies courses, or permission of the Department. | | 1 3- hour lecture/screening, 2 lecture/seminar hours, 1.0 course. | | back to top |
| Film Studies 245F/G, East and Central European Cinemas | |
| | Description: This course explores films produced in East-Central Europe (including the cinemas of Hungary, Poland, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Romania, and the former Soviet republics and the former Yugoslavia) in relation to the historical and social conditions of cultural production, and in relation to individual directors and artists. | | Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in Film Studies 020E, and at least 60% in all subsequent Film Studies courses, or permission of the Department. | | 2 lecture/seminar hours, 1 3-hour lecture/screening, 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Film Studies 246F/G, Spanish Cinema | |
| | Description: This course will examine recent Spanish cinema from the political transition after Franco's death to the present, with particular emphasis on the eighties and nineties. We will explore cinematic reaction to post-Franco liberties, "the Almodóvar phenomenon," gender, sexuality and regional cinema. | | Antirequisite(s): Film Studies 211F/G (as offered in 1999-2000) and Film Studies 243G (as offered in 2001-2002). | | Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in Film Studies 020E, and at least 60% in all subsequent Film Studies courses, or permission of the Department. | | 2 lecture/seminar hours, 1 3-hour lecture/screening, 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Film Studies 247F/G, Latin American Cinema | |
| | Description: This course will examine New Latin American Cinema from its inception as a continental movement to its more disparate manifestations in the eighties and nineties. The notion of "Third Cinema"; social, political and economic factors of production; and questions of identity, ideology, gender, nationalism and history will be discussed. | | Antirequisite(s): Film Studies 213F/G (as offered in 2000-2001). | | Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in Film Studies 020E, and at least 60% in all subsequent Film Studies courses, or permission of the Department. | | 2 lecture/seminar hours, 1 3-hour lecture/screening, 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Film Studies 251E, World Cinema | |
| | Description: An introductory examination of the finest achievements of internationally renowned directors, important film movements and national film cultures. Through screenings and discussion of 25 films selected from the entire history of the medium, students develop a means of discussing film as an international art. | | Antirequisite(s): The former Film 151E. | | Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in Film Studies 020E, and at least 60% in all subsequent Film Studies courses, or permission of the Department. | | 1 lecture hour, 1 seminar/tutorial hour, 1 3-hour screening, 1.0 course. | | back to top |
| Film Studies 253E, American Cinema | |
| | Description: This course traces a history of American film from the silent period to the present. Topics include the development of the Hollywood style and major film genres and directors, and industrial, technical, political, and cultural social forces. | | Antirequisite(s): The former Film 153E. | | Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in Film Studies 020E, and at least 60% in all subsequent Film Studies courses, or permission of the Department. | | 2 lecture/tutorial hours, 1 3-hour screening, 1.0 course. | | back to top |
| Film Studies 255E, Representation of Gender and Sexuality | |
| | Description: This course explores the representation of gender and sexuality in mainstream Hollywood and European art cinema. The course introduces a number of theoretical frameworks which are used to probe issues such as gender stereotypes, the relationship between gender and genre, feminist counter cinema, queer studies, identification, pleasure and spectatorship. | | Prerequisite(s): Film Studies 020E or Women's Studies 020E or permission of the Department. | | 2 lecture hours, 1 3-hour screening, 1.0 course. | | back to top |
| Film Studies 256F/G, Avant-Garde Cinema | |
| | Description: An exploration of a variety of marginal film practices and modes of production through an historical consideration of the major trends and developments in European, American, and Canadian avant-garde. Films will be analyzed in relation to the theoretical issues they raise, specifically, feminist theory and practice, film formalism, and spectatorship. | | Prerequisite(s): Film Studies 020E or Women's Studies 020E or permission of the Department. | | 1 3-hour lecture/screening, 2 lecture/seminar hours, 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Film Studies 257F/G, Contemporary International Cinema | |
| | Description: An introduction to important trends in recent film history, covering an international range of films. By studying the individual attributes of each film in the context of larger classifications, this course will aim to develop both formal and analytical skills and a knowledge of recent film history. | | Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in Film Studies 020E, and at least 60% in all subsequent Film Studies courses, or permission of the Department. | | 2 lecture/seminar hours, 1 3-hour lecture/screening, 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Film Studies 258F/G, Canadian Cinema: Documents, Storytelling, Experiments | |
| | Description: This course looks at Canadian cinema in relation to the category label, national cinema. What is the value of a national cinema? What is the popular imagination? How do the films speak to us about Canada, its history, its people and its politics? | | Antirequisite(s): Film Studies 244E (as offered in 2001-2002). | | Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in Film Studies 020E, and at least 60% in all subsequent Film Studies courses, or permission of the Department. | | 2 lecture/seminar hours, 1 3-hour lecture/screening, 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Film Studies 270F/G, Film Aesthetics | |
| | Description: This course will explore the stylistic functions of basic film elements, e.g., camera movement, editing, sound, and colour, through analysis of films. | | Antirequisite(s): The former Film 170F/G. | | Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in Film Studies 020E, and at least 60% in all subsequent Film Studies courses, or permission of the Department. | | 1 3-hour lecture/screening, 2 lecture/seminar hours, 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Film Studies 275F/G, Documentary Film | |
| | Description: This course will examine the development of film documentary, from Lumičre in the 1890's to the modern docudrama. | | Antirequisite(s): The former Film 175F/G. | | Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in Film Studies 020E, and at least 60% in all subsequent Film Studies courses, or permission of the Department. | | 1 3-hour lecture/screening, 2 lecture/seminar hours, 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Film Studies 279F/G, Special Topics | |
| | Description: Please consult Department for current offerings. | | Antirequisite(s): The former Film 179F/G. | | Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in Film Studies 020E, and at least 60% in all subsequent Film Studies courses, or permission of the Department. | | 1 3-hour lecture/screening, 2 lecture/seminar hours, 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Film Studies 295F/G, Film Directors/Auteurs: Special Topics | |
| | Description: This course is rooted in an auteurist approach to the works of a few major directors, and will consider both the manner in which these directors' personalities are thematically and stylistically expressed in their films, and how their films represent major developments or movements in film aesthetics and history. | | Antirequisite(s): The former Film 259E, the former Film 159E. | | Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in Film Studies 020E, and at least 60% in all subsequent Film Studies courses, or permission of the Department. | | 1 3-hour lecture/screening, 2 lecture/seminar hours, 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Film Studies 310E, Special Topics in Film Studies | |
| | Description: Please consult the Department for current offerings. | | Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in Film Studies 020E and at least 60% in all subsequent Film Studies courses, or permission of the Department.
| | 2 lecture/seminar hours and a 3-hour lecture/screening, 1.0 course. | | back to top |
| Film Studies 311F/G-312F/G, Special Topics in Film Studies | |
| | Description: Please consult the Department for current offerings. | | Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in Film Studies 020E and at least 60% in all subsequent Film Studies courses, or permission of the Department. | | 2 lecture/seminar hours and a 3-hour lecture/screening, 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Film Studies 315F/G-316F/G, Special Topics in Film Studies | |
| | Description: Please consult the Department for current offerings. | | Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in Film Studies 020E and at least 60% in all subsequent Film Studies courses, or permission of the Department.
| | 2 lecture/seminar hours and a 3-hour lecture/screening, 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Film Studies 317, Special Topics in Film Studies | |
| | Description: Please consult the Department for current offerings. | | Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in Film Studies 020E and at least 60% in all subsequent Film Studies courses, or permission of the Department.
| | 2 lecture/seminar hours and a 3-hour lecture/screening, 1.0 course. | | back to top |
| Film Studies 318a/b-319a/b, Special Topics in Film Studies | |
| | Description: Please consult the Department for current offerings. | | Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in Film Studies 020E and at least 60% in all subsequent Film Studies courses, or permission of the Department.
| | 2 lecture/seminar hours and a 3-hour lecture/screening, 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Film Studies 320E, Special Topics in Film Studies | |
| | Description: Please consult the Department for current offerings. | | Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in Film Studies 020E and at least 60% in all subsequent Film Studies courses, or permission of the Department.
| | 2 lecture/seminar hours and a 3-hour lecture/screening, 1.0 course. | | back to top |
| Film Studies 321F/G-322F/G, Special Topics in Film Studies | |
| | Description: Please consult the Department for current offerings. | | Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in Film Studies 020E and at least 60% in all subsequent Film Studies courses, or permission of the Department. | | 2 lecture/seminar hours and a 3-hour lecture/screening, 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Film Studies 325F/G-326F/G, Special Topics in Film Studies | |
| | Description: Please consult the Department for current offerings. | | Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in Film Studies 020E and at least 60% in all subsequent Film Studies courses, or permission of the Department. | | 2 lecture/seminar hours and a 3-hour lecture/screening, 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Film Studies 327, Special Topics in Film Studies | |
| | Description: Please consult the Department for current offerings. | | Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in Film Studies 020E and at least 60% in all subsequent Film Studies courses, or permission of the Department. | | 2 lecture/seminar hours and a 3-hour lecture/screening, 1.0 course. | | back to top |
| Film Studies 328a/b-329a/b, Special Topics in Film Studies | |
| | Description: Please consult the Department for current offerings. | | Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in Film Studies 020E and at least 60% in all subsequent Film Studies courses, or permission of the Department. | | 2 lecture/seminar hours and a 3-hour lecture/screening, 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Film Studies 370F/G, Advanced Film Aesthetics | |
| | Description: This course provides an opportunity for advanced formal investigation of film, including historical and conceptual debates on style, and technological developments like digital processes. Students may complete course requirements with a short video. | | Prerequisite(s): Film Studies 270F/G or permission of the Department. | | 2 lecture/seminar hours, 1 3-hour lecture/screening, 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Film Studies 371F/G, Film Theory | |
| | Description: This course will investigate major writings in two areas of classical film theory: the realism-formalism debate and the auteur theory. Additional topics in film poetics and semiotics will also be discussed. | | Antirequisite(s): The former Film Studies 271F/G and 171F/G. | | Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in Film Studies 020E, and at least 60% in all subsequent Film Studies courses, or permission of the Department. | | 1 3-hour lecture/screening, 2 lecture/seminar hours, 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Film Studies 372F/G, Contemporary Film Theory | |
| | Description: This course examines developments in film theory since 1968. Beginning with neo-formalist assessment of classical Hollywood cinema's narrational principles and procedures, the course will cover some central debates affecting film theory over the past thirty-five years including ideological questions, apparatus theory, feminism, psychoanalytic theory, postmodernism, queer theory and postcolonialism. | | Antirequisite(s): The former Film Studies 272F/G. | | Prerequisite(s): Film Studies 371F/G or the former Film Studies 271F/G, or permission of the Department. | | 2 lecture/seminar hours, 1 3-hour lecture/screening, 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Film Studies 373F/G, Theories of National Cinemas | |
| | Description: This course will introduce students to theories of nationalism and national identity, to determine how they influence our understanding of national cinemas. Issues such as colonialism, postcolonialism, imperialism, multiculturalism, regionalism, and globalization will be explored through reading political and cultural essays. The course will examine one or two national cinemas. | | Antirequisite(s): Film 258F (2002), Film 244E (2001-2002). | | Prerequisite(s): Film 200F/G. | | Screening, Lecture/Tutorial, 5 hours, 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Film Studies 409E, Undergraduate Thesis | |
| | Description: Individual instruction in the selection of a topic, the preparation of materials, and the writing of a thesis. Students who wish to take this course must apply to the Chair of the Department. The course is restricted to students in fourth year of an Honors Specialization in Film Studies. | | Prerequisite(s): Registration in fourth year of an Honors Specialization in Film Studies and permission of the Department. Permission is normally granted only to students having at least a high "B" average. | | 1.0 course. | | back to top |
| Film Studies 474F/G, Seminar in Film Studies | |
| | Description: The topics will vary from year to year. Topics will come from specific areas of film studies (theory, criticism, history). | | Prerequisite(s): Film Studies 371F/G or the former 271F/G, or permission of the Department. | | 5 hours, 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Film Studies 490F/G, Seminar in Film Studies | |
| | Description: The topics will vary from year to year. Topics will come from specific areas of film studies (theory, criticism, history). | | Prerequisite(s): Film Studies 371F/G or the former 271F/G, or permission of the Department. | | 5 hours, 0.5 course. | | back to top |
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