Cinema Studies

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SAVANNAH

CINE 205 Reading Films
Students in this course learn the basic formal components of cinema (narrative, mise-en-sc??ne, editing, cinematography, sound), and gain an understanding of how those elements are applied in narrative, documentary and experimental cinema. Students view a variety of landmark films and analyze them with an attention to the relationship between their formal and thematic components. Prerequisite: ENGL 123.

CINE 224 History of Cinema
Students examine the development of the motion picture medium through lectures, readings and screenings of landmark works. The course explores the origins of narrative cinema and the rise of Hollywood; considers key movements with European cinema (Soviet Montage, German Expressionism, French poetic realism, the French New Wave); and examines the genres of documentary and experimental cinema. Students are expected to analyze film as an art form, a communications tool and an entertainment source. Prerequisite: ARTH 110.

CINE 315 American Cinema
Students examine in depth the development of the motion picture medium in America through lectures, readings and screenings of landmark works. Students are expected to analyze film as an art form, a communications tool and an entertainment source. Cultural and sociological influences are considered, as well as the present and future directions of American cinema. Prerequisite: CINE 224 or FILM 224.

CINE 325 World Cinema
Students examine the development of international cinema through lectures, readings and screenings of landmark works. The course considers some European cinema, with a primary focus on non-Western cinema. Students are introduced to a variety of topics that orient world cinema, including colonialism, globalization, censorship, nationalism and transnational production. Students are expected to analyze film as an art form, a communications tool and an entertainment source. Prerequisite: CINE 224.

CINE 410 Special Topics in Cinema Studies
This elective course provides an opportunity for students to focus on particular issues in the field of cinema studies. Faculty, course content and prerequisites vary each time the course is offered. The class may include lectures, discussions, individual projects and critiques, depending on the nature of the topic.

CINE 703 Research Methodology in Cinema Studies
This course reviews the historical methods of research in cinema studies history, criticism, and theory as a means to examine the changes taking place in the research methodologies and the writing of cinema studies scholarship as they are currently practiced.

CINE 705 History of Cinema
This course offers an overview of the historical evolution of the motion pictures, examining how movies help us understand the specific places and times during which they arose, and illuminating the particular concerns of the people who made them.

CINE 710 Critical Concepts in Cinema Studies: Narratology, Aesthetics and Auteurism
This course examines issues of narratology (dramatic structure, story-telling strategies, issues concerning genre studies), aesthetics (film’s formal components such as mis-en-scene, editing, camera angles, framing, cinematography, sound), and auteurism (a more in-depth exploration of the idea of the director as the chief “author” of a film), and explore the interrelationships between these three concepts.

CINE 715 American Cinema
The development of the motion picture medium in America is examined through lectures, readings and screenings of landmark works. Students are expected to analyze film as an art form, a communications tool and an entertainment source. Cultural and sociological influences are considered, as well as the present and future directions of American cinema.

CINE 725 World Cinema
This course examines issues of world cinema while questioning the notion of “national cinema” and exploring the social, cultural, political, economic and aesthetic cross-pollinations that mark European and non-western cinema. Students are expected to perform close-readings of landmark films and to analyze the significance of historical context.

CINE 737 Graduate Seminar in Cinema Studies
This seminar includes studies of the cinematic trends of a particular decade. Topics range from international films, Hollywood movies, and the various movements in cinema to the negotiation between the cultural, economic, and theoretical difficulties of current transnational cinema. Prerequisite: CINE 705.

CINE 747 Issues in Cinema Theory
In this course, students evaluate critical and historical issues in cinema and related screen media; topics vary and may include national and ethnic cinema, directors, genres, historical movements, and thematic studies.

CINE 788 Cinema Studies M.A. Thesis
Students in the M.A. program in cinema studies are required to complete a thesis demonstrating originality of work, knowledge of the history, theories and methods in the discipline. Students must have topic approval from a faculty adviser and work under the close supervision of a faculty committee.