Courses

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 mise-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.