Students are to formulate their projects before approaching the member of the Film Studies faculty with whom they wish to work. The project should be discussed the semester before the Directed Study is to be undertaken. Under no circumstances will retroactive credit be given. Although the Film Studies Program occasionally can find internships for students, students are encouraged to arrange projects on their own. Directed readings are arranged with the instructor.
Internships require a minimum of ten hours of work per week, a journal, and an eight-page paper.
Film production projects require a minimum of ten hours of work per week, the submission of production notes, and a final product. This class will explore through a critical interrogation of popular texts the shifting terrain of contemporary feminist thought and representations. Academic feminist work will be combined with popular press criticism to uncover the interdependent relationships between the two in how they create feminism's parameters and popular reception. Requires active discussion, weekly student-led presentations of material, one relevant literature review of an appropriate text, and a final seminar paper. The category of left cinema originated with the early Soviets who were the first to debate the form such a cinema should take.