Writers will have the option of writing an original script or adapting their own work or a work in the public domain. Designed for those with prior experience in screenwriting. May be repeated for credit. May not be taken concurrently with Film 505. Course covers the major approaches to film analysis, the tools used in film research, and the problems and methods of film historiography.
Specific focus varies.
May be repeated for credit. This course is designed to familiarize new film graduate students with the history and aesthetics of narrative filmmaking. Other key industrial or theoretical elements covered include film authorship, the star system, representation and ideology, and spectatorship. Among the most influential of all film movements, Italian neorealism broke with the theatrical tradition in cinema and gave a new emphasis to the representation of place, the particulars of an actual environment, and the social and material circumstances in which the characters find themselves. Students will examine several major works of Italian neorealism as well as various important predecessors and successors to the movement.