048:051 (CCL:1620) Film Criticism 3 s.h.
Evaluation and analysis of film, from journalistic reviews to academic scholarship; principles and theoretical positions.
048:052 (CCL:1625) Gender and Film 3 s.h.
Representations of femininity, masculinity, sexual identity, how they relate to society, culture; examples from feminist, psychoanalytic, queer theory.
048:053 (CCL:1630) Introduction to Film Sound 3 s.h. Sound as an acoustic, technological, aesthetic, and historical issue; functions of voice, music, sound effects.
048:062 (CCL:1632) Disney in America 3 s.h.
How Walt Disney Corporation has influenced American cultural values, ideals, and experiences through its evolution from an animation company in the 1920s, to a theme park company and television producer in the 1950s, to a media conglomerate today; the corporation's national importance, Hollywood's contributions to the Depression and World War II, postwar urban and community planning, America's changing leisure behavior, advertising and childhood, modern business history, and exportation of American culture. Same as 045:065 (AMST:1065).
048:063 (CCL:2863) Film/Video Production: Microcinemas and DIY Distribution 3 s.h. Nature and practice of film festivals; microcinemas and small-scale distribution in historical context of cinema culture and as audience-building and outreach for independently produced films, video, and new media; management and orchestration of the annual Iowa City
International Documentary Festival. Prerequisites: 048:034 (CCL:1834). Requirements: grade of C or higher in 048:034 (CCL:1834).
048:064 (CCL:2864) Film/Video Production: Alternative Forms 3 s.h. Hands-on workshops in alternative or innovative video/film practices and technologies; varied topics. Prerequisites: 048:034 (CCL:1834). Requirements: grade of C or higher in
048:034 (CCL:1834).
048:065 (CCL:2865) Film Production: Material of 16mm Film 3 s.h. Basic 16mm motion picture camera, editing, and sound techniques; individual and group
exercises. Prerequisites: 048:034 (CCL:1834). Requirements: grade of C or higher in 048:034 (CCL:1834).
048:066 (CCL:2866) Video Production: Nonfiction 3 s.h. Single-camera shooting on location, with emphasis on editing; group exercises oriented to
nonfiction forms. Prerequisites: 048:034 (CCL:1834). Requirements: grade of C or higher in 048:034 (CCL:1834).
048:067 (CCL:2867) Screenwriting: Long Form 3 s.h.
Visualization, sequencing, dialog; preparation of treatment, screenplay for fiction film; script problems. Prerequisites: 048:034 (CCL:1834). Requirements: grade of C or higher in
048:034 (CCL:1834).
048:068 (CCL:2868) Video Production: Fiction 3 s.h.
Development of fiction video making technique through group projects in the studio and on location, and nonlinear editing. Prerequisites: 048:034 (CCL:1834). Requirements: grade of C or higher in 048:034 (CCL:1834).
048:070 (CCL:1635) Styles and Genres 3 s.h.
Major film types (musicals, science fiction, westerns, film noir) and their cultural significance.
048:071 (CCL:1640) Film Authors 3 s.h.
A major director or comparison of directors; director's role in industrial and collaborative contexts, relations between biography and criticism, function of individual styles.
048:081 (CCL:1645) Film and Literature 3 s.h.
Relationships among films, novels, plays, adaptations; shared and distinct formal elements of cinematic and literary texts, their cultural functions.
048:091 (CCL:1185) Internship arr.
Opportunity to apply skills; faculty supervision, on or off campus. Requirements: cinema and comparative literature major.
048:095 (CCL:2199) Undergraduate Seminar 3 s.h.
Focus on a significant text or critical problem. Requirements: junior or senior standing, and cinema and comparative literature major.
048:098 (CCL:2198) Honors Tutorial arr.
048:099 (CCL:2195) Individual Study arr.
048:103 (CCL:4603) Topics in Contemporary Film 3 s.h. Specific issues or periods in contemporary film.
048:104 (CCL:4604) Topics in European Film 3 s.h.
Specific issues or periods in European film.
048:105 (CCL:3605) French Cinema 3-4 s.h.
Taught in English. GE: Literary, Visual, and Performing Arts. Same as 009:147 (FREN:3510).
048:106 (CCL:4606) Topics in Asian Cinema 3 s.h.
Issues or topics in East or South Asian cinemas. Same as 039:145 (ASIA:4606).
048:108 (CCL:4608) History of Documentary Film 3 s.h. A period, type, or concern of nonfiction filmmaking. Prerequisites: 048:001 (CCL:1601).
048:112 (CCL:2627) Proseminar in Cinema and Culture 1-2 s.h. A national cinema or topic in international film.
048:113 (CCL:4823) Film and Video Production: Drama 3 s.h. Individual and group dramatic video projects; location and studio shooting, nonlinear editing. Prerequisites: 048:065 (CCL:2865) or 048:066 (CCL:2866) or 048:068 (CCL:2868).
048:117 (CCL:4616) Topics in National Cinema 3 s.h.
Cinema's intersection with the nation; questions of representation, culture, and identity in the national, subnational, and/or transnational context. Prerequisites: 048:001 (CCL:1601) or 048:002 (CCL:1602).
048:118 (CCL:4618) Topics in World Cinemas 3 s.h.
Issues in international film history and film theory.
048:119 (CCL:4619) Topics in Film Sound 3 s.h.
Issues in history and theory of film sound.
048:120 (CCL:4620) Issues in Film Theory 3 s.h.
Key theorists, approaches, topics in film theory.
048:121 (CCL:4821) Film and Video Production: Selected Topics 3 s.h. Student productions focusing on a particular genre, issue, or process; 16mm, video, or audio, such as experimental film or video, collaborative projects, nonfiction, narrative, and so forth. Prerequisites: 048:064 (CCL:2864) or 048:065 (CCL:2865) or 048:066 (CCL:2866) or
048:068 (CCL:2868) or 048:121 (CCL:4821) or 048:124 (CCL:4864) or 048:131 (CCL:4841) or 048:132 (CCL:4862) or 048:133 (CCL:4845). Requirements: grade of C or higher in
048:064 (CCL:2864) or 048:065 (CCL:2865) or 048:066 (CCL:2866) or 048:068 (CCL:2868) or 048:121 (CCL:4821) or 048:124 (CCL:4864) or 048:131 (CCL:4841) or 048:132 (CCL:4862) or 048:133 (CCL:4845).
048:123 (CCL:4843) Film and Video Production: Image Design 4 s.h. Strategies, techniques, and technologies used in moving image production; emphasis on generic lighting practices, composition; short projects using film, videotape. Prerequisites:
048:064 (CCL:2864) or 048:065 (CCL:2865) or 048:066 (CCL:2866) or 048:068 (CCL:2868) or 048:121 (CCL:4821) or 048:124 (CCL:4864) or 048:131 (CCL:4841) or 048:132 (CCL:4862) or 048:133 (CCL:4845). Requirements: grade of C or higher in 048:064 (CCL:2864) or
048:065 (CCL:2865) or 048:066 (CCL:2866) or 048:068 (CCL:2868) or 048:121 (CCL:4821) or 048:124 (CCL:4864) or 048:131 (CCL:4841) or 048:132 (CCL:4862) or 048:133 (CCL:4845).
048:124 (CCL:4864) Film Production: Advanced 16mm Film 4 s.h. Processes and approaches to the short film; students produce a seven-minute, sync-sound project, including film shooting and digital editing. Prerequisites: 048:065 (CCL:2865) or
048:121 (CCL:4821) or 048:123 (CCL:4843) or 048:134 (CCL:4834).
Exercises and projects in writing, developing, and workshopping screenplays for short film or video; budgeting, location scouting, other preproduction activities. Prerequisites:
048:065 (CCL:2865) or 048:066 (CCL:2866) or 048:067 (CCL:2867) or 048:068 (CCL:2868). Requirements: grade of C or higher in 048:065 (CCL:2865) or 048:066 (CCL:2866) or
048:067 (CCL:2867) or 048:068 (CCL:2868).
048:126 (CCL:2121) Cult Films of the Last Soviet Generation 3 s.h. Same as 041:126 (SLAV:2121).
048:127 (CCL:4836) Advanced Screenwriting 3 s.h.
Write a feature screenplay (105-115 pages) within the industry standard contract guidelines for independent and studio projects; completion of outline, beat sheet, treatment, first draft; one rewrite. Prerequisites: 048:067 (CCL:2867).
048:130 (CCL:4825) Digital Production: Animation 3 s.h. Intermediate 3-D modeling, motion graphics; student projects culminating in CDR or video presentation. Prerequisites: 048:034 (CCL:1834).
048:131 (CCL:4841) Film/Video/Audio Production: Sound Design 4 s.h. Concepts and techniques in sound design for film and video; exercises, projects in sound/image relationships using location recording equipment and digital audio workstation for editing, mixing. Prerequisites: 048:063 (CCL:2863) or 048:064 (CCL:2864) or 048:065 (CCL:2865) or 048:066 (CCL:2866) or 048:068 (CCL:2868). Requirements: grade of C or higher in
048:063 (CCL:2863) or 048:064 (CCL:2864) or 048:065 (CCL:2865) or 048:066 (CCL:2866) or 048:068 (CCL:2868).
048:132 (CCL:4862) Video Production: Advanced Video 3 s.h. Exploration of boundaries between documentary and fictional forms, including 'mockumentary' and hybrid films; independent and small group video projects. Prerequisites:
048:064 (CCL:2864) or 048:066 (CCL:2866) or 048:068 (CCL:2868) or 048:121 (CCL:4821) or 048:123 (CCL:4843) or 048:131 (CCL:4841) or 048:133 (CCL:4845). Requirements: grade of C or higher in 048:064 (CCL:2864) or 048:066 (CCL:2866) or 048:068 (CCL:2868) or
048:121 (CCL:4821) or 048:123 (CCL:4843) or 048:131 (CCL:4841) or 048:133 (CCL:4845).
048:133 (CCL:4845) Film and Video Production: Editing 3 s.h. Editing digital video for impact, mood, and story; hands-on exercises, screenings, readings, and workshops using Avid editing software. Prerequisites: 048:034 (CCL:1834) or
048:064 (CCL:2864) or 048:065 (CCL:2865) or 048:066 (CCL:2866) or 048:068 (CCL:2868).
048:134 (CCL:4834) Theory and Practice of Film/Video Production 1-3 s.h. Focus on a type of film (documentary, animation, experimental) or an issue in film theory
(sound, narrative structure, point of view); application of theoretical issues; individual productions.
048:135 (CCL:4835) Issues in Film and Video Production 3 s.h. Proposal and grant writing, conceptualization, budgeting, and research on varied distribution
models for independent films. Prerequisites: 048:063 (CCL:2863) or 048:064 (CCL:2864) or 048:065 (CCL:2865) or 048:066 (CCL:2866) or 048:067 (CCL:2867) or 048:068 (CCL:2868). Requirements: grade of C or higher in 048:063 (CCL:2863) or 048:064 (CCL:2864) or
048:065 (CCL:2865) or 048:066 (CCL:2866) or 048:067 (CCL:2867) or 048:068 (CCL:2868).
048:136 (CCL:3876) Video for Performance 3 s.h.
Introduction to making video for use in a performance; how video can unlock new artistic possibilities for performance in theater, dance, and performing arts in general; focus on acquiring basic skills necessary to shoot and edit video, and project it during a
performance; practices of animation, found or archival footage work, and live performance. No previous knowledge of cameras or editing equipment required. Same as 049:104 (THTR:3876).
048:138 (CCL:3878) Film and Media Practicum 1 s.h.
Research and production-oriented film and media practicum; individual and small-group work on a single film, video, or media production as determined by instructor; independent library and web-based research, group presentations, readings. Requirements: junior or senior standing.
048:150 (CCL:4890) Media Production Workshop 1-4 s.h. Individual film, video, interactive, or screenwriting project; common problems, screenings of work in progress, criticism. Requirements: grade of C or higher in two advanced production courses and acceptance by written proposal.
048:157 (CCL:4355) Twentieth-Century Europe in Literature and Film 3 s.h. Introduction to 20th-century Europe through representative literature and film that reflect and critically engage the period's defining moments in social, cultural, and political history; modernity and emergence of modernist aesthetics, World War I, the Great Depression, the
Spanish Civil War, struggles between fascism and communism, World War II, existentialism, the Holocaust, rise of postwar consumer society and technocracy, wars of decolonization, political dissidence in Cold War Eastern Europe, student revolts of the 1960s, fall of the Berlin Wall, collapse of the Soviet Union, postcolonial condition that binds Europe to its colonial history. Taught in English. Same as 009:157 (FREN:4011).
048:167 (CCL:3647) Gender and Sexuality in French Cinema 3 s.h. Cultural, historical, semiotic approach to studying construction of gender identity and sexual codes in French cinema from 1920s to present. Taught in English. Prerequisites:
009:111 (FREN:3060) or 048:001 (CCL:1601) or 048:002 (CCL:1602) or 131:010 (GWSS:1001). Same as 009:148 (FREN:3540), 131:167 (GWSS:3540).
048:169 (CCL:4648) Issues in Gender and Sexuality 3 s.h. Significance of gender and/or sexuality to cinema, in general or in a period, genre, film type, or national cinema; theoretical approaches, including feminist and queer theory.
048:170 (CCL:3750) Topics in Cinema and Culture 3 s.h. One or more national cinemas in relation to social, historical, and cultural contexts. Prerequisites:
048:001 (CCL:1601).
048:172 (CCL:3135) Narrative and the Cinema 3 s.h.
English majors may apply this course to the following area and/or period requirement. AREA: Literary Theory and Interdisciplinary Studies. PERIOD: 20th/21st-Century Literature. Same as 008:172 (ENGL:3135).
048:174 (CCL:4674) Transnational Chinese Cinemas 3 s.h. Films from Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Chinese diasporic communities, silent era to present; relationship of film to nation-state, cultural interflows, media technologies,
ideologies. English subtitles. Same as 039:173 (CHIN:4206).
048:175 (CCL:3130) Topics in Film and Literature 3 s.h. English majors may apply this course to the following area and/or period requirement. AREA: Literary Theory and Interdisciplinary Studies. PERIOD: 20th/21st-Century Literature. Same as 008:175 (ENGL:3130).
048:178 (CCL:4678) Topics in Latin American Cinema 3 s.h. Taught in English. Requirements: one Spanish literature or culture course numbered above 035:130 (SPAN:3200) or one film studies course. Same as 035:191 (SPAN:4810).
048:185 (CCL:3185) Global Women's Cinema 3 s.h.
Introduction to contemporary women's cinema and feminist filmmaking from around the world; emphasis on post-1968 period and cinema produced outside the United States. Same as
131:185 (GWSS:3185), 218:185 (WLLC:3185).
048:190 (CCL:4690) Chicano Cinema 3 s.h.
History of Chicano independent and industry film and television production since the Chicano political and cultural movement began in the 1960s. Taught in English. Requirements: one Spanish literature or culture course numbered 035:130 (SPAN:3200) or above, or one film studies course numbered above 048:050 (CCL:2113). Same as 035:190 (SPAN:4800).
048:199 (CCL:6992) Individual Study arr.
Requirements: advanced B.A. enrollment with international and comparative literary projects, or M.A. enrollment in comparative literature.
