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FILM AND MEDIA STUDIES (L53)  (Dept. Info)Arts & Sciences  (Policies)FL2018
L53 Film 114First-Year Seminar: Science Fiction Literature & Film: A Contrast in Hyper-imaginative Media3.0 Units
SecDays       TimeBuilding / RoomInstructorFinal ExamSeatsEnrollWaits
01M-W----1:00P-2:30PSeigle / 408 WihlNo final15140
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L53 Film 120First-Year Seminar: Horror Across Media3.0 Units
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01-T-R---1:00P-2:30PSeigle / L004 PowersDec 18 2018 1:00PM - 3:00PM0110
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L53 Film 200Special projectsVar. Units (max = 3.0)
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01TBATBAStudlarNo final000
02TBATBAPaulNo final000
03TBATBABurnettNo final000
04TBATBALewisNo final000
05TBATBAChapmanNo final000
06TBATBAPowersNo final000
L53 Film 220Introduction to Film Studies3.0 UnitsLab Required
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01M-W----2:00P-3:00PMcMillan / G052 BurnettDec 17 2018 3:30PM - 5:30PM01510
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A--W----3:00P-4:00PDuncker / 101 RossNo final17170
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B--W----3:00P-4:00PEads / 207 GahrsNo final17160
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C--W----3:00P-4:00PMallinckrodt / 305 HuntNo final17170
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D--W----3:00P-4:00PSimon / 020 HuNo final17170
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E----F--2:00P-3:00PSeigle / 111 LEENo final17150
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F----F--2:00P-3:00PSeigle / 305 LawhonNo final17170
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G--W----3:00P-4:00PSeigle / 109 Gelzer-GovatosNo final17170
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H--W----3:00P-4:00PSimon / 017 GSellNo final17180
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I--W----4:00P-5:00PSimon / 017 GSellNo final17170
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L53 Film 225Making Movies I: The Fundamentals of Narrative Dramatic Filmmaking3.0 Units
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01M-W----4:00P-5:30PSeigle / L016 PowersNo final0120
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L53 Film 319Documentary Film and Media3.0 Units
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01M-W----11:30A-1:00PSeigle / L004 PowersDec 18 2018 10:30AM - 12:30PM24240
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L53 Film 340History of World Cinema3.0 Units
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01M-W----10:00A-11:30ASeigle / L002 LewisDec 17 2018 10:30AM - 12:30PM49460
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L53 Film 349Media Cultures3.0 Units
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01M-W----1:00P-2:30PSeigle / L004 HiluDec 19 2018 1:00PM - 3:00PM22150
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L53 Film 352Introduction to Screenwriting3.0 Units
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01-T-R---8:30A-10:00ASeigle / 205 ChapmanNo final0110
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02-T-R---11:30A-1:00PSeigle / 305 ChapmanNo final0140
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L53 Film 425Seminar in Video Games: Video Games, Gender and Sexuality3.0 Units
Description:Attention to the prevalence of sexist and racist harassment in video game culture has intensified since the events of GamerGate in 2014 which targeted women in game design with violent threats, pushing many out of the industry. And yet, this aspect of video game culture can be traced back to the overwhelmingly male spaces of defense computing where they began and the video arcades in which they were popularized in the 1980s. In this course, we will interrogate this long history by analyzing video game texts and play cultures and their relationship to gender and sexuality. The course will begin with an introduction to key concepts in video game studies such as play, games, agency, simulation, and procedural rhetoric. We will then use these concepts to analyze the way that ideas about gender and sexuality are constructed and reinforced in games and how players interact with these systems. The focus throughout will be on understanding the contributions that feminist and queer theory offer for the study of video games. We will explore how textual representation, technological hardware, and codes and algorithms of gaming are all intertwined with questions of gender and sexuality. How do we think of representations of gender, sexuality, and race differently when they are executed on cybernetic platforms in which players interact with digital machines? How do textual representations of gender, race, and sexuality intersect with the cultures within the video game industry and with fan practices? Prior experience or skills with video games is not necessary and the class welcomes all levels of gamers and non-gamers as long as students are interested in engaging with games. REQUIRED SCREENINGS: Tuesdays @ 7pm
Attributes:A&S IQ: HUMArch: HUMArt: HUMBU: HUMEN: H
Instruction Type:Classroom instruction Grade Options:CPA Fees:
Course Type:HomeSame As:L77 425A  L98 4252Frequency:None / History
L53 Film 429Mass Culture and Modern Media: Fantasylands: Cinema, Spectatorship, and the Spatial Imagination3.0 Units
Description:This semester, our seminar examines cinema's relationship to urbanism, modern life, and amusement culture in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. This exploration is meant to facilitate a broader understanding of cinema by situating the medium in relation to the new forms of spatiality, temporality, and mobility that were consonant with "modernity." In particular, we will focus on commercial entertainments and spaces that produced stunning artificial environments, exotic virtual voyages, and a thrilling sense of bodily disorientation, while contributing to the formation of specific publics. By considering cinema's historical relation to these entertainments and locales, we can better understand cinema's connections to industrial capitalism, urbanization, consumer culture, aesthetic modernism, colonialism, and other kinds of distancespanning media and technology. Along the way, we will encounter a variety of modern spaces, places, and forms of transit. These include: the shopping arcade, the railway journey, the amusement park, the world's fair, the glass house, the studio city, the circular panorama, the slum, the department store, and the expedition. In the process, students will be introduced to relevant theories of space and place, urbanism, modern media, consumerism, and mass culture. For graduate students and advanced undergraduate students, with the permission of the instructor. No other prerequisites. REQUIRED SCREENINGS: Wednesdays @ 4pm
Attributes:A&S IQ: HUMArch: HUMArt: CPSC, HUMBU: HUMEN: H
Instruction Type:Classroom instruction Grade Options:CPA Fees:
Course Type:HomeSame As:L98 429AFrequency:Every 2-3 Years / History
L53 Film 460Taboo: Contesting Race, Sexuality and Violence in American Cinema3.0 Units
Description:Pushing the envelope or going too far? What is the boundary between films that challenge us and films that offend us? This is a course about films that crossed that boundary, most often by presenting images of race, sexuality and violence, images that could attract audiences as much as they offended moral guardians and courted legal sanctions. Because they were denied the First Amendment protection of free speech by a 1915 Supreme Court decision, movies more than any prior art form were repeatedly subject to various attempts at regulating content by government at federal, state, and even municipal levels. Trying to stave off government control, Hollywood instituted forms of self-regulation, first in a rigid regime of censorship and subsequently in the Ratings system still in use. Because taboo content often means commercial success, Hollywood could nonetheless produce films that pushed the envelope and occasionally crossed over into more transgressive territory. While control of content is a top-down attempt to impose moral norms and standards of behavior on a diverse audience, it also reflects changing standards of acceptable public discourse. That topics once barred from dramatic representation by the Production Code - miscegenation, homosexuality and "lower forms of sexuality," abortion, drug addiction - could eventually find a place in American movies speaks to changes in the culture at large. In trying to understand these cultural changes, this course will explore films that challenged taboos, defied censorship, and caused outrage, ranging from films in the early 20th Century that brought on the first attempts to control film content through to films released under the Ratings system, which has exerted subtler forms of control. REQUIRED SCREENING: Mondays @ 4pm
Attributes:A&S IQ: HUM, SC, SDArch: HUMArt: CPSC, HUMEN: H
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Course Type:HomeSame As:L77 4601  L84 460  L98 4604Frequency:None / History
L53 Film 495Special ProjectsVar. Units (max = 3.0)
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01TBATBAStudlarNo final000
02TBATBAPaulNo final000
03TBATBABurnettNo final020
04TBATBALewisNo final000
05TBATBAChapmanNo final020
06TBATBAPowersNo final000
L53 Film 499Study for Honors3.0 Units
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01TBATBAStudlarNo final000
02TBATBAPaulNo final000
03TBATBABurnettNo final000
04TBATBALewisNo final010
05TBATBAChapmanNo final010
L53 Film 500Independent StudyVar. Units (max = 3.0)
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01TBATBAStudlarSee department000
02TBATBAPaulSee department000
03TBATBABurnettSee department000
04TBATBALewisSee department000
05TBATBAChapmanSee department010
06TBATBAPowersSee department000
L53 Film 501Advanced Moving Image Analysis and Criticism3.0 Units
L53 Film 510GRADUATE PRACTICUM IN FILM & MEDIA STUDIESVar. Units (max = 3.0)
Description:The practicum in Film & Media Studies seeks to make our graduate students more competitive in the job market. It consists of professional experience that brings to bear academic knowledge and skills associated with the graduate study of moving image media (film, television, digital). The practicum may take a number of forms, but in every case, the experience must be planned in a way that contributes to the student's professional development. It might consist of work curating films for a screening or mini-festival accompanied by screening notes or other activities that enhance the academic value of the event. The student might organize a reading group or a scholarly symposium or lecture series to further the understanding of a particular aspect of the moving image on campus. The practicum may also consist of archival, or curatorial work in forms of the moving image at an archive, museum, or other non-profit organization (such as the St. Louis International Film Festival). The student might also pursue a film/media-centered oral history project or develop a film/media-centered blog or engage in other forms of writing that have a public presence. Students may initiate other projects, but any practicum requires a faculty mentor and in circumstances in which there is a collaborating organization, a letter of endorsement of the practicum from the student's on-site supervisor. Every student presents a written proposal/plan for any practicum to the DGS and to the faculty mentor/advisor. Both faculty must give permission to the plan and determine the appropriate number of credit hours (variable 1 to 3). Students may sign up for the practicum more than once to satisfy the 3 credits required in this area for the FMS master's degree; however, only one practicum should be pursued in a given semester. If there is a site supervisor, she/he must provide a letter upon completion of the practicum detailing the student's work and its quality. The student must provide a brief narrative (2 to 5 pages) detailing how the practicum served as a learning experience. The faculty advisor will award the grade for the practicum. Prequisite: MA status in FMS
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Instruction Type:Independent study, tutorial, or other Grade Options:CPA Fees:
Course Type:HomeSame As:N/AFrequency:Every Semester / History
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A “Home” course is a course that is created, maintained and “owned” by one academic department (aka the “Home” department). The “Home” department is primarily responsible for the decision making and logistical support for the course and instructor.

An “Ident” course is the exact same course as the “Home” (i.e. same instructor, same class time, etc), but is simply being offered to students through another department for purposes of registering under a different department and course number.

Students should, whenever possible, register for their courses under the department number toward which they intend to count the course. For example, an AFAS major should register for the course "Africa: Peoples and Cultures" under its Ident number, L90 306B, whereas an Anthropology major should register for the same course under its Home number, L48 306B.

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