Film Courses
- DOCUMENTARY FILM HISTORY
American and British approaches and the challenge of recent documentaries by Indigenous Peoples.
- CLASSIC FILM THEORY
From Gerald Mast and Marshall Cohen to Dudley Andrews: The establishment of Film as an art form toward the ontological answer to Bazin’s "What is Film?"
- ADVANCED FILM THEORY
Semiotics, Structuralism, Post-Structuralism and Deconstruction, Marxism, feminism, psychoanalysis.
- SCRIPTWRITING
Treatment, presentation and development of a feature length script, development of storyboards and shot-lists. Tutorial workshop with several planned exercises and portfolio review.
- 5TH GENERATION CHINESE FILM
Film History of China and an examination of the films of Chen Kaige, Xiang Jimou, Tian Zhuangzhuang. Comparisons of east/west film art and industry.
- CONTEMPORARY KOREAN FILM
Shamanistic and Buddhist performance in Korean Films and how they attempt to resolve social and political anxieties in modern Korea.
- INTRODUCTION TO FILM CRITICISM AND AESTHETICS
Development of critical viewers from journalistic review to in depth academic research. Heavy emphasis on writing and viewing of films, TV and other visual media with attention paid to the context and confluence of art object, spectator and conditions of exhibition.
- MEDIA CRITICISM
Case studies and examination of Media Ethics with emphasis on an evaluation of existing precedents and discussion over contemporary issues and hypothetical role-playing ones.