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Advanced Film/Video Projects I — FV4476.01

Instructor: Mariam Ghani
Days & Time: WE 2:10pm-5:50pm
Credits: 4

This semester-length, 4-credit course, intended for students who will continue to the Advanced Projects in Film/Video II course in spring 2023, supports advanced students in planning, pre-production, and early production (or for 8th term students, post-production and finishing) for more complex, larger-scale, longer-duration, self-directed

Film Night — CSL2007.01

Instructor: Noëlle Rouxel-Cubberly
Days & Time: Sa 6:00AM-6:00PM
Credits: 1

In this one-credit film course, students will watch 5 out of the 10 international films screened in Kinoteca and Tishman on Saturday September 12, between 6pm and 6am. The films, all selected for their thought-provoking nature, cover a variety of cinematographic genres. The event is designed to enhance filmic appreciation in a collective

Gender, Sexuality, and Social Change in Taiwan and China — CHI4515.01

Instructor: Ginger Lin
Days & Time: MO 1:40pm-3:30pm
Credits: 4

This course engages students with authentic texts, audio, and visual materials drawn from traditional and contemporary literature, film, and other art forms. Through these sources, students will critically explore issues of gender, gender inequality, and sexuality, including LGBTQ perspectives, in Chinese and Taiwanese cultural contexts.

Heroines, Reframed: French Literature on Screen — FV2324.02

Instructor: Noëlle Rouxel-Cubberly
Days & Time: MO,TH 10:00am-11:50am
Credits: 2

French literature and film have always reciprocally inspired one another – as early as 1897, Lumière represented the main characters of Hugo’s "Les Misérables". This course will offer students the opportunity to analyze literary representations of women and their film adaptations in terms of intermediality and intertextuality. Adaptations will include: "The Nun" (Diderot

Intermediate Video: Genuine Fakes, or the Question of the Document — FV4118.01

Instructor: Mariam Ghani
Days & Time: MO 1:40pm-5:20pm
Credits: 4

Intermediate Video builds on the concepts and technical skills introduced in Intro to Video, and has a different theme each term. This semester of Intermediate Video will be focused on the following thematic, conceptual and formal questions. What are the truth claims made by different genres and forms of film and video? How have artists

Intro to 16mm — FV2312.01

Instructor: John Crowe
Days & Time: FR 2:10pm-4:00pm
Credits: 2

An introduction to 16mm film techniques, students will shoot and edit analog 16mm film, develop by hand and finally transfer film to video. Through screenings, experiments and hands-on workshops students will learn about cinematography and the photochemical process. Taking advantage of the special tactile, tangible nature of analog

Speculative Fictions and Critical Fabulations — FV2206.01

Instructor: Mariam Ghani
Days & Time: TU 2:10pm-5:50pm
Credits: 4

Speculative fiction is storytelling that starts with something real, some phenomenon observable in the present or recent past, and asks “What if?” - extrapolating into the future or alternate realities. Critical fabulation, as coined by Saidiya Hartman in the essay “Venus in Two Acts,” is a method for recovering unwritten histories. By

Taiwan Today: Society, Media, and Trends — CHI4513.01

Instructor: Ginger Lin
Days & Time: MO,TH 3:40pm-5:30pm
Credits: 4

In this course, students will explore contemporary Taiwanese society, one of Asia’s safest, happiest, and most progressive, through audio, video, and print media. They will examine everyday life, social trends, and Taiwan’s political landscape, including women’s 42% representation in the legislature, the rise of single women keeping pets, and Taiwan as the first Asian