GLST 1000: Intro to Global Studies Format: Asynchronous online Instructor: Justin Wilmes Film screenings: streaming titles watched outside of class            Screenings: American Factory (2018, Reichart and Bognar), The Social Dilemma (2020, Orlowski), The Class (2008, Cantet), Dheepan (2015, Audiard), Hipsters (2008, Todorovski), Burnt by the Sun (1994, Mikhalkov), Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer (2013, Pozdorovn), Ida (Pawlikowski, 2013), Everything is Illuminated ..read more

ENGL 1500: The American Cinematic New Wave: 1970s Movies Instructor: Randall Martoccia Times offered:MWF, 10:00-10:50 am Course description: Students will watch films from the late 1960s to 1980 and will learn about this exciting period in film history. Titanic social forces, industry struggles, educated audiences, and other factors led to filmmakers finally having the freedom to tell gritty, realistic stories with obscenity, graphic violence and sexuality. Filmmakers could also criticize institutions and challenge audiences with non-chronological plots and unconventional endings. Actors too ..read more

FILM2900: Introduction to Film Studies (FC: HU) Instructor: Amanda Ann Klein Film Screenings: Streaming titles watched outside of class This class is offered at 2 different times, taught by the same instructor: FILM 2900.001 is on T, Th: 9:30-10:45 am FILM 2900.002 is on T,Th: 2-3:15pm The goal of this course, as its title suggests, is to “introduce” you to the broad field of film studies, including formal analysis, genre studies, film history and theory. By the end of the semester you will have the basic critical tools necessary for understanding and analyzing the language of motion ..read more

FILM2900: Introduction to Film Studies (FC: HU) Instructor: Amanda Ann Klein Screenings: stream on your own (titles available through Joyner and/or streaming platforms) This class is offered at 2 different times, taught by the same instructor: FILM 2900.001 is Tuesday & Thursday, 9:30-10:45 am FILM 2900.002 is Tuesday & Thursday, 12:30pm-1:45pm The goal of this course, as its title suggests, is to “introduce” you to the broad field of film studies, including formal analysis, genre studies, film history and theory. By the end of the semester you will have the basic critical tools ..read more

FILM 2900.001: Introduction to Film Studies (GE:HU) Instructor: Anna Froula Times Offered: TR 2:00-3:15 Film screenings: Films will stream This course “introduces” you to the broad field of film studies, including formal analysis, genre studies, film history and theory. By the end of the semester, you will have the basic critical tools necessary for understanding and analyzing the language of motion pictures. Ideally, this course will enable you to not only gain a richer understanding of the films you watch but also the shows, You Tube videos, and other media. This course is also the springbo ..read more

FILM 2900.001: Introduction to Film Studies (GE:HU) Instructor: Anna Froula Times Offered: TR 11:00-12:15 Film screenings: Films will stream This course “introduces” you to the broad field of film studies, including formal analysis, genre studies, film history and theory. By the end of the semester you will have the basic critical tools necessary for understanding and analyzing the language of motion pictures. Ideally, this course will enable you to not only gain a richer understanding of the films you watch but also the shows, You Tube videos, and other media. This course is also the springb ..read more

ENGL 1500-001 Topics in Words, Images, and Ideas: Monsters and the Supernatural in Film and Folklore Instructors: Dr.Anna Froula and Dr. Andrea Kitta Class Time: Tuesday and Thursday, 11:00-12:15 Film screenings: streaming titles watched outside of class What is horror? What draws us to what we fear? How do our fears change over time? How do we process real-life traumas and terrors through film and other media such as memes? How do we face the monsters we create? What happens when the monster is ourselves? This course will focus on these questions and more through a lively examination of ..read more

Summer Session I Film 2900-601: Introduction to Film Studies Instructor: Dr. Anna Froula Class Time: online Films will stream. The goal of this course, as its title suggests, is to “introduce” you to the broad field of film studies, including formal analysis, genre studies, film history and theory. By the end of the semester you will have the basic critical tools necessary for understanding and analyzing the language of motion pictures. Ideally, this course will enable you to not only gain a richer understanding of the films you watch but also the television shows, You Tube videos, commercial ..read more

ENGL1500.001: Topics in Words, Images & Ideas: Fear and the American Horror Film (GE: HU) Instructor: Amanda Ann Klein Times Offered: online Film screenings: streaming titles watched outside of class The purpose of a horror film is to scare the audience. If what we see in the horror film is a reflection of our own nightmares and anxieties, then what can the history of American horror films tell us about our country’s fears and anxieties? This course is a survey of the American horror film, beginning with its origins in the “creature features” of the 1930s (Frankenstein ..read more

Summer Session I  Film 2900-601: Introduction to Film Studies Instructor: Anna Froula Times offered: online Film Screenings: streaming titles The goal of this course, as its title suggests, is to “introduce” you to the broad field of film studies, including formal analysis, genre studies, film history and theory. By the end of the semester you will have the basic critical tools necessary for understanding and analyzing the language of motion pictures. Ideally, this course will enable you to not only gain a richer understanding of the films you watch but also the television shows, You Tub ..read more