GraduateCoursesCore CourseENGLIT 2451—Film History/Theory This course explores and interrogates the history of international film within the broader context of cultural studies, thereby surfacing and investigating diverse and shifting conceptions of the cinema in relation to other social and artistic forms. Works from major movements or moments of film history will be examined and analyzed in relation to writings by central film theorists. Such works will also be placed within a variety of historical frames (cinematic, economic, technological, etc.). Electives—By DepartmentThe graduate Film Studies Program at the University of Pittsburgh offers a rich curriculum that provides students with training in the visual analysis of cinema, the history and theory of the medium, and its interrelations with other art forms and social/cultural discourses. CommunicationCOMMRC 2226 Media and Cultural Studies COMMRC 2227 Media Theory COMMRC 2229 Media and Global Cultures COMMRC 3325 Seminar in Mass Communication COMMRC 3326 Seminar in Media Studies East AsianCHIN 2065 Sources on East Asia: Chinese New Wave Cinema EnglishENGLIT 2021 History and Spectacle ENGLIT 2025 Godard: Images, Sound, Work and Love ENGLIT 2043 Theory of Popular Culture ENGLIT 2127 Shakespeare, Cinema, and Society ENGLIT 2282 History of American Film I ENGLIT 2451 Film History/Theory ENGLIT 2455 Film Historiography ENGLIT 2460/3160 Film and Literature ENGLIT 2461 Genre and Film ENGLIT 2462 Comic Theory and the Cinema ENGLIT 2463/3165 Cinema and Nation ENGLIT 2464 Masculinity in Cinema ENGLIT 2465 Cinema, Comedy, and Society ENGLIT 2466 Film and Modernism ENGLIT 2467 Cinema and Trauma ENGLIT 2470 Women and Film ENGLIT 2471 Maternal Discourse in Film and Literature ENGLIT 2472 Black Images in American Cinema ENGLIT 2475/3475 The Body in Cinema ENGLIT 2477 Classical Hollywood Cinema ENGLIT 2479 Graduate Film Topics ENGLIT 2480 Film Directors ENGLIT 2481 David Cronenberg: Genre, Art, Cinema ENGLIT 2589 Topics in English Studies: The Star, Performance, and Fan Culture ENGLIT 2609 Melodrama ENGLIT 2660 Sexual Representation and the Cinema ENGLIT 3104 Made in USA: America in French Culture, 1945–1968 ENGLIT 3165/2463 Cinema and Nation ENGLIT 3475/2475 The Body in Cinema ENGLIT 3589 Advanced Topics in English Studies (Topics courses change each term) GermanGER 3882 Topics in German Cinema HispanicSPAN 2452 Contemporary Latin American Film: Postmodern Film SPAN 2464 Latin American Topics SPAN 2589 Contemporary Hispanic Film SlavicRUSS 2453 Thaw and Perestroika RUSS 2640 Post-Stalinism and Russian Cinema |
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