Courses in the Committee on Cinema and Media Studies

Courses

The following list represents the range and variety of graduate courses taught in the past, including those taught by visiting faculty. For current course offerings and detailed descriptions of the courses below, see the committee’s website at http://humanities.uchicago.edu/cmtes/cms/academics/gradcourses.html.

32000. The Intimate Public Sphere
Berlant

32100. Art and Film in Weimar Germany
Heller

32300. Staging Femininity: Gender as Spectacle in Opera and Film
Levin

32700 The Divided Heaven: The 1960s in West Germany and the German Democratic Republic
Trumpener

33200. Italian Americana: Literature and Cinema
West

33400. Littérature et Cinéma
Herpe

33400. Classical French Cinema
Herpe

33500. Pasolini
Maggi

33600. Mastroianni and Keitel: Comparative Masculinities and Ethnicities
West

33900. African-American Migration Narratives
Stewart

34000. Capra and Hollywood
Chandler

34100. Film in India
Inden

34300. Religion and Modernity in Film
Inden

34400. Eastern European New Wave
Trumpener

35000. Eisenstein and Soviet Aesthetic Theory
Tsivian

35100. Cinema and Culture of the 1930s: Germany and Europe
Trumpener

35100. East/Central European Avant-Garde
Sternstein

35400. Women and New China Cinema
Tang

35600. Magic and the Cinema
Gunning

36400. Charlie Chaplin: The Man, the Artist, the Cultural Hero
Tsivian

37000. Classical Film Theory
Staff

37200. Theories of the Photographic Image and Film
Snyder

37200. Slavic Critical Theory from Jakobson to Zizek
Sternstein

37300. Perspectives on Imaging
Stafford and Beck

37600. Beginning Photography
Letinsky

37700. Advanced Photography
Letinsky

37800. Radical Interpretation on Stage and Screen
Levin

37800. Visual Culture
Mitchell

37900. Musicals: Staging Everyday Worlds
Trumpener and Bohlman

38100. Japanese Cinema
Gunning

38100. Issues in Film Music
Hoeckner

38200. Styles of Performance
Tsivian

38300. Film Noir
Staff

38700. Cinematic Visions of Twentieth-Century Italian and Italian-American Culture
West

38800. The Films of Fritz Lang
Gunning

39000. Left-Wing Art and Soviet Film Culture of the 1920s
Tsivian

39800. Cinema and French Popular Culture
Staff

40000. Methods and Issues in Cinema Studies
Gunning, Hansen, or Lastra

47000. The Ends of American Photography
Snyder and Mitchell

47400. Modernity and the Sense of Things
Hansen and Brown

48100. Genre and Authorship in Postclassical Cinema
Hansen

48400. Technology and Representation in Film History and Film Theory
Lastra

48500. History of International Cinema, Part I, Silent Era
Tsivian

48600. History of International Cinema, Part II, Sound Cinema to 1960
Gunning

48700. Performance Theory
Levin and Rutherford

49100. Interactivity and the Cultural Analysis of Film
Tsivian

49200. Film Exhibition
Gunning

58600. Film and the Avant-Garde (Experimental Film)
Lastra

Seminars

61000. Sound Theory/Sound Practice
Lastra

61600. The Sentimental
Chandler

62000. New Deal Culture: Stage, Screen, and the Public Sphere
Kruger

62200. Drama, Theatre, Image, Performance
Kruger

63800. The Films of Robert Bresson
Herpe

64000. 19th Century Cinema
Gunning

64100. Film and Melodrama
Gunning

64500. A Separate Cinema: Race Films in Context
Stewart

64600. South African Literature in English: Colonial, Postcolonial, and Other Canonizations and Contestations
Kruger

65300. Symbolism and Film
Tsivian

66200. The Persistence of Surrealism: Buñuel and Beyond
Lastra

67200. Expressionism
Tsivian and Heller

67300. Classical Cinema as Vernacular Modernism
Hansen

67500. Frankfurt School on Cinema, Modernity, and Mass Culture
Hansen

68500. The Concept of Spectatorship in Film Theory and Film History
Hansen

68800. A Voyage to Abyssinia: The Mixed Media of Travel
Stafford

This list was last revised on 9/03/2003.