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Cinema Studies

For further information, contact Miriam Hansen, G-B 324, 702-8028 or 702-9042

Cinema studies is devoted to the study of the moving image (and its sound accompaniments) in various contexts and disciplines. Courses offered under this heading approach film (and related media such as television and video) on different levels and from diverse perspectives: textual analysis; film theory and aesthetics; film history; the cinema as an institution; the cinema's relation to other cultural practices, from art and literature to commercial entertainment and consumption; and national cinemas, transnational flows, and global culture.

Students are encouraged to use this listing of faculty and course offerings as a resource: for the purpose of constructing an interdisciplinary concentration in cinema studies that, for the time being, can be pursued within General Studies in the Humanities; for the purpose of designing individual programs within departments or disciplines; and finally, as an aid for the allocation of electives. For further work in cinema studies, students are also encouraged to investigate other courses taught by the resource faculty.

Faculty

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ELIZABETH ALEXANDER, Assistant Professor, Department of English Language & Literature and the College

ARJUN APPADURAI, Barbara E. and Richard J. Franke Professor, Departments of South Asian Languages & Civilizations and Anthropology

LAUREN BERLANT, Professor, Department of English Language & Literature and the College

HOMI BHABHA, Professor, Department of English Language & Literature and the College

VINCENZO BINETTI, Assistant Professor, Department of Romance Languages & Literatures

CAROL BRECKENRIDGE, Senior Lecturer, Division of the Humanities and the College

WILLIAM L. BROWN, Assistant Professor, Department of English Language & Literature and the College

DOUGLAS S. BRUSTER, Assistant Professor, Department of English Language & Literature and the College

JAMES CHANDLER, Professor, Department of English Language & Literature, Committee on General Studies in the Humanities, and the College

GEORGE CHAUNCEY, Assistant Professor, Department of History and the College

JEAN COMAROFF, Professor, Department of Anthropology; Committee on Human Nutrition & Nutritional Biology, Morris Fishbein Center for the History of Science & Medicine, and the College; Cochairman, African & African-American Studies

MILTON EHRE, Professor, Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures and the College

J. COURTNEY FEDERLE, Assistant Professor, Department of Germanic Studies and the College

MARTHA FELDMAN, Assistant Professor, Department of Music

CLAUDINE FRANK, Assistant Professor, Department of Romance Languages & Literatures

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SANDER L. GILMAN, Henry R. Luce Professor in the Liberal Arts of Human Biology; Professor, Departments of Germanic Studies and Psychiatry and the College

MIRIAM HANSEN, Mellon Professor in the Humanities; Professor, Department of English Language & Literature, Committee on Art & Design, and the College

NEIL HARRIS, Preston and Sterling Morton Professor, Department of History, Committees on Geographical Studies and General Studies in the Humanities, and the College

THOMAS HOLT, James Westfall Thompson Professor, Department of History and the College

LOREN KRUGER, Associate Professor, Department of English Language & Literature and the College

JAMES LASTRA, Assistant Professor, Department of English Language & Literature and the College

LAURA LETINSKY, Assistant Professor, Committee on Art & Design

W. J. T. MITCHELL, Gaylord Donnelley Distinguished Service Professor, Departments of English Language & Literature and Art, Committees on Art & Design and General Studies in the Humanities, and the College

INGRID MONSON, Assistant Professor, Department of Music and the College

C. M. NAIM, Associate Professor, Department of South Asian Languages & Civilizations

WILLIAM F. SIBLEY, Associate Professor, Department of East Asian Languages & Civilizations

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JOEL M. SNYDER, Professor, Department of Art, Committees on Art & Design and General Studies in the Humanities, and the College

KATHERINE TAYLOR, Assistant Professor, Department of Art and the College

KATIE TRUMPENER, Assistant Professor, Department of Germanic Languages and the College

TERENCE S. TURNER, Professor, Department of Anthropology and the College

YUEJIN WANG, Assistant Professor, Department of Art

MARTHA WARD, Associate Professor, Department of Art, Committee on Art & Design, and the College

REBECCA WEST, Professor, Department of Romance Languages & Literatures and the College

Courses

Art and Design

ArtDes 260. What's Love Got to Do with It? The Genres of Modern Romance (=Eng 235). L. Berlant, L. Letinsky. Winter.

Art History

ArtH 258/358. Visual Culture (=Eng 126/326, GS Hum 230/330). W. J. T. Mitchell. Spring.

English

Eng 108. Introduction to Film I (=GS Hum 200). C. Federle. Spring.

Eng 109. Introduction to Film II (=GS Hum 201). J. Lastra. Autumn.

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Eng 235. What's Love Got to Do with It? The Genres of Modern Romance (=ArtDes 260). L. Berlant, L. Letinsky. Winter.

Eng 282. Sound in the Cinema (=GS Hum 205). J. Lastra. Winter.

Eng 285. American Cinema to 1934 (=GS Hum 202). Not offered 1995-96; will be offered 1996-97.

Eng 286. American Cinema since 1934 (=GS Hum 203). Not offered 1995-96; will be offered 1997-98.

Eng 287. American Cinema since 1961 (=GS Hum 204). M. Hansen. Spring.

Eng 288. Alternative Cinemas/Experimental Cinemas. Not offered 1995-96; will be offered 1996-97.

Germanic Studies

German 269/407. Weimar Cinema: Excesses of Narration and Vision (=ComLit 358, Eng 269/488). Not offered 1995-96; will be offered 1996-97.

German 350. The Horror Film and the Historicity of Monstrosity (=Eng 284/482, GS Hum 208/308). C. Federle. Autumn.

German 351. Cinema and Culture of the 1930s: Germany and Europe (=ComLit 360, GS Hum 378, Hum 278). K. Trumpener. Winter.

Romance Languages and Literatures

Ital 287/387. Visions of Italian and Italian-American Culture in Literature and Film. Not offered 1995-96; will be offered 1996-97.

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