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Zoom Spring Term course announcements are upon us and I’d like to share some of the new offerings being served up by the Cinema Program. This is quite a text dump so bear with me here.CINE 399: Copyright/Creative CommonsTuesday/Thursday 2:00-3:50 / Instructor:  Dr. Andre Sirois This class is a comprehensive analysis of copyright law’s historical developments and legislation, as well as the cultural and economic implications of this body of law.  Copyright law across all media is considered (but  focused on visual media such as film, television, and photography) through review of case law and legislative histories, feature guest presentations from  professionals in entertainment law, and review films that present issues  of intellectual property.  At the core of analysis in the course is how copyright law encourages and impinges upon free speech/innovation/creativity, while addressing issues of fair use, parody, sampling, culture jamming and content licensing.CINE 399:  Films of Billy WilderTuesday/Thursday 10:00-11:50 / Katharina Loew, Assistant ProfessorWriter-director Billy Wilder is regarded as one of the most brilliant and versatile filmmakers of Hollywood’s golden age. Through close readings of world-famous films such as Double Indemnity (1944), Sunset Boulevard (1950), Some Like it Hot (1959) and The Apartment (1960), this course will explore Wilder’s range from gentle ethnographer of modern life to caustic satirist of American society and the culture industry. In addition, we will consider his uneven relation to Hollywood genres, his systematic blurring of boundaries between comedy, romance, and drama.CINE 399:  Trans Asia Films & MediaMonday/Wednesday 10:00-11:50 / Instructor: Dr. Hyerung Ok Asia Pacific film and media is increasingly becoming part of our everyday media landscape, from Japanese animation, to Hollywood remakes of J-horror and Korean drama, to Asian co-productions, blockbusters and gaming.  This course explores regional border crossing in the Asia Pacific across a range of popular media – film, video, television, animation and gaming. This class will examine the ways in which travel and exchange have both occurred and been imagined across a recent history of Asia Pacific media from the mid twentieth century. Readings and class discussions will interrogate border crossing across a range of transnational dynamics – imperial constructions of place, futures imagined around new technologies, the possibilities of contact zones, the limitations of links, disjuncture of genres and the ever-present complexities of sexuality and gender. Screenings will focus on popular film and media of East Asia (primarily Japanese, South Korean and Chinese language), but we will also explore their links to popular media of Southeast Asia (here, Thailand, the Philippines and Singapore) and the wider context of the Asia Pacific.CINE 399:  Seminar on Film FestivalsMonday/Wednesday 12:00-1:20 / Instructor: Richard HerskowitzThis course probes the evolution of film and media arts festivals and their efforts to create a more active and participatory public sphere for the appreciation and discussion of media.  Festivals will also be explored as centers of innovation for the entertainment and arts industries.  The course surveys the histories of film festivals in relation to their forms, functions, operations, marketing, curatorial missions, and social impacts.  During the first three weeks of the class, students will attend and go behind the scenes of the Cinema Pacific Film Festival (students must attend at least six festival programs from April 18-22).   A second film festival immersion will take place in late April during the DisOrient Film Festival.  Course requirements include 1) performing a case study of a festival; 2) maintaining a diary with responses to festival films; 3) assisting with the promotion of a festival film; and 4) programming a festival of online short films.Keep these courses in mind. They’re brand spankin’ new so people who sign up for them will be like guinea pigs! I’m taking two courses that are brand new to the program currently and must say that it’s pretty awesome being a part of something completely fresh and feeling your way through it.

Spring Term course announcements are upon us and I’d like to share some of the new offerings being served up by the Cinema Program. This is quite a text dump so bear with me here.

CINE 399: Copyright/Creative Commons
Tuesday/Thursday 2:00-3:50 / Instructor:  Dr. Andre Sirois

This class is a comprehensive analysis of copyright law’s historical developments and legislation, as well as the cultural and economic implications of this body of law.  Copyright law across all media is considered (but  focused on visual media such as film, television, and photography) through review of case law and legislative histories, feature guest presentations from  professionals in entertainment law, and review films that present issues  of intellectual property.  At the core of analysis in the course is how copyright law encourages and impinges upon free speech/innovation/creativity, while addressing issues of fair use, parody, sampling, culture jamming and content licensing.

CINE 399:  Films of Billy Wilder
Tuesday/Thursday 10:00-11:50 / Katharina Loew, Assistant Professor

Writer-director Billy Wilder is regarded as one of the most brilliant and versatile filmmakers of Hollywood’s golden age. Through close readings of world-famous films such as Double Indemnity (1944), Sunset Boulevard (1950), Some Like it Hot (1959) and The Apartment (1960), this course will explore Wilder’s range from gentle ethnographer of modern life to caustic satirist of American society and the culture industry. In addition, we will consider his uneven relation to Hollywood genres, his systematic blurring of boundaries between comedy, romance, and drama.

CINE 399:  Trans Asia Films & Media
Monday/Wednesday 10:00-11:50 / Instructor: Dr. Hyerung Ok
 
Asia Pacific film and media is increasingly becoming part of our everyday media landscape, from Japanese animation, to Hollywood remakes of J-horror and Korean drama, to Asian co-productions, blockbusters and gaming.  This course explores regional border crossing in the Asia Pacific across a range of popular media – film, video, television, animation and gaming. This class will examine the ways in which travel and exchange have both occurred and been imagined across a recent history of Asia Pacific media from the mid twentieth century. Readings and class discussions will interrogate border crossing across a range of transnational dynamics – imperial constructions of place, futures imagined around new technologies, the possibilities of contact zones, the limitations of links, disjuncture of genres and the ever-present complexities of sexuality and gender. Screenings will focus on popular film and media of East Asia (primarily Japanese, South Korean and Chinese language), but we will also explore their links to popular media of Southeast Asia (here, Thailand, the Philippines and Singapore) and the wider context of the Asia Pacific.

CINE 399:  Seminar on Film Festivals
Monday/Wednesday 12:00-1:20 / Instructor: Richard Herskowitz

This course probes the evolution of film and media arts festivals and their efforts to create a more active and participatory public sphere for the appreciation and discussion of media.  Festivals will also be explored as centers of innovation for the entertainment and arts industries.  The course surveys the histories of film festivals in relation to their forms, functions, operations, marketing, curatorial missions, and social impacts.  During the first three weeks of the class, students will attend and go behind the scenes of the Cinema Pacific Film Festival (students must attend at least six festival programs from April 18-22).   A second film festival immersion will take place in late April during the DisOrient Film Festival.  Course requirements include 1) performing a case study of a festival; 2) maintaining a diary with responses to festival films; 3) assisting with the promotion of a festival film; and 4) programming a festival of online short films.

Keep these courses in mind. They’re brand spankin’ new so people who sign up for them will be like guinea pigs! I’m taking two courses that are brand new to the program currently and must say that it’s pretty awesome being a part of something completely fresh and feeling your way through it.

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