Film Studies Minor Newsletter Pdf
Newsletter
November/December 2012
Open House
November 12, 2012 from 9:30-11:30
The Film Studies Minor will be staffing a table at the EIU Open House in the University Ballroom on Monday, February 12 from 9:30-11:30. We will have a flyer with information about possible job opportunities with a film studies minor, a fact sheet, and an interactive film game available for prospective students and their friends to enjoy.
Film Conferences, Journals, and Screenings
Screening of Walls of Sound —
A Look Inside the House of Records
(Directed by David Gracon, 2012)
David Gracon will be screening his documentary Walls of Sound — A Look Inside the House of Records on Wednesday, November 7th at 7pm in the Doudna Lecture Hall. Dr. Gracon will be there to present the work and discuss it post screening.
He will also be going on a mini-tour with Walls of Sound from October 3rd-10th in the Pacific Northwest. He will be screening and presenting the documentary in Portland, Eugene and Olympia, Wa.
This documentary is a subcultural exploration of the House of Records, a brick and mortar independent record store based in Eugene, Oregon. The store has been in operation since 1972 and it struggles to exist in the midst of digital downloading and corporate retailers. It also struggles against forces of nature such as the roof being impaled by a giant tree, fire, flooding and thieves.
This quirky, yet intelligent video explores the cultural significance of the store in terms of fringe and independent music, as well as vinyl collecting culture. It also examines the importance of face-to-face interaction as the store acts as a community gathering space between the store-workers, customers and local music scenes — one that is anti-corporate, and fiercely local in scope.
WORKING SCHEDULE FOR
The 8th ANNUAL
EMBARRAS VALLEY
FILM FESTIVAL
THE VERSATILE GENE HACKMANNOVEMBER 1-3, 2012
Saturday, October 27
(EIU Tarble Arts Center Classroom)
10:00am-1:00 pm Stop Motion Film Workshop
Thursday, November 1 (CH 3290)
2:00 pm Colloquium: Gene Hackman Films
Thursday, November 1 (Doudna Theatre)
3:30 pm- 5:30 pm Bonnie and Clyde (1967) with introduction by Robin Murray
Friday, November 2 (Doudna Theatre)
7:00 pm, Unforgiven (1992) with introduction by Chuck Koplinski
10:00 pm, The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) with introduction by Chuck Koplinski
Saturday, November 3 (Charleston Public Library)
10:30 am-12:00pm, Children’s Hands-on Activities
1:30 pm Student Stop Motion Film Premiere
2:00pm, Hoosiers (1986)introduced by New EIU Basketball Coach Jay Spoonhour
Saturday, November 3 (Doudna Theatre)
6:30 pm Possible Gene Hackman Interview w/ Dann Gire via Skype.
7:30pm, The French Connection (1972) introduced by Dann Gire.
Undergraduate English Language and Literature Conference
The University of St. Francis is now accepting scholarly papers from undergraduate students for our 22nd Annual English Language and Literature Conference. This event is open to all undergraduate students. We are calling for any paper related to English language, literature, film, critical theory, or creative writing. If your paper is accepted, you will present it to fellow students from all around the country.
Please send submissions to ell@stfrancis.edu. The deadline is December 15th.
The conference will be held on Saturday, March 23rd, 2013.
Spring 2013 Film Minor Courses
CMN 2575 - Field Production. Students learn theories andtechniques of audio and video production, with an emphasis on field production, post-production, and broadcast news. Students will be required to complete laboratory hours at WEIU-TV and/or WEIU-FM.
CMN 3530 - Film Communication Wilson-Brown TR 12:30-1:45 and T 7-9:30 Film as the expression of the performers, producers, directors, writers, and technicians. Critical discussion of film theory, history, and criticism.
CMN 3540 - Videography.
TR 8:00-10:05
The study and practice of the production of video programs, with an emphasis on camera techniques. Practical experience in a wide variety of production exercises.
CMN 3570 – History of Documentary
Gracon M/W 3-4:15. Coleman 1781.
This course is a historical and critical survey of various documentary forms from the 1920s to the present. We will examine various documentary forms including cinema verite, direct cinema, reflexive filmmaking, diary and essay films, found footage, experimental ethnography, activist documentary, community filmmaking and participatory documentary.
CMN 4540 - Advanced Video Production. MW 8:00-10:05
This course deals with the principles of preproduction planning, scripting, lighting, and audio and video mixing for studio and remote television productions
ENG 2005 – Creative Writing: Drama
Knight TR 2:00-3:15
An introduction to the reading and writing of dramatic scenes for radio, theatre, TV, and film with class time devoted to various principles common to all dramatic writing through writing exercises and workshop discussion. (Group 5) EGL 923 WC Prerequisites & Notes: ENG 1002G. Credits: 3
ENG 4300.001 – Senior Seminar
Martinez – MWF 9:00-9:50
In this course, we will explore a wide variety of literature and art and ultimately film from the early modern (Renaissance) period through the present day that attempts to decipher and address questions of how evil and madness affect human character and societal structure. Students will study these topics through an encounter with works as diverse as Shakespearean and Jacobean revenge drama; stories of the macabre by de Sade and Poe; the groundbreaking work of Confessional poets Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, and John Berryman; and modern stories of unreliable/evil narrators in the works of John Fowles, Martin Amis, J.G. Ballard, and Bret Easton Ellis. We will also consider cinematic portrayals of evil and madness such as Michael Powell’s Peeping Tom, Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver, and David Cronenberg’s Videodrome. Lastly, students will study developments in how critical theory enables us to make sense of these social and psychological phenomena.
Studies in Film: Vision and Revision Boswell - T 1530-1850
Fiction and film have always worked together in challenging ways, especially when filmmakers and writers reframe and revision earlier texts and films. We will consider several pairs of texts and films as we explore the fluid and ever-changing boundaries of the film/fiction collaborative process. Course requirements: some great reading; some great viewing; willingness to participate; two or three short papers; final research project.
EIU 4115G-Pop Culture Economics
Please check catalogue for multiple listings
EIU 4165 G, Journalistic Media in Society
Please check catalogue.
EIU, 4171G, History of Graphic Novels
Please Check Catalogue
EIU 4192 G (Honors), Film and Contemporary Society-R 3:30-6:50
Film represents the most popular—and probably the most powerful—art form of our own time. We will watch, study, and discuss a variety of movies throughout the semester as we explore the history, aesthetics, and critical theory which inform the movies. Prerequisites: Admission to the University Honors Program and permission of the Director of Honors Program.
FILM 3759G. History of Cinema.
Mitchell TR 2:00-3:15, W 2:00-3:59
The course offers a comprehensive yet selective overview of the history of cinema, integrating the basic tools for analyzing film as art. It will examine how the uses of camera, editing, lighting, sound, and acting contribute to the construction of meaning for audiences, as well as consider how meaning is filtered through various cultural contexts.
Fall 2012 Film Minor Courses
CMN 2575 - Field Production. Students learn theories andtechniques of audio and video production, with an emphasis on field production, post-production, and broadcast news. Students will be required to complete laboratory hours at WEIU-TV and/or WEIU-FM.
CMN 3530 - Film Communication Wilson-Brown TR 12:30-1:45 and T 7-9:30 Film as the expression of the performers, producers, directors, writers, and technicians. Critical discussion of film theory, history, and criticism.
CMN 3540 - Videography
TR 8:00-10:05
The study and practice of the production of video programs, with an emphasis on camera techniques. Practical experience in a wide variety of production exercises.
CMN 4540 - Advanced Video Production. MW 8:00-10:05
This course deals with the principles of preproduction planning, scripting, lighting, and audio and video mixing for studio and remote television productions
CMN 4500 – Special Topics (see schedule)
ENG 3504 – Film and Literature
TR 3:30-5:30 (Lab on R)
Animating Literature: Moving from fiction to animated film. This section of 3504 will explore the boundaries of fiction, graphic novels, animation, and adaptation as interpretive "artworks" in multiple genres of film and literature.
ENG 4764 - Play Writing/
