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Spring 2021  |  ENGL 3040 Section 001: Studies in Film -- The City as Star (65957)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Repeat Credit Limit:
9 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
Completely Online
Class Attributes:
Topics Course
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/19/2021 - 05/03/2021
Thu 05:00PM - 07:30PM
Off Campus
UMN REMOTE
Enrollment Status:
Closed (30 of 30 seats filled)
Course Catalog Description:
Topics regarding film in variety of interpretive contexts, from range/historic development of American, English, Anglophone film.
Class Notes:
This course will look at cinematic representation of urban life across several different periods and genres. How does the camera imagine city spaces and the people who live in them? We will watch films from a variety of national cinemas and historical periods from the 1920s to the present, and including both mainstream Hollywood cinema and the avant-garde. Course readings will include different historical and theoretical perspectives. The films will range from Russian Formalism in the early twentieth century to Expressionism, Neorealism, Film Noir, avant-garde and postmodern cinema. We will explore different ways of "reading" cinema, and the historical contexts surrounding particular films. We will also consider questions about race, gender, sexuality and class in connection to how different filmmakers think about urban spaces.
Class Description:
Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/65957/1213

Spring 2020  |  ENGL 3040 Section 001: Studies in Film -- Capitalism in Fiction and Film (65464)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
Topics Course
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/21/2020 - 05/04/2020
Thu 02:30PM - 05:30PM
UMTC, East Bank
Elliott Hall N647
Enrollment Status:
Open (13 of 30 seats filled)
Course Catalog Description:
Topics regarding film in variety of interpretive contexts, from range/historic development of American, English, Anglophone film.
Class Notes:
So much of world literature is taken up with questions of class that we ignore the major subgenre of literature dedicated to recounting the character and effects of the bourgeoisie (whose outlooks dominated an age in which the novel and the film came into prominence). This course is a way of getting students to read great works of literature under an exciting and relevant contemporary rubric. Given the persistent sense in the United States that there is no longer such a thing as a bourgeoisie, this course will explore our conceptions of that term as well as its meaning in our own society. Among the novels to consider are The Great Gatsby, Swann's Way, McTeague, Pere Goriot, Oblomov, Buddenbrooks, American Psycho, The Iron Heel, Brecht "The Manifesto" (poem), D. H. Lawrence, "How Beastly is the Bourgeois" (poem), The Night Visitor, Tono Bungay, Lolita, Dorothy Parker Short Stories, The Company She Keeps, White Mischief, Gain. For films, Barbarians at the Gate, The Bank, Brother From Another Planet, Michael Clayton, Killing them Softly, Erin Brocovitch, Working Girl, The Secret of My Success, Top Gun, Wall Street.
Class Description:
Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/65464/1203

Fall 2017  |  ENGL 3040 Section 001: Studies in Film -- War & Film (34943)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
Topics Course
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/05/2017 - 12/13/2017
Thu 05:30PM - 09:00PM
UMTC, East Bank
Lind Hall 315
Course Catalog Description:
Topics regarding film in variety of interpretive contexts, from range/historic development of American, English, Anglophone film.
Class Notes:
http://classinfo.umn.edu/?craig026+ENGL3040+Fall2017
Class Description:
The war film, as a genre, is always changing. It has often been ambivalent - it's a truism to say that the best war films are antiwar films. Even the "classic" war film, which ostensibly presents us with an immaculate white male hero, often carries a complex and contradictory subtext. These films, as well as some of the more subversive examples of the genre, can be read, sometimes "against the grain," as destabilizing and denaturalizing constructions such as gender, desire, race, nation, the unity of the human body, and the conditions of perception and representation. We will consider several films that do not depict war at all; instead, they focus on its periphery or aftereffects. This course will also examine the many ways in which war and cinema have helped to define each other. The critic, Paul Virilio, famously stated that "war is cinema and cinema is war." This outrageous assertion leads us to the following questions: are the camera and the weapon ontologically linked? How are the systems of war and film interdependent, as interlinked and dynamic technologies of visualization, surveillance and representation?
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/34943/1179
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
22 February 2017

Fall 2016  |  ENGL 3040 Section 001: Studies in Film -- Guns, Sex, and Special Effects: Action Movies (31394)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
Topics Course
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/06/2016 - 12/14/2016
Mon 05:30PM - 09:00PM
UMTC, East Bank
Nicholson Hall 145
Course Catalog Description:
Topics regarding film in variety of interpretive contexts, from range/historic development of American, English, Anglophone film.
Class Notes:
http://classinfo.umn.edu/?squir080+ENGL3040+Fall2016
Class Description:

For this section of Engl 3040, we will explore the vastly popular and often divisive action-film genre by examining intersecting tensions such as gender, race, and ethnicity. As an English course, our section is primarily interested in narrative, representation, and other literary concepts; however, students will be scaffolded through introductory film theory and concepts to facilitate their film analysis.


Every week, we will explore a sub-genre of action films, including science fiction, western, adventure and other popular and academic subcategories by analyzing case studies. For example, in a science-fiction action unit, we could examine the tensions present in the landmark James Cameron film, Aliens, which typifies many of those found in other films in that sub-category, such as Barbarella, Blade Runner, and Independence Day.


In viewing these films, students will be expected to draw on informative films, theory, and historical/cultural context. In unpacking the movies' representational structures, students will address the ontological nature of the characters: Who are they? What are they? How does the film seek to define them? What ideological values do they represent? How do writers, directors, and audiences form/express opinions of these values? From where do their value systems stem? With what events, films, and contexts are the films engaging?


While our class will primarily discuss films together, students will be assigned supplemental readings (including films) to support their interpretations of our in-class case studies. Likewise, students will learn theoretical and methodical terms to assist their analysis through weekly readings.

Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/31394/1169
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
11 April 2016

Summer 2016  |  ENGL 3040 Section 001: Studies in Film -- Adaptations: Literature into Film (87929)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
Topics Course
Times and Locations:
May Session
 
05/23/2016 - 06/10/2016
Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu 05:15PM - 09:20PM
UMTC, East Bank
Akerman Hall 227
Course Catalog Description:
Topics regarding film in variety of interpretive contexts, from range/historic development of American, English, Anglophone film.
Class Notes:
http://classinfo.umn.edu/?bolis002+ENGL3040+Summer2016
Class Description:
Adaptations: Literature into Film

Italo Calvino once expressed that "a classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say." Given that our cinemas today are filled with contemporary re-tellings of our most beloved literary works, Calvino's observation on the longevity of literature seems apt. This course will examine film adaptations of classic and popular literary texts in order to probe the very question at the heart of Calvino's comment: what makes literature last?


The texts for this class include novels, short stories, and fairy tales such as The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, The Hobbit by J.R.R Tolkien, The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, "Brokeback Mountain" by Annie Proulx, "The Little Mermaid" by Hans Christian Anderson, "Sleepy Hollow" by Washington Irving, and "Cinderella" by The Brothers Grimm.


Throughout the semester we will read, watch, and discuss each work in-depth. The goal of this course is to investigate such questions as: What is lost or gained by adapting literary works to film? What is the value of these adaptations for society at large? Should these films be considered an extension of the literary works that they are based on or as separate artistic compositions? And do directors and producers have an obligation to the authors and fans of the works that they are adapting?


Aside from conducting literary analyses of these texts, students will also discuss the cinematic elements of the film versions, as well as the themes of each work, in order to establish what makes them appealing to contemporary directors and audiences. Our exploration will examine these works using various theories of adaptation proposed by scholars Julie Sanders and Linda Hutcheon among others.


By the end of the semester, students will have learned not only to think critically about literature and film, but will also have come to better understand our contemporary moment and their place within it. Despite the incessant advance of technology literature remains an unshakable pillar of our society. We as a class will attempt to discover why classic and popular literary texts continue to live on in other forms.

Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/87929/1165
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
15 March 2016

Spring 2016  |  ENGL 3040 Section 001: Studies in Film -- Hollywood Haunts (58648)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/19/2016 - 05/06/2016
Mon 05:30PM - 09:00PM
UMTC, East Bank
Lind Hall 325
Course Catalog Description:
Topics regarding film in variety of interpretive contexts, from range/historic development of American, English, Anglophone film.
Class Notes:
http://classinfo.umn.edu/?mbharris+ENGL3040+Spring2016
Class Description:
Hollywood Haunts This course explores manifestations of the macabre and fantastical in American cinema. We will begin with some early Edison motion pictures, which often aimed to mesmerize and thrill audiences more than tell nuanced stories, and then trace the development of the cinematic horror genre from the late 1920s up to the 1980s. We will examine characteristics of the horror film derived from the Gothic literary tradition, but also techniques of shock and dread that gained particular force from the technology of cinema. Our discussions will focus on cinematic "haunts," understood both as the star monsters of Hollywood and as the specters of troubling historical events that creep into our selected films: the haunts of discrimination, war, crime, trauma, fraud, repression, and physical or economic disability. Our feature films will include The Unknown (1929), Frankenstein (1931), Freaks (1932), Cat People (1942), Shadow of a Doubt (1943), Sunset Boulevard (1950), The Thing from Another World (1951), Night of the Hunter (1955), Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956), Peeping Tom (1960), Village of the Damned (1960), Rosemary's Baby (1968), Dawn of the Dead (1978), An American Werewolf in London (1981), and The Thing (1982). Readings in film history and theory will inform our ongoing conversation about the ways that cinematic horrors critique or reinforce social fears and norms.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/58648/1163
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
30 September 2015

Fall 2015  |  ENGL 3040 Section 001: Studies in Film -- The City as Star (24122)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/08/2015 - 12/16/2015
Mon 04:40PM - 08:40PM
UMTC, East Bank
Lind Hall 340
Course Catalog Description:
Topics regarding film in variety of interpretive contexts, from range/historic development of American, English, Anglophone film.
Class Notes:
http://classinfo.umn.edu/?craig026+ENGL3040+Fall2015
Class Description:
This course will look at cinematic representation of urban life across several different periods, beginning with silent film. How does the camera imagine city spaces and the people who live in them? What are the epistemological, affective, aesthetic and political constructions that define the filmed city (or fail to?) Topics to be considered include, among others: urban rhythms, both organic and mechanical, and montage; the camera's epistemological ambivalence, both extending and limiting vision, offering ostensible "reality" in highly mediated context; the filmed city as an epistemological puzzle, offering both new kinds of surveillance, and new ways to "hide" from power; the filmed city as historiographic symbol. We will view films ranging from Russian Formalism in the early 20th C to Expressionism, Neorealism, Film Noir, avant-garde and postmodern cinema.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/24122/1159
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
10 March 2015

Spring 2015  |  ENGL 3040 Section 001: Studies in Film -- Hollywood Haunts (60262)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/20/2015 - 05/08/2015
Thu 05:30PM - 09:00PM
UMTC, East Bank
Ford Hall B29
Course Catalog Description:
Topics regarding film in variety of interpretive contexts, from range/historic development of American, English, Anglophone film.
Class Notes:
This course explores manifestations of the macabre and fantastical in American cinema. Matthew Harrison will teach this course. Please note that extra time is built into this class to allow for film screening and reading that would normally take place outside class time.
Class Description:
This course explores manifestations of the macabre and fantastical in American cinema. We will begin with some early Edison motion pictures, which often aimed to mesmerize and thrill audiences more than tell nuanced stories, and then trace the development of the cinematic horror genre from the late 1920s up to the 1980s. We will examine characteristics of the horror film derived from the Gothic literary tradition, but also techniques of shock and dread that gained particular force from the technology of cinema. Our discussions will focus on cinematic ?haunts,? understood both as the star monsters of Hollywood and as the specters of troubling historical events that creep into our selected films: the haunts of discrimination, war, crime, trauma, fraud, repression, and physical or economic disability. Our feature films will include The Unknown (1929), Frankenstein (1931), Freaks (1932), Cat People (1942), Shadow of a Doubt (1943), Sunset Boulevard (1950), The Thing from Another World (1951), Night of the Hunter (1955), Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956), Peeping Tom (1960), Village of the Damned (1960), Rosemary's Baby (1968), Dawn of the Dead (1978), An American Werewolf in London (1981), and The Thing (1982). Readings in film history and theory will inform our ongoing conversation about the ways that cinematic horrors critique or reinforce social fears and norms.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/60262/1153
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
24 November 2014

Fall 2014  |  ENGL 3040 Section 001: Studies in Film -- Sex, Gender, Desire (26353)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/02/2014 - 12/10/2014
Thu 05:30PM - 08:30PM
UMTC, East Bank
Lind Hall 325
Course Catalog Description:
Topics regarding film in variety of interpretive contexts, from range/historic development of American, English, Anglophone film.
Class Description:
Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/26353/1149

Spring 2014  |  ENGL 3040 Section 001: Studies in Film -- Seductions: Film/Gender/Desire (67238)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/21/2014 - 05/09/2014
Thu 04:00PM - 08:00PM
UMTC, East Bank
Mechanical Engineering 221
Course Catalog Description:
Topics regarding film in variety of interpretive contexts, from range/historic development of American, English, Anglophone film.
Class Description:
This course will focus on the multiple and contested ways in which gender and sexuality are engaged by cinema. We will consider the following questions, among others: how does film construct particular sexualities or gender identifications as "natural" and normative or "unnatural" and deviant? What are some of the cinematic codes and conventions that make the world of a film, and the identities proposed within it, seem "normal" and "real," and what happens when these are challenged? Can the contravention of these codes throw subjectivity into crisis, destabilizing familiar concepts of gender or sexuality? What do we, as film spectators, look for in cinema, and what kinds of sexualities and gendered subjectivities emerge into our dialogue with the screen? The course will introduce films from a variety of national cinemas and historical periods, ranging from the 1920s to the present, and including both mainstream Hollywood cinema and the avant-garde. We will explore different ways of "reading" cinema, the historical contexts surrounding particular films, and some of the theoretical debates that characterize the field of cinema studies. I encourage each of you to be an active spectator. As you watch films, think about your responses. How do films manipulate us--emotionally, aesthetically, politically? How are How are your expectations satisfied or challenged? What codes are at work?
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/67238/1143
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
3 October 2013

Fall 2013  |  ENGL 3040 Section 001: Studies in Film -- The Holocaust in Film (33624)

Instructor(s)
Noemi Schory
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Meets With:
GER 3610 Section 002
JWST 3900 Section 001
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/03/2013 - 12/11/2013
Wed 03:35PM - 06:05PM
UMTC, East Bank
Appleby Hall 102
Course Catalog Description:
Topics regarding film in variety of interpretive contexts, from range/historic development of American, English, Anglophone film.
Class Notes:
The Holocaust in Film: recent Israeli and German documentaries compared. Taught by Noemi Schory. "Holocaust fatigue" was a term coined about twenty years ago to put the lid on Holocaust films. Everything has been told, everything seemed to have been recorded, everything has been researched and uncovered. Although it seems that there is nothing new to say, at least cinematically, about the Holocaust, young Israeli and German filmmakers of the 3rd generation seem to be no less obsessed with this subject than their predecessors. The distance in time allows the grandchildren of victims and perpetrators to ask questions which the children, the 2nd generation, didn't dare ask. More than documenting the traumatic events, these films venture further, less inhibited, ready to face complex truths. As the torch is passed from the 2nd to the 3rd generation filmmakers in Israel and Germany, the two countries most directly affected by the Holocaust, new approaches and perspectives emerge. The course will trace the path of the documentary representations of the Holocaust from the broad historic, often faceless approach, through the debate about the validity of the visual representation compared to that of the eyewitnesses, to the individualized history and the scars left by the trauma on the generations of post-memory.
Class Description:
Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/33624/1139

Fall 2013  |  ENGL 3040 Section 002: Studies in Film -- Studies in Film: Pulp Fiction and Melodrama (34836)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/03/2013 - 12/11/2013
Thu 06:20PM - 08:50PM
UMTC, East Bank
Lind Hall 217
Course Catalog Description:
Topics regarding film in variety of interpretive contexts, from range/historic development of American, English, Anglophone film.
Class Description:
ENGL 3040 considers film history, criticism, theory, and screenings to allow us to discuss the relationship between selected pulp novellas from 1930-1960 and their film counterparts. We will also examine the roots of the melodrama, and how this genre segues off into the plots, visuals, and the cultural underpinnings of post-World War films noir. Film and novella choices include Imitation of Life, Kiss Me Deadly, and The Talented Mr. Ripley. The course includes class participation, two 1,500 word essays, a multiple choice midterm and final, and a 12-entry term journal. We will also use a moodle discussion group to continue discussion through the week(s).
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/34836/1139
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
10 April 2013

Spring 2013  |  ENGL 3040 Section 001: Studies in Film -- Studies in Film: Pulp Fiction and Melodrama (68439)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
Delivery Medium
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/22/2013 - 05/10/2013
Wed 06:20PM - 08:50PM
UMTC, East Bank
Lind Hall 217
Course Catalog Description:
Topics regarding film in variety of interpretive contexts, from range/historic development of American, English, Anglophone film.
Class Description:
Most of us are familiar with Films Noir, a cinema genre named by a group of young French journalists after many of its films were already on screens for some fifteen years, as a body of gritty, fast, twisted, usually cheaply made movies often featuring third-rung actors and directed by "B-film" masters such as Ulmer, Fuller, Lewis, and Karlson. These films responded to post-war malaise, gender confusion, and the loosening of studio system codes and conventions, and are still echoed today in films such as Pulp Fiction, Red Rock West, Fargo, Killer Joe, and The Killer Inside Me. But with Noir's shadow style, also came its odd companion, the 1945 to 1955 Hollywood Melodramas that often derived from the same novels and magazine articles as did the Noirs. Marked by violent emotional shifts and compressed reactions to sexual, racial, and economic social ruptures, this ten years of lurid melodrama, culled from the writing of James M. Cain, David Goodis, Fannie Hurst and others comprises Noir's Other, or the visually brighter side of social darkness. In ENGL 3040, we will read the pulp novels and magazine articles, and view the films from these two related genres, and explore them in terms of language, visual and textual, and the cultural themes with which they struggle.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/68439/1133
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
22 October 2012

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