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| Senior Seminar in Film Study: The Films of John Waters - 22768 - FST 496 - 001 | ||||||||||||||
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All students are expected to attend and participate in person at the assigned day/time. (F2F) Prerequsite: FST 205 Junior or Senior standing Cross-listed with FST 569-001. In anticipation of John Waters’s visit to UNCW in the spring of 2025, we will dedicate an entire class to the Pope of Trash and his filmography, from Mondo Trasho (1969) to A Dirty Shame (2004). Throughout the semester we will also screen and reflect on works that have influenced Waters, including films by underground queer auteurs, including Andy Warhol, George and Mike Kuchar, and Kenneth Anger, as well as exploitation cinema by Herschell Gordon Lewis and Russ Meyer. Finally, we will read scholarly and journalistic assessments of Waters’s career, with special attention to taste cultures, camp aesthetics, queer authorship, and the politics of shock. This class will feature reams of willfully offensive material, so viewer discretion is advised, as the puritans say. Associated Term: Spring 2025 Registration Dates: Oct 27, 2024 to Jan 21, 2025 Levels: Undergraduate Attributes: UnvStdy Capstone, UnvStdy Critical Reasoning, UnvStdy Writing Intensive Main Campus Lecture Schedule Type 3.000 Credits View Catalog Entry
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| Senior Seminar in Film Study: Gender and Sexuality in Vietnamese Cinema - 22771 - FST 496 - 002 | ||||||||||||||
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All students are expected to attend and participate in person at the assigned day/time. (F2F) Prerequsite: FST 205 Junior or Senior standing Cross-listed with FST 569-002. This course examines the discourses of gender and sexuality in Vietnamese cinema. We will investigate multiple ways in which Vietnamese cinema constructs gender and sexuality throughout its turbulent history during wartime, the post-war period of economic reconstruction, and the subsequent era of globalization. Using theories of contemporary writings on gender and sexuality, cinema studies, and cultural studies, among others, we will (re)frame our understanding of how gender functions in and intersects with notions of power, ideology, identity formations and explore how Vietnamese cinema conforms to and at the same time offers possibilities to rethink such notions in a more dynamic and nuanced ways. Associated Term: Spring 2025 Registration Dates: Oct 27, 2024 to Jan 21, 2025 Levels: Undergraduate Attributes: UnvStdy Capstone, UnvStdy Critical Reasoning, UnvStdy Writing Intensive Main Campus Lecture Schedule Type 3.000 Credits View Catalog Entry
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| Senior Seminar in Film Study: Contemporary Cinefeminisms - 22775 - FST 496 - 003 | ||||||||||||||
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All students are expected to attend and participate in person at the assigned day/time. (F2F) Prerequsite: FST 205 Junior or Senior standing Cross-listed with FST 569-005. Where in the world are women making movies and for whom? What is the critical force of contemporary women’s cinema? What do these films and makers mean for the future of feminism and of cinema? What are the global cartographies of contemporary cine-feminism? This senior seminar and graduate course attempts to answer these questions through the study of women cineastes, who make films about women, in a range of worldwide contexts. Drawing on fiction films, from the first two decades of the twenty-first century, the course addresses different sites of women’s film practice including filmmakers from Argentina, Canada, China, France, India, Iran, Kenya, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Senegal and the United States. Through readings and discussions, we will learn to contextualize the varied media production contexts that range from emergent film industries to transnational coproduction arrangements. Recognizing how these films remain responsive to both national audiences and transnational concerns, we will also attempt to map the multiple flows of cross-cultural consumption by addressing the international film festival circuit, DVD labels, film blogs and Internet streaming sites. The readings located at the intersection of transnational feminist and transnational media studies, will draw on the interdisciplinary scholarship in postcolonial, cultural, race and ethnic, and diaspora studies. The assignments will encourage the students to grasp the imaginative possibilities of this critical body of work. Associated Term: Spring 2025 Registration Dates: Oct 27, 2024 to Jan 21, 2025 Levels: Undergraduate Attributes: UnvStdy Capstone, UnvStdy Critical Reasoning, UnvStdy Writing Intensive Main Campus Lecture Schedule Type 3.000 Credits View Catalog Entry
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| Senior Seminar in Film Study: The Marilyn Monroe Mystique - 22774 - FST 496 - 004 | ||||||||||||||
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All students are expected to attend and participate in person at the assigned day/time. (F2F) Prerequsite: FST 205 Junior or Senior standing All students are expected to attend and participate in person at the assigned day/time. (F2F) Prerequsite: FST 205 Junior or Senior standing In this course, students will investigate the reasons why Marilyn Monroe still captivates our cultural consciousness after her death over a half a century ago. Is it due to her compelling characters, her intriguing iconicity, her mysteriousness magnetism, her immortal presence? We will study the reasons behind her enduring popularity from a variety of critical approaches, including her aesthetic, her influences on popular culture and art, her redefinition of celebrity and her complex, paradoxical persona encapsulated by such oxymorons as a comic seriousness, a wholesome sexuality and a seemingly approachableness, yet being completely unobtainable. Because the course satisfies the oral and writing competency requirements in the major, all students will do substantial writing and research and will present their research through oral presentations that reflect the scholarly practice in the profession. Writing assignments will be due every week (such as journal entries about the assigned readings) and are designed to stretch your critical reasoning skills. Associated Term: Spring 2025 Registration Dates: Oct 27, 2024 to Jan 21, 2025 Levels: Undergraduate Attributes: UnvStdy Capstone, UnvStdy Critical Reasoning, UnvStdy Writing Intensive Main Campus Lecture Schedule Type 3.000 Credits View Catalog Entry
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| Senior Seminar in Film Study: Cinematic Cuisine - 22773 - FST 496 - 005 | ||||||||||||||
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All students are expected to attend and participate in person at the assigned day/time. (F2F) Prerequsite: FST 205 Junior or Senior standing Using food as the point of reference, students in this class will learn how food serves to develop character and story, to interrogate meaning/ideology, and to understand culture, including visual culture and (inter)national culture. Close readings about foodways in films will help to inform the study of food in film as it affects ideology, the understanding of identity and its interconnected negotiations centered around class, race, gender, age. Learning how the study of food functions as a rhetorical and ideological device, students will reflect upon the social and cultural relevancies to create their own original research, noting ways food serves as a “terministic screen” that privileges what is screened and what is not (screened out). Just as we appreciate movies for their spectacle, food also provides yet another “Visual Pleasure” (or as some critics opt to call it, “food porn”), to elucidate cultural, social, and ideological relevancies. Associated Term: Spring 2025 Registration Dates: Oct 27, 2024 to Jan 21, 2025 Levels: Undergraduate Attributes: UnvStdy Capstone, UnvStdy Critical Reasoning, UnvStdy Writing Intensive Main Campus Lecture Schedule Type 3.000 Credits View Catalog Entry
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