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: Choose 8 courses (24 hrs.) from the following: 1*** HUAS 6330 . 001 R 4:00 PM - 6:45 PM American Film Comedy McLean A This course is devoted to considering American film comedy as a genre, as an industrial product, and as an art form. We will focus on the film comedy's historical development, narrative structure and formal features, modes of performance, and the meanings it seemed to produce for its audiences. We will trace the various ways in which such films represented race, class, and sexual difference, and how they interacted with other film genres, with other kinds of theatrical performances, and with other entertainment industries such as vaudeville, burlesque, and television. After introductory sessions on genre theory, the histories of comedy and humor in U.S. popular culture, and the contexts of Hollywood and commercial filmmaking, each week will be devoted to a specific topic or issue (among them silent comedy, pre-Code comedy, screwball comedy, comedian comedy, parody/animal/gross-out comedy, comedy and stereotypes, comedy and spectatorship). Brief screenings of relevant material will augment lecture and discussion, and from time to time entire films will be screened during class meetings. Other full-length films you are required to view outside of class (all films will be on reserve at McDermott Library, but you may also rent them on your own). 2*** HUAS 6352 . 501 W 7:00 PM - 9:45 PM Creating SciFi TV & Film Scripts Daniel J 3*** HUAS 6373 . 001 M 4:00 PM - 6:45 PM Documentary Film Frome J This graduate course will concentrate on analyzing issues in documentary theory. To provide context for the discussion, I will provide brief overviews of documentary history, and we will watch numerous documentaries, but we will primarily discuss questions such as: What differentiates a documentary from a fiction film? How can we classify documentaries into different genres? How are different types of documentaries structured to have certain effects? What is the relationship between documentaries, reality, and truth? How do documentaries differ from fiction films in terms of making arguments, being "objective," or being true or false? Although the course will concentrate on film, we will spend some time discussing interactive digital media (simulations, videogames, etc.) in the context of these issues. HUAS 6375 - photography & lighing 4*** HUAS 6393 . 501 R 7:00 PM - 9:45 PM Photo/Digital/Installation Waligore M This course explores the process of installation art, with an emphasis on photographic and digital art processes. The challenges involved in producing work for a location or community, site-specific contexts, require consideration of the physical experience of the viewer, her participation in relationship to a given environment. Students will produce work for exhibition--and design an exhibition proposal--that engages viewing frameworks and contexts involving time, space, narrative, and experience. HUAS 6395 - short fiction HUAS 66XX HUAS 7301 - transforming race Reese, V. 5*** HUAS 7310 HUAS 7310 . 001 T 4:00 PM - 6:45 PM Paul Gauguin: Writer, Artist Brettell R 6*** HUHI 7387 - HUHI 7387 Gossin, P Lives of Science P Gossin LS 8-28-08 7*** HUSL 6308 HUSL 6308 . 001 M 12:30 PM - 3:15 PM Poetry Briante S Movements and Manifestos Twentieth-century poetry saw an explosion of literary movements and schools. Some of those movements (such as Andre Breton’s Surrealism) continue to influence contemporary poetry. Even such one-man movements as Frank O’Hara’s Personism still fascinate and inspire contemporary writers and critics. Over the course of the semester we will look at writings, proclamations, manifestos and poetics statement from a variety of national and international, modern and postmodern, poetic movements with special emphasis on those that came during the second half of the twentieth-century including: Objectivism, the New York School, and the Projective Verse movement. For students who have taken the workshop version of this Movements and Manifestos Class (HUAS 6350), this seminar will provide an expanded in-depth look at the writing and criticism that surrounds these schools. Enrollment in that workshop, however, is not a prerequisite. Any student specializing in creative writing will find this class useful in establishing an overview of postwar poetic movements. Literature and History of Ideas students will find this seminar provides a vital overview of late twentieth-century poetic movements in light of the relationship between literature, theory, and social history. 8*** HUSL 6370 - literature and the imagination 8*** HUSL 6392 HUAS 6392 . 501 Photography: Image/Text Waligore, M. The use of text in contemporary photography has numerous precedents, from image/text experiments by Dada artists of the 20s and 30s to those generated by postmodern artists of the 80s. Similarly, we see investigations of photography and language among Surrealists of the 30s and Conceptual artists of the 60s and 70s. In this course we will review historical precedents and recent photographic practice with text and image, while engaging in our own experimentation. The American landscape is littered with billboards, a phenomenon which parallels our experience surfing the internet. From logos to signage, text can function as a common vernacular, as demonstrated in the photographs of Walker Evans, Lee Friedlander, and Robert Frank. Captions have also become an element in the examination of the "Rhetoric of the Image" as outlined by Roland Barthes, especially in our viewing of news reportage or commercial ads. In the photographs of artists such as Diane Arbus, the extensive title extends the meaning of the image. The sometimes, uneasy union of text and image, as exemplified by the photo essay, the advertising layout, the news photograph, visual narratives, and similar experiments in art and photography, creates curious interrelationships between looking and reading. This course will examine the connections among photo-text works that operate on two levels through review of articles, discussion, and practice. STUDIES IN LITERATURE HUSL 7335 . 501 M 7:00 PM - 9:45 PM Digital Rhetorics Gooch J The course, “Digital Rhetorics,” will focus on the complex dynamics between rhetoric and rapidly advancing communication technologies as well as a rapidly evolving visual culture by looking at the cultural and social impacts of electronic communication, and subsequently, communication mediums. Course themes will include digital rhetoric and democracy, visual rhetoric, the media ecology tradition, and new media and composition studies. Students will examine critically the various theories and history of new media and media ecology, but also at the historiography of new media and digital rhetoric by considering how different scholars (e.g., McLuhan, Postman) have written about the history of media, communication, technology, and culture.
