Winter 2007

JAN 2nd - JAN 19th

The following courses offered during the 3-week Winter Term count for the Cinema and Cultural Studies Major. For more information, contact Prof. Jacqueline Reich, Director of Undergraduate Studies, at jreich@notes.cc.sunysb.edu

CCS CORE COURSES

CCS 101-B Images and Texts: Understanding Culture
*This course is taught at Stony Brook Manhattan
TWThFri: 9:30am-12:55pm Stony Brook Manhattan
Emily Bakola
The images and texts of advertising, television, art, writing, film, and performance and how they come to characterize and shape our everyday lives. Using case studies, students learn how to recognize, read, and analyze culture within a particular social, cultural, or political context, touching upon such important issues as race, gender, class, ideology, and censorship.

HUM 202-D Film and Television: History and Theory
*This course is taught at Stony Brook Manhattan
TWThFri: 1:30-4:55pm, Stony Brook Manhattan
L. Toke

An introduction to the theory and criticism of film and television from the "primitive" era to the present. Weekly film and video showings are accompanied by readings in both contemporary and classical film theory. Special attention is given to mainstream Hollywood cinema as well as to experimental traditions originating in the Soviet Union, France, and Germany.

LOWER-DIVISION ELECTIVES:
HUI 231-D Sex and Politics in Italian Cinema
TMThFri 5:30-8:55pm
G. Costa

The cinematic representation of gender, class, and sexual politics in post-world War II Italian films and the relationship of these themes to Italian history, society, and culture are discussed. Films by directors such as Bertolucci, Fellini, and Wertmuller are studied. Readings include selected works of film history, criticism, and theory.

AAS 212-G Asian & Asian American Topics in Humanities
*This Course is taught at Stony Brook Manhattan
TWThFrid 1:30pm-4:55pm Stony Brook Manhattan
Aruna Sharma

A key ingredient of the phenomenal impact of Hindi cinema ("Bollywood") has been its rich and vibrant music. This course explores the classical foundations of popular Hindi film songs of the last half-century. Using video and audio samples of the great classics and contemporary masterpieces, students learn to identify and appreciate basic elements of Indian classical music, such as melody, and scale, leading to the complex melodic structures or Ragas, rhythmic patterns or Talas, and styles such as Khayals and Thumris. The techniques of the great masters are analyzed.

UPPER-DIVISION ELECTIVES:

HIS 399-K&4: Hollywood Does History
TWThFri 1:30pm-4:55pm Humanities 3017
Kathleen Nutter

"Can a film be both good history and a good film?" This intersession course will address this question and more through the viewing of several major motion pictures and selected readings. We will be looking at these films not only to get a sense of the "history" that is being presented but also the ways in which the various films reflect the time period in which they were actually produced. Coursework will include two short reviews and a final project. Daily attendance and participation in class discussion will also be required. Popcorn will frequently be provided by the instructor.

There are also two study abroad sessions:

1. Stony Brook in Sicily/Rome, Italy
Contact: Prof. Mario Mignone (mmignone@notes.cc.sunysb.edu)

2. Study Abroad in Krakow, Poland and Prague, Czech Republic
Contact: Prof. Izabela Kalinowska-Blackwood
(ikalinowskab@notes.cc.sunysb.edu)