Courses offered during the 2013 NAU Summer Film Institute
CINE 100, 15 Screenings: Film and the Big Screen Experience
(1 credit, P/F), A. Klocke
The purpose of CINE 100 is to
expose students to alternative, independent, and classic film programming in
public, local or regional venues. Students will have the opportunity to see a
variety of thoughtful films in public venues, thereby expanding students'
exposure to cinema beyond mainstream commercial film programming. The fifteen
screenings preclude Hollywood films at commercial mainstream theaters, unless
approved by instructor.
CINE 199, Special Topics: Film Noir (3 credits), B. Fox
Noir. A genre? A style? A medium? All? None? Some
combination? In this class, we will explore this entity called noir. We will discuss the
characteristics and importance of noir
as it reflects societal values and perspectives—or does not—using a variety of
scholarly texts and articles, books, and films. We will use texts from the
Brothers Grimm, and hard-boiled detective stories. We will watch a
dozen or so noir films, including
some combination of Sunset Boulevard,
Chinatown, The Searchers, Double
Indemnity, The Killers, and I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang. While
we will critically analyze these stories and movies, I plan to have us remember
to enjoy them also.
CINE 408, Fieldwork Experience (1-6 credits, P/F), A. Klocke
This course provides a framework for
experiential learning. Please contact the instructor for more details.
HUM 232, Cinema and Borders: Race, Migration and Diaspora in
Film and Media (3 credits), J. Costello
We will examine world borders, international migration and diaspora as
portrayed in cinema from around the world through an interdisciplinary and
topical approach. Topics include U.S. immigration from Ellis Island to
Arizona's SB 1070, changing attitudes in Europe toward immigration and upheaval
and immigration controversies in the Middle East and Asia. Race is
explored as a determining factor in border controversies from seeing how race
is constructed by cultural and political considerations and how images of the
"other" have been shaped over time in response to political, economic
and cultural trends.
HUM 382, World Perspectives in Humanities: Latin American
Film (3 credits), J. Costello
It may be a
surprise that Cuba produces critically acclaimed comedies or that Bolivia has a
long tradition of highly political filmmaking. The varied ethnic, regional and
national identities within the Latin American cultural landscape defy any
single categorization. Using a topical and interdisciplinary approach this
course explores the great diversity of Latin America revealing the multiplicity
of artistic, cultural, political and historic influences that shape the cinema
of these many nations.
CCS 250, Cultural Perspectives: War, Nazism, and the
Holocaust in German Film (3 credits), A. Klocke
This
class explores 20th-century German identity, culture, history, and politics
through film analysis and readings. As much as cinema across the globe has
looked at Hollywood for inspiration, films from other continents have impacted
American society in myriad ways. This course provides a window into one of
these other societal traditions and lets students broaden their understanding
of the interrelatedness of form, artistic medium and culture. In particular,
students will understand the cultural, political, and historical causes of
Nazism, World War II, the Holocaust, ethnic immigration/integration, and
understand Germany's role within the global context and how these issues are
represented in German film.