Meets general academic requirement HU and DE. COM 367 Studio Workshop in Television & Film Beginning with a survey of the promise and demands, historical, economic, and political circumstances surrounding community television, this course broadens students' exposure to television formats beyond mainstream commercial media. Students will conceptualize, outline, and write a feature-length screenplay, focusing on story structure, character development, conflict, dialogue, and resolution. Muhlenberg College aims to develop independent critical thinkers who are intellectually agile, characterized by a zest for reasoned and civil debate, committed to understanding the diversity of the human experience, able to express ideas with clarity and grace, committed to lifelong learning, equipped with ethical and civic values, and prepared for lives of leadership and service. As the course proceeds chronologically, it briefly demonstrates images of African Americans in mainstream Hollywood films, but focuses primarily on how filmmakers of African descent have sought to respond to mainstream representations and create their own narratives and styles. Das College befindet sich in Allentown, Pennsylvania und beschäftigt fast 200 Vollzeit-Kräfte. Spearheaded by a group of young directors who also wrote their own screenplays (Truffaut, Godard, Malle, Chabrol, Resnais, among others), this movement gave rise to "Le cinema d’auteur" as an innovative and influential way to produce films. Stand: 01.07.2010, 07:52 -- Zahl der Neuerwerbungen: 3436 Trexler Library has many online resources available through the library website. Students present ongoing work and final projects in either an online or broadcast venue. Meets general academic requirement HU. Muhlenberg College offers 64 distinct undergraduate degrees, concentrated into 45 majors within 17 broad fields of study. Open to all students at all levels. Publications 12. Muhlenberg College, Allentown. Like Tarantino, we will watch films closely and analyze their themes and structures. FLM 450 CUE: Film Studies Seminar  Advanced study and analysis of selected areas in film studies designed for majors and other qualified students. In addition to screening and exploring some of the best such films produced over the course of 50 years, this course attends closely to the struggle of some of the more successful independent filmmakers (and actors) to maintain their commitment to alternative practices in the face of the seductions of Hollywood, on the one hand, and formal conventions fostered by organizations like the Sundance Film Festival & … When films provide the rules of their own reality, spectators and their surrogate characters grope for a foothold of understanding and sanity. Time should permit us to screen some of these films in their entirety during the class meetings. This course examines the world’s largest film industry with the aim of understanding the place of popular cinema outside of the Hollywood model. Films explored in this course will likely include Bad Education (Spain), Amores Perros (Mexico), Code Unknown (Austria/France), Chunkging Express (Hong Kong/China), The World (China), A Separation (Iran), Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (Turkey), The Best of Youth (Italy), Waltz with Bashir (Israel), The Class (France), and District 9 (South Africa), among others. Program Director:  Dr. Amy Corbin, Associate Professor of Media & Communication and Film Studies FLM 336 African American Cinema This course surveys African American filmmaking from the silent ear to the present, along with a few films that represent the broader African Diaspora. Numerous theoretical approaches will be used to study the rise and fall of the Western’s popularity, its role in shaping popular myths about the United States, and its representation of masculine identity. Film has emerged in the last 100 years as a global phenomenon with broad social, cultural, and commercial implications. Muhlenberg has an active film culture both on and off-campus. FLM 388 Video JournalismAs journalism evolves, more media outlets rely on documentary principles to convey their message: strong, character-driven stories; compelling visuals; dynamic sound-image relationships. We will also consider how these topics are illus trated throughmelodrama’s aesthetics, such as music, dramatic editing, and symbolic use of setting. Course readings will consist of one novel by Elmore Leonard, two screenplays by Tarantino, as well as secondary literature on Tarantino and postmodern popular culture. Selected French New Wave and Asian films, The Killing, Coffy, The White Hell of Piz Palu, and The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, as well as others will also be examined. Students will prepare character profiles, treatments, and at least one screenplay. The production component of the curriculum gives every student the opportunity for hands-on experience in filmmaking and allows motivated students to pursue additional work in screenwriting, acting and directing, and advanced video production. About. Students present ongoing work and final projects in either an online or broadcast venue. Attendance at weekly film screenings is requiredMeets general academic requirement DE and HU. Directors whose work will be screened and discussed will likely include Mathieu Kassovitz (La Haine), Michael Haneke (Caché), Claire Denis (I Can’t Sleep), Wim Wenders (Lisbon Story), Fatih Akin (Edge of Heaven), and Lars von Trier (Zentropa), among others. Multimedia and interdisciplinary projects involving theatre, art, dance, and music will be welcome. Film Studies. It focuses on films that are often classified as “women’s films” and “social problem films,” but also includes films that could be classified as action films or “men’s melodramas”― and so there will be a lot of discussion about issues of gender and race. FLM 202, 204 Film History II: 1950-Present An exploration of the international history of film from the end of the War through important European developments (the French New Wave, Italian Neo-Realism, and New German Cinema) and dramatic changes in production and viewing in the United States (through the Sixties and Seventies) to recent emergence of national and regional cinemas in countries all over the world. Founded in 1848, Muhlenberg College is a highly selective, private, four-year liberal arts school located in the beautiful Lehigh Valley of eastern Pennsylvania. FLM 380 Pre-Production Plan/DesignStudents will learn the process of film and videomaking from idea stage to the day before shooting begins. Both film studies and production tracks culminate in a senior experience course. COM 251 Introduction to Moviemaking Introduces basic concepts of time-based visual media with an emphasis on the perception and experience of moving images, kinesics, and the structure and aesthetics of cinematic language. Legal and ethical issues involved in media production are considered. Conceiving, coordinating, shooting, and editing the project, production teams will encounter real-time pressure and problem-solving situations.Required lab.Prerequisite(s):COM 251 - Introduction to Moviemaking. Muhlenberg College. To declare and be retained as a film studies major, a student must maintain a 2.00 grade point average based on all the courses required for the major. Meets general academic requirement HU (and W when offered as 239). Topics may include auteur studies, genre or form studies, national or regional film studies, film theory, or explorations of film and popular culture.