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What comes next in Film Studies?

What comes next in Film Studies?. Film Studies at Harvard home page http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~filmstud/ The undergraduate Concentrations Film Studies Secondary field in Film Studies Academic and student organizations Summer study abroad Possibilities for graduate study. CUE Evaluations.

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What comes next in Film Studies?

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  1. What comes next in Film Studies? • Film Studies at Harvard home page • http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~filmstud/ • The undergraduate Concentrations • Film Studies • Secondary field in Film Studies • Academic and student organizations • Summer study abroad • Possibilities for graduate study

  2. CUE Evaluations • Course evaluations are now open and available through the ‘Courses' tab at the my.harvard portal: <my.harvard.edu/> • Please complete the course evaluation before the final exam (January 16).

  3. Art of Film: final examination • Section A. Film Analysis (Recommended writing time: 30 minutes) [30%]. • A.1. A short film clip will be screened for you three times. Write a short essay on this clip relating how elements of film form and style--mise-en-scène, framing, editing, and sound--convey and shape the portrayed story. • Section B. Essay (Recommended Writing Time: 45 minutes) [40%]. • Answer any ONE of three proposed questions. • Section C. Short Answer (Recommended Writing Time: 60 minutes) [30%]. • Answer any SIX of ten proposed questions. • Your answers should demonstrate your precise comprehension of the vocabulary and concepts presented in Film Art and in the Sourcebook readings. Whenever possible, illustrate your answers with examples from films screened for the course. Do not concentrate on the same one or two films for each question. Credit will be given for referring to a broad range of films in this section of the exam.

  4. Art of Film: final examination • Final exam review sessions • Monday, January 8, 1-2 pm, CCVA B-04 • Wednesday, January 10, 1-2 pm, CCVA B-04 • Thursday, January 11, 4-5 pm, CCVA B-04 • You may come to any review session that fits your schedule.

  5. Concentration in Film Studies • Honors Only: 14 half-courses • Required Courses • Introductory Courses (three required) • The Art of Film • Silent Cinema • Sound Cinema • Advanced Courses • Six (or seven) half-courses directly related to film and visual studies.  • At least two of these advanced courses must be advanced Film Studies seminars. • Interdisciplinary Courses • Two (or three) half-courses in other departments that provide pertinent interdisciplinary perspectives to Film Studies but are not courses whose main emphasis is film related. • Electives • Students who choose not to write a thesis will instead take two additional advanced film studies courses (these choices are subject to the approval of the Director of Undergraduate Studies).

  6. Secondary field in Film Studies • Six half-courses • The Art of Film • Either Silent CinemaorSound Cinema • One course in film theory • Three additional courses in Film Studies • N.B. Only one Core class may count toward a secondary field and the Core.

  7. Previews of coming attractions • Special information meeting for Freshmen interested in Film Studies • Wednesday, January 31,4-5 pm, CCVA Sculpture Studio (second floor)

  8. Previews of coming attractions • VES 72. Sound Cinema • JD Connor • VES 100b. History of Video: Art in Media Culture • Carrie Lambert-Beatty • VES 173t. Contemporary Film Theory • David Rodowick • VES 175a. Autobiography & Film • Dominique Bluher • VES 178m. Modernism and Cinema • Haidee Wasson • VES 183s. Screens (seminar) • Haidee Wasson • VES 189. Exploring Culture Through Film • Lucien Taylor • VES 191s. Cold War Cinema 1948-64 • J. Hoberman

  9. Important academic & student organizations • The Film Study Center • <http://www.filmstudycenter.org/> • The Harvard Film Archive • <http://www.harvardfilmarchive.org/> • Cinematic • <http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~cinema> • thecinematic@gmail.com • Harvard-Radcliffe Television • http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~hrtv/ • hrtv@hcs.harvard.edu

  10. Summer study abroad • Harvard Summer Program in Paris, France (La Femis) • www.summer.harvard.edu/2007/programs/abroad/paris_lafemis/ • VISU S-190 Contemporary French Cinema • Dominique Bluher & David Rodowick • VISU S-59 Nonfiction Video Projects (32100) • Faculty from La Femis

  11. Postgraduate Study in Film • At Harvard • Secondary field in Film & Visual Studies • <http://www.gsas.harvard> • At other universities • In film and/or video production

  12. Questions? • DUS for VES • Robb Moss <robbmoss@fas> • CCVA 105; 496-6614 • DUS for Film Studies • J. D. Connor <jdconnor@fas> • Sever M-07 (4th floor); 496-6799 • DGS for Film & Visual Studies • D. N. Rodowick <rodowick@fas> • Sever M-06 (4th floor): 496-6076 • Academic Coordinator • Mike Lawrence <mlawrenc@fas> • CCVA 102; 496-4469

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