ILVS/DRAMA 50   Introduction to Film Studies
Introduction to fundamental methodologies for reading film. Overview of film studies with emphasis on film as a complex art form. Narrative as a formal system, film genres, style and its related techniques, critical approaches to film analysis, film history. Weekly screening of relevant films selected from both Hollywood and world cinemas. Martin, Zhong

ILVS 91-03 Film and Nation: Russian and Central Asia
After the breakup of the Soviet Union, Russia and some former Central Asian republics, now the independent countries of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan have embarked on a nation-building project through cinema.  We will explore national identity, national space, new heroes and new national myths in films ranging from the Russian mega-hits, Peculiarities of the National Hunt and Brother to the international art-cinema favorites, The Adopted Son (Kyrgyzstan) and The Hunter (Kazakhstan). No prerequisites. All films with English subtitles.  Cross listed RUS 91, CIV 91. Johnson

ILVS 91-04 Love and Sexuality in World Literature
A study of love and sexuality through the literature of Japan and Russia.  What is love?  How is sexuality understood?  Why has the linkage between these two "constants" of human life been seen as problematic?  No reading knowledge of Japanese or Russian required. Cross listed with JPN 91, WL 17, CIV 17. In English. Inouye, Carleton

ILVS 122 South African Writers
Survey of modern South African writers, with emphasis on the effects of Apartheid and the anti-Apartheid struggle on the life of the imagination, including literary, film, and theatre evocations of South African life. Writers may include Alan Paton, Lewis Nkosi, J. M. Coetzee, Agnes Sam, Zoë Wicomb, Athol Fugard, Njabulo Ndebele, Miriam Tlali, Breyten Breytenbach, Mongane Serote, Ruth First, Nadine Gordimer, and Besse Head.  No prerequisites. Rosenberg

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