Course Offerings

American Cinema History
  • American Cinema, Beginnings to 1960.
  • American Cinema, 1960 to the Present.
  • The Hollywood Blacklist
    HUAC in Hollywood, 1930s-1950s, and historical ramifications 1950s-present
  • Gender and the Modern Horror Film
    The American horror film, 1968-present through theories of gender and sexuality
  • American Film in the Sixties
    Overview of stratification of U.S. media landscape, 1960-1969
  • The Hollywood Blockbuster: Cultural Studies, Film Theory, Cinephilia
    Select approaches to the Cinema of Spectacle, 1970s to the Present
  • The American Film Musical
    Survey course on classical and contemporary musicals
National Cinemas/International Auteurs
  • History of Global Cinema: Beginnings to 1960
    Undergraduate survey course.
  • History of Global Cinema: 1960 to the Present.
    Undergraduate survey course.
  • The Concept of National Cinema
    Comparative histories, paradigms, methods
  • The French New Wave
    Historical Survey (French cinephilia, short films, 1959-1962, epigones, legacy)
  • The New German Cinema
    Survey of films, directors and approaches (national cinema, tv, authorship, history)
  • Michael Haneke: Multiple Critical Perspectives
    Film and TV in Nat./Intl. Contexts, Film Theory and Philosophy, Spectatorship
Avant-garde and Experimental Cinema, Non-fiction Film
  • History of Avant-garde: Film and Experimental Media: A Comprehensive Four Semester Curriculum
    • Part 1: Intl. modernist avant-garde movements between the two world wars
    • Part 2: American avant-garde cinema from Maya Deren to Andy Warhol
    • Part 3: Media/movements ‘60s-‘80s (structuralism, video, third cinema, feminism)
    • Part 4: Cross-section of recent/contemporary film, video, DV, installation art (incl. identity politics, postcolonial media, globalization, cinephilia, new lyricism)
  • The Films of Andy Warhol
  • The City in Film and Media
    Survey course on the representation of the city in avant-garde, documentary, and fiction film
  • Intervening Images
    Introductory course on contemporary experimental non-fiction films
Film and Media Theory, Cultural Studies, LGBT Representation
  • Film and Media Theory
    Introductory survey to major film theories
  • The City in Film and Media
    City representations in photography, literature, and avant-garde and narrative film
  • LGBT Representation
    Comparative historical survey of Hollywood, intl. cinema, experimental film
  • Global Queer Cinema (2000-Present)