Course Offerings

American Cinema History
  • “American Masterworks”
    Survey course on American cinema history, Beginnings to 1960
  • “Contemporary American Cinema”
    Survey course on American cinema history, 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
  • “African-American Representation”
    Comparative survey, Hollywood Independent Film, Television
  • “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, II: 1960 to the Present
    Undergraduate survey course on global cinema history.
  • “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, 1962-1982”
    Survey of films, directors and approaches (national cinema, tv, authorship, history)
  • “Comparative Directors: Bresson, Haneke, Dumont, Dardenne Brothers”
    Comparative approaches (film theory, authorship, national contexts)
  • “Comparative Directors: Greenaway, von Trier, Jeunet”
    Comparative approaches (film theory, authorship, national contexts)
  • “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”
    Survey course on Warhol’s cinema
  • “The City in Film and Media”
    Survey course on the representation of the city in avant-garde film, experimental media, and non-fiction film
  • “Intervening Images”
    Introductory course (BU Honors College) on contemporary 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, art cinema, recent global examples
  • “Independent Queer-Authored Representation”
    Cross-section of recent queer literature, media, and art, Queer Theory