Space is still available in a few Spring Term 2023 Cinema Studies courses! Read the course descriptions for more information, and check classes.uoregon.edu for updates on seat availability of these courses and others in the major. CINE Majors: Please visit the course list page for the complete list of spring courses and how they satisfy the major.

CINE 198: Wrk Post-Production Workflow (1 credit)
Friday, 4/03-5/12, 10:00-11:50 a.m.
Instructor:  Kevin May

In this six-week workshop, for both beginners and more experienced editors, we will explore nonlinear editing with a focus on Media Management and Workflow. We will examine strategies for media organization and selection, how to efficiently use the tools within the editing software, and methods to efficiently review and refine your work. We will primarily be working in Adobe Premiere, but we will also look at other NLEs such as Final Cut Pro X and Avid Media Composer. By the end of the workshop, with either tutorial media or your own, you will have created and refined a short edit highlighting what you’ve learned in the class. Note: Because this course has special meeting dates, regular academic deadlines do not apply. Please contact the academic department for more information. Course prerequisites may be waived by contacting the instructor, Kevin May, at kmay2@uoregon.edu.

Additional information about this course is available at https://cinema.uoregon.edu/faculty-news-news/space-available-spring-23-cine-198-post-production-workflow.

CINE 399: Sp St Middle Eastern Cinema (4 credits)
Monday/Wednesday, 10:00-11:50 a.m.
Instructor:  Ahmad Nadalizadeh

This course will investigate various film cultures of the Middle East and will situate its national traditions within regional and global perspectives. Taking a critical approach to national cinema studies in a world of increasingly globalized film audiences, we will explore both the influence of world cinema on the Middle East film cultures and, in turn, the extent to which the aesthetics of the Middle East cinema is integral to our conception of world cinema. Our discussion of films in class will be supplemented by pertinent scholarly analyses in order to complicate any facile understanding of the Middle East, but also to deepen our awareness of the cultural contexts through which cinema has emerged as an aesthetic form. Drawing on various national traditions, this course will include films from Iran, Turkey, Palestine, Lebanon, and Egypt.

CINE 399: Sp St Global South Film Industries (4 credits)
Monday/Wednesday, 2:00-3:50 p.m.
Instructor:  Ahmad Nadalizadeh

Drawing upon such concepts as “southern theory,” in this course we will turn to the Global South in order to explore the complex world of everyday practices shared by filmmakers emerging in those parts of the world which have been severely impacted by globalization and, as a result, have witnessed political and economic upheavals. Our course focuses on the economic and sociopolitical conditions of production, regulation, and distribution in screen cultures ranging from Iran and Egypt to India and Nigeria. We will investigate the role of such local and national film industries in mediating the global imaginaries, and we will consider how the growing trade and globalized export markets have helped standardize their regulated representations of intimacy and violence. In addition, we will examine how the globalized world, with its proliferating video technologies, has in turn vastly democratized the conditions of production and the modes of media ownership and control in those film cultures.

CINE 410: Cinematography History/Theory (4 credits)
Tuesday/Thursday, 10:00-11:50 a.m.
Instructor:  Michael Aronson

Vittorio Storaro, one of history’s great cinematographers, once defined cinematography as ‘...writing with light in movement. Cinematographers,’ he went on to say, ‘are authors of photography, not directors of photography. We are not merely using technology to tell someone else’s though, because we are also using our own emotion, our culture, and our inner being.’ For Storaro and many others, cinematography is an expressive art. This admittedly romantic definition of cinematography, must be contextualized as it is, after all, an industrial craft, made within a system based on hierarchy, mass-production, and the commercial imperative. Keeping both sides of cinematography in mind, this course will explore the story of cinematography in American cinema, working out how a complex art and craft changed across the decades, from hand-cranked cameras to digital work flows. The course will be a bit of a theory & practice mashup, utilizing both historical research and aesthetic analysis, as well as some low-fi creative exercises and the occasional industry guest speaker on all things camera and lighting.

CINE 404: Internship

Info Session!
Thursday, March 16th at 10 am on Zoom

Are you curious about "CINE 404: Internship" (aka "the internship class")? Interested in learning how to get an internship or what should be on your resume and in your cover email? Join Instructor Alissa Phillips Thursday, March 16th at 10 am on Zoom for an Info Session to answer these questions and more! Open to all CINE majors! Join Zoom Meeting:  https://uoregon.zoom.us/j/9212383489