Space is still available in the Cinema Studies fall classes below:

• CINE 198: Workshop: Post Production Workflow
• CINE 399: Environmental Media
• CINE 490: Global Blockbusters
  

Plus additional seats will be added on September 7th to the following fall term CINE courses:

• CINE 260M:  Media Aesthetics  
• CINE 265:  History of Motion Picture I >
• CINE 360:  Film Theory >1   
• CINE 410: Cross-Border Hollywood   
• CINE 410:  Cinema & Censorship   
• CINE 440: Canadian Cinema >GP >IC   

For more information about the classes, course descriptions are provided below. Please check classes.uoregon.edu for updates on seat availability.

CINE 198: Workshop: Post Production Workflow (1 credit)
Monday/Wednesday, 9/27-11/3, 2:00-2:50 p.m.
Instructor:  Kevin May

In this four-week workshop, for both beginners and more experienced editors, we will explore non- linear 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. 

CINE 260M: Media Aesthetics (4 credits) **More Seats Open 9/7/21**
Monday/Wednesday, 2:00-3:50 p.m. / Instructor: Priscilla Ovalle
Tuesday/Thursday, 10:00-11:50 a.m. / Instructor:  Daniel Steinhart

This course explores the fundamentals of film and media aesthetics, including narrative, mise-en-scène, cinematography, editing, and sound. By learning how to analyze film and utilize proper cinematic language, students will begin to critically understand film as an art form and a product of culture. By the end of the course, students will see all aesthetic elements in a film as a series of choices made through the complex collaboration of artists and craftspeople. Students will also gain the key tools and concepts that they will implement in their own creative work. Previously taught as ENG 260; not repeatable

CINE 265: History of Motion Picture I: The Silent Era >1 (4 credits) **More Seats Open 9/7/21**
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Instructor:  Michael Aronson

CINE 265 (Previously ENG 265) is the first in a three-part chronological survey of the evolution of cinema as an institution and an art form. CINE 265 moves from the origins of cinema in the late 19th century through World War II. The primary texts for the course are the films themselves, but supplementary readings will also be assigned. The aim of the course is to develop interpretive skills relevant to the study of film by examining the history of major movements in Hollywood and world cinema. As a broad introduction to interpretive, theoretical, and institutional issues that are central to the study of film, CINE 265 satisfies the university's Group Requirement in the Arts and Letters category. The courses in motion picture history, CINE 265, 266, and 267 may be taken individually or as parts of an integrated sequence. Previously taught as ENG 265; not repeatable. 

CINE 360: Film Theory >1 (4 credits) **More Seats Open 9/7/21**
Monday/Wednesday, 10:00-11:50 a.m.
Instructor:  Allison McGuffie

What is cinema? Is it an art form or a medium? What distinguishes cinema from other arts? Does cinema inherently favor certain kinds of content and modes of expression? How can we describe its relationship to reality? What are the social and cultural effects or functions of cinema? What is cinema’s future in the age of new media? This Arts & Letters group-satisfying course introduces students to some of the key authors, debates, and concepts that have motivated cinema scholarship since the early twentieth century. By applying the writings of groundbreaking theorists to films from across the globe, students will explore cinema as an art, ideology, social/cultural institution, and as a technological mediation of "reality."

CINE 399: Sp St Environmental Media (4 credits)
Tuesday/Thursday 10:00-11:50 a.m.
Instructor:  Stephen Rust

Introduces students to the study of Environmental Media. Environmental Media Studies is a rapidly growing interdisciplinary research field led by students, scholars, activists, and media artists in response to our global environmental crisis. In this class, you will watch, discuss, and analyze a wide variety of narrative films, documentaries, television shows, video games, interactive media, digital apps, websites, and other types of media. You will explore the ecological life-cycle of screen technologies like cameras, projectors, and computers from manufacturing through disposal and the workers involved in this process. You will learn how media industries around the world are encouraging and tracking sustainable production methods and learn how to green your own creative projects. Group learning and project-based assignments will enable you to collaborate with classmates, conduct independent research, and explore your own interests and ideas related to the course themes.

CINE 410: Cinema and Censorship (4 credits) **More Seats Open 9/7/21**
Tuesday/Thursday, 10:00-11:50 a.m.
Instructor:  Peter Alilunas

In this course, we will explore the connections between the histories, practices, and policies of cinema censorship, and in particular the role that sex and sexualities have played in those histories, practices, and policies. This course will examine significant events in media history as they pertain to these topics—including the development of various technologies; the regulatory responses both internal and external to the film industry; the various laws and court decisions that have defined the legal landscape central to this history; and the changing depictions and representations created by the film industry. We will consider how the film industry has both created and participated in various dynamics of power and privilege, and how those in regulatory positions have exercised their own power and privilege. Topics will include LGBTQ histories and representations, pornography, censorship, feminism, queer theory and media, and the intersections of race, sex, and sexualities. We will also examine historical debates and controversies surrounding these issues, as well as the defining theories and movements within the various academic fields associated with these topics.

CINE 410: Cross-Border Hollywood (4 credits) **More Seats Open 9/7/21**
Tuesday/Thursday, 2:00-3:50 p.m. 
Instructor:  Daniel Steinhart

This course explores the film, television, and media exchanges that have taken place between Hollywood and the Mexican media industry from the past to the present. Using a transnational perspective, we will examine moments of collaboration and conflict between the two industries. We will consider Hollywood films and TV shows that have been shot in Mexico. We will look at Mexican and Chicanx talent who have flourished on both sides of the border, from Golden Age movie stars such as Dolores del Río and Cantinflas to more recent filmmakers like Robert Rodriguez and Alfonso Cuarón. We will also analyze media co-productions between the United States and Mexico, as well as transnational film and TV remakes. Throughout, we will investigate how this work shapes perceptions of the border, globalization, immigration, outsourcing, and violence.

CINE 440: Top Canadian Cinema >GP >IC **More Seats Open 9/7/21**
Monday/Wednesday 2:00-3:50 p.m.
Instructor:  Erin Hanna

This course offers a survey of Canadian cinema history with an emphasis on its relationship to politics, culture, aesthetics, and media industries. We will explore the role of cinema in defining national identity, both locally and internationally, while also highlighting approaches to Canadian cinema that capture the diversity of the nation and its cultures. In doing so, we will discuss English language, French Canadian, Indigenous, and diasporic cinema, and examine the transnational relationship between Canadian and US media cultures.

CINE 490: Top Global Blockbusters
Monday/Wednesday 4:00-5:50 p.m.
Instructor:  HyeRyoung Ok

This course explores one of the most visible, yet least critically discussed forms of popular culture: the movie blockbuster. We will endeavor to evaluate or re-evaluate the cultural significance of this often easily dismissed cultural phenomenon by positioning it at the intersections of such discourses as globalization, transnationalism, film historiography and genre. At the same time we will trace the genealogy of the movie blockbuster and examine its shifting definitions and generic conventions. In particular, challenging a myopic perception that blockbusters are the exclusive products of Hollywood, this class will survey the global dissemination of the movie blockbuster and focus on blockbusters, spectacles or “event movies” from Asia, including, but not limited to, China, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, and India. In addition to looking into the formal, aesthetic, and industrial elements of blockbusters across nations, the analysis of films will lead us to interrogate cinematic and cultural constructions of history, nation, gender and sexuality.