Space is still available in these spring term 2020 classes: 

• CINE 408:  Creating a Reel
• CINE 440   Top Japanese New Wave >GP >IC
• CINE 490   Top Global Auteurs

Please check classes.uoregon.edu for updates on seat availability of these courses and others in the major.

Course Descriptions

CINE 408: Workshop: Creating a Reel (2 credits)
This class meets Friday, April 3, and Friday, April 10 – 9:00 am to 4:50 pm
Instructor:  Kevin May

This two-day workshop will focus on the craft of building and refining resume reels. We will explore various ways of creating reels by looking at different editing workflows in both Final Cut Pro X and Adobe Premiere. We will evaluate different editing styles such as montage and linear editing and how and when to use each one. We will also review and critique professional reels along with reels created by the class. By the end of the course students will have either created several reels of their own work, or prepared themselves to edit their own reels in the future by creating sample reels from tutorial media.

Prerequisites apply: One course from ARTD 252, ARTD 256, CINE 270, J 208.
Note: Because this course has special meeting dates, regular academic deadlines do not apply. Please contact the academic department for more information.

CINE 440: Topic: Japanese New Wave >GP >IC (4 credits)
Thursdays – 4:00 to 7:50 pm
Instructor:  Dong Hoon Kim

This course is a survey of Japanese New Wave film that brought about a substantial transformation of Japanese cinema in terms of aesthetics, politics and industrial practices in the 1960s. The course examines key new wave filmmakers and films as well as political, social and cultural issues and factors relevant to the rise of a “New Wave” of film-making in Japan in order to critically track the advancement of this major film-historical event in Japanese film history. Screenings include Cruel Story of Youth (1960), The Insect Woman (1963), The Face of Another (1966), Samurai Rebellion (1967), Double Suicide (1969), Heroic Purgatory (1970) and more. No specific knowledge of Japanese is required.

CINE 490: Topic: Global Auteurs (4 credits)
Tuesday/Thursday – 10:00 to 11:50 am
Instructor:  Sangita Gopal

Why do we continue to identify films by the people who directed them as in a Tarantino or Spielberg film? Why does the award for best director carry such prestige at film festivals? Why do we treat film directors as though they are the "author" of the film even though we know that filmmaking is an entirely collaborative project involving huge teams? This course will examine the rise of the idea of the film director as "auteur" (meaning "author" or sole creative owner) across diverse historical and geopolitical contexts to explore how the auteur emerged globally as a way to classify films in addition to other categories such as genre (Drama/Western) or studio (Disney film/Ghibli film). We will look at where the concept of auteur originated and how it is has evolved. We will explore, based on our viewing of films and their surrounding publicity and promotion as to what qualifies a film as made by an "auteur." Is it a matter of content or marketing or both? We will examine how this category varies by gender, cultural and geographical location as well as by whether a film is mainstream or not. Finally, we will investigate how this concept of "auteur" - imported by cinema from literature travels beyond cinema to other platforms such as television and electronic media.