Select courses taught:

INTRODUCTION TO FILM

Introduces students to the formal elements of filmmaking,

with a focus on filmmakers who challenge conventions of

Hollywood cinema.

FILM AND NEW DIGITAL MEDIA

Considers the impact of digital technology on film art while

introducing students to digital production techniques.

NEW EAST ASIAN CINEMA

Focuses on recent cinema from China, Hong Kong, Taiwan,

South Korea & Japan, with an emphasis on the influence

of Eastern filmmakers on Western films, and vice versa.

THEORIES OF THE MOVING IMAGE

Considers major movements in film theory from the early

1900s to the present—from early meditations on medium

specificity, to auteur theory, to ideological critiques, to new

media theory.

REPRESENTING REALITY?:

THE SHIFTING CLAIMS OF DOCUMENTARY FILM

A survey of the major movements and debates within

documentary history, from the early Lumière shorts, to

cinema verité, to the essay-film, with a focus

on shifting conceptions of “reality.”

THE ESSAY-FILM

Introduces students to the genre of the essay-film and

guides them in the creation of their own personal films.