100-level

CINE102
The Backpacker's Guide to World Cinema
Description
This course identifies the formal, stylistic and thematic concerns that are shared, despite their apparent diversity, by a cross section of contemporary films. Students will analyse a selection of notable films from around the world that revise, resist or reject the standard practices or themes of mainstream cinema.
Occurrences
Semester Two 2024
Points
15 points
Restrictions
TAFS102
CINE104
The Oscar for Best Picture: The Envelope Please!
Description
This course will trace the trajectory of the Academy Awards: from 1930s screwball comedies and backstage musicals to celebrated wartime classics; from 1950s Minnelli musicals to 1980s post-Vietnam war films. It will provide a concentrated, thumbnail history of American Cinema, which challenges students to consider and question the formal criteria (cinematography, acting, sound, editing) upon which critical judgement is based. It will introduce students to the canonical classics of American Cinema, inviting them to explore diverse film genres and even the occasional Academy extravaganza.
Occurrences
Semester One 2024
Points
15 points

200-level

CINE201
Hollywood and Genre
Description
An historical and critical study of genre in Hollywood film. Students will analyse the evolution and transformation of the conventions of key genres, such as the Science Fiction film, the Musical, Film Noir and Horror.
Occurrences
Semester One 2024
Points
15 points
Prerequisites
Any 15 points at 100 level from CINE, or any 60 points at 100 level from the Schedule V of the BA.
CINE213
Kiriata: Maori Film and Media
Description
This course examines the intersection of Maori identity in film, media and other creative works. It considers the political, historical, social, cultural and ideological influences that have shaped dominant mainstream constructions and counter-hegemonic representations of Maori and indigenous peoples in film, media and creative works. It also highlights the roles of artist, director and industry to produce Maori stories and aesthetics. A number of films will be screened throughout the course.
Occurrences
Semester One 2024
Points
15 points
Prerequisites
Any 15 points at 100 level from CINE, MAOR, or TREO, or any 60 points at 100 level from the Schedule V of the BA.
Restrictions
MAOR268
CINE214
European Novels and Film Adaptations
Description
A study of important European novels and film adaptations.
Occurrences
Semester Two 2024
Points
15 points
Prerequisites
Any 15 points at 100 level from CINE, ENGL, EURA, GRMN, or RUSS, or any 60 points at 100 level from the Schedule V of the BA.
Restrictions
EULC204, EULC304, EURA204, EURA304, ENGL305, RUSS215, RUSS216
CINE215
Global China on Screen
Description
Like in the West, Chinese cinema has held a significant share in the cultural industry since the first film was made in China in 1905. Being a cultural product, film has always been seen as reflection of its contemporary culture, despite various aspects it might have taken. Taking primarily a Cultural Studies approach, this course introduces Chinese culture, especially a series of its contemporary phenomena by surveying Chinese cinema. The course will be taught in English and all Chinese films are subtitled. By viewing the films in class and many more available in the well-resourced UC library on the course's recommendation and students' own interests, the course encourages students to further develop their study in one or more of the following areas: Studies of Chinese culture and society; Cross-cultural studies with a focus on China/Asia and beyond; Cultural studies with a special emphasis on postmodernism (including postcolonialism) and Third World culture; Film studies focusing on national cinema. CHIN206 and CINE215 are the same course.
Occurrences
Semester Two 2024
Points
15 points
Prerequisites
Any 15 points at 100 level from CHIN or CINE, or any 60 points at 100 level from the Schedule V of the BA.
Restrictions
CHIN206, CHIN306
CINE223
Cinematic Sin and Sensuality
Description
This course addresses the myriad and often conflicting ways that sex and sexuality have been represented throughout the history of Western cinema, with an emphasis upon Hollywood and American independent film.
Occurrences
Summer Nov 2023
Points
15 points
Prerequisites
Any 15 points at 100 level from CINE or CULT, or any 60 points at 100 level from the Schedule V of the BA.
Restrictions
CULT214
CINE223
Sex and Sexuality on Screen
Description
This course addresses the myriad and often conflicting ways that sex and sexuality have been represented throughout the history of Western cinema, with an emphasis upon Hollywood and American independent film.
Occurrences
Semester Two 2024
Points
15 points
Prerequisites
Any 15 points at 100 level from CINE or CULT, or any 60 points at 100 level from the Schedule V of the BA.
Restrictions
CULT214
CINE224
Children's Classics: Popular Children's Texts and their Representation on Film
Description
Children's Classics teaches the genre-specific nature of children's literature, its socio-historical contexts, and the significance of its re-readings as film. It introduces a selection of enduring children's texts, illustrating the importance to literary production of changing cultural context, demonstrating the importance of intertextuality in children's literature and how texts change when filmed, and promotes the skills of reading and writing.
Occurrences
Semester Two 2024
Points
15 points
Prerequisites
Any 15 points at 100 level from CINE or ENGL, or any 60 points at 100 level from the Schedule V of the BA.
Restrictions
ENGL213

300-level

CINE301
Film History: The Sixties and the New Wave
Description
A survey of the New Wave movements which swept cinema in the 60's, with an emphasis on the nouvelle vague in France.
Occurrences
Semester One 2024
Points
30 points
Prerequisites
Any 30 points at 200 level from CINE, or any 60 points at 200 level from the Schedule V of the BA.
Restrictions
CULT321
CINE302
Documentary: From the Margins to the Mainstream
Description
This course examines the artistic, ethical and political principles that govern the representation of reality in contemporary documentary film.
Occurrences
Semester Two 2024
Points
30 points
Prerequisites
Any 30 points at 200 level from CINE or CULT, or any 60 points at 200 level from the Schedule V of the BA.
Restrictions
CULT322

Not Offered Courses in 2024

100-level

CINE101
Film Analysis In Focus
Description
An introduction to the fundamental principles of film form and style. Each class focuses upon a specific filmmaking technique in order to analyse its cinematic function and effect.
Occurrences
Not offered 2024
For further information see CINE101 course details
Points
15 points

200-level

CINE202
Film and Theory
Description
The class sets the foundations for a working knowledge of the major debates that have informed Cinema Studies. Students will gain the necessary tools to use and understand the language of film theory and criticism.
Occurrences
Not offered 2024, offered in 2014 , 2015 , 2019 , 2020 , 2021
For further information see CINE202 course details
Points
15 points
CINE203
Coming of Age in Global Cinema
Description
The coming-of-age experience is familiar to all social classes and cultures. Stories of youth after childhood are compellingly represented in films across the globe. In this course, we will examine the representation of adolescence within an international context, focusing primarily on the experience of youth beyond dominant Hollywood. We will closely analyse those films from across the globe that complicate our understanding of adolescent identity by acknowledging its intersection with other kinds of identification - in particular racial, class, national, and that of sexual orientation.
Occurrences
Not offered 2024, offered in 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2020 , 2022
For further information see CINE203 course details
Points
15 points
CINE204
Film on the Faultline
Description
This class treats the earthquake as an event that radically transforms our understanding of the limits and possibilities of cinema, as well as of life itself. Students will explore how, in one way or another, the films in the course unsettle the stable categories that govern our political, ethical, social and psychological position as regards self and other in the wake of a major disaster like an earthquake.
Occurrences
Not offered 2024
For further information see CINE204 course details
Points
15 points
CINE210
Creative Writing for Screen
Description
The objective of the course is to combine the development of students' creative writing with the practical skills and dramaturgic techniques of writing for film.
Occurrences
Not offered 2024, offered in 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2020 , 2021
For further information see CINE210 course details
Points
15 points
CINE225
The Cinema of Contagion
Description
This course asks how a ‘cinema of contagion’ might offer a lens through which we can better understand our precarious place in this world. It considers contagion in a literal sense, by exploring how a variety of international films from the 20th and 21st centuries represent illness, viral outbreaks, plagues, parasitic invasions, and social controls such as quarantine measures. It analyses how filmmakers use contagion metaphorically or allegorically, including as an aesthetic strategy. It also explores how questions of embodiment, subjectivity and mortality are explored through different genres and national cinemas.
Occurrences
Not offered 2024, offered in 2020 , 2023
For further information see CINE225 course details
Points
15 points

300-level

CINE303
Coming of Age in Global Cinema
Description
The coming-of-age experience is familiar to all social classes and cultures. Stories of youth after childhood are compellingly represented in films across the globe. In this course, we will examine the representation of adolescence within an international context, focusing primarily on the experience of youth beyond dominant Hollywood. We will closely analyse those films from across the globe that complicate our understanding of adolescent identity by acknowledging its intersection with other kinds of identification - in particular racial, class, national, and that of sexual orientation.
Occurrences
Not offered 2024, offered in 2020
For further information see CINE303 course details
Points
30 points
CINE304
Film on the Faultline
Description
This class treats the earthquake as an event that radically transforms our understanding of the limits and possibilities of cinema, as well as of life itself. Students will explore how, in one way or another, the films in the course unsettle the stable categories that govern our political, ethical, social and psychological position as regards self and other in the wake of a major disaster like an earthquake.
Occurrences
Not offered 2024
For further information see CINE304 course details
Points
30 points
CINE321
Special Topic
Occurrences
Not offered 2024
For further information see CINE321 course details
Points
30 points