Undergraduate Courses Fall/Winter 2012-2013:
Courses in the curriculum of the Cinema Studies Institute encourage a thoroughgoing examination of the cinema, as students receive a grounding in film study in its aesthetic, technological, economic and sociocultural dimensions. Core courses focus on film analysis and the integration of film history and theory. Advanced courses allow for more in-depth examination of particular topics, ranging from specific filmmakers and genres to how cinema engages with different cultures, spectators, and nation-states.
Quicklinks
- INI Cinema courses (Groups A through F) offered in the 2012-2013 Academic Year are indicated with a link to their timetable information.
- Cross-Listed courses (Group G) offered in the 2012-2013 Academic Year are indicated "►" Consult that department's listing in the Registration Handbook and Timetable for days, times and locations.
- Degree Categories (DR) HUM indicating the Humanities and/or SOC SCI indicating Social Sciences. The applicable Breadth Categories are listed after each course description.
- Where INI315Y is listed as recommended preparation or a prerequisite, INI214Y/INI314Y from earlier years satisfies this requirement.
- Where applicable, prerequisites and restrictions are listed after each offered course's description.
- Click on one of the categories below to go directly to courses in that group or scroll down to view the entire list.
GROUP B ~ GENRE and MODES
GROUP C ~ SOCIAL and CULTURAL PRACTICES
GROUP D ~ THEORY and CRITICISM
GROUP E ~ HISTORY and NATION
GROUP F ~ INDEPENDENT STUDIES
GROUP G~ CROSS-LISTED COURSES
►GROUP A~ FOUNDATIONS
INI115Y Introduction to Film Study
Introduction to film analysis; concepts of film style and narrative. Topics include: Documentary, avant-garde, genres, authorship, ideology, and representation.
DR=HUM; BR=1 (1) Creative and Cultural Representations
INI215Y Film Cultures I: Art and Industry (formerly INI212Y Film History)
Examines the practices, theories and debates surrounding the emergence of cinema through to the development of studio system filmmaking in the first half of the 20th Century. Topics include: Film’s relation to the other arts; formalist and realist traditions; technological innovations; audiences and reception; and cultural industries.
Prerequisite: INI115Y1
Exclusion: INI212Y1
DR=HUM; BR=1+2 (1) Creative and Cultural Representations; (2) Thought, Belief and Behaviour
INI315Y Film Cultures II: Politics and Global Media (formerly INI214Y Film Theory/ INI314Y Film Cultures II)
Examines film theory and practice from the 1950s onward, and the impact of media change on earlier film cultures and aesthetics. Topics include: New Waves; the politicization of theory; spectatorship; counter-cinemas; transnational film and “Global Hollywood”; and media theory from the analog to the digital.
Prerequisite: INI115Y1, INI215Y1
Exclusion: INI214Y1, INI314Y1
DR=HUM; BR=1+2 (1) Creative and Cultural Representations; (2) Thought, Belief and Behaviour
►GROUP B~ GENRE and MODES
Where INI315Y is listed as recommended
preparation or a prerequisite, INI214Y/INI314Y from earlier years satisfies this
requirement.
INI222S Cinema and Sensation I: Action/Spectacle
Action cinema holds a dominant place in our contemporary era of the blockbuster and CGI effects. This course examines the forms and functions of this popular genre, while also tracing Action’s longevity and diversity to include its precursors and its social contexts. Topics include: Adventure heroes and comic bodies; sensational serial melodramas; crazy car-chase movies; 1980s Hard Bodies and action comedies; Asian martial arts films; combat war movies; crime thrillers; and contemporary science fiction-action hybrids.
DR=HUM; BR=1 (1) Creative and Cultural Representations
INI223F Cinema and Sensation II: Sex
Whether boldly sensationalized or subdued to the point of coy indirection, the representation of sex in film has always been controversial. This course examines how sex, in the close regulation of its representation and in defiance and circumvention of such control, suggests themes and concerns tied to social mores and notions of the self, visual pleasure and the sexual body. Topics include: obscenity laws and the history of American film censorship; the emergence of sexploitation and pornography; art films’ erotic maturity, and erotic tendencies in contemporary popular cinema.
DR=HUM; BR=1 (1) Creative and Cultural Representations
INI226S Horror Film
Horror film as a genre, focusing on three types of international horror: The un-dead, body horror, and the supernatural. The
genre’s popular appeal, affective power, unique means of producing pleasure, and its current global resurgence will be
emphasized. Topics include: The aesthetics of gore and violence; technologies of fear; J-Horror, new French
extremity; cult fandom and paracinema; and media convergence.
DR=HUM; BR=1 (1) Creative and Cultural Representations
INI227H Science Fiction Film
Study of science fiction film in its role as a commercial film genre, social allegory and speculation on technology and the future.
Exclusion: ENG238H1
DR=HUM; BR=1 (1) Creative and Cultural Representations
INI322Y Avant-Garde and Experimental Film
Film experimentation in the context of modern art and poetry from the 1920s through the 1990s. Influences range from Cubism and Dada-Surrealism to late-era modernism and postmodernism.
Prerequisite: INI115Y1
DR=HUM; BR=1 (1) Creative and Cultural Representations
INI325Y Documentary Film
Critical survey of documentary practice including newsreels, direct cinema, cinema verité, ethnographic films, and various
hybrid narrative forms, with emphasis on the rhetorical, aesthetic, and political dimensions of "the art of record." Topics include:
Poetics, argument, and modes of address; evidence, authenticity, and persuasion; filmmaker/subject/audience nexus;
historiography, hagiography, and memory; reflexive irony and performance.
Prerequisite: INI115Y1
Recommended Preparation: INI 215Y1
DR=HUM; BR=1+3 (1) Creative and Cultural Representations; (3) Society and its Institutions.
INI329Y Genre, Narrative and Narration in Film
Study of theoretical and analytical models of film genres and narratology; structuralist, cognitive and semiotic approaches to
filmic narration. Genres to be studied include: Westerns; crime films; gothic and fantastic; and art cinema.
Prerequisite: INI115Y1
DR=HUM; BR=1+2 (1) Creative and Cultural Representations; (2) Thought, Belief and Behaviour
INI396S Special Topics in Genre and Modes: American Animation after 1950
This course examines the second fifty years of animation, first by marking Disney’s shifting fortunes, then broadening the scope to take in its competitors here and abroad. The global nature of postwar animation has been an odd amalgam of competition and cooperation, of private and public funding, and of film, television, and eventually webcasting, and we will explore some of the changes the form has gone through in the past fifty years or so. Since this is a study of art and of commerce, and of high and low culture, we will view our limited history through the lenses of aesthetics, cultural practices, business decisions, and sometimes political struggle.
Prerequisite: INI115Y1, INI215Y1
DR=HUM; BR=1 (1) Creative and Cultural Representations
INI460F Advanced Study in Genre and Modes: Expanded Cinema: Film After the Computer
This course examines the shift from traditional cinematic spectacles to the changes brought to bear on cinema by digital media, global network culture, interactivity, and media convergence. Expanded cinema is a provocation through which to consider past, present, and future new mediacollisions with the idea of the cinematic. This course will ask a series of questions: What is cinema in the digital age? What are the histories of the future of cinema? How do forms like the database, the network, and the video game affect how we currently define cinema? What are the new intensities and formations of the cinematic?
Prerequisite: At least ten full-course equivalents, including INI 115Y1, INI215Y1, INI315Y1/ permission of instructor
DR=HUM; BR=1 (1) Creative and Cultural Representations
INI461S Advanced Study in Genre and Modes: Film Comedy
What makes a given film funny, and does that humor transcend specific social and cultural circumstances? Do comic films create “false consciousness” or do they allow us to constructively criticize our social structures and practices? Through questions such as these, this course will provide a forum for our critical engagement with comic film. Our class will be an ongoing discussion about questions such as whether film comedy has a serious social function, whether comedy produces us as subjects in ideology, or whether comedy is inherently conservative or progressive.An in-depth examination of the place of comic film in the material and practical aspects of ideological and discursive operations, this class will explore the dark underbelly of a world in which jokes “kill” audiences, cause “laugh riots”…and sometimes “bomb.”
Prerequisite: At least ten full-course equivalents, including INI 115Y1, INI215Y1, INI315Y1/ permission of instructor
DR=HUM; BR=1 (1) Creative and Cultural Representations
INI462F Advanced Study in Genre and Modes: The End in Cinema
This seminar course is a study of endings in narrative films, in two senses: the first, the formal operations of narrative closure; the second traditional, modern and post-modern themes of apocalypse and post-apocalypse. Emphasis will be on contemporary, popular, art-cinema and experimental film. Students are expected to be familiar with basic narrative theory and cinema.
Prerequisite: At least ten full-course equivalents, including INI 115Y1, INI215Y1, INI315Y1/ permission of instructor
DR=HUM; BR=1 (1) Creative and Cultural Representations
INI482H Advanced Studies in Cinema
Seminars in special topics designed for advanced Specialist and Major students in Cinema Studies.
Prerequisite: At least ten full-course equivalents, including INI115Y1, INI215Y1, INI315Y1/ permission of instructor
DR=HUM; BR=1 (1) Creative and Cultural Representations
►GROUP C ~ SOCIAL and CULTURAL PRACTICES
Where INI314Y is listed as recommended
preparation or a prerequisite, INI214Y from earlier years satisfies this
requirement.
INI228H The Business of Film
Examines cinema as a commercial enterprise, a technology and a formal system, with an emphasis on devising numerically-based approaches to amplify the study of cinema. This course fulfills both Breadth Requirement 3 and Quantitative Reasoning (competency 4).
DR=HUM/SOC SCI; BR=3 (3) Society and its Institutions.
INI323Y Feminist Approaches to Cinema
Gender politics of feminist film culture since the 1970s. Topics include: Apparatus theory and its legacy, models of
spectatorship, feminist historiography, stardom, the cinematic (re)production of identity, the relationship between social
movements and cinema; “postfeminism.”
Prerequisite: INI115Y1/permission of instructor
DR=HUM; BR=1+2 (1) Creative and Cultural Representations; (2) Thought, Belief and Behaviour
INI327Y Screening Race
How race functions in cinema. Topics include: The foundational role of racial inscription and its expansion beyond the black/white paradigm; visual ethnography, “the primitive,” and Orientalism; aboriginal media; the “Black Atlantic” and Diaspora; Banlieu and exilic film practice and theory; border aesthetics; race and urban space; "post-race"; and the evolving racial imaginary in the
Obama era.
Prerequisite: INI115Y1, INI215Y1
DR=HUM; BR=1+2 (1) Creative and Cultural Representations; (2) Thought, Belief and Behaviour
INI383F The Origins of the Animation Industry, 1900-1950: A Technosocial History
An introduction to early animation, considering its vaudeville roots, its industrialization, its emerging aesthetics and
representational tropes. Examination of the early corpus of animation from 1900-1950 and in-depthstudy of the artistic, social
and cultural milieux from which animation derived.
Prerequisite: INI115Y1, INI215Y1
DR=HUM; BR=1 (1) Creative and Cultural Representations
INI388HY Screenwriting
Students will develop screenwriting skills under the guidance of a renowned screenwriter-in-residence through a combination of writing workshops and individual consultations. Like the course, the Universal Screenwriter-in-Residence is a biannual appointment.
Prerequisite: INI115Y1
DR=HUM; BR=1 (1) Creative and Cultural Representations
INI397H Special Topics in Cinema as Social and Cultural Practice
Courses in special topics designed for Specialists and Majors in Cinema Studies. Prerequisite: INI115Y1
DR=HUM; BR=1 (1) Creative and Cultural Representations
INI463H Advanced Study in Cinema as Social and Cultural Practice
INI464H Advanced Study in Cinema as Social and Cultural Practice
INI465H Advanced Study in Cinema as Social and Cultural Practice
Consideration of cinema and its social relations. Past seminars include: "American Independent Film," "Children in the Movies," "Sub-Saharan African Cinema," "International Film Festivals" and "The Revolution Will/Will Not be Televised."
Prerequisite: At least ten full-course equivalents, including INI115Y1, INI 215Y1, INI315Y1/ permission of instructor
DR=HUM; BR=1 (1) Creative and Cultural Representations
INI483H Advanced Study in Cinema
Seminars in special topics designed for advanced Specialist and Major students in Cinema Studies.
Prerequisite: At least ten full-course equivalents, including INI115Y1, INI215Y1, INI315Y1/ permission of instructor.
DR=HUM; BR=1 (1) Creative and Cultural Representations
►GROUP D ~ THEORY and CRITICISM
- Where INI315Y is listed as recommended
preparation or a prerequisite, INI214Y/INI314Y from earlier years satisfies this
requirement.
INI224Y Great Directors [48L, 48P]
Close examination of the careers and works of four auteur directors.
Prerequisite: INI115Y1
DR=HUM; BR=1 (1) Creative and Cultural Representations
INI330Y Contemporary Screen Theory: Analog/Digital
Analysis of contemporary screen cultures to assess the age-old question 'what is cinema?' How transformations of the cinematic expose continuities and ruptures with earlier film theories. Topics include: sound; medium specificity; comparison of psychoanalytic, cognitive, and phenomenological models; assessing theoretical frameworks for understanding new forms of aesthetics and spectatorship within multimodal cross platform contexts of digital media.
Prerequisite: INI115Y1, INI315Y1
DR=HUM; BR=1+2 (1) Creative and Cultural Representations; (2) Thought, Belief and Behaviour
INI374H Issues in Film Authorship I
INI375H Issues in Film Authorship II
Advanced study of issues in film authorship through intensive examination of two major filmmakers.
Prerequisite: INI115Y1
DR=HUM; BR=1 (1) Creative and Cultural Representations
INI384S Critical Writing on Film
The practice of film criticism: studies of examples of journalistic and scholarly critical writing; practical sessions of process writing; and collaborative editing. Course includes regular film screenings.
Prerequisite: INI115Y1 and one additional Cinema Studies full-course equivalent/ permission of instructor
DR=HUM; BR=1 (1) Creative and Cultural Representations
INI398H Special Topics in Theory and Criticism
Courses in special topics designed for Specialists and Majors in Cinema Studies. Prerequisite: INI115Y1, INI215Y1
DR=HUM; BR=1 (1) Creative and Cultural Representations
INI466S Advanced Study in Theory and Criticism: Corporeality and the Cinema
In this course we will examine the various ways in which the body is constructed, circulated, and read as text in cinema, where the superficial bears the burden of signification. More specifically, we will consider the role of the body in a variety of cinematic genres, including the musical, pornography, horror, and melodrama, in order to explore a wide array of inscriptive practices that serve to map the body as a whole or privilege certain constituent parts, as well as the hermeneutical acts such practices encourage. One of the most challenging and exciting aspects of this endeavor will be its interdisciplinary nature. In addition to film-related scholarship (be it theoretical, historical, and/or critical in nature), we will be reading material from philosophy, psychology, and literary studies on a wide array of topics, from the histrionics of hysteria to the spectacle of race, from the kinetics of dance to the paroxysms of pain. As a result, we will gain insight into not only the relationship between corporeality and cinema, but also, more generally, the ways that concepts such as surface and depth, materiality and meaning, appearance and essence are defined both against and through each other within visual culture at large.
Prerequisite: At least ten full-course equivalents, including INI115Y1, INI215Y1, INI315Y1/ permission of instructor
DR=HUM; BR=1 (1) Creative and Cultural Representations
INI467H Advanced Study in Theory and Criticism
INI468H Advanced Study in Theory and Criticism
Advanced study of select approaches to film theory and criticism. Past seminars include: “Corporeality and the Cinema,”
“Godard,” “The Cinematic City: Urban Spaces in Film,” “Sound and Music in Film,” “Neoformalism” and “Textual Analysis.”
Prerequisite: At least ten full-course equivalents, including INI115Y1, INI215Y1, INI315Y1/ permission of instructor
DR=HUM; BR=1 (1) Creative and Cultural Representations
INI484H Advanced Studies in Cinema
Seminars in special topics designed for advanced specialist and major students in Cinema Studies.
Prerequisite: At least ten full-course equivalents, including INI15Y1, INI215Y1, INI315Y1/ permission of instructor
DR=HUM; BR=1 (1) Creative and Cultural Representations
► GROUP E ~ HISTORY and NATION
Where INI315Y is listed as recommended
preparation or a prerequisite, INI214Y/INI314Y from earlier years satisfies this
requirement.
INI225Y American Popular Film Since 1970
Examination of the art of popular film in its social, political, and commercial contexts, through through the study of selected popular films from the 1970s to the present.
DR=HUM; BR=1+3 (1) Creative and Cultural Representations; (3) Society and its Institutions
INI324Y American Filmmaking in the Studio Era
Industrial, economic, ideological and aesthetic dimensions of the American studio era.
Prerequisite: INI115Y1
DR=HUM; BR=1+3 (1) Creative and Cultural Representations; (3) Society and its Institutions
INI378H Hungarian Cinema
Examines historical trends, influential filmmakers, and social and cultural factors influencing the development of
Hungarian cinema, assessing its impact within the context of Eastern Europe and internationally.
Prerequisite: INI115Y/ permission of instructor.
Exclusion: INI381H1/F (2010) Aspects of a National Cinema: Hungarian Cinema
DR=HUM; BR=1 (1) Creative and Cultural Representations
INI380Y Contemporary World Cinema
Major contemporary developments beyond Hollywood and European filmmaking, examining a select number of
national/regional cinemas: Africa, Asia, Iran, India (Hindi cinema) and Latin America, outlining generic and stylistic conventions, cultural
contexts, distribution networks and reception within a global economy.
Prerequisite: INI115Y1
Recommended Preparation: INI215Y1
DR=HUM; BR=1+3 (1) Creative and Cultural Representations; (3) Society and its Institutions
INI381F Aspects of a National Cinema: The Other Europe
Typically, European Cinema is defined in terms of the output from select countries in Western Europe, such as France, Italy, and Germany. But Eastern Europe offers its own vital filmmaking traditions and practices, distinct cultural contexts, revered auteurs and innovative ‘New Waves’. Recently, the shifting landscape of much of Eastern Europe and changes wrought by connections to the European Union have precipitated intriguing developments in the cinema of the so-called ‘other Europe’.
Prerequisite: INI115Y1
DR=HUM; BR=1 (1) Creative and Cultural Representations
INI385H Canadian Cinemas
History and diversity of Canadian and Québécois cinemas. Analyses of film and critical frameworks examine how co-productions, multiculturalism, and post-national arguments are re-shaping the production and reception contexts of national cinema. Annual emphasis will be placed on one of the following topics: the emergence of the feature film, Québécois, documentary, or experimental cinema.
Prerequisite: INI115Y
Exclusion: FCS391H1, INI385Y1
DR=HUM; BR=1 (1) Creative and Cultural Representations
INI387H The Logics of Canadian Television
An overview and analysis of Canadian television's history, its current role within the so-called "multi-channel universe," and its future prospects within evolving delivery systems and changing consumption patterns. Issues include: The CBC as official public broadcaster, the future of domestic production, the prospect for niche carriers, and the impact of the internet.
Prerequisite: INI115Y1/ SMC219Y1/ permission of instructor
DR=HUM; BR=1 (1) Creative and Cultural Representations
INI390Y Chinese Cinemas
Examination of recent Chinese films in their three production centres: The People’s Republic of China, Taiwan and
Hong Kong. Production, commercial and aesthetic trends and international reception; major auteurs and genres. Directors
include Chen Kaige, Zhang Yimou, Edward Yang, John Woo and Wong Kar-Wai.
Prerequisite: INI115Y1
Recommended preparation: INI215Y1
DR=HUM; BR=1+3 (1) Creative and Cultural Representations; (3) Society and its Institutions
INI395H Special Topics in History and Nation
Courses in special topics designed for Specialists and Majors in Cinema Studies. Past courses include: “Quebec Cinema.”
Prerequisite: INI115Y1
DR=HUM; BR=1 (1) Creative and Cultural Representations
INI469F Advanced Study in History and Nation:
Local Film Cultures
Activity-based inquiry into Toronto’s diverse film cultures. Students will work collaboratively on a scholarly project that will entail archival research and exploring under-examined resources. Developing research skills through both conventional scholarly means and digital technologies, students will produce accounts of the institutional histories and associational networks of local film organizations, as well as exhibition and distribution practices, to include the local, national and international reception of specific Toronto-based films and filmmakers. Students will disseminate their research through an online archive that will include text, audiovisual interviews, as well as historical texts that they produce.
INI470H Advanced Study in History and Nation
INI471H Advanced Study in History and Nation
Seminars in historiography and questions of national cinema. Past seminars include: “Film Historiography,” “Early Cinema,”
“Reviewing Hollywood Classicism,” “Women Pioneers” and “Emergent Technologies.”
Prerequisite: At least ten full-course equivalents, including INI115Y1, INI215Y1, INI315Y1/ permission of instructor
DR=HUM; BR=1 (1) Creative and Cultural Representations
INI485H Advanced Studies in Cinema
Seminars in special topics designed for advanced specialist and major students in Cinema Studies.
Prerequisite: At least ten full-course equivalents, including INI115Y1, INI215Y1, INI315Y1/ permission of instructor
DR=HUM; BR=1 (1) Creative and Cultural Representations
► GROUP F ~ INDEPENDENT STUDIES
INI476Y Independent Studies in Cinema
INI477F Independent Studies in Cinema
INI478S Independent Studies in Cinema
Independent research projects devised by students and supervised by Cinema Studies faculty. Open to advanced Specialist and Major students in the Program. Submit applications to the Undergraduate Program Office: Fall 2012 courses, June 1/ Winter 2013 courses, November 1/ Summer 2013 courses, April 1.
Prerequisite: At least ten full-course equivalents, including INI115Y1, INI215Y1, INI315Y1 and permission of Cinema Studies Facutly
DR=HUM; BR=1 (1) Creative and Cultural Representations
► GROUP G ~ CROSS-LISTED COURSES
- Courses offered by Lanuage Studies Departments are taught, and films subtitled, in English. Timetable links will be posted as the information becomes available.
Not Offered 2012-2013: EAS237Y, EAS431H, FCS331H, FIN260H, GER261H,HIS460H, ITA347H, SLA225H, SLA226H, SLA244H, SLA424H, SMC354H
►FCS310Y French Cinema
Cinema in France with emphasis on theory and practical criticism, on auteurs and movements such as the avant-garde of the twenties and the New Wave of the late fifties. Films shown are subtitled.
Recommended preparation: INI115Y
DR=HUM; BR=1 (1) Creative and Cultural Representations
►FIN250F Finnish Cinema
Development of Finnish cinema from its parochial beginnings to its international recognition. The great pastoral tradition; the war memories (Laine, Kassila, Parikka); socio-political engagement of the 60s (Donner, Jarva), the paucity of the 70s (Mollberg); the universal outsider themes of the 80s (Aki and Mika Kaurismaki). Readings and subtitles in English. .
DR=HUM; BR=1 (1) Creative and Cultural Representations
►GER250S Topics in German Film History
Focusing on a specific era of film production (e.g.Weimar cinema, Nazi era and postwar, feminist filmmaking, New German Cinema or Postwall), this course explores the relationship between social movements and film form and style. Taught in English.
DR=HUM; BR=1 (1) Creative and Cultural Representations
Exclusion: GER351H
►HIS335F Soviet Cultural History
This course explores Russian culture - art, architecture, film and literature - from 1917 to the post-Soviet present. Readings and screenings trace the relation between culture, history, and revolution from the Russian Avant-Garde and proletarian culture to socialist realism, and from Krushchevs thaw to examples of Soviet postmodernism.
Prerequisite: HIS250Y
DR=HUM; BR=1 (1) Creative and Cultural Representations
►HIS345S History and Film
This course is designed to further students knowledge of films relationship to the events they depict and their undeniable power as representational systems to render history effectively. This will necessarily entail both close examination of the formal systems film rely upon and an understanding of the distinction between fictional and non-fictional forms in film.
Prerequisite: 2 full courses in history or permission of instructor
Recommended Preparation: INI215Y
DR=HUM; BR=3 (3) Society and its Institutions
►HIS459S Soviet History and Film, 1921-1946
The history of Soviet cinema and the importance of film as a historical source. Documentary and fiction film; editing, narration, and sound; film distribution and exhibition; the Soviet school of montage and socialist realism; nationality and gender; the Soviet musical comedy of the Stalin era; resistance and dissidence.
Prerequisite: INI115Y/HIS250Y
DR=HUM; BR=1 (1) Creative and Cultural Representations
Exclusion: HIS450Y/SLA233H/SLA234H
►HIS467F French Colonial Indochina: History, Cultures, Texts, Film (formerly HIS467Y1)
Examines French colonial Indochina through several different lenses. Themes include the cross-cultural contact zones between colonial and colonized societies, gender perceptions, imperial culture, expressions of colonial power, and forms of opposition. Colonial novels, translated resistance literature, documentaries, and films are utilized as primary sources to be examined critically.
Prerequisite: ANT344Y1/EAS204Y1/GGR342H1/HIS104Y1/HIS107Y1/HIS280Y1/HIS282Y1/HIS283Y/HIS315H1/HIS388Y1/NEW369Y1
DR=HUM; BR=3 (3) Society and its Institutions
Exclusion: HIS467Y1
►ITA240Y Italian Cinema
An overview of Italian cinema from its early days to the present, which also offers a survey of Italian 20th Century history and culture. The course features films by masters Rossellini, DeSica, Fellini, Antonioni, Bertolucci, Pasolini and works by younger filmmakers, such as Academy Award winners Tornatore, Salvatores and Benigni. This course includes a component designed to introduce students to methods of scholarly research appropriate to the field. The course is given in English and all films shown have English subtitles.
DR=HUM; BR=1 (1) Creative and Cultural Representations
►ITA340F Italian Neorealist Cinema
An analysis of the neorealist period in Italian cinema, and its relation to the political and social climate of post-war Italy. Screenings include selections from the major exponents of Italian neorealism: Rossellini, DeSica, and Visconti, among others. This course includes a component designed to enhance students' research experience. (Given in English)
Recommended Preparation: ITA240Y
DR=HUM; BR=1 (1) Creative and Cultural Representations
Exclusion: ITA340Y
►ITA341S Italian Cinema after Neorealism
The evolution of Italian cinematic neorealism and its historical heritage is examined in the early films of Fellini, Antonioni, Pasolini and others. This course includes a component designed to enhance students’ research experience. (Given in English)
Prerequisite: ITA340H or permission of Department.
Exclusion: ITA340Y
DR=HUM; BR=1 (1) Creative and Cultural Representations
►SMC355S Contemporary Celtic Cinema
An exploration of contemporary films of Ireland, Scotland and Wales from 1980 to the present, as they relate to representations of Celtic identity and the formation of national cinema.
Exclusion: SMC354Y, SMC411F (2003-04)
DR=HUM; BR=1 (1) Creative and Cultural Representations
►SPA375F Latin American Cinema
Latin American cinema within the framework of cultural studies, film theory, and film criticism. Analysis of representative films from Argentina (Solanas, Puenzo), Brazil (Babenco, Camus, Salles), Cuba (Ichaso, Gutiérrez Alea, Solás), Mexico (Ripstein, Cuarón, González Iñárritu), and Venezuela (Román Chalbaud). Course taught in English.
Recommended Preparation: INI115Y/INI215Y/SPA258H/SPA259H
DR=HUM; BR=1 (1) Creative and Cultural Representations
►UNI325S Queerly Canadian
This course focuses on Canadian literary and artistic productions that challenge prevailing notions of nationality and sexuality, exploring not only how artists struggle with that ongoing Canadian thematic of being and belonging, but also celebrate pleasure and desire as a way of imagining and articulating an alternative national politics.
Prerequisite: UNI255H/UNI256H or UNI220Y or permission of the instructor
Exclusion: UNI375H Special Topics: Queerly Canadian
DR=HUM; BR=1 (1) Creative and Cultural Representations