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Professors: Jeanine Basinger (Chair), Leo Lensing (German Studies), °k¤s îst¤r (Anthropology), Joseph Reed (English and American Studies), Richard Slotkin (English)

Adjunct Instructor: Steven Ross

Visiting Lecturer: Robert E. Smith

Film studies is an independent program of study in which the motion picture is explored in a unified manner, combining the liberal arts tradition of cultural, historical, and formal analysis with filmmaking at beginning and advanced levels. The requirements for admission include a minimum overall academic average of B, the successful completion by the middle of the sophomore year of two entry-level film study courses (see below). A minimum grade of B+ must be earned in each of the two entry-level courses.

To fulfill the film studies major, the student must complete satisfactorily the two entry-level courses referred to above, plus the required courses listed below as Group I and a minimum of four additional film courses to be elected from Group II. (Group III electives count toward graduation, but not toward fulfillment of the film major.)

Course offerings vary from year to year and not all courses are available in every year. With prior approval, a limited number of film history/theory courses from other institutions may be transferred to the Wesleyan major.

Students may become involved in the Film Studies Program in ways other than class enrollment. The Film Studies Program runs the Wesleyan Film Series and the Wesleyan Cinema Archives and it offers group and individual tutorials in history and theory as well as uncredited opportunities to work on individual student films. Consult the chairman of the Film Studies Program for further details on the major.

GROUP I (Required)

Two entry-level courses from Group II

FILM 414 Senior Seminar

FILM 450 Sight and Sound Workshop

GROUP II

*FILM 304 History of World Cinema

*FILM307 Western Movies: Myth, Ideology,
and Genre

FILM 308 The Musical Film

FILM 309 Film Noir

*FILM310 History of World Cinema, WWII to
Present

FILM 311 Film Genre: The War Film and the
Woman's Film

FILM312 The Western: History and Definition

FILM 314 American Film Comedy

FILM 315 Myth and Ideology at the Movies

FILM 316 Nationality and Power at the
Movies: The Combat Film

*FILM317 Japanese Film and Japanese Society

FILM 318 Cinema and National Cultures in
Eastern Europe

*FILM320 New German Cinema

FILM 322 Alfred Hitchcock

*FILM 323 Film and Anthropology:
Non-Fiction Cinema

*FILM334 African Cinema and Society

FILM339 American Film Genre: Epic Film

FILM352 Early German Cinema

*Entry-Level Courses

GROUP III (Additional Electives)

FILM 402 Screenwriting

FILM 456 Advanced Filmmaking
Group Tutorial

Individual Tutorial