Cinema Studies

Jeffrey Pence, Assoc. Professor of English & Cinema Studies/ Director, Cinema Studies

EunJung Grace An, Asst. Professor of French and Cinema Studies

Rian Brown-Orso, Assoc. Professor of New Media & Cinema Studies

William Patrick Day, Professor of English and Cinema Studies

Brian Doan, Visiting Instructor in Cinema Studies

Daniel Goulding, Emeritus Professor of Film Studies and Theater Arts

Elizabeth Hamilton, Associate Professor of German and Cinema Studies

Geoff Pingree, Associate Professor of Cinema Studies and English

Tess Takahashi, Visiting Mellon Post-doctoral Fellow in Cinema Studies

Cinema is both the primary art form of modern culture and the central component of the media industries that structure contemporary society. We cannot understand fully how music, painting, and literature, or other artistic practices have developed without seeing them in relation to cinema, and we cannot begin to comprehend the full significance of the media in our lives without first studying cinema. The major in Cinema Studies is designed to teach students to examine the meanings of cinema in the broadest, most interdisciplinary ways, considering movies as works of art, as cultural forms, and as industrial practices.

Cinema Studies offers the following types of courses: The Introductory Cinema Studies Core Course is Cinema Studies 101, Form, Style, and Meaning in Cinema. The Introductory Cinema Studies Production Course is Cinema Studies 201, Sound and Image Workshop. Cinematic Traditions Courses include all 200-level courses taught by the Cinema Studies faculty, as well as cross-referenced film courses from many College and Conservatory Departments/Programs. Cinema Studies 299, Persistence of Vision: Approaches to Cinema Studies, is the Intermediate Cinema Studies Core Course. Cinema Studies 101, one Cinematic Traditions course, and Cinema Studies 299 are required for the major. Advanced Cinema Studies Courses are 300- and 400-level courses taught by core faculty or cross-referenced by the Cinema Studies Program. Unless otherwise indicated, these courses require as prerequisites Cinema Studies 101 and one Cinematic Traditions course or Cinema Studies 299; or Cinema Studies 101 and consent of the instructor. At least three Advanced Cinema Studies Courses are required of majors. Beyond any 400-level course taken to fulfill the Advanced Cinema Studies Course requirement, majors must successfully complete a Senior Experience: a Senior Tutorial, a 400-level Seminar, or an Honors Project. This Senior Experience course is enrolled by application; Honors is by invitation only. Successful work in the Honors Program will render a student eligible for consideration for Honors at graduation, but it does not guarantee such Honors.

Further information about the major, faculty and courses is available at the Cinema Studies site on the web (www.oberlin.edu/fsc).