Archived: Graduate Courses 2023-2024

Fall 2023/Winter 2024

PROFESSOR: Aubrey Anable
DESCRIPTION: This graduate seminar will consider the ways that emotion figures in theoretical and historical accounts of film and related audio-visual media. Questions about emotion and “affect” are at the root of contemporary debates about identity, subjectivity, politics, and representation. Yet, the body—its sensual capacities and vulnerabilities—is often figured as that which media technologies and those who study them must overcome or entirely deny. Our primary concern
will be tracing this intellectual history and the ways contemporary media culture and recent theoretical shifts reframe the relationship between media and emotion. We will use screenings and readings as materials to think (and feel) with.
METHOD OF EVALUATION: TBA
CROSS-LISTED WITH: TBA

PROFESSOR: Gunnar Iversen
DESCRIPTION: This course offers a rigorous orientation to the discipline of Film Studies. We will think critically about and practice key methodologies of the discipline, ranging from interpretation and close analysis, to building arguments, conducting research, and formulating original research project proposals. We will also explore the genealogies of key concepts in Film Studies, including national cinema, genre, and authorship. In the course, students will work on their analytic, writing, research, and communication skills.
METHOD OF EVALUATION: Essays and Oral Presentations
READINGS: All readings will be available on Brightspace

PROFESSOR: Malini Guha
DESCRIPTION: This course continues where FILM 5010 left off in offering an advanced orientation to some of the longstanding debates in the discipline of film studies in an Anglophone context while also introducing students to more contemporary methods of analysis. Topics to be studied in this course include: film’s enduring relationship to reality; the question of how we might disrupt the Western-centric nature of the discipline; revisiting and rethinking the gaze; interdisciplinary methods of analysis.
METHOD OF EVALUATION: TBA
READINGS: Readings will be available via Brightspace.

PROFESSOR: Marc Furstenau
DESCRIPTION: We live in a world of pictures—of images, visual representations, or depictions—that are increasingly complex in form and function, combining various audio-visual components, distributed through a wide variety of means. In this course students are introduced to the concept of depiction, to the philosophical debates about the nature and effects of pictures, which can be traced back to the very beginnings of Western philosophy. The most basic debate is about the relation between the depiction and what is depicted, between the picture or image and the objects or events being represented—between visual representation and the world, image and reality. We will trace the history of these philosophical debates, considering photographic and cinematic depiction specifically, in relation to older forms such as drawing, painting, and sculpture, but also new ones, such as computer-generated images and virtual reality.
METHOD OF EVALUATION: Choice of various optional assignments: Reading Reports (25%); Discussion Groups (25%); or Essay (50%).
READINGS: Various on-line readings — book chapters and essays.

PROFESSOR: Laura Horak
DESCRIPTION: This course investigates cinema by, for, and about queer people in Canada and around the world.
METHOD OF EVALUATION: Screening questions (20%), Close analysis essay (20%), Presentation (20%), Final essay (40%).
READINGS: Online Readings

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