Announcing the first Film Studies Senior Seminar
AU 09: Film Studies 694 (Course No. 26344)
The Window of Cinema:
In The Virtual Window, Anne Friedberg posited that, “Like the window, the screen is at once a surface and a frame – a reflective plane onto which an image is cast and a frame that limits its view. The screen is a component piece of architecture, rendering a wall permeable to ventilation in new ways: a ‘virtual window’ that changes the materiality of built space, adding new apertures that dramatically alter our conception of space and (even more radically) of time.”
Following from Friedberg’s premise, this course will investigate the philosophical, artistic, and perceptual implications of the “window of cinema.” Students will be exposed to new conceptions of the window of cinema through historical and contemporary readings on aesthetics, analysis of short and feature length films, lecture and discussion, and independent research. Designed to be of interest to advanced Film Studies majors interested in research and artistic production, as well as graduate students from a number of fields, this class will provide an intellectual gateway to two important Film Studies initiatives: the material published through the Journal of Short Film, soon to be housed in OSU’s Film Studies Program, and the “Film and Architecture” collaboration with the Knowlton School that will take place over WI & SP 2010 and which will feature a formal lecture by Anne Friedberg.
