Academic Team:
Dawn Marlan (damarlan@uoregon.edu)
FIG Seminar Instructor
Samantha
FIG Assistant
Meet your FIG Instructor and Assistant!
Courses in the FIG:
UGST 109 FIG Seminar
TIME | BUILDING | CRN | 1 Credit
Through psychoanalytic theory and discussions of the gendered gaze, we will explore how visual culture affects us, emotionally, aesthetically, and politically. Focusing thematically on dream-like images that create deliberate confusion about what is real and what is imagined, we will be asking—How might such confusion be purposeful? How might dream images help us to evade censorship, confront a history that haunts us, and imagine a future that’s difficult to fathom?
This FIG is for students interested both in the aesthetics of film and photography and in historical and theoretical approaches to it. While CINE 265 has a historical perspective centered on the evolution of cinema as an art form, COLT 103 introduces students to theoretical approaches to viewing images and film, including exploring visual pleasure and displeasure.
CINE 265 History of Motion Picture I: The Silent Era
Arts & Letters (>1)| TIME | BUILDING | CRN | 4 CREDITS
CINE 265 is the first in a three-part chronological survey of the evolution of cinema as an institution and an art form. CINE 265 moves from the origins of cinema in the late 19th century through World War II. The primary texts for the course are the films themselves, but supplementary readings will also be assigned. The aim of the course is to develop interpretive skills relevant to the study of film by examining the history of major movements in Hollywood and world cinema. As a broad introduction to interpretive, theoretical, and institutional issues that are central to the study of film, CINE 265 satisfies the university's Group Requirement in the Arts and Letters category. The courses in motion picture history, CINE 265, 266, and 267 may be taken individually or as parts of an integrated series.
COLT 232 Literature and Film: Adaptations
Arts & Letters (>1)| TIME | BUILDING | CRN | 4 CREDITS
Introduces students to comparative literature as an interdisciplinary mode of study, where traditional literary critical analysis of culture is integrated with media-specific analysis of film and video. In general, the field of comparative literature takes a comparative approach to national traditions, exploring diverse cultural forms within a global framework. In COLT 232 that global framework also includes methods and research drawn from other academic disciplines: namely, cinema studies, journalism and communications, media aesthetics and related fields. Such interdisciplinary study is fundamental to comparative literature as a discipline, helps prepare students for a global and multifaceted world, and provides a viewpoint increasingly central to the humanities in general. Accordingly COLT 232 meets the core education requirement in Arts and Letters as well as Global Perspectives requirement.