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Introduction to Cinema Studies

CINE 100

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2025 Winter Term 1/2Credits: 3

Basic aesthetic, economic, sociological, and technological aspects of film. Credit will be granted for only one of FIST_V 100 or CINE_V 100. Equivalency: FIST_V 100.

Sections (12)
SectionTermDelivery ModeFormatDay(s)Time(s)Instructor(s)SyllabusDetails DataDetails
001 1 In-Person Lecture W 14:00 - 17:00

Section Description

This course aims to introduce you to film as a serious academic discipline through a variety of foundational texts, important essays, and
screenings of both familiar contemporary films and films of historical and theoretical significance that will be new to many of you. The material presented in the course will allow you to engage with cinema as a popular medium that is complicated by its ideological impact and struggle for artistic authenticity.
The course is roughly divided into three units of varying length: the first and longest unit is an introductory component on film form that
presents you with foundational terminology. The second, shorter unit is focused on Hollywood and its relationship with authorship, genre, and ideology. The course concludes with two weeks that explore modes that challenge or question classical film form. Screenings and lectures are supplemented by illustrative clips, extensive reading of a core text book (Film Art) and essays made available on Canvas.
003 2 In-Person Lecture W 14:00 - 17:00

Section Description

This course aims to introduce you to film as a serious academic discipline through a variety of foundational texts, important essays, and
screenings of both familiar contemporary films and films of historical and theoretical significance that will be new to many of you. The material presented in the course will allow you to engage with cinema as a popular medium that is complicated by its ideological impact and struggle for artistic authenticity.
The course is roughly divided into three units of varying length: the first and longest unit is an introductory component on film form that
presents you with foundational terminology. The second, shorter unit is focused on Hollywood and its relationship with authorship, genre, and ideology. The course concludes with two weeks that explore modes that challenge or question classical film form. Screenings and lectures are supplemented by illustrative clips, extensive reading of a core text book (Film Art) and essays made available on Canvas.
004 1 In-Person Lecture M 14:00 - 17:00

Section Description

This course aims to introduce you to film as a serious academic discipline through a variety of foundational texts, important essays, and
screenings of both familiar contemporary films and films of historical and theoretical significance that will be new to many of you. The material presented in the course will allow you to engage with cinema as a popular medium that is complicated by its ideological impact and struggle for artistic authenticity.
The course is roughly divided into three units of varying length: the first and longest unit is an introductory component on film form that
presents you with foundational terminology. The second, shorter unit is focused on Hollywood and its relationship with authorship, genre, and ideology. The course concludes with two weeks that explore modes that challenge or question classical film form. Screenings and lectures are supplemented by illustrative clips, extensive reading of a core text book (Film Art) and essays made available on Canvas.
D42 1 In-Person Discussion W 14:00 - 15:00
D31 2 In-Person Discussion F 14:00 - 15:00
D33 2 In-Person Discussion F 13:00 - 14:00
D41 1 In-Person Discussion W 15:00 - 16:00
D11 1 In-Person Discussion F 14:00 - 15:00
D13 1 In-Person Discussion F 13:00 - 14:00
D12 1 In-Person Discussion F 14:00 - 15:00
D32 2 In-Person Discussion F 14:00 - 15:00
D43 1 In-Person Discussion W 14:00 - 15:00

Introduction to Canadian Cinema

CINE 200

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brown-william
2025 Winter Term 2Credits: 3

History and aesthetics of Canadian cinema. Credit will be granted for only one of FIST_V 200 or CINE_V 200. Equivalency: FIST_V 200.

Sections (1)
SectionTermDelivery ModeFormatDay(s)Time(s)Instructor(s)SyllabusDetails DataDetails
001 2 In-Person Lecture T 12:30 - 13:30 Brown, William
TermDayTime
2T12:30 - 13:30
2T13:30 - 16:30

Early Cinema

CINE 210

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brown-william
2025 Winter Term 2Credits: 3

Aesthetics, economics, history, and technological characteristics of international early film. Credit will be granted for only one of FIST_V 210 or CINE_V 210. Equivalency: FIST_V 210.

Sections (1)
SectionTermDelivery ModeFormatDay(s)Time(s)Instructor(s)SyllabusDetails DataDetails
002 2 In-Person Lecture Th 12:30 - 13:30 Brown, William

Section Description

In this course we shall attempt to question and perhaps also to rewrite the canon of early cinema. We'll do this by looking at numerous non-western films from the early, silent cinema period, and also by looking at western films from otherwise under-represented groups, including Black American, Indigenous, queer and women filmmakers. We will also investigate how and why the uneven nature of power in the world is reflected in the normative history of cinema that typically is offered in the west. Finally, we shall be thinking about how and why cinema is a medium of and about the so-called Anthropocene, the period in which humans have a greater effect on the planet than the planet supposedly has on them.
TermDayTime
2Th12:30 - 13:30
2Th13:30 - 16:30

Hollywood Cinema 1930-1960

CINE 220

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2025 Winter Term 2Credits: 3

Analysis of the aesthetics, economics, history and technological characteristics of the Classical Hollywood period. Credit will be granted for only one of FIST_V 220 or CINE_V 220. Equivalency: FIST_V 220.

Sections (4)
SectionTermDelivery ModeFormatDay(s)Time(s)Instructor(s)SyllabusDetails DataDetails
002 2 In-Person Lecture W 10:00 - 13:00
D22 2 In-Person Discussion F 10:00 - 11:00
D23 2 In-Person Discussion F 11:00 - 12:00
D21 2 In-Person Discussion F 10:00 - 11:00

Media Industries

CINE 240

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zaiontz-keren
2025 Winter Term 1/2Credits: 3

Overview of today's film and media industries, and of the concepts governing their practices. Credit will be granted for only one of FIST_V 240 or CINE_V 240. Equivalency: FIST_V 240.

Sections (2)
SectionTermDelivery ModeFormatDay(s)Time(s)Instructor(s)SyllabusDetails DataDetails
001 1 In-Person Lecture T, Th 09:30 - 11:00 Zaiontz, Keren

Section Description

CINE 240 engages in the study of Media Industries—the course both examines the myriad social and political factors that shape how media structures operate and studies the cultural representations of Media Industries, past, present, and future.
Media Industries encompass traditional sectors such as film, television, radio, and photography as well as digital spheres such as social media, streaming platforms, gaming, apps, search engines, and AI. The ubiquity of media—the ways it determines everything from how we organize our social lives to the strength of our democracies— means we have a responsibility to understand how these cultural and creative industries operate. C
CINE 240 seeks to create a sense of critical distance—to “step back”—from these dynamic industries in order to question how they are shaping local and global cultures, self and community, fact and feeling.
002 2 In-Person Lecture T, Th 09:30 - 11:00

Cult Cinema

CINE 300

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mathijs-ernest
2025 Winter Term 1Credits: 3

Overview of world cult cinema. Credit will be granted for only one of FIST_V 300 or CINE_V 300. Equivalency: FIST_V 300.

Sections (1)
SectionTermDelivery ModeFormatDay(s)Time(s)Instructor(s)SyllabusDetails DataDetails
001 1 In-Person Lecture M, F 09:30 - 13:00 Mathijs, Ernest

Section Description

This course overviews the weird and wonderful world of cult cinema in relation to practices of production and reception in contemporary popular media culture, from three main perspectives:

Cult Concepts: theories, conditions, and problems of cult cinema

Cult Aesthetics: case studies of style, themes, genre, and performance

Cult Consumption: audiences and receptions of cult cinema, including global cults

TermDayTime
1M09:30 - 13:00
1F12:00 - 13:00

Studies in Film Theory

CINE 331

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2025 Winter Term 1Credits: 3

A seminar introducing the many theoretical approaches to film: formalist, historical, Marxist, psychoanalytic, semiotic, and structuralist. Credit will be granted for only one of FIST_V 331 or CINE_V 331. Equivalency: FIST_V 331.

Sections (1)
SectionTermDelivery ModeFormatDay(s)Time(s)Instructor(s)SyllabusDetails DataDetails
001 1 In-Person Seminar W, F 11:00 - 13:00
TermDayTime
1W11:00 - 13:00
1F13:00 - 14:00

Studies in Genre or Period

CINE 332

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2025 Winter Term 2Credits: 3

A seminar examining one or more genres or periods, such as the Western, Film Noir, Science Fiction, Films of the 1980's. Also includes study of national cinemas. Credit will be granted for only one of FIST_V 332 or CINE_V 332. Equivalency: FIST_V 332.

Sections (1)
SectionTermDelivery ModeFormatDay(s)Time(s)Instructor(s)SyllabusDetails DataDetails
002 2 In-Person Seminar F 10:00 - 13:00
TermDayTime
2F10:00 - 13:00
2F13:00 - 14:00

Media Audiences

CINE 340

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mathijs-ernest
2025 Winter Term 1Credits: 3

Overview of approaches for studying audiences and receptions of film and contemporary media. Credit will be granted for only one of FIST_V 340 or CINE_V 340. Equivalency: FIST_V 340.

Sections (1)
SectionTermDelivery ModeFormatDay(s)Time(s)Instructor(s)SyllabusDetails DataDetails
001 1 In-Person Seminar M, W 10:00 - 11:00 Mathijs, Ernest

Section Description

Without audiences, film and TV, and media in general, do not exist. They only have a cultural function by being viewed, attended, used, consumed, and given meaning to. This course asks the question: What are media audiences? How do we determine the size, quality, activities, power, preferences, flaws, and desires of the audiences of media? What are the conditions under which viewing and listening must take place before we can speak of 'audiences' or 'users'?

The course has three perspectives:

Theories: definitions, descriptions, methods, and beliefs about media audiences

Audience Practices and Sites: case studies of what audiences do, and how we research them

Fluid Audiences: studies of the fringes of what audiences are, or where they're non-existent

TermDayTime
1M14:00 - 15:30
1W10:00 - 11:00

Studies in Auteurism

CINE 430

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2025 Winter Term 2Credits: 3

A seminar examining the work of one or more directors, such as John Ford, Francois Truffaut, Denys Arcand, Margarethe Von Trotta, or of a screenwriter over many films. Credit will be granted for only one of FIST_V 430 or CINE_V 430. Equivalency: FIST_V 430.

Sections (1)
SectionTermDelivery ModeFormatDay(s)Time(s)Instructor(s)SyllabusDetails DataDetails
002 2 In-Person Seminar M, W 11:00 - 13:00

Seminar in Motion Picture Forms - Seminar in Motion Picture Forms

CINE 432A

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zaiontz-keren
2025 Winter Term 2Credits: 3

Animation, experimental, and/or multimedia. A maximum of 6 credits will be granted for FIST_V 432 or CINE_V 432. Equivalency: FIST_V 432.

Sections (1)
SectionTermDelivery ModeFormatDay(s)Time(s)Instructor(s)SyllabusDetails DataDetails
A_002 2 In-Person Seminar T, Th 10:00 - 12:00 Zaiontz, Keren

Majors and Honours Seminar

CINE 445

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coulthard-lisa
2025 Winter Term 2Credits: 3

Credit will be granted for only one of FIST_V 445 or CINE_V 445. Equivalency: FIST_V 445.

Sections (1)
SectionTermDelivery ModeFormatDay(s)Time(s)Instructor(s)SyllabusDetails DataDetails
001 2 In-Person Seminar W 14:00 - 16:00 Coulthard, Lisa

Honours Essay

CINE 449

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coulthard-lisa evans-christine mathijs-ernest zuo-mila
2025 Winter TermCredits: 6

A course allowing honours students to work with a faculty member on a major research paper. Credit will be granted for only one of FIST_V 449 or CINE_V 449. Equivalency: FIST_V 449

Sections (1)
SectionTermDelivery ModeFormatDay(s)Time(s)Instructor(s)SyllabusDetails DataDetails
001 In-Person Independent Study Multiple instructors

Instructors

Coulthard, Lisa | Evans, Christine | Mathijs, Ernest | Zuo, Mila

Introduction to Screen Acting

FIPR 131

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2025 Winter Term 2Credits: 3

Fundamental techniques used to create emotionally engaged and narratively effective performances for film and digital media.

Sections (1)
SectionTermDelivery ModeFormatDay(s)Time(s)Instructor(s)SyllabusDetails DataDetails
001 2 In-Person Studio M, W 11:00 - 12:30

Introduction to Film and Media Production

FIPR 133

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drljaca-igor brown-william
2025 Winter Term 1/2Credits: 3

A hands-on introduction to Film and Multi/New Media production, focusing on fundamental techniques for creating effective presentations.

Sections (2)
SectionTermDelivery ModeFormatDay(s)Time(s)Instructor(s)SyllabusDetails DataDetails
002 2 In-Person Studio T, Th 09:30 - 11:00 Drljaca, Igor

Section Description

Introduction to Film and Media Production

001 1 In-Person Studio T, F 11:00 - 12:30 Brown, William

Section Description

Introduction to Film and Media Production

In this course, students will make a portfolio of short films that respond to a set of creative and critical challenges set at the start of the course. The aim is to encourage students to focus on making, rather than preparing or waiting to make, films. The course also seeks to encourage students to get creative about being creative, learning to see constraints and obstacles as opportunities, while also connecting ethically with why and how one should make films. In addition to making, the course encourages students to find audiences for their work. And we ground all of this reflectively within a history of, and a critical engagement with, alternative, 'guerrilla' and no-to-low-budget films and filmmaking traditions from around the world. 

Introduction to Motion Picture Directing

FIPR 230

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drljaca-igor
2025 Winter Term 2Credits: 3

The role and methods of the motion picture director.

Sections (1)
SectionTermDelivery ModeFormatDay(s)Time(s)Instructor(s)SyllabusDetails DataDetails
001 2 In-Person Lecture T, Th 12:30 - 14:00 Drljaca, Igor

Film and Media Production I - Film and Media Production I

FIPR 233A

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bourges-antoine
2025 Winter Term 1Credits: 3

Camera operation, lighting, sounds, and editing for film and media production.

Sections (1)
SectionTermDelivery ModeFormatDay(s)Time(s)Instructor(s)SyllabusDetails DataDetails
A_001 1 In-Person Studio M 10:00 - 13:00 Bourges, Antoine

Film and Media Production I - Film and Media Production I

FIPR 233B

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bourges-antoine
2025 Winter TermCredits: 3

Camera operation, lighting, sounds, and editing for film and media production.

Sections (1)
SectionTermDelivery ModeFormatDay(s)Time(s)Instructor(s)SyllabusDetails DataDetails
B_001 In-Person Studio Bourges, Antoine

Production Planning and Professional Practices

FIPR 234

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mcgowan-sharon
2025 Winter Term 1Credits: 3

Planning of film productions from concept to completion.

Sections (1)
SectionTermDelivery ModeFormatDay(s)Time(s)Instructor(s)SyllabusDetails DataDetails
001 1 In-Person Lecture Th 11:00 - 14:00 Mcgowan, Sharon

Section Description

This survey lecture course is an introduction to the essential professional practices and parameters involved with planning film productions from concept to completion and with entering and strategizing a career in film production. Students will learn basic organizational steps and skills involved with planning simple productions and will apply these in exercises and assignments based around a short, low-budget
student project. They will also study and analyze complex industry projects from a planning and professional practices perspective as well as an eye to finding ways to break into the industry with their own original projects. They will also learn to design a resume within industry protocols and to research appropriate career opportunities and pathways.
Note: This is a lecture course. No hands-on filmmaking is involved.

Film and Media Production II

FIPR 333

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bourges-antoine
2025 Winter Term 1Credits: 9starPre-requisitestarCo-requisite

Intermediate film and media production. Open only to students in the Film Production BFA Program. Students who have not already completed FIPR 337, FIPR 338 must complete them at the same time as FIPR 333. Prerequisite: FIPR 233. Corequisite: All of FIPR 337, FIPR 338. Equivalency: FILM333

Sections (1)
SectionTermDelivery ModeFormatDay(s)Time(s)Instructor(s)SyllabusDetails DataDetails
001 1 In-Person Studio Th 14:00 - 17:00 Bourges, Antoine