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Film Studies
St. Patrick's Building 423
Telephone: 520-2342
Fax: 520-3575
E-mail: filmgrad@carleton.ca
Web site:
http://www.carleton.ca/artandculture/filmstudies/
The School
Director: Bryan Gillingham
Supervisor of Graduate Studies: André Loiselle
The School for Studies in Art and Culture offers a program of study and
research leading to the degree of Master of Arts in Film Studies. This is a
disciplinary M.A. with emphasis upon 1) the conceptual issues current in
the field, and 2) the problematics of various national cinemas and other
practices.
The program will develop in students a broadly based expertise in the
discipline. The study of Canadian cinema is given a high priority, but
provision is also made for the study of other national cinemas, as well as
for the study of other traditions outside the mainstream, such as women's
cinemas, post-colonial cinemas, and minority and regional practices.
Most work in the program is on the feature fiction film and its
institutional foundations as an object of study. However, in line with the
expertise of members of faculty, the study of other film forms like
documentary, animation, experimental film and video is a necessary part of
the course offerings.
Questions of critical and historical method and problems of theory
inform all of the courses in the program. This conceptual emphasis is in
line with the central developments in Film Studies as a discipline over the
past twenty-five years.
Qualifying-Year Program
Applicants who lack an Honours degree, but who have a three-year degree
in film studies or a related discipline with a minimum standing o f B+, may
be admitted to a qualifying-year program. Students who complete the
qualifying-year requirements with high honours standing or better will be
considered for admission to the master's program. The regulations governing
the qualifying-year are outlined in the General Regulations section of this
calendar.
Master of Arts
Admission Requirements
The minimum requirement for admission to the Master's program in either
a full-time or part-time capacity is a B.A. (Honours) or the equivalent in
film studies or a related discipline with high honours standing. Related
disciplines might include mass communication, art history, literature,
Canadian studies, women's studies, and history. Applicants without a
background in film studies may be required to take a maximum of two full
credits from designated courses in the undergraduate Film Studies program
in addition to their normal M.A. program requirements.
Program Requirements
The specific program requirements for students in the M.A. program are
as follows:
- 1.0 core credit required
- 2.0 additional credits
- Thesis (equivalent to 2.0 credits)
- Total of 5.0 credits required
In choosing the two additional credits beyond the core seminar and the
thesis, students may take 0.5 credit outside the Film Studies program
subject to the approval of the Graduate Supervisor.
Because of the strong conceptual demands of the program and the
expectation that students be able to synthesize ideas in a substantial
piece of written work, the research essay option will not be available in
partial fulfillment of the requirements of the degree.
Deadlines
Normally, full-time students should complete their course work by the
end of the second term, and part-time students by the end of the fifth
term.
Thesis Proposal
Students normally will submit a detailed thesis proposal to the thesis
proposal committee no later than March 1 of the first year of registration
for students enrolled full-time and no later than the middle of the fifth
term of registration for students enrolled part-time.
Language Requirements
A reading knowledge of french (or another language approved by the Film
Studies Graduate Supervisor) is required.
Academic Standing
A standing of B- or better must be obtained in each course counted
towards the master's degree.
Graduate Courses
Not all of the following courses are offered in a given year. For an
up-to-date statement of course offerings for 2004-2005 and to determine the
term of offering, consult the Registration Instructions and Class Schedule
booklet, published in the summer and also available online at
www.carleton.ca/cu/programs/sched_dates/
Course Designation System
Carleton's course designation system has been restructured. The first
entry of each course description below is the new alphanumeric Carleton
course code, followed by its credit value in brackets. The old Carleton
course number (in parentheses) is included for reference, where
applicable.
- FILM 5000 [1.0 credit] (formerly 19.500)
- Directions in Film Theory and Film History
- This course is intended to acquaint students with recent
developments in film theory and history. Topics may include
spectatorship, identity, gender, cultural studies, fan cultures,
performance, reception theory, formation of taste, discourse analysis,
historical method, and concepts of national and transnational
cinemas.
- FILM 5001 [0.5 credit] (formerly 19.501)
- Directed Readings and Research
- Tutorials designed to permit students to pursue research on topics
in film studies which have been chosen in consultation with members of
faculty.
- FILM 5002 [0.5 credit] (formerly 19.502)
- Special Topics
- This course offers selected topics in film studies not available in
the regular course program.
- FILM 5105 [0.5 credit] (formerly 19.515)
- Changing Practices
- This course looks at traditional and recent developments in
non-feature film forms such as documentary, newsreel, experimental
film, video and television. The aesthetic particulars that distinguish
these forms from the fiction feature film are examined, along with
their social and cultural roles.
- FILM 5201 [0.5 credit] (formerly 19.521)
- Topics in European Cinema
- Some aspect of European cinema - a particular period, movement,
style, genre, narrative development or co-production practice - is the
focus of this course. Emphasis will be upon the problematic concept of
a national cinema in the light of current debates about
nation-ness.
- FILM 5202 [0.5 credit] (formerly 19.5 22)
- Cinemas of the America
- This course examines one or more of the cinemas of the United
States, the Caribbean, Latin America and Brazil. A particular period,
movement, style, genre, narrative development, some relationship
between these cinemas or the problematic concept of a national cinema
may be dealt with.
- FILM 5204 [0.5 credit] (formerly 19.524)
- Cultural Mediations
- This course examines the processes of mediation that operate
between mainstream and alternative, independent or marginal film
industries and practices.
- FILM 5208 [0.5 credit] (formerly 19.528)
- Historical Traditions in Canadian Cinema
- Selected aspects of the history of cinema in Canada are the focus
of this course. Emphasis is placed upon the role that institutional
bodies, government policies, economic decisions, aesthetic traditions,
and related cultural practices have had on the history of Canadian
cinema.
- FILM 5209 [0.5 credit] (formerly 19.529)
- Critical Perspectives on Canadian Cinema
- This course examines current critical approaches to Canadian film.
Attention will be given to the influence of Canadian and foreign
cultural theory and criticism on film studies in Canada.
- FILM 5401 [0.5 credit] (formerly 19.541)
- Studies in Authorship
- This course offers detailed attention to the work of one or two
filmmakers, with a concern for recent ideas about the concept of
authorship and the formation of artistic and critical reputations.
- FILM 5500 [0.5 credit] (formerly 19.550)
- Advanced Film Analysis
- This course examines issues and approaches to the detailed analysis
of particular film texts. Work in narratology, hermeneutics, discourse
analysis, psychoanalysis, deconstruction and semiotics will provide the
methodological background to the study of individual films.
- FILM 5501 [0.5 credit] (formerly 19.551)
- Gende r and Cinema
- The social production and reproduction of gender and gender
relations through the cinema and its representations are examined in
this course. The consequences of this work for feminist, gay and
lesbian film practices and politics form an important part of the
course.
- FILM 5601 [0.5 credit] (formerly 19.561)
- Studies in Genre
- The theory and practice of film genres will be the object of study
in this course.
- FILM 5701 [0.5 credit] (formerly 19.571)
- Topics in Animation
- Institutional histories, the work of individual animators, modes of
production, and the social function of animation represent topics to be
covered by this course.
- FILM 5900 [0.5 credit] (formerly 19.590)
- Cinema and Modernism
- This course examines cinema's relationship to the history and
theory of modernism. The concerns of classical film theory, the
emergence of avant-garde, modernist film practices, and film's
relationship to other twentieth-century art forms represent areas of
study in this course.
- FILM 5901 [0.5 credit] (formerly 19.591)
- Cinema and the Postmodern
- An examination of cinema's relationship to the history and theory
of postmodern cultural practices in performance art, video, multimedia,
architecture, literature, music, and other examples of artistic
postmodernism is the focus of this course.
- FILM 5909 (formerly 19.599)
- M.A. Thesis
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