School for Studies in Art and Culture
Film Studies

St. Patrick's Building 423
Telephone: 520-5606
Fax: 520-3575

The School
St. Patrick's Building 423

Director: John Shepherd

Assistant Director (Film Studies): Zuzana Pick

Film Studies does not offer a program of studies at the graduate level, but does offer a course at the graduate level under the aegis of the School of Canadian Studies.

Graduate Courses*

• Film Studies 19.521F1
  Topics in European Cinema
  Some aspect of European cinema is the focus of this course. A particular period, movement, style, genre, narrative development or co-production practice may be dealt with. Emphasis is on the problematic concept of a national cinema in the light of current debates about nation-ness. Examples to be studied include Britain, France, USSR/Russia, Italy, Germany.
• Film Studies 19.522W1
  Cinemas of the Americas
  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 or some relationship between these cinemas may be dealth with. Emphasis will be upon the problematic concept of a national cinema in light of the current debates about nation-ness.
• Film Studies 19.571W1
  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.