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Cinema Studies Institute

Faculty


Professor Emerita
E.K. Armatage, Ph D

Professor
C. Keil, Ph D

Associate Professors
C. Columpar, Ph D
A. Fenner, Ph D
R. King, Ph D
N. Sammond, Ph D

Assistant Professor
J. Cahill, Ph D

Senior Lecturer
B.W. Testa, MA

Lecturer
K. Banning, MA

Introduction

Cinema Studies Institute

At the dawn of the twentieth century cinema emerged as a new mass entertainment and a source of information and economic and social power. Cinema adapted to and absorbed novel technologies, such as sound, color, 3-D, and later, digital techniques, at a rapid pace. As shifting political and economic forces came into play, cinema continued to play a key role in moving-image culture. During its history, cinema has absorbed seismis shocks in ideas and ideologies, and responded to the shifting politics of race, gender, class, and sexuality that have defined modern society. Now, in the early years of the twenty-first century, an evolving mediascape driven by digital technologies offers exciting opportunities to assess the ever-changing role of cinema across global cultures.

Because of its status as a major art form and a vital social practice, cinema has assumed a crucial place within the university. The Cinema Studies Institute has, over nearly four decades, developed into a major area of academic research, study and teaching at the University of Toronto and has contributed in pivotal ways to the development of the discipline both in Canada and internationally.

Cinema Studies offers courses that reflect the diversity of cinematic experience: film analysis, history, social practice, and theory are at the core of the program. Other topics also receive emphasis, including distinct types of film (such as documentary, animation and the avant-garde), film genres, media cultures, and new media forms. Our courses explore the global dimension of cinema, investigating national and transnational cinema. They raise issues of how race, class and gender operate in moving image culture. Cinema Studies offers a range of research methods, scholarly frameworks, and learning opportunities; all are designed to develop students’ abilities to understand cinema within a wide range of contexts - critical, economic, cultural, technological, and aesthetic. Graduates of the Cinema Studies Institute achieve learning outcomes that include a strong historical and theoretical foundation coupled with advanced analytical and critical skills. Our graduates are well-equipped to apply their knowledge to a variety of media-related careers and avocations. They have become arts and entertainment journalists, film programmers, and image archivists, and have found a diversity of positions within the film, television, and new media sectors. Cinema Studies does not offer filmmaking, but numerous graduates have successfully pursued professional work in different facets of film and media production.

Since its inception, Cinema Studies has had its administration, teaching, and research home at Innis College, which also houses its faculty. Innis offers specially-equipped facilities and a cordial and intimate setting for cinema students. For more information about Innis College, go to http://www.utoronto.ca/innis/.

Enquiries: Undergraduate Program Assistant, Room 122 Innis College (416-978-8571),  cinema.studies@utoronto.ca, or the Cinema Studies website http://www.utoronto.ca/cinema/.

Cinema Studies Institute Programs

Cinema Studies Specialist (Arts)

This is a limited enrolment program that can only accommodate a limited number of students.  Enrolment in the Cinema Studies programs requires completion of CIN105Y1 'Introduction to Film Study,' and three additional full-course equivalents. Admission will be determined by a student’s mark in CIN105Y1. It is expected that a final mark of at least 70% be required for admission in the coming cycle. Students can be considered for admission if they do not meet the minimum grade requirement in CIN105Y1 by achieving a minimum grade of 70% in CIN201Y1.

Meeting these minimum requirements may not guarantee admission.

Note: All Cinema Studies programs are Type 2L (limited enrolment) programs. See the Subject POSt Enrolment web site for instructions.

(10 full courses or their equivalent (FCEs), at least 8.0 of which must have a CIN designator)

First Year:
CIN105Y1
Second Year:
CIN201Y1
Third Year:
CIN301Y1
Second, Third and Fourth Year:
CIN230H1 or 0.5 FCE from Breadth Category 5; in addition at least 5.5 FCEs from Groups B through G, of which 3.0 FCEs must be at the 300/400 level
Fourth Year:
1.0 FCE from the following: CIN410H1, CIN411H1, CIN412H1, CIN420H1, CIN430H1, CIN431H1, CIN432H1, CIN440H1, CIN450H1, CIN451H1, CIN452H1, CIN460H1, CIN470H1, CIN471H1, CIN472H1, CIN480H1

Students must complete CIN105Y1, CIN201Y1 and CIN301Y1 before taking any fourth-year courses.

Cinema Studies Major (Arts)

This is a limited enrolment program that can only accommodate a limited number of students.  Enrolment in the Cinema Studies programs requires completion of CIN105Y1 'Introduction to Film Study,' and three additional full-course equivalents. Admission will be determined by a student’s mark in CIN105Y1. It is expected that a final mark of at least 70% be required for admission in the coming cycle. Students can be considered for admission if they do not meet the minimum grade requirement in CIN105Y1 by achieving a minimum grade of 70% in CIN201Y1.

Meeting these minimum requirements may not guarantee admission.

Note: All Cinema Studies programs are Type 2L (limited enrolment) programs. See the Subject POSt Enrolment web site for instructions.

(7 full courses or their equivalent (FCEs), at least 5.5 of which must have a CIN designator)

First Year:
CIN105Y1
Second Year:
CIN201Y1
Third Year:
CIN301Y1
Second, Third and Fourth Year:
CIN230H1 or 0.5 FCE from Breadth Category 5; in addition at least 3.0 FCEs from Groups B through G, of which 2.0 FCEs must be at the 300/400 level
Fourth Year:
0.5 FCE from the following: CIN410H1, CIN411H1, CIN412H1, CIN420H1, CIN430H1, CIN431H1, CIN432H1, CIN440H1, CIN450H1, CIN451H1, CIN452H1, CIN460H1, CIN470H1, CIN471H1, CIN472H1, CIN480H1

Students must complete CIN105Y1, CIN201Y1 and CIN301Y1 before taking any fourth-year courses.

Cinema Studies Minor (Arts)

This is a limited enrolment program that can only accommodate a limited number of students.  Enrolment in the Cinema Studies programs requires completion of CIN105Y1 'Introduction to Film Study,' and three additional full-course equivalents. Admission will be determined by a student’s mark in CIN105Y1. It is expected that a final mark of at least 70% be required for admission in the coming cycle. Students can be considered for admission if they do not meet the minimum grade requirement in CIN105Y1 by achieving a minimum grade of 70% in CIN201Y1.

Meeting these minimum requirements may not guarantee admission.

Note: All Cinema Studies programs are Type 2L (limited enrolment) programs. See the Subject POSt Enrolment web site for instructions.

(4 full courses or their equivalent (FCEs), with at least one at the 300+ level)

First Year:
CIN105Y1
Second Year:
CIN201Y1
Second, Third and Fourth Year:
2.0 FCEs from Groups A through G

Students must complete CIN105Y1, CIN201Y1 and CIN301Y1 before taking any fourth-year courses.

 


Cinema Studies Course Groups

Group A: Foundations
CIN105Y1, CIN201Y1, CIN301Y1

Group B: Genre and Modes
CIN210H1, CIN211H1, CIN212H1, CIN213H1, CIN310Y1, CIN312Y1, CIN314Y1, CIN320H1, CIN410H1, CIN411H1, CIN412H1, CIN420H1

Group C: Social and Cultural Practices
CIN230H1, CIN330Y1, CIN332Y1, CIN334H1, CIN340H1, CIN349H1, CIN430H1, CIN431H1, CIN432H1, CIN440H1

Group D: Theory and Criticism
CIN250Y1, CIN260H1, CIN350Y1, CIN352H1, CIN353H1, CIN360H1, CIN369H1, CIN450H1, CIN451H1, CIN452H1, CIN460H1

Group E: History and Nation
CIN270Y1, CIN370H1, CIN372Y1CIN374Y1, CIN376Y1, CIN378H1, CIN379H1, CIN380H1, CIN389H1, CIN470H1, CIN471H1, CIN472H1, CIN480H1

Group F: Independent Studies
CIN490Y1, CIN491H1, CIN492H1

Group G: Cross-Listed
EAS242H1, EAS243H1EAS431H1, FCS310Y1, FCS331H1, FIN250H1, FIN260H1, GER250H1, GER261H1, HIS335H1, HIS345H1, HIS459H1, HIS460H1, HIS467H1, ITA240Y1, ITA340H1, ITA341H1, ITA347H1, SLA225H1, SLA226H1, SLA333H1, SLA244H1, SLA424H1, SMC354H1, SMC355H1, SPA375H1, UNI325H1

Cinema Studies Institute Courses


First-Year Seminars

The 199Y1 and 199H1 seminars are designed to provide the opportunity to work closely with an instructor in a class of no more than twenty-four students. These interactive seminars are intended to stimulate the students’ curiosity and provide an opportunity to get to know a member of the professorial staff in a seminar environment during the first year of study. Details can be found at www.artsci.utoronto.ca/current/course/.


Group A Courses: Foundations
CIN105Y1    Introduction to Film Studies (formerly INI115Y1)[24L/24T/72P]

Introduction to film analysis; concepts of film style and narrative. Topics include:  Documentary, avant-garde, genres, authorship, ideology, and representation.

Exclusion: INI115Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

CIN201Y1    Film Cultures I: Art and Industry (formerly INI212Y1 Film History/ INI215Y1)[24L/24T/72P]

Examines the practices, theories and debates surrounding the emergence of cinema through to the development of studio system filmmaking in the first half of the 20th Century. Topics include: Film's relation to the other arts; formalist and realist traditions; technological innovations; audiences and reception; and cultural industries.

Prerequisite: CIN105Y1
Exclusion: INI212Y1, INI215Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Creative and Cultural Representations (1) + Thought, Belief and Behaviour (2)

CIN301Y1    Film Cultures II: Politics and Global Media (formerly INI214Y1 Film Theory/ INI314Y1 / INI315Y1) [24L/24T/72S]

Examines film theory and practice from the 1950s onward, and the impact of media change on earlier film cultures and aesthetics. Topics include: New Waves; the politicization of theory; spectatorship; counter-cinemas; transnational film and “Global Hollywood”; and media theory from the analog to the digital.

Prerequisite: CIN105Y1, CIN201Y1
Exclusion: INI214Y1, INI314Y1, INI315Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Creative and Cultural Representations (1) + Thought, Belief and Behaviour (2)

Group B Courses: Genre and Modes
CIN210H1    Horror Film (formerly INI226H1) [12L/12T/36P]

Horror film as a genre, focusing on three types of international horror: The un-dead, body horror, and the supernatural. The genre's popular appeal, affective power, unique means of producing pleasure, and its current global resurgence will be emphasized. Topics include: The aesthetics of gore and violence; technologies of fear; J-Horror, new French extremity; cult fandom and paracinema; and media convergence.

Exclusion: INI226H1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

CIN211H1    Science Fiction Film (formerly INI227H1)[12T/36P]

This course is the study of science fiction films in their cultural and political contexts and the genre's narrative and conceptual components. The goal of the course is to familiarize students with the science fiction films as popular film genre texts emphasizing the period between 1950 and the present.

Exclusion: INI227H1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course

CIN212H1    Cinema and Sensation I: Action/Spectacle (formerly INI222H1) [12L/12T/36P]

Action cinema holds a dominant place in our contemporary era of the blockbuster and CGI effects. This course examines the modes and function of this popular genre, while also tracing Action's longevity and diversity to include its significant precursors, its social contexts, and forms of spectatorship.

Exclusion: INI222H1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

CIN213H1    Cinema and Sensation II: Sex (formerly INI223H1)[12L/12T/36P]

Sex and eroticism and their various representations have long been central and controversial components of filmic pleasure. This course examines how sex and its regulation in cinema suggest broader ideas and concerns. Topics include: Obscenity laws and the history of film censorship; the emergence of sexploitation and pornography; porno chic and art cinema.

Exclusion: INI223H1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

CIN310Y1    Avant-Garde and Experimental Film (formerly INI322Y1) [48L/72P]

Film experimentation in the context of modern art and poetry from the 1920s through the 1990s.  Influences range from Cubism and Dada-Surrealism to late-era modernism and postmodernism.

Prerequisite: CIN105Y1
Exclusion: INI322Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

CIN312Y1    Documentary Film (formerly INI325Y1) [48L/48P]

Critical survey of documentary practice including newsreels, direct cinema, cinema verité, ethnographic films, and various hybrid narrative forms, with emphasis on the rhetorical, aesthetic, and political dimensions of the "art of record." Topics include: Poetics, argument, and modes of address; evidence, authenticity, and persuasion; filmmaker/subject/audience nexus; historiography, hagiography, and memory; reflexive irony and performance.

Prerequisite: CIN105Y1
Exclusion: INI325Y1
Recommended Preparation: CIN201Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Creative and Cultural Representations (1) + Society and its Institutions (3)

CIN314Y1    Genre, Narrative and Narration in Film (formerly INI329Y1)[48L/72P]

Study of theoretical and analytical models of film genres and narratology; structuralist, cognitive, and semiotic approaches to filmic narration. Genres to be studied include: Westerns; crime films; gothic and fantastic; and art cinema.

Prerequisite: CIN105Y1
Exclusion: INI329Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Creative and Cultural Representations (1) + Thought, Belief and Behaviour (2)

CIN320H1    Special Topics in Genre and Modes (formerly INI396H1) [24L/24P]

Courses in special topics designed for Specialists and Majors in Cinema Studies. Past courses include: "Fantasy Film/Cinéma Fantastique," "B Movies and Cult Cinema," and "American Animation after 1950."

Prerequisite: CIN105Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

CIN410H1    Advanced Study in Genre and Modes (formerly INI460H1)[24P/24S]

See course description for CIN412H1 listed below.

Prerequisite: At least ten full-course equivalents, including CIN105Y1, CIN201Y1, CIN301Y1/ permission of instructor
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

CIN411H1    Advanced Study in Genre and Modes (formerly INI461H1) [24P/24S]

See course description for CIN412H1 listed below.

Prerequisite: At least ten full-course equivalents, including CIN105Y1, CIN201Y1, CIN301Y1/ permission of instructor
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

CIN412H1    Advanced Study in Genre and Modes (formerly INI462H1)[24P/24S]

Consideration of the status of a selected film genre from historical and theoretical perspectives.  Past seminars include: “Comedy,” “Melodrama,” “Film Noir,” and “The End in Cinema.”

Prerequisite: At least ten full-course equivalents including CIN105Y1, CIN201Y1, CIN301Y1/ permission of instructor
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

CIN420H1    Advanced Studies in Cinema (formerly INI482H1) [24P/24S]

Seminars in special topics designed for advanced Specialist and Major students in Cinema Studies.

Prerequisite: At least ten full-course equivalents, including CIN105Y1, CIN201Y1, CIN301Y1/ permission of instructor
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

Group C Courses: Social and Cultural Practices
CIN230H1    The Business of Film (formerly INI228H1) [36L/12T]

Examines cinema as a commercial enterprise, a technology and a formal system, with an emphasis on devising numerically-based approaches to amplify the study of cinema.

This course is a Breadth Category 3 course but has been specially-designed to fulfill the Quantitative Reasoning requirement for Cinema Studies Specialists and Majors.

Exclusion: INI228H1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities or Social Science course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

CIN330Y1    Feminist Approaches to Cinema (formerly INI323Y1) [48L/48P]

Gender politics of feminist film culture since the 1970s.  Topics include:  Apparatus theory and its legacy, models of spectatorship, feminist historiography, stardom, the cinematic (re)production of identity, the relationship between social movements and cinema; "postfeminism."

Prerequisite: CIN105Y1/ permission of instructor
Exclusion: INI323Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Creative and Cultural Representations (1) + Thought, Belief and Behaviour (2)

CIN332Y1    Screening Race (formerly INI327Y1)[48L/48P]

How race functions in cinema. Topics include: the foundational role of racial inscription and its expansion beyond the black/white paradigm; visual ethnography, 'the primitive,' and Orientalism; aboriginal media; the 'Black Atlantic' and Diaspora; Banlieu and exilic film practice and theory; border aesthetics; race and urban space; 'post-race'; and the evolving racial imaginary in the Obama era.

Prerequisite: CIN105Y1, CIN201Y1
Exclusion: INI327Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Creative and Cultural Representations (1) + Thought, Belief and Behaviour (2)

CIN334H1    The Origins of the Animation Industry, 1900-1950: A Technosocial History (formerly INI383H1)[24L/36P]

An introduction to early animation, considering its vaudeville roots, its industrialization, its emerging aesthetics and representational tropes. Examination of the early corpus of animation from 1900-1950 and in-depth study of the artistic, social and cultural milieux from which animation derived.

Prerequisite: CIN105Y1, CIN201Y1
Exclusion: INI383H1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

CIN340H1    Special Topics in Cinema as Social and Cultural Practice (formerly INI397H1)[24L/24P]

Courses in special topics designed for Specialists and Majors in Cinema Studies.

Prerequisite: CIN105Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

CIN349H1    Screenwriting (formerly INI388H1)[24S]

Students will develop screenwriting skills under the guidance of a renowned screenwriter-in-residence through a combination of writing workshops and individual consultations. Like the course, the Universal Screenwriter-in-Residence is a biannual appointment.

Prerequisite: CIN105Y1
Exclusion: INI388H1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

CIN430H1    Advanced Study in Cinema as Social and Cultural Practice (formerly INI463H1) [24P/24S]

See course description for CIN432H1 listed below.

Prerequisite: At least ten full-course equivalents, including CIN105Y1, CIN201Y1, CIN301Y1/ permission of instructor
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

CIN431H1    Advanced Study in Cinema as Social and Cultural Practice (formerly INI464H1) [24P/24S]

See course description for CIN432H1 listed below.

Prerequisite: At least ten full-course equivalents, including CIN105Y1, CIN201Y1, CIN301Y1/ permission of instructor
Breadth Requirement: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

CIN432H1    Advanced Study in Cinema as Social and Cultural Practice (formerly INI465H1)[24P/24S]

Consideration of cinema and its social relations.  Past seminars include: “American Independent Film,” “Children in the Movies,” “Sub-Saharan African Cinema,” “International Film Festivals” and “The Revolution Will/Will Not Be Televised.”

Prerequisite: At least ten full-course equivalents, including CIN105Y1, CIN201Y1, CIN301Y1/ permission of instructor
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

CIN440H1    Advanced Studies in Cinema (formerly INI483H1)[24P/24S]

Seminars in special topics designed for advanced Specialist and Major students in Cinema Studies.

Prerequisite: At least ten full-course equivalents, including CIN105Y1, CIN201Y1, CIN301Y1/ permission of instructor
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

Group D Courses: Theory and Criticism
CIN250Y1    Directors: Four Studies in Film Authorship (formerly INI224Y1 Great Directors)[48L/48P]

This course takes four selected directors' films and examines them analytically as the expression of their "personal visions." The purpose of the course is to apply and test the auteur theory in the context of concepts of film style and film conventions.

Prerequisite: CIN105Y1
Exclusion: INI224Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

CIN260H1    Selected Topics in Cinema Studies [12L/12T/36P]

Course on selected topics in Cinema Studies. Topics vary each year.

Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

CIN350Y1    Contemporary Screen Theory: Analog/ Digital (formerly INI330Y1)[48L/48P]

Analysis of contemporary screen cultures to assess the cinematic in our digital age.Topics include: assessing theoretical frameworks for understanding new forms of aesthetics and spectatorship within multimodal cross platform contexts of digital media; sound; medium specificity; comparison of cognitive and phenomenological models, with an emphasis on theories of bodily affect.

Prerequisite: CIN105Y1, CIN201Y1
Exclusion: INI330Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Creative and Cultural Representations (1) + Thought, Belief and Behaviour (2)

CIN352H1    Issues in Film Authorship I (formerly INI374H1)[24L/24P]

Advanced study of issues in film authorship through intensive examination of two major filmmakers.

Prerequisite: CIN105Y1
Exclusion: INI374H1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

CIN353H1    Issues in Film Authorship II (formerly INI375H1)[24L/24P]

Advanced study of issues in film authorship through intensive examination of one or more major filmmakers.

Prerequisite: CIN105Y1
Exclusion: INI375H1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

CIN360H1    Special Topics in Theory and Criticism (formerly INI394H1)[24L/24P]

Courses in special topics designed for Specialists and Majors in Cinema Studies.

Prerequisite: CIN105Y1, CIN201Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Thought, Belief and Behaviour (2)

CIN369H1    Critical Writing on Film (formerly INI384H1)[48L]

The practice of film criticism: studies of examples of journalistic and scholarly critical writing; practical sessions of process writing; and collaborative editing. Course includes regular film screenings.

Prerequisite: CIN105Y1 and one additional Cinema Studies full-course equivalent/ permission of the instructor
Exclusion: INI384H1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

CIN450H1    Advanced Study in Theory and Criticism (formerly INI466H1)[24P/24S]

See course description for CIN452H1 listed below.

Prerequisite: At least ten full-course equivalents, including CIN105Y1, CIN201Y1, CIN301Y1/ permission of instructor
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

CIN451H1    Advanced Study in Theory and Criticism (formerly INI467H1) [24P/24S]

See course description for CIN452H1 listed below.

Prerequisite: At least ten full-course equivalents, including CIN105Y1, CIN201Y1, CIN301Y1/ permission of instructor
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

CIN452H1    Advanced Study in Theory and Criticism (formerly INI468H1) [24P/24S]

Advanced study of select approaches to film theory and criticism. Past seminars include: “Corporeality and the Cinema,” “Godard,” “The Cinematic City: Urban Spaces in Film,” “Sound and Music in Film,”  and “Neoformalism.”

Prerequisite: At least ten full-course equivalents, including CIN105Y1, CIN201Y1, CIN301Y1/ permission of instructor
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

CIN460H1    Advanced Studies in Cinema (formerly INI484H1)[24P/24S]

Seminars in special topics designed for advanced Specialist and Major students in Cinema Studies.

Prerequisite: At least ten full-course equivalents, including CIN105Y1, CIN201Y1, CIN301Y1/ permission of instructor
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

Group E Courses: History and Nation
CIN270Y1    American Popular Film Since 1970 (formerly INI225Y1) [48L/24T/48P]

The examination of popular American cinema through its social, political, and commercial practices, and through the study of selected popular films from the 1970s to the present.

Exclusion: INI225Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Creative and Cultural Representations (1) + Society and its Institutions (3)

CIN370H1    Canadian Cinemas (formerly INI385H1)[24L/24P]

History and diversity of Canadian and Québécois cinemas. Analyses of film and critical frameworks examine how co-productions, multiculturalism, and post-national arguments are re-shaping the production and reception contexts of national cinema. Annual emphasis will be placed on one of the following topics:  the emergence of the feature film, documentary or experimental cinema.

Prerequisite: CIN105Y1
Exclusion: FCS391H1, INI385Y1, INI385H1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

CIN372Y1    Contemporary World Cinema (formerly INI380Y1)[48L/72P]

Major contemporary developments beyond Hollywood and European filmmaking, examining a select number of national/regional cinemas: Africa, Asia, Iran, India (Hindi cinema) and Latin America, outlining generic and stylistic conventions, cultural contexts, distribution networks and reception within a global economy.

Prerequisite: CIN105Y1
Exclusion: INI380Y1
Recommended Preparation: CIN201Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Creative and Cultural Representations (1) + Society and its Institutions (3)

CIN374Y1    American Filmmaking in the Studio Era (formerly INI324Y1)[24L/24T/72P]

Industrial, economic, ideological and aesthetic dimensions of the American studio era.

Prerequisite: CIN105Y1
Exclusion: INI324Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Creative and Cultural Representations (1) + Society and its Institutions (3)

CIN376Y1    Chinese Cinemas (formerly INI390Y1)[48L/72P]

Examination of recent Chinese films in their three production centres: The People's Republic of China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. Production, commercial and aesthetic trends and international reception; major auteurs and genres. Directors include Chen Kaige, Zang Yimou, Edward Yang, John Woo, and Wong Kar-Wai.

Prerequisite: CIN105Y1
Exclusion: INI390Y1
Recommended Preparation: CIN201Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Creative and Cultural Representations (1) + Society and its Institutions (3)

CIN378H1    Aspects of a National Cinema (formerly INI381H1)[24L/24P]

In-depth treatment of a national cinema. Past courses include: "British Cinema," "Australian and New Zealand Cinema" and "The Other Europe."

Prerequisite: CIN105Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

CIN379H1    Hungarian Cinema (formerly INI378H1)[24L/24P]

Examines historical trends, influential filmmakers, and social and cultural factors influencing the development of Hungarian cinema, assessing its impact within the context of Eastern Europe and internationally.

Prerequisite: CIN105Y1/ permission of instructor
Exclusion: INI381H1/F (2010) Aspects of a National Cinema: Hungarian Cinema, INI378H1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

CIN380H1    Special Topics in History and Nation (formerly INI395H1)[24P/24S]

Courses in special topics designed for Specialists and Majors in Cinema Studies. Past courses include: “Quebec Cinema.”

Prerequisite: CIN105Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

CIN389H1    The Logics of Canadian Television (formerly INI387H1)[24L/24P]

An overview and analysis of Canadian television's history, its current role within the so-called "multi-channel universe," and its future prospects within evolving delivery systems and changing consumption patterns. Issues include:  The CBC as official public broadcaster, the future of domestic production, the prospect for niche carriers, and the impact of the internet.

Prerequisite: CIN105Y1/ SMC291Y1/ permission of instructor
Exclusion: INI387H1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

CIN470H1    Advanced Study in History and Nation (formerly INI469H1) [24P/24S]

See course description for CIN472H1 listed below.

Prerequisite: At least ten full-course equivalents, including CIN105Y1, CIN201Y1, CIN301Y1/ permission of instructor
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

CIN471H1    Advanced Study in History and Nation (formerly INI470H1) [24P/24S]

See course description for CIN472H1 listed below.

Prerequisite: At least ten full-course equivalents, including CIN105Y1, CIN201Y1, CIN301Y1/ permission of instructor
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

CIN472H1    Advanced Study in History and Nation (formerly INI471H1) [24P/24S]

Seminars in historiography and questions of national cinema. Past seminars include: “Film Historiography,” “Early Cinema,” “Reviewing Hollywood Classicism,” “Women Pioneers” and “Emergent Technologies.”

Prerequisite: At least ten full-course equivalents, including CIN105Y1, CIN201Y1, CIN301Y1/ permission of instructor
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

CIN480H1    Advanced Studies in Cinema (formerly INI485H1)[24P/24S]

Seminars in special topics designed for advanced Specialist and Major students in Cinema Studies.

Prerequisite: At least ten full-course equivalents, including CIN105Y1, CIN201Y1, CIN301Y1/ permission of instructor
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

Group F Courses: Independent Studies
CIN490Y1    Independent Studies in Cinema (formerly INI476Y1)

See course description for CIN492H1 listed below. Ineligible for CR/NCR.

Prerequisite: At least ten full-course equivalents, including CIN105Y1, CIN201Y1, CIN301Y1/ permission of instructor
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

CIN491H1    Independent Studies in Cinema (formerly INI477H1)

See course description for CIN492H1 listed below. Ineligible for CR/NCR.

Prerequisite: At least ten full-course equivalents, including CIN105Y1, CIN201Y1, CIN301Y1/ permission of instructor
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

CIN492H1    Independent Studies in Cinema (formerly INI478H1)

Independent research projects devised by students and supervised by Cinema Studies faculty. Open to advanced Specialist and Major students in the Program. Submit applications to the Undergraduate Program Office: Fall 2013 courses, June1/ Winter 2014 courses, November 1/ Summer 2014 courses, April 1. Ineligible for CR/NCR.

Prerequisite: At least ten full-course equivalents, including CIN105Y1, CIN201Y1, CIN301Y1/ permission of instructor
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

Group G Courses: Cross-Listed

EAS242H1, EAS243H1EAS431H1, FCS310Y1, FCS331H1, FIN250H1, FIN260H1, GER250H1, GER261H1, HIS335H1, HIS345H1, HIS459H1, HIS460H1, HIS467H1, ITA240Y1, ITA340H1, ITA341H1, ITA347H1SLA225H1, SLA226H1, SLA333H1, SLA244H1, SLA424H1, SMC354H1, SMC355H1, SPA375H1, UNI325H1