Special Topics: Love Stories
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Course Long Title
Special Topics: Love Stories
Subject Code
FFDP
Course Number
457
School(s)
Program(s)
Film Directing
Academic Level
UG - Undergraduate
Description
This class will focus on stories of love as told on film; love is a word that means everything and
nothing at all. Love is politic, desire, obsession, belief; it is a paradox, one that
continually contradicts its expectations. The class will examine how one describes the
indescribable, films unique ability to speak to the ineffable. Most of all, love is dynamic, and
requires a description of the exchange between people. It is seen in the most unlikely of
gestures and exchanges. The class will focus on the ways a filmmaker depicts the substance of
human relations, and how one articulates such moments. It will also focus on the dynamics and politics of human interactions, and the exchange of love and sex, especially as depicted in film.
The class will be small and seminar based; students will be responsible for presentations
throughout, organized around discussion topics. Films watched and discussed will draw on both fiction and documentary work; screenings will be supplemented with reading and writing exercises throughout, as well as work from other mediums.
nothing at all. Love is politic, desire, obsession, belief; it is a paradox, one that
continually contradicts its expectations. The class will examine how one describes the
indescribable, films unique ability to speak to the ineffable. Most of all, love is dynamic, and
requires a description of the exchange between people. It is seen in the most unlikely of
gestures and exchanges. The class will focus on the ways a filmmaker depicts the substance of
human relations, and how one articulates such moments. It will also focus on the dynamics and politics of human interactions, and the exchange of love and sex, especially as depicted in film.
The class will be small and seminar based; students will be responsible for presentations
throughout, organized around discussion topics. Films watched and discussed will draw on both fiction and documentary work; screenings will be supplemented with reading and writing exercises throughout, as well as work from other mediums.