Cinema Studies Institute


Faculty List

Professors Emeriti 
E.K. Armatage, PhD 
B.W. Testa, MA 

Professors 
C. Keil, PhD
B.C. Lim, PhD 
N. Sammond, PhD 

Associate Professors 
J. Cahill, PhD 
C. Columpar, PhD 
A. Fenner, PhD 
S.C. Richmond, PhD 
A. Zambenedetti, PhD 

Associate Professor, Teaching Stream 
K. Banning, MA 

Assistant Professors
N. Chan, PhD 
L.M. Cramer, PhD
B. Story, PhD 

Introduction

At the turn of the twentieth century cinema emerged as a new mass entertainment, an art form, a source of information, and a product of 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 assume a key role in moving-image culture. During its history, cinema has absorbed seismic 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 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, for almost five 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. 

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 innis.utoronto.ca.

Enquiries: Denise Ing, Undergraduate Program Assistant, Room 232AE, Innis College (416-978-8571), cinema.studies@utoronto.ca, or the Cinema Studies website, cinema.utoronto.ca.

Cinema Studies Institute Programs

Cinema Studies Specialist (Arts Program) - ASSPE0797

Enrolment Requirements:

This is a limited enrolment program. Students must have completed 4.0 credits and meet the requirements listed below to enrol.

Variable Minimum Grade
A minimum grade is needed for entry, and this minimum changes each year depending on available spaces and the number of applicants. The following courses must be completed:

CIN105Y1 or CIN201Y1

To ensure that students admitted to the program will be successful, applicants with a final grade lower than 70% will not be considered for admission. Please note that obtaining this minimum final grade does not guarantee admission to the program.

Completion Requirements:

(10.0 credits)

First Year:
CIN105Y1

Second Year:
CIN201Y1

Third Year:
CIN301Y1

Fourth Year:
1.0 credit from the following: CIN410H1, CIN411H1, CIN412H1, CIN420H1, CIN430H1, CIN431H1, CIN432H1, CIN440H1, CIN450H1, CIN451H1, CIN452H1, CIN460H1, CIN461H1, CIN470H1, CIN471H1, CIN472H1, CIN480H1

Second, Third and Fourth Year:
In addition, CIN230H1 or a 0.5 credit from Breadth Category 5; and at least 5.5 credits from Groups B through G, of which 3.0 credits must be at the 300/400-level, and a maximum of 2.0 credits can be from Group G: Cross-Listed

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

Group A: Foundations
CIN105Y1, CIN201Y1, CIN301Y1

Group B: Genre and Modes
CIN210H1, CIN211H1, CIN212H1, CIN213H1, CIN214H1, CIN215H1, CIN216H1, CIN310Y1, CIN312Y1, CIN314Y1, CIN320H1, CIN321H1, CIN322H1, CIN410H1, CIN411H1, CIN412H1, CIN420H1

Group C: Social and Cultural Practices
CIN230H1, CIN240H1, CIN330Y1, CIN332Y1, CIN334H1, CIN335H1, CIN336H1, CIN337H1, CIN338H1, CIN340H1, CIN341H1, CIN349H1, CIN430H1, CIN431H1, CIN432H1, CIN440H1

Group D: Theory and Criticism
CIN250Y1, CIN260H1, CIN352H1, CIN353H1, CIN360H1, CIN361H1, CIN362H1, CIN363H1, CIN364H1, CIN365H1, CIN366H1, CIN369H1, CIN450H1, CIN451H1, CIN452H1, CIN460H1, CIN461H1

Group E: History and Nation
CIN270Y1, CIN370H1, CIN371H1, CIN372Y1, CIN374Y1, CIN376Y1, CIN376Y0, CIN378H1, CIN378Y0, CIN379H1, CIN380H1, CIN381H1, CIN470H1, CIN471H1, CIN472H1, CIN480H1, FCS310Y1, GER251H1, ITA240Y1, ITA340H1, ITA341H1, ITA342H1, ITA345H1

Group F: Independent Studies
CIN490Y1, CIN491H1, CIN492H1

Group G: Cross-Listed
CLT355H1, EAS242H1, EAS243H1, EAS249H1, EAS278H1, EAS431H1, FCS392H1, FIN250H1, FIN260H1, GER250H1, HIS345H1, HIS459H1, HIS460H1, HIS467H1, JSU325H1, SLA226H1, SLA234H1, SLA333H1, SPA275H1

Note: Effective Fall 2021, courses associated with St. Michael's College's Celtic Studies program will have the new "CLT" designator.

Cinema Studies Major (Arts Program) - ASMAJ0797

Enrolment Requirements:

This is a limited enrolment program. Students must have completed 4.0 credits and meet the requirements listed below to enrol.

Variable Minimum Grade
A minimum grade is needed for entry, and this minimum changes each year depending on available spaces and the number of applicants. The following courses must be completed:

CIN105Y1 or CIN201Y1

To ensure that students admitted to the program will be successful, applicants with a final grade lower than 70% will not be considered for admission. Please note that obtaining this minimum final grade does not guarantee admission to the program.

Completion Requirements:

(7.0 credits)

First Year:
CIN105Y1

Second Year:
CIN201Y1

Third Year:
CIN301Y1

Fourth Year:
0.5 credit from the following: CIN410H1, CIN411H1, CIN412H1, CIN420H1, CIN430H1, CIN431H1, CIN432H1, CIN440H1, CIN450H1, CIN451H1, CIN452H1, CIN460H1, CIN461H1, CIN470H1, CIN471H1, CIN472H1, CIN480H1

Second, Third and Fourth Year:
In addition, CIN230H1 or 0.5 credit from Breadth Category 5; and at least 3.0 credits from Groups B through G, of which 2.0 credits must be at the 300/400-level, and only a maximum of 1.5 credits can be from Group G: Cross-Listed

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

Group A: Foundations
CIN105Y1, CIN201Y1, CIN301Y1

Group B: Genre and Modes
CIN210H1, CIN211H1, CIN212H1, CIN213H1, CIN214H1, CIN215H1, CIN216H1, CIN310Y1, CIN312Y1, CIN314Y1, CIN320H1, CIN321H1, CIN322H1, CIN410H1, CIN411H1, CIN412H1, CIN420H1

Group C: Social and Cultural Practices
CIN230H1, CIN240H1, CIN330Y1, CIN332Y1, CIN334H1, CIN335H1, CIN336H1, CIN337H1, CIN338H1, CIN340H1, CIN341H1, CIN349H1, CIN430H1, CIN431H1, CIN432H1, CIN440H1

Group D: Theory and Criticism
CIN250Y1, CIN260H1, CIN352H1, CIN353H1, CIN360H1, CIN361H1, CIN362H1, CIN363H1, CIN364H1, CIN365H1, CIN366H1, CIN369H1, CIN450H1, CIN451H1, CIN452H1, CIN460H1, CIN461H1

Group E: History and Nation
CIN270Y1, CIN370H1, CIN371H1, CIN372Y1, CIN374Y1, CIN376Y1, CIN376Y0, CIN378H1, CIN378Y0, CIN379H1, CIN380H1, CIN381H1, CIN470H1, CIN471H1, CIN472H1, CIN480H1, FCS310Y1, GER251H1, ITA240Y1, ITA340H1, ITA341H1, ITA342H1, ITA345H1

Group F: Independent Studies
CIN490Y1, CIN491H1, CIN492H1

Group G: Cross-Listed
CLT355H1, EAS242H1, EAS243H1, EAS249H1, EAS278H1, EAS431H1, FCS392H1, FIN250H1, FIN260H1, GER250H1, HIS345H1, HIS459H1, HIS460H1, HIS467H1, JSU325H1, SLA226H1, SLA234H1, SLA333H1, SPA275H1

Note: Effective Fall 2021, courses associated with St. Michael's College's Celtic Studies program will have the new "CLT" designator.

Cinema Studies Minor (Arts Program) - ASMIN0797

Enrolment Requirements:

This is a limited enrolment program. Students must have completed 4.0 credits and meet the requirements listed below to enrol.

Variable Minimum Grade
A minimum grade is needed for entry, and this minimum changes each year depending on available spaces and the number of applicants. The following courses must be completed:

CIN105Y1 or CIN201Y1

To ensure that students admitted to the program will be successful, applicants with a final grade lower than 70% will not be considered for admission. Please note that obtaining this minimum final grade does not guarantee admission to the program.

Completion Requirements:

(4.0 credits)

First Year:
CIN105Y1

Second Year:
CIN201Y1

Second, Third and Fourth Year:
2.0 credits from Groups A through G, of which 1.0 credit must be at the 300/400-level, and only a maximum 1.0 credit can be from Group G: Cross-Listed

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

Group A: Foundations
CIN105Y1, CIN201Y1, CIN301Y1

Group B: Genre and Modes
CIN210H1, CIN211H1, CIN212H1, CIN213H1, CIN214H1, CIN215H1, CIN216H1, CIN310Y1, CIN312Y1, CIN314Y1, CIN320H1, CIN321H1, CIN322H1, CIN410H1, CIN411H1, CIN412H1, CIN420H1

Group C: Social and Cultural Practices
CIN230H1, CIN240H1, CIN330Y1, CIN332Y1, CIN334H1, CIN335H1, CIN336H1, CIN337H1, CIN338H1, CIN340H1, CIN341H1, CIN349H1, CIN430H1, CIN431H1, CIN432H1, CIN440H1

Group D: Theory and Criticism
CIN250Y1, CIN260H1, CIN352H1, CIN353H1, CIN360H1, CIN361H1, CIN362H1, CIN363H1, CIN364H1, CIN365H1, CIN366H1, CIN369H1, CIN450H1, CIN451H1, CIN452H1, CIN460H1, CIN461H1

Group E: History and Nation
CIN270Y1, CIN370H1, CIN371H1, CIN372Y1, CIN374Y1, CIN376Y1, CIN376Y0, CIN378H1, CIN378Y0, CIN379H1, CIN380H1, CIN381H1, CIN470H1, CIN471H1, CIN472H1, CIN480H1, FCS310Y1, GER251H1, ITA240Y1, ITA340H1, ITA341H1, ITA342H1, ITA345H1

Group F: Independent Studies
CIN490Y1, CIN491H1, CIN492H1

Group G: Cross-Listed
CLT355H1, EAS242H1, EAS243H1, EAS249H1, EAS278H1, EAS431H1, FCS392H1, FIN250H1, FIN260H1, GER250H1, HIS345H1, HIS459H1, HIS460H1, HIS467H1, JSU325H1, SLA226H1, SLA234H1, SLA333H1, SPA275H1

Note: Effective Fall 2021, courses associated with St. Michael's College's Celtic Studies program will have the new "CLT" designator.


Cinema Studies Institute Courses

CIN105Y1 - Introduction to Film Study

Hours: 24L/24T/72P

Introduction to film form (including style and narration), different types of films, and popular approaches to the study of cinema. Topics include: narrative cinema, documentary, avant-garde, genre, authorship, ideology, and representation.

Exclusion: ENGB70H3, ENGB75H3, ENGB76H3, CIN101H5
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

CIN196H1 - Story Worlds and the Cinema

Hours: 24S

Films create story worlds, imaginary environments in which characters live and act, and where events, large and small, transpire. Some story worlds are elaborate, fanciful constructs (think of Disney’s animated films). Others stay close to reality (think of “docudramas”). But across the spectrum, all of them are framed by and provided with rules of time and space, of believable or impossible. This course offers an examination of selected story worlds from several periods of film history. Emphasis falls on the expansive story worlds of contemporary corporately-run media-franchise “universes,” like the cross-media “DC Universe.” Restricted to first-year students. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.

Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

CIN197H1 - School Daze

Hours: 24P/24S

This first-year foundation course is a survey of sound film (with a brief selection of silent shorts) on the topic of how popular cinemas have represented going to school. Looking at one film and one scholarly text a week, the course will offer an introduction to the close reading of film texts, reading and writing film criticism, and the fundamentals of film history. By engaging with only one film/reading per week, the course emphasizes depth over breadth. Texts for the course may include excerpts from Corrigan’s A Short Guide to Writing About Film, Sturken and Cartwright’s Practices of Looking, Staiger’s Interpreting Films, and Prince’s Movies and Meaning, along with selected criticism on the movies screened. Those films may include Zero for Conduct, Aparajito, Tom Brown’s School Days, Tea and Sympathy, If, Rock and Roll High School, Mean Girls, School Daze, Blackboard Jungle, or Lady Bird. Restricted to first-year students. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.

Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

CIN201Y1 - Film Cultures I: Art and Industry

Hours: 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
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1), Thought, Belief and Behaviour (2)

CIN210H1 - Horror Film

Hours: 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 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.

Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

CIN211H1 - Science Fiction Film

Hours: 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 science fiction films as popular genre texts, emphasizing the period between 1950 and the present.

Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

CIN212H1 - Cinema and Sensation I: Action/Spectacle

Hours: 12L/12T/36P

Action movies cement the dominance of commercial cinema, and they largely define the contemporary era of the blockbuster and CGI effects. This course examines the narrative modes and the extremes that action scenes reach, and it explores the commercial and social function of the genre. The course also traces Action's historic reach and global diversity to include its significant precursors and transnational forms that Action cinema takes on.

Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

CIN213H1 - Cinema and Sensation II: Sex

Hours: 12L/12T/36P

Erotic images and sounds have long featured in filmic pleasure and, for just as long, excited controversy. This course examines how sex is articulated on screen and how its regulation suggests broader themes and ideas. Topics include: obscenity laws and the history of film censorship, the eroticized aspects of conventional movies, art cinema, and "adult" erotic films.

Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

CIN214H1 - New Media Forms

Hours: 36L/12T

Introduction to the study of new and contemporary media forms, with a focus on aesthetic and moving-image media. Students will learn key concepts in digital media studies through close examination of historical and contemporary examples from art, cinema, video, and games. Course readings draw on interdisciplinary critical models from cinema studies, cultural studies, art history, and digital media studies.

Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

CIN215H1 - Fantasy Film

Hours: 12L/12T/36P

This course examines the development of the Fantasy imagination in cinema from the start of film production (i.e., Georges Méliès) through the classical era (i.e., Wizard of Oz) to the contemporary proliferation of Fantasy cinema (i.e., Lord of the Rings, Snow White and the Huntsman). Course includes study of Asian, European, and South American Fantasy films.

Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

CIN216H1 - Crime Film Traditions

Hours: 12L/12T/36P

Originating in the mid-19th century from journalistic accounts and detective stories, crime fiction has emerged as one of the dominant popular genres in the 20th century across a variety of media and platforms, from true crime dime novels to radio dramas, from hard-boiled literature to prestige television series. Rejuvenated in the 21st century by the consolidation of gaming culture and the rise of podcasting, crime narratives have expanded to transmediality, stretching the boundaries between fiction and documentary practices. In this context, the culturally porous and generically elastic crime film had remained one of the most enduring cinematic expressions of sociopolitical anxieties related to class, gender, race, and ethnicity. This course examines a selection of crime film traditions across various geographical areas and historical periods, investigating the resilience of this form from the silent period to the present day.

Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

CIN230H1 - The Business of Film

Hours: 36L/12T

Examines cinema as a commercial enterprise, emphasizing production, distribution, and exhibition and the political economy of North American film culture.

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

Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

CIN240H1 - Special Topics in Cinema Studies

Hours: 12L/12T/36P

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

Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

CIN250Y1 - Directors: Four Studies in Film Authorship

Hours: 48L/48P

This course takes four selected directors' films and examines them analytically and interpretively. 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
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

CIN260H1 - Selected Topics in Cinema Studies

Hours: 12L/12T/36P

Course on selected topics in Cinema Studies. Past topics include: "New Media."

Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

CIN270Y1 - American Popular Film Since 1970

Hours: 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.

Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1), Society and its Institutions (3)

CIN301Y1 - Film Cultures II: Politics and Global Media

Hours: 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 Wave cinemas, the politicization of theory, spectatorship, counter-cinemas, transnational film and “Global Hollywood”, and media theory from the analog to the digital.

Prerequisite: CIN105Y1, CIN201Y1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1), Thought, Belief and Behaviour (2)

CIN310Y1 - Avant-Garde and Experimental Film

Hours: 48L/72P

Avant-garde films, both canonical and marginal, are examined mainly in the context of modern art and poetry from the 1920s through the 1990s. Films include works from Europe, North America, and Japan. Art contexts range from Cubism, Dada, and Surrealism in the 1920s to Neo-Dada, Abstract Expressionism, Pop, and Postmodernism.

Prerequisite: CIN105Y1
Exclusion: ENGD91H3, CIN402H5
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

CIN312Y1 - Documentary Film

Hours: 48L/48P

Critical and historical survey of documentary practice, including cinema verité, ethnographic experiments, and various hybrid forms, with emphasis on the rhetorical, aesthetic, and political dimensions of the "art of record." Topics include: the filmmaker/subject/audience nexus; historiography, hagiography, and performance; and how emerging technology and new media platforms, evinced in the rise of documentary-based webdocs, i-docs, and webgames, affect the actual production and style of linear documentary, as well as impact earlier models of documentary exhibition, distribution, and viewer engagement alike.

Prerequisite: CIN105Y1
Exclusion: ENGD94H3
Recommended Preparation: CIN201Y1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1), Society and its Institutions (3)

CIN314Y1 - Genre, Narrative and Narration in Film

Hours: 48L/72P

Study of theoretical-analytical models of film genres, narrative form, and narration. Structuralist, cognitive-neoformalist, and historiographical approaches will be developed. Genres to be studied include: Westerns, musicals, crime films, biography films, gothic and fantastic films, and art cinema.

Prerequisite: CIN105Y1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1), Thought, Belief and Behaviour (2)

CIN320H1 - Special Topics in Genre and Modes

Hours: 24L/24P

Courses in special topics designed for Specialists and Majors in Cinema Studies. Past topics include: "Contemporary Screen Comedy," and "Eco-cinema: The Nature of Film."

Prerequisite: CIN105Y1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

CIN321H1 - Special Topics in Genre and Modes II

Hours: 24L/24P

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

Prerequisite: CIN105Y1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

CIN322H1 - Cult Cinema

Hours: 24L/24P

This course examines "cult" and "exploitation" cinema. It examines the growing popularity of cult/exploitation films as an emerging cinematic subculture that valorizes disreputable or "trash" cinema. A number of sub-genres within exploitation film, including teen films, educational/instructional films, sexploitation, and Blaxploitation, will be explored. The social politics of appropriating texts through ironic reading strategies will also be considered.

Prerequisite: CIN105Y1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

CIN330Y1 - Feminist Approaches to Cinema

Hours: 48L/48P

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

Prerequisite: CIN105Y1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1), Thought, Belief and Behaviour (2)

CIN332Y1 - Screening Race

Hours: 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, indigenous 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.

Prerequisite: CIN105Y1, CIN201Y1
Exclusion: FLMB80H3
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1), Thought, Belief and Behaviour (2)

CIN334H1 - The Origins of the Animation Industry, 1900-1950: A Technosocial History

Hours: 24L/36P

An introduction to early animation, considering its vaudeville roots, industrialization, 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
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

CIN335H1 - Animation after 1950

Hours: 24L/36P

This course examines the second fifty years of animation, first by marking Disney's shifting fortunes, then broadening the scope to take in its competitors here and abroad. The global nature of postwar animation has been an odd amalgam of competition and cooperation, of private and public funding, and of film, television, and eventually webcasting, and we will explore some of the changes the form has gone through in the past fifty years or so. Since this is a study of art and of commerce, and of high and low culture, we will view our limited history through the lenses of aesthetics, cultural practices, business decisions, and sometimes political struggle.

Prerequisite: CIN105Y1, CIN201Y1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

CIN336H1 - Queer Film and Media

Hours: 48L

This course focuses on queer film, television, and/or digital media. Approaches may include cultural, historical, analytical, critical, and theoretical methods. This course may focus on the representation of queer people in film in media, or film and/or media made by queer people, or both.

Prerequisite: CIN105Y1, or 1.0 credit from: SDS255H1, SDS256H1, SDS279H1, SDS355H1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

CIN337H1 - Black Cinema

Hours: 24L/24P

This course explores the cultural, aesthetic, technological, and political category of “Black cinema.” Across the diaspora, Black cinema is an artistic praxis that utilizes techniques like improvisation and collaboration in order to make and remake the cinematic archive. The films and filmmakers in this category intervene in cinematic histories by responding to exclusionary narratives, technologies, and critical discourse by imagining alternative stories, spaces, and temporalities. Thus, these films help articulate both the pervasiveness of anti-blackness in our visual culture and help us understand the difference (film) aesthetics can make (Chun, 2019).

Our goal is to 1) develop a critical language to discuss Black cinema (its techniques, its aims, and its political contexts) and 2) articulate research questions, methods, and arguments that consider what is happening inside and outside the frame in these films.

Prerequisite: CIN105Y1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

CIN338H1 - Environmental Media

Hours: 24L/24P

This course is interested in exploring the many relationships between media and the environment. We not only analyze the representations of environmentality in film, photography, video games, and digital media, but also the material entanglements of media technologies and infrastructures with environment—broadly defined. Adopting conceptual approaches in elemental, infrastructural, and architectural media studies, we seek to uncover and politicize media's troubled relationship with environmentality.

Prerequisite: CIN105Y1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

CIN340H1 - Special Topics in Cinema as Social and Cultural Practice

Hours: 24L/24P

Courses in special topics designed for Specialists and Majors in Cinema Studies. Past topics include: "History of Cinematography," and "Everyday Life in the Digital Age."

Prerequisite: CIN105Y1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

CIN341H1 - Special Topics in Cinema as Social and Cultural Practice II

Hours: 24L/24P

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

Prerequisite: CIN105Y1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

CIN349H1 - Screenwriting

Hours: 24S

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

Prospective students must submit an application form that will be found at Cinema Studies Institute Undergraduate Forms and provide a creative writing sample to the Cinema Studies Undergraduate Office by email to cinema.studies@utoronto.ca by April 30. A screenplay (or excerpt) is preferred, but a submission that the students feel best expresses their talent is also acceptable. The course instructor and/or Undergraduate Coordinator will assess student potential based on the writing samples to determine student eligibility to enrol in the course. Enrolment priority will be given to upper year Cinema Studies program students.

Prerequisite: CIN105Y1, CIN201Y1, and 2.0 additional CIN credits
Exclusion: VIC276H1, CRE276H1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

CIN352H1 - Issues in Film Authorship I

Hours: 24L/24P

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

Prerequisite: CIN105Y1
Exclusion: ENGD52H3, CIN206H5
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

CIN353H1 - Issues in Film Authorship II

Hours: 24L/24P

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

Prerequisite: CIN105Y1
Exclusion: ENGD52H3, CIN206H5
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

CIN360H1 - Special Topics in Theory and Criticism

Hours: 24L/24P

Courses in special topics designed for Specialists and Majors in Cinema Studies. Past topics include: "Cinema and Intermediality."

Prerequisite: CIN105Y1, CIN201Y1
Breadth Requirements: Thought, Belief and Behaviour (2)

CIN361H1 - Special Topics in Theory and Criticism II

Hours: 24L/24P

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

Prerequisite: CIN105Y1, CIN201Y1
Breadth Requirements: Thought, Belief and Behaviour (2)

CIN362H1 - Animals and Cinema

Hours: 24L/24P

This course explores cinema's century-long fascination with animals. Its investigations are organized around three central questions. First, what does cinema teach us about animals (why and how we look at animals on film, how we represent and understand animals through film, and what lessons we hope to gain from animals on film)? Second, what do animal films reveal or teach us about the cinema? Third, what are the aesthetic, theoretical, and ethical stakes of such encounters between animals and cinema?

Prerequisite: CIN105Y1, CIN201Y1
Breadth Requirements: Thought, Belief and Behaviour (2)

CIN363H1 - Ecocinema: The Nature of Film

Hours: 24L/24P

This course takes a broad approach to the growing field – sometimes termed “ecocinema” or “film ecology” – devoted to cinema’s relationship to the natural environment. We will consider that relationship through a combination of historical, textual, and theoretical analysis.

Prerequisite: CIN105Y1, CIN201Y1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

CIN364H1 - Theories of Media

Hours: 48L

In-depth history of humanistic theories of media and mediation, with a focus on aesthetics. Authors discussed may include Karl Marx, Walter Benjamin, Sigmund Freud, Marshall McLuhan, Friedrich Kittler, Donna Haraway, Bernard Stiegler, Katherine Hayles, and others. Includes substantial discussion of contemporary problems and authors in digital media studies and media theory. Includes extensive consideration of aesthetic forms, including animation, cinema, television, installation art, video games, net.art, and others.

Prerequisite: CIN105Y1
Recommended Preparation: CIN214H1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

CIN365H1 - Studies in Cinema and Media Practice

Hours: 24L/24P

This course uses research creation, critical making, digital humanities, videographic criticism, or other practice-based methods to the humanistic study of cinema and moving-image media. Students will pursue substantial research projects grounded in these approaches. Topics and methods vary by semester and instructor.

Prerequisite: CIN105Y1, CIN201Y1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

CIN366H1 - Durable Empires and Medias of Mass Culture

Hours: 24L/24P

Taking a deliberately broad view of “empire” to include formations of power under colonialism, nationalism, neoliberalism, and more, we seek to understand how visible and invisible structures of power define our world through cinematic and mediated forms. In particular, we are interested in how hegemony (and resistance) articulates with medias of mass culture. How do mass media such as cinema, television, the internet, and big data represent, disseminate, intercept, and/or resist imperial formations?

Prerequisite: CIN105Y1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

CIN369H1 - Critical Writing on Film

Hours: 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. This course is offered biannually.

Prospective students must submit an application form that will be found at Cinema Studies Institute Undergraduate Forms and provide a brief (one to two paragraphs) explanation of why they would like to take CIN369H1 to the Cinema Studies Undergraduate Office by email to cinema.studies@utoronto.ca by April 30. The course instructor and/or Undergraduate Coordinator will assess the applications to determine student eligibility to enrol in the course: prerequisites, program of study, and experience. Enrolment priority will be given to upper year Cinema Studies program students.

Prerequisite: CIN105Y1 and 1.0 additional CIN credit
Exclusion: ENGB71H3
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

CIN370H1 - Canadian Cinemas

Hours: 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, Québécois cinema, documentary, or experimental cinema.

Prerequisite: CIN105Y1
Exclusion: FCS391H1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

CIN371H1 - (New) Media Aesthetics

Hours: 48L

Investigates the theory and history of media technologies as sites of aesthetic investment in a wide variety of artistic practices, focusing on contemporary digital media work, including experimental cinema, gallery installation, net.art, and avant-garde videogames. One important emphasis lies in the aesthetic possibilities new (and newly inexpensive) media technologies have made available to marginalized artists, including especially women and queer artists. We will study the work of Maya Deren, John Cage, Tony Conrad, Yoko Ono, Jack Smith, Andy Warhol, Michael Snow, Marina Abramovic, Marlon Riggs, Felix Gonzales-Torres, Anna Anthropy, and others.

Prerequisite: CIN105Y1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

CIN372Y1 - Contemporary World Cinema

Hours: 48L/72P

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

Prerequisite: CIN105Y1
Exclusion: ENGC83H3
Recommended Preparation: CIN201Y1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1), Society and its Institutions (3)

CIN374Y1 - American Filmmaking in the Studio Era

Hours: 24L/24T/72P

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

Prerequisite: CIN105Y1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1), Society and its Institutions (3)

CIN376Y1 - Chinese Cinemas

Hours: 48L/72P

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

Prerequisite: CIN105Y1
Exclusion: CIN376Y0
Recommended Preparation: CIN201Y1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1), Society and its Institutions (3)

CIN376Y0 - Chinese Cinemas

Examination of Chinese films in their three post-World War II production centres: The People's Republic of China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. Includes study of Shanghai films of the 1930s and 1940s. Commercial, political, and aesthetic trends; international reception; major auteurs and genres (including melodrama, wuxia pian and crime films). Directors include Tsui Hark, Chen Kaige, Zang Yimou, John Woo, Wong Kar-Wai, Hou Hsiao-hsien, and Feng Xiaogang.

This course is offered through the Summer Abroad program.

Prerequisite: CIN105Y1
Exclusion: CIN376Y1
Recommended Preparation: CIN201Y1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1), Society and its Institutions (3)

CIN378H1 - Aspects of a National Cinema

Hours: 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
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

CIN378Y0 - Aspects of a National Cinema

This course offers a critical study of British film cultures, with an emphasis on British film genres, movements and cycles from the 1960s to the present day. Earlier representative works, to include the British documentary movement, will provide a foundation for a comparative study of contemporary British cinema. Major and minor film cultures will be studied in their institutional, social, and cultural contexts to include: the long standing tradition of British realism; the Free Cinema Movement; the “New Wave;” “Swinging London;” “Thatcherite” cinema, including its heritage, art cinema, Brit-grit and Black British iterations; in addition to the recent “lad boy” underclass cycle that reconfigures the traditional conceptualization of British cinema as strictly oppositional “realism or tinsel.” Debates pertinent to the way in which British films and relate to a shifting sense of national identity, towards examining the “Englishness” of British national cinema, will be highlighted.

This course is offered through the Summer Abroad program.

Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

CIN379H1 - Hungarian Cinema

Hours: 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
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

CIN380H1 - Special Topics in History and Nation

Hours: 24P/24S

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

Prerequisite: CIN105Y1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

CIN381H1 - Special Topics in History and Nation II

Hours: 24L/24P

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

Prerequisite: CIN105Y1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

CIN381Y1 - Special Topics in History and Nation

Hours: 48P/48S

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

Prerequisite: CIN105Y1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

CIN410H1 - Advanced Study in Genre and Modes

Hours: 24P/24S

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

Pre-enrolment balloting for 400-Level seminars will start in late May to early June, opening roughly five weeks before the July enrolment period begins. More information on balloting procedures, the balloting form and the submission deadline can be found in Cinema Studies Undergraduate Forms.

Prerequisite: At least 10.0 credits, including CIN105Y1, CIN201Y1
Corequisite: CIN301Y1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

CIN411H1 - Advanced Study in Genre and Modes

Hours: 24P/24S

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

Pre-enrolment balloting for 400-Level seminars will start in late May to early June, opening roughly five weeks before the July enrolment period begins. More information on balloting procedures, the balloting form and the submission deadline can be found in Cinema Studies Undergraduate Forms.

Prerequisite: At least 10.0 credits, including CIN105Y1, CIN201Y1
Corequisite: CIN301Y1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

CIN412H1 - Advanced Study in Genre and Modes

Hours: 24P/24S

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

Pre-enrolment balloting for 400-Level seminars will start in late May to early June, opening roughly five weeks before the July enrolment period begins. More information on balloting procedures, the balloting form and the submission deadline can be found in Cinema Studies Undergraduate Forms.

Prerequisite: At least 10.0 credits, including CIN105Y1, CIN201Y1
Corequisite: CIN301Y1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

CIN420H1 - Advanced Studies in Cinema

Hours: 24P/24S

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

Pre-enrolment balloting for 400-Level seminars will start in late May to early June, opening roughly five weeks before the July enrolment period begins. More information on balloting procedures, the balloting form and the submission deadline can be found in Cinema Studies Undergraduate Forms.

Prerequisite: At least 10.0 credits, including CIN105Y1, CIN201Y1
Corequisite: CIN301Y1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

CIN430H1 - Advanced Study in Cinema as Social and Cultural Practice

Hours: 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,” “Interactive Documentary,” “Graphic!," “The Revolution Will/Will Not Be Televised,” "Social Problem Films," and "Programming and Curation."

Pre-enrolment balloting for 400-Level seminars will start in late May to early June, opening roughly five weeks before the July enrolment period begins. More information on balloting procedures, the balloting form and the submission deadline can be found in Cinema Studies Undergraduate Forms.

Prerequisite: At least 10.0 credits, including CIN105Y1, CIN201Y1
Corequisite: CIN301Y1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

CIN431H1 - Advanced Study in Cinema as Social and Cultural Practice

Hours: 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,” “Interactive Documentary,” “Graphic!," “The Revolution Will/Will Not Be Televised,” "Social Problem Films," and "Programming and Curation."

Pre-enrolment balloting for 400-Level seminars will start in late May to early June, opening roughly five weeks before the July enrolment period begins. More information on balloting procedures, the balloting form and the submission deadline can be found in Cinema Studies Undergraduate Forms.

Prerequisite: At least 10.0 credits, including CIN105Y1, CIN201Y1
Corequisite: CIN301Y1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

CIN432H1 - Advanced Study in Cinema as Social and Cultural Practice

Hours: 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,” “Interactive Documentary,” “Graphic!," “The Revolution Will/Will Not Be Televised,” "Social Problem Films," and "Programming and Curation."

Pre-enrolment balloting for 400-Level seminars will start in late May to early June, opening roughly five weeks before the July enrolment period begins. More information on balloting procedures, the balloting form and the submission deadline can be found in Cinema Studies Undergraduate Forms.

Prerequisite: At least 10.0 credits, including CIN105Y1, CIN201Y1
Corequisite: CIN301Y1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

CIN433Y1 - Sensory Ecologies: Theory and Praxis in Environmental Media Studies

Hours: 48P/48S

Practitioners of environmental filmmaking struggle with a fundamental challenge: how to represent the dimensionality, and immersivity of the so-called natural world within the flat space and linear temporalities of the cinematic medium. These challenges resonate with larger questions about loss, extinction, and degradation; one cannot capture what is now disappeared, elusive, or destroyed. What then, should the role of media be amid a period of environmental ruination? This experiential learning course seeks to investigate these questions, and more. Through a combination of praxis and theory, students will collaborate with community partners on a series of applied learning outcomes.

Pre-enrolment balloting for 400-Level seminars will start in late May to early June, opening roughly five weeks before the July enrolment period begins. More information on balloting procedures, the balloting form and the submission deadline can be found in Cinema Studies Undergraduate Forms.

Prerequisite: CIN105Y1, CIN201Y1
Corequisite: CIN301Y1
Recommended Preparation: As media making is a component of this course, basic skills in media production (e.g. basic shooting with a camera/smartphone and editing) is a prerequisite. Classes will sometimes be conducted off campus so students should be flexible and able to travel.
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

CIN440H1 - Advanced Studies in Cinema

Hours: 24P/24S

Seminars in special topics designed for advanced Specialist and Major students in Cinema Studies. Past seminars include: "Experiential Learning."

Pre-enrolment balloting for 400-Level seminars will start in late May to early June, opening roughly five weeks before the July enrolment period begins. More information on balloting procedures, the balloting form and the submission deadline can be found in Cinema Studies Undergraduate Forms.

Prerequisite: At least 10.0 credits, including CIN105Y1, CIN201Y1
Corequisite: CIN301Y1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

CIN450H1 - Advanced Study in Theory and Criticism

Hours: 24P/24S

Advanced study of select approaches to film theory and criticism. Past seminars include: “Corporeality and the Cinema,” “The Cinematic City: Urban Spaces in Film,” “Sound and Music in Film,” “Expanded Cinema,” “Digital Cinema,” and "Cinema and Architecture: Scenes, Screens, Studios."

Pre-enrolment balloting for 400-Level seminars will start in late May to early June, opening roughly five weeks before the July enrolment period begins. More information on balloting procedures, the balloting form and the submission deadline can be found in Cinema Studies Undergraduate Forms.

Prerequisite: At least 10.0 credits, including CIN105Y1, CIN201Y1
Corequisite: CIN301Y1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

CIN451H1 - Advanced Study in Theory and Criticism

Hours: 24P/24S

Advanced study of select approaches to film theory and criticism. Past seminars include: “Corporeality and the Cinema,” “The Cinematic City: Urban Spaces in Film,” “Sound and Music in Film,” “Expanded Cinema,” “Digital Cinema,” and "Cinema and Architecture: Scenes, Screens, Studios."

Pre-enrolment balloting for 400-Level seminars will start in late May to early June, opening roughly five weeks before the July enrolment period begins. More information on balloting procedures, the balloting form and the submission deadline can be found in Cinema Studies Undergraduate Forms.

Prerequisite: At least 10.0 credits, including CIN105Y1, CIN201Y1
Corequisite: CIN301Y1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

CIN452H1 - Advanced Study in Theory and Criticism

Hours: 24P/24S

Advanced study of select approaches to film theory and criticism. Past seminars include: “Corporeality and the Cinema,” “The Cinematic City: Urban Spaces in Film,” “Sound and Music in Film,” “Expanded Cinema,” “Digital Cinema,” and "Cinema and Architecture: Scenes, Screens, Studios."

Pre-enrolment balloting for 400-Level seminars will start in late May to early June, opening roughly five weeks before the July enrolment period begins. More information on balloting procedures, the balloting form and the submission deadline can be found in Cinema Studies Undergraduate Forms.

Prerequisite: At least 10.0 credits, including CIN105Y1, CIN201Y1
Corequisite: CIN301Y1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

CIN460H1 - Advanced Studies in Cinema

Hours: 24P/24S

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

Pre-enrolment balloting for 400-Level seminars will start in late May to early June, opening roughly five weeks before the July enrolment period begins. More information on balloting procedures, the balloting form and the submission deadline can be found in Cinema Studies Undergraduate Forms.

Prerequisite: At least 10.0 credits, including CIN105Y1, CIN201Y1
Corequisite: CIN301Y1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

CIN461H1 - Advanced Study in Cinema and Media Practice

Hours: 24L/24P

This seminar uses research creation, critical making, digital humanities, videographic criticism, or other practice-based methods to the humanistic study of cinema and moving-image media, at an advanced level. Students will pursue advanced research projects grounded in these approaches. Topics and methods vary by semester and instructor. This seminar is designed for advanced Specialist and Major students in Cinema Studies, but it does not presume prior practice-based knowledge.

Pre-enrolment balloting for 400-Level seminars will start in late May to early June, opening roughly five weeks before the July enrolment period begins. More information on balloting procedures, the balloting form and the submission deadline can be found in the Cinema Studies Undergraduate Forms.

Prerequisite: 10.0 credits, including CIN105Y1 and CIN201Y1
Corequisite: CIN301Y1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

CIN470H1 - Advanced Study in History and Nation

Hours: 24P/24S

Seminars in historiography and questions of national cinema. Past seminars include: “Film Historiography,” “Early Cinema,” “Reviewing Hollywood Classicism,” “Women Pioneers,” “Local Film Cultures: Toronto Sites and Scenes,” and “Debating Transnational Cinema."

Pre-enrolment balloting for 400-Level seminars will start in late May to early June, opening roughly five weeks before the July enrolment period begins. More information on balloting procedures, the balloting form and the submission deadline can be found in Cinema Studies Undergraduate Forms.

Prerequisite: At least 10.0 credits, including CIN105Y1, CIN201Y1
Corequisite: CIN301Y1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

CIN471H1 - Advanced Study in History and Nation

Hours: 24P/24S

Seminars in historiography and questions of national cinema. Past seminars include: “Film Historiography,” “Early Cinema,” “Reviewing Hollywood Classicism,” “Women Pioneers,” “Local Film Cultures: Toronto Sites and Scenes,” and “Debating Transnational Cinema."

Pre-enrolment balloting for 400-Level seminars will start in late May to early June, opening roughly five weeks before the July enrolment period begins. More information on balloting procedures, the balloting form and the submission deadline can be found in Cinema Studies Undergraduate Forms.

Prerequisite: At least 10.0 credits, including CIN105Y1, CIN201Y1
Corequisite: CIN301Y1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

CIN472H1 - Advanced Study in History and Nation

Hours: 24P/24S

Seminars in historiography and questions of national cinema. Past seminars include: “Film Historiography,” “Early Cinema,” “Reviewing Hollywood Classicism,” “Women Pioneers,” “Local Film Cultures: Toronto Sites and Scenes,” and “Debating Transnational Cinema."

Pre-enrolment balloting for 400-Level seminars will start in late May to early June, opening roughly five weeks before the July enrolment period begins. More information on balloting procedures, the balloting form and the submission deadline can be found in Cinema Studies Undergraduate Forms.

Prerequisite: At least 10.0 credits, including CIN105Y1, CIN201Y1
Corequisite: CIN301Y1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

CIN480H1 - Advanced Studies in Cinema

Hours: 24P/24S

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

Pre-enrolment balloting for 400-Level seminars will start in late May to early June, opening roughly five weeks before the July enrolment period begins. More information on balloting procedures, the balloting form and the submission deadline can be found in Cinema Studies Undergraduate Forms.

Prerequisite: At least 10.0 credits, including CIN105Y1, CIN201Y1
Corequisite: CIN301Y1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

CIN490Y1 - Independent Studies in Cinema

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 Cinema Studies Undergraduate Office prior to requesting enrolment: Fall term courses, June 1/ Winter term courses, November 1/ Summer term courses, April 1. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.

Prerequisite: At least 10.0 credits, including CIN105Y1, CIN201Y1, CIN301Y1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

CIN491H1 - Independent Studies in Cinema

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 Cinema Studies Undergraduate Office prior to requesting enrolment: Fall term courses, June 1/ Winter term courses, November 1/ Summer term courses, April 1. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.

Prerequisite: At least 10.0 credits, including CIN105Y1, CIN201Y1, CIN301Y1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

CIN492H1 - Independent Studies in Cinema

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 Cinema Studies Undergraduate Office prior to requesting enrolment: Fall term courses, June 1/ Winter term courses, November 1/ Summer term courses, April 1. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.

Prerequisite: At least 10.0 credits, including CIN105Y1, CIN201Y1, CIN301Y1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

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