Pete Michael Smith

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Chief of Staff/Student Affairs
Institution:  
UMASS Amherst
Department:  
Student Affairs & Campus Life
Email Address:  
petesmith@umass.edu
Telephone:  
413-545-2300
Office Building:  
Whitmore Admin Building

Duncan P Newton-Gaines

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EDP Systems Analyst
Institution:  
UMASS Amherst
Department:  
A&F Information Technology
Additional Department:  
Student Affairs & Campus Life
Email Address:  
duncan.newton-gaines@umass.edu
Telephone:  
413-577-7287
Office Building:  
Berkshire House

Introduction to Film Studies

The nature and several functions of film, including narrative and nonnarrative approaches to film communication. Topics include: the components of film expression (composition, movement, editing, sound, setting, and acting); designs in screen narrative; film's relationship to other arts and media; and its role as an instrument of social reflection and change.

Race, Gender and the Sitcom

This course examines the situation comedy from sociological and artistic perspectives. We will seek, first of all, to understand how situation-comedy is a rich and dynamic meaning-producing genre within the medium of television. Secondly we will work to dissect narrative structures, and the genre's uses of mise-en-scene, cinematography/ videography, editing, and sound to create specific images of the family through social constructions of race, class, and gender.
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