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STAR E-114 Prints, Presses, and Other Impressions
January session, Section 1 (23565)
Zachary C. Sifuentes, MFA, Preceptor in Expository Writing and Visiting Lecturer on Visual and Environmental Studies, Harvard University.
6-9 pm, beginning Tuesday, Jan. 3. Week 1: T, W, Th. Week 2: M, T, W, Th. Week 3: T, W, Th.
Course tuition: undergraduate credit $1,150, graduate credit $1,900.
Limited enrollment.
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January session, Section 2 (23714)
Zachary C. Sifuentes, MFA, Preceptor in Expository Writing and Visiting Lecturer on Visual and Environmental Studies, Harvard University.
Noon-3 pm, beginning Tuesday, Jan. 3. Week 1: T, W, Th. Week 2: M, T, W, Th. Week 3: T, W, Th.
Course tuition: undergraduate credit $1,150, graduate credit $1,900.
Limited enrollment.
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This course meets in the Bow & Arrow Press, a vintage letterpress studio in the basement of an undergraduate house in the university, where we explore the wide panorama of prints, presses, and impressions of contemporary art making. Our projects include animating lines of poetry and prose, making palimpsests and poster art, and molding handmade paper into some of our favorite words. We use hand-cranked machines, lead letters, and rubber inks to test the three-dimensional potential of an otherwise flat expanse of paper. In doing so, this course aims to turn common language into an impressionistic art. (4 credits)
STAR E-116 Works on Paper
Fall term (13433)
Annette R. Lemieux, BFA, Professor of the Practice of Studio Arts, Harvard University.
Wednesdays beginning Aug. 31, 7:35-9:35 pm.
Course tuition: undergraduate credit $1,150, graduate credit $1,900.
Limited enrollment.
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This course introduces artists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries who use a variety of themes, approaches, and techniques for the creation of works on paper. Students create works on paper for critique that reflect this expansive and experimental view of drawing itself. (4 credits)
STAR E-117 Contemporary Drawing Practice
Spring term (23621)
Annette R. Lemieux, BFA, Professor of the Practice of Studio Arts, Harvard University.
Wednesdays beginning Jan. 25, 7:35-9:35 pm.
Course tuition: undergraduate credit $1,150, graduate credit $1,900.
Limited enrollment.
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Via image presentations and essays, students are introduced to contemporary artists who use drawing as their primary medium. Students create works on paper for critique that reflect the diversity of themes, formats, and materials being practiced today. (4 credits)
STAR E-170/W History of Film: The First Half Century
Spring term (23585)
Charles Warren, PhD, Lecturer on Film, Boston University.
Tuesdays beginning Jan. 24, 6-9:30 pm.
Course tuition: noncredit $650, undergraduate credit $975, graduate credit $1,900.
Writing-intensive course.
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This course is a survey of important films, directors, and movements from the 1890s to the 1950s that includes the work of Griffith, Chaplin, Eisenstein, Vertov, Murnau, Lang, Renoir, Buñuel, Hitchcock, Welles, Rossellini, De Sica, Ozu, Ray, and others. The class studies individual films in depth and students develop skills for film analysis and criticism. (4 credits)
STAR E-176 Nazi Cinema: Hitler's Hit Parade
Fall term (13396)
Eric Rentschler, PhD, Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University.
Course tuition: noncredit $1,025, undergraduate credit $1,025, graduate credit $1,950.
Online only, beginning Sept 1. Optional sections to be arranged. Lecture 1 video.
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When we think about the Third Reich, we cannot help but think of the violence and devastation inflicted upon millions by Adolf Hitler and the German people. We also recall well-known images of fanatic believers hallowing their charismatic leader in monumental demonstrations of self-surrender. To this day, Nazi Germany abides in collective memories as a site of mass murder and mass manipulation. This course focuses, however, on a third element that most of us do not so immediately associate with National Socialism, namely mass culture and its key role in history's first media dictatorship. We analyze seminal films of the Third Reich as popular commodities, ideological constructs, aesthetic artifacts, and historical entities. In so doing we seek to comprehend how the fantasy ware of the Hitler era functioned within the larger contexts of state terror, world war, and genocide. We are also concerned with the enduring afterlife of Nazi sights and sounds, especially their presence in contemporary popular culture. The recorded lectures are from the 2009 Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences course Foreign Cultures 76. (4 credits)

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