The Yale Summer Film Institute

Charles Musser, Director

Yale's Film Studies Program and Yale Summer Session will once again offer in 2008 a selection of outstanding courses by some of the university's most esteemed faculty members. Many of these classes are in such demand during the regular school year that only Film Studies majors have been able to gain admittance. Now they are open to all on a first come, first serve basis. Courses also take advantage of the summer format to provide students with intensive and focused experiences impossible to achieve during the regular school year.

 

Course Overview:

SESSION A: June 2 - July 4, 2008

FILM S-171, Horror Film
FILM S-180, The Hollywood Novel and the Hollywood Movie
FILM S-208, The Business of Film

FILM S-228, Film Noir and the American Cinema of the 1940s
FILM S-350, Screenwriting
FILM S-435, Television and Crime

 

boardSIX WEEK FILM WORKSHOP
June 16 - July 24, 2008

FILM S-202, Intensive Filmmaking Workshop
FILM S-203, Acting in Film

SESSION B: July 7 - August 8, 2008

FILM S-168, Action Cinema: Hollywood to Asia and Back Again
FILM S-247/AMST S-449/HIST S-187, Film, Video, and American History
FILM S-439, Television Situation Comedy

AND ABROAD...

FILM S-143/CZEC S-243, Prague Film and Fiction (in Czech Republic)
FILM S-153, Paris and the Cinema (in France)
FILM S-191, Japanese Cinema and Culture (in Tokyo)

Full Course Descriptions

 

lightSelected Faculty:

Peggy Flood is a classically trained actor who has appeared on Broadway, in film (Herman USA, Gabriel's Run) and television (Gilmore Girls, Law and Order). She has been teaching a course on film acting technique in the Summer Film Institute since 2003.

Suzanne O'Malley is a writer of Law & Order, Law & Order SVU, and New York Undercover. She produced the documentary UNBORN IN THE USA: Inside the War on Abortion (2007). Her most recent book is the Edgar-nominated Are You There Alone?: The Unspeakable Crime of Andrea Yates (2004). She is a member of the Writers, Dramatists, and Screen Actors Guilds. She writes a weekly blog for The Huffington Post.com. For more info see www.suzanneomalley.com.

Marc Lapadula produced Angel Passing starring Hume Cronyn and Teresa Wright; the award-winning short premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and won the grand prize at World Fest Houston. His plays have been produced regionally, off-off Broadway, and in England. He regularly teaches screenwriting for Yale's Film Studies Program on the introductory and advanced levels. 

Sandra Luckow, producer/writer/director of award-winning documentaries (including Belly Talkers for Miramax) as well as narrative shorts (Uptown Express), directed One Life to Live and is a member of the Director's Guild of America. She teaches filmmaking for Yale's School of Art during the academic year.

Charles Musser, author of The Emergence of Cinema (1990) and other award-winning books as well as documentary films, has worked extensively in Hollywood. He is currently co-chair of Yale's Film Studies Program.

Alan Trachtenberg, an emeritus professor of English and American Studies, has taught courses on film noir in America for some twelve years at Yale and elsewhere. His most recent book is Shades of Hiawatha: Staging Indians, Making Americans, 1880-1930.

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