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Welcome to the Program in Comparative Literature at the University of Oregon. We have a unique major for undergraduates, a wide-ranging array of courses for undergraduates and graduate students, and a dynamic faculty representing disciplines across campus. Oregon is also the home of the principal journal in the field, Comparative Literature, which recently celebrated its fiftieth anniversary.
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Visual StudiesThe Program in Comparative Literature is delighted to offer COLT 103 with our newest faculty member, Prof. Michael Allan. COLT 103 will be taught Spring Term MWF 1-2 and may be taken independently from COLT 101 and COLT 102. COLT 103 satisfies both the Arts and Letters and the Multicultural (IC=International Cultures) General Education requirements. [See description below] COTL 103: Thinking Through Cinema
This course explores both how different critics have thought about cinema and how cinema, in turn, alters thinking. We will combine the analysis of key essays in visual studies with specific films, photographs, and videos, and ultimately blur the distinction between criticism and production. The quarter will be divided into three parts, each of which touches upon a specific aspect of visual thinking. The first section will address the spectacle of attraction in early and avant-garde cinema; the second will focus on theories of the image (in Benjamin, Bazin, Eisenstein, and Barthes); and the third will analyze visual pleasure from art house cinema to the slasher film. [4 credits] |
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