2025 Fall

FILM 145 003 - LEC 003

Global Media

Israeli Cinema and Media Cultures

Aug 27, 2025 - Dec 12, 2025

05:00 pm - 07:59 pm

Dwinelle 142

Class #:33712

Units: 4

Instruction Mode: In-Person Instruction

Offered through Film and Media

Current Enrollment

Total Open Seats: 21

Enrolled: 24

Waitlisted: 1

Capacity: 45

Waitlist Max: 15

Open Reserved Seats:

10 reserved for New Letters & Sciences Transfer Students

11 reserved for Film Majors

3 hours of instructor presentation of course materials per week, 9 to 6 hours of outside work hours per week, and 0 to 3 hours of instructional experiences requiring special laboratory equipment and facilities per week.

Course Catalog Description

This course will focus on topics in national, transnational, and global cinema, television, photography, and/or new media.

Class Description

Aner Preminger, 2025–2026 Koret Visiting Professor in Israel Studies at the Helen Diller Institute; Associate Professor, Faculty of Social Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Professor, Department of Film and Television, Sapir Academic College This course explores the development of Israeli cinema throughout the 20th century, placing it in dialogue with international film history. It examines the work of influential figures such as Dziga Vertov, Jean-Luc Godard, and Krzysztof Kieslowski, alongside contemporary forms of social media. Students will study both experimental and popular films, considering a range of perspectives from diverse filmmakers engaged in Israeli cinema and media. The course will address how these works reflect and respond to social and political conflicts, emerging alliances, and communal solidarities. Special attention will be given to the local and specific impacts of cinema and media on society.