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...credits will roll on film critic Elvis Mitchell’s first foray into academia today as students hand in their final papers for Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) 173x, “History of American Film Criticism...
Mitchell, who recently left his post as one of three film critics at The New York Times, will teach one course each in the VES department and the Department of African and African American Studies in spring 2005, as he did this term. In addition to VES 173x, he taught Afro-American Studies 183, “The African-American Experience in Film: 1930-1970,” this year, serving as a visiting lecturer in both departments...
Chair of the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures Eric Rentschler, who has been a key player in the recent development of Harvard’s film studies program, said Mitchell would teach a new VES course, tentatively titled “Film and Sound,” focusing on the role of music and other sound elements in cinema...
Though the undergraduate concentration track in film studies in VES was approved only this spring, its course offerings for next year are being finalized, Rentschler said...
Rodowick said that one of the biggest questions remaining to be answered as Harvard plans a graduate curriculum in film studies is how to balance the practice of filmmaking with its theory and criticism—a balance traditionally struck, if shakily, by the dual-natured VES department. In this, too, Rodowick—who Rentschler said earned “a sort of underground reputation among film studies people” with the experimental films he made as a student in Austin—has a broad range of experience...