Travel the globe with these MIT film courses
It’s the perfect time of year to get cozy and throw on a movie. Not only are the cold winter temperatures keeping you inside, but February 12 is Global Movie Day! Whether you’re interested in the making of movies, the history of movies, or the plain and simple watching of movies, we have some free MIT OpenCourseWare selections for you.
Film making
Introduction to Video with Prof. Joe Gibbons
Documenting Science Through Video and New Media with Prof. Christine Walley and Chris Boebel
The Film Experience with Prof. David Thorburn
Personal Narrative with Prof. Joe Gibbons
Philosophy of Film with Prof. Irving Singer
Producing Educational Videos with David Custer and Graham Gordon Ramsay
Special Topics in Cinematic Storytelling with Prof. Glorianna Davenport and Barbara Barry
Studies in Film with Prof. Alvin Kibel
Cinema around the world
Advanced Topics in Hispanic Literature and Film: The Films of Luis Buñuel with Prof. Elizabeth Garrels
Contemporary French Film and Social Issues with Catherine Clark
French Film Classics with Catherine Clark
Global Africa: Creative Cultures with Prof. M. Amah Edoh
Japanese Literature and Cinema with Prof. Ian Condry
Japan in the Age of the Samurai: History and Film with Aaron Moore
Shakespeare, Film and Media with Prof. Peter S. Donaldson
Topics in the Avant-Garde in Literature and Cinema with Prof. Charity Scribner
Topics in Indian Popular Culture: Spectacle, Masala, and Genre with Arundhati Banerjee
Visual Histories: German Cinema 1945 to Present with Prof. Bernd Widdig
Other topics in film
At the Limit: Violence in Contemporary Representation with Prof. Eugenie Brinkema
Islam/Media with Dr. Peter McMurray
Queer Cinema and Visual Culture with Dr. K.J. Surkan
The Rise of Film Noir with Dr. Martin Marks
Screen Women: Body Narratives in Popular American Film with Dr. Emily Fox-Kales and Dr. Suzanne Leonard
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