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Program allows students
to major in film studies
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By Mark Lage
Staff Repour-1
Despite having no department
and no specific major, film stud
ies and film production classes
are popular at the University of
Ncbraska LincoJn, June Levine
said, a film studies professor in
the English department.
“It’s the art of our time, ami
most students enjoy film classes
very much,* Levine said.
Specific film study goes no
higher than a minor, but students
can, through the Integrated Stud
ies Program, create their own 50
hour film major. Thisinvolvesjust
about everything on the minor
list, Levine said.
For there urbe a specific film
major, there would have to be a
separate film department, and in
this “money has always been the
curtailing factor," Levine said.
"There is a genuine student inter
est.*
The film courses at UNL are
housed in the art and English
departments. In the art depart
ment are the film production
courses, taught by Wheeler
Dixon, avssociate professor of
English and art and head of the
film department, while the Eng
lish department has film studies
and screenwriting courses,
taught by Professors Dixon, Lev
ine, and Oyekan Owomoyela. *
However, Levine said, llie In
tegrated Studies film major pro
grams are not just film courses.
But are in large part made up of
sufficiently related courses, from
a variety of other departments.
These include theatre technical
courses, video production
classes from the journalism de
partment, aesthetics courses
from philosophy, still photogra
phy courses from history, history
of media courses from Engltsn
and journalism, and recording
studio courses from music
Someone interested in becom
ing a film student ought to fust of
all “love movies," Levine said.
But, she added, they must be
open to a wider diversity than just
Hollywood film of the Eighties, as
they will be taught a broad, mufck
geare program, including silent,
Foreign and documentary film, as
well as contemporary fictional
film. A student must also be able
to make a serious time commit
ment to film study.
•It’s more time-consuming
than most students realize," she
said.
After graduation from UNL,
most film students follow one of
two routes. Some go on to gradu
ate school at places like univer
sity of California at Los Angeles,
University of Southern California,
New York University, Columbia
University, University of Iowa
and University of Texas at Austin,
where they specify in either film
production or film studies. Other
students attempt to go straight to
the industry, into either televi
sion production or independent
film production.
The variety of film courses
obviously leads to a variety of
different focuses, but Levine said ■
that she has her own general
focus.
'1 stress how film a fleets us and
our responses, emotions, and
ideas," she said. She asks her
students “what it is in films, in
their structure and their lan
guage, that manipulates us into
our particular responses.”
Levine said that she doesn’t
know enough about other
nearby universities’ film pro
grams to make comparisons, but
she did classify UNLfs program as
"very small.”
"The bulk of the teaching is
done by two people — Levine
and Dixon," she said.
But, given the small financial
commitment to the program, she
said that the students have done
well. The program has attracted
some excellent students, as well
as sending a number of students
to first-rate graduate schools, or
straight into the industry.
A Dig plus for llNL film stu
dents is what Levine called the
“wonderful facility" at Sheldon.
“Sheldon is simply one of the
best art-movie houses in the
country," Levine said. "People
from all over the country know
about it."
She also praised its diversity,
as well as Us location on the cut
ting edge of film.
"Sheificn is a great facility rot
only for the film students, but for
(he entire student body."
