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YORK UNIVERSITY
Faculty of Fine Arts Film Department
The Faculty of Fine Arts at York University offers Honours degree programmes in all areas of the Fine Arts — Film, Dance, Theatre, Music and Visual Arts. Studies in these areas combine theoretical and practical work. Students may major specifically in one area of the Fine Arts, or take a general programme spanning the disciplines.
The following is information pertaining to the Department of Film. More information can be obtained by writing to
the address below.
The Faculty
James Beveridge, Professor and Chairman of the Dept., B.A. University of British Columbia. Prof. Beveridge, formerly Professor of Film at the Institute of Film and Television, New York University, has produced and directed numerous documentary films in Canada and India.
He was Executive producer and Secretary of Production at the National Film Board of Canada, in Ottawa, and London, and served as moderator of CBC's Public Affairs television program “Let's Face It” in Montreal. He produced a series of documentaries in India for the Burmah-Shell Oil Company and served thereafter as director of the North Carolina Film Board to develop educational and documentary production within the state. He was a UNESCO expert consultant at seminars on Documentary Film Production in Asia, in Teheran and Poona, and taught at the Film Institute of India. He has consulted with the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting (Government of India) on film policy. His recent production includes a series of films on Indian classical music and Indian culture, for the New York State Education Department and the Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute of Montreal.
Edward Bakony, Associate Professor, B.A., B. Comm., University of British Columbia M.A., University of British Columbia. Studies in film, University of California at Los Angeles and University of Southern California. Prior to York University, Prof. Bakony was assistant professor of Fine Arts and Head of the Cinema Program at Sir George Williams University, Montreal.
He was also assistant director of the Conservatory of Cinematographic Art and has worked
as a film producer, director and actor.
Douglas Davidson, Associate Professor, B.A., University of Toronto. Professor Davidson, film editor, director, and television producer, was one of the founders of the National Film Board
Film Guild and co-organizer of an NFB comprehensive Survey of World Documentary Film-Making. He has conducted research on the history and mythology of the Western film and a survey of
independent film-making in North America. While producing educational TV programs for the CBC
he initiated a long-running lecture-demonstration course on film for Ryerson Institute's Radio and TV Arts Extension Department.
Louis de Rochemont III, Visiting Assistant Professor, B.A., Dartmouth College. Formerly adjunct assistant professor at Hunter College, City University of New York, Prof. de Rochemont has produced and directed a number of films professionally. He was producer/director
of Poets and Mathematicians, production manager for The Fight of the Century (Muhammed Ali — Joe Frazier), and was head of the Educational Division of Zavala Riss and Louis de Rochemont International Film-Makers, Inc. Other films with which he was connected include: The Noah, The Fundamentals of Basketball, The Last Fix, What's in it for Me?, Man Builds:
Ancient Egypt, Parlons Frangais, Windjammer, Animal Farm, Martin Luther, and Cinerama Holiday.
Stanley H. Fox, Associate Professor and Assistant Chairman/Production of the Department, B.A., University of British Columbia. Prof. Fox has worked in film and television and has taught both media at the University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University prior to coming
_ to York. He has produced several films, including a series on the therapeutic techniques of
Dr. F. Perls. He was executive producer of documentary films at the CBC in Vancouver.
John S. Katz, Associate Professor and Associate Chairman of the Department, B.A., Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, M.A., Columbia University. Ed.D. Harvard University. Prof. Katz
was formerly director of the Film-Literature Study Project at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto. He has been a member of the Editorial Board of Harvard Educational Review and has published in the areas of folklore, the teaching of film and
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literature, and film criticism. His books, Perspectives on the Study of Film and A Curriculum in Film are popular texts in film studies. He has also produced and co-directed a number of documentary films.
Jay Leyda, Professor, Moscow Film School. As he studied film while a student of Sergei Eisenstein in Russia, Prof. Leyda worked as Russian correspondent for Theatre Arts Monthly,
and prepared special Soviet issues of Theatre Arts and New Theatre Magazines. He has worked as assistant film curator for the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and in the film archives
of Paris, Berlin, and Peking. He assisted in preparing a full retrospective of Robert Flaherty’s
films at the Leipzig Documentary Film Festival, and served on the Venice Film Festival Jury.
He is the author of Kino, A History of the Russian and Soviet Film, and Dianying, An Account
of Films and the Film Audience in China.
Marc R. Rosen, Assistant Professor, B.S. Wesleyan University, M.F.A., U.C.L.A. Professor Rosen has a most diversified background in film including history, criticism and production. Prof. Rosen taught History of American Film at U.C.L.A. prior to coming to York. He is also an independent screenwriter for motion pictures.
Courses offered
FA/FM 102/Still Photography
FA/FM 140/Film: The Twentieth Century Art FA/FM 201/Production
FA/FM 204/Film and Film-Making
FA/FM 219/TV, Tape and Film
FA/FM 221/The American Film
FA/FM 222/Films of Western Europe
FA/FM 241/The Documentary Film
FA/FM 301/Production
FA/FM 302/Studio
FA/FM 311/Intermedia Film Workshop
FA/FM 312/The Narrative Art of Film
FA/FM 313/Film Editing: Theory and Technique FA/FM 319/Television
FA/FM 321/Films of Eastern Europe and the U.S.S.R. FA/FM 322/Films of Asia
FA/FM 323/Films of Africa
FA/FM 324/Soviet Life and Films 1917-1929 FA/FM 341/Films and Social Change
FA/FM 350/Special Seminar in Film
FA/FM 401/Production
FA/FM 411/Advanced Film Techniques FA/FM 412/Screenwriting
FA/FM 419/Acting and Directing for Film FA/FM 421/Film in Canada
FA/FM 450/Special Tutorial in Film
For further information Faculty of Fine Arts mail this coupon to: Student Programs Office Room 222, Fine Arts/Phase II
Address
York University 4700 Keele Street
Downsview, Ontario Canada M3J 1P3 (416) 667-3656