Cinema and Media Studies

2026–2027

228 courses

CIMS 0021Study of a Theme in Cinema
CIMS 0024Study of a Theme: Monsters in Film and Literature
CIMS 0041Study of a Period in Cinematic History
CIMS 0050In Dark Times: The Dystopian Imagination in Literature and Film
CIMS 0080Laughter and Tricky Topics
CIMS 0085Representations of Rome in Film and Literature (1848- present) - First Year Seminar
CIMS 0088First-Year Seminar: Italian Histories
CIMS 0090First-Year Seminar: Italian American Studies
CIMS 0091First-Year Seminar: Contemporary Italy
CIMS 0092First-Year Seminar: Italian Film and Media Studies
CIMS 0093First-Year Seminar: Race and Ethnicity in Italy
CIMS 0094First-Year Seminar: Italian Gender Studies
CIMS 0095First-Year Seminar: Italian Fashion
CIMS 0096First-Year Seminar: Italian Visual Studies
CIMS 0097First-Year Seminar: Italian Foods and Cultures
CIMS 0098First-Year Seminar: Italian Literature
CIMS 0099First-Year Seminar: Italian Innovations
CIMS 0101Penn’s First Moving Pictures
CIMS 0180Acting for the Camera
CIMS 0201Sci-Fi Cinema
CIMS 0274Russian and East European Art and Cinema since 1900
CIMS 0275Montage and Revolution: Conceptual Cinema of Sergei Eisenstein
CIMS 0320Modern Hebrew Literature and Film in Translation
CIMS 0390Penn-in-Cannes
CIMS 0395First Year Seminar: Graphic Memoir: Between the Political and the Personal
CIMS 0518Benjamin Franklin Seminar: Cinema and Globalization
CIMS 0578Benjamin Franklin Seminar: The Contemporary Graphic Novel
CIMS 0590Benjamin Franklin Seminar: Film Studies
CIMS 0790The Religion of Anime
CIMS 1001Introduction to Cinema Studies
CIMS 1002Introduction to Media Studies
CIMS 1003Cinema and Revolution
CIMS 1004World Film History
CIMS 1027Sex and Representation
CIMS 1050Metropolis: Culture of the City
CIMS 1051The City in Literature and Film
CIMS 1055Books on Film: Adapting the Victorians
CIMS 1056Sherlock in the Multiverse
CIMS 1070Fascist Cinemas
CIMS 1080German Cinema
CIMS 1110Poetics of Screenplay: The Art of Plotting
CIMS 1112Religion and Cinema in India
CIMS 1130Water Worlds: Cultural Responses to Sea Level Rise & Catastrophic Flooding
CIMS 1146Queer German Cinema
CIMS 1160Screenwriting Workshop
CIMS 1170Writing for Television
CIMS 1180The Short Film: Writing, Producing, Directing
CIMS 1190Introduction to Postcolonial Literature
CIMS 1230Masterpieces of French Cinema
CIMS 1261Radical Arts in the Americas
CIMS 1271American Musical Theatre
CIMS 1272Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict in Film
CIMS 1274The Musical Theatre of Stephen Sondheim
CIMS 1275Broadway Musicals in the 21st Century
CIMS 1276Movie Musicals: From Oz to La La Land
CIMS 1280The Art of Revolution
CIMS 1300Advanced Screenwriting
CIMS 1302Asian American Cinema Movement: Fighting For Representation
CIMS 1351Contemporary Fiction & Film in Japan
CIMS 1358Histories of Egypt
CIMS 1359Filming the Middle East
CIMS 1360Arab/Israeli Conflict in Literature and Film
CIMS 1371New Korean Cinema
CIMS 1440Film Music in Post 1950 Italy
CIMS 1470Chekhov: Stage & Screen
CIMS 1520Forest Worlds: Mapping the Arboreal Imaginary in Literature and Film
CIMS 1525Science on Screen
CIMS 1640Russian and East European Film from the October Revolution to World War II
CIMS 1650Russian and East European Film after World War II
CIMS 1800Film Culture in Residence
CIMS 1900Italian History on Screen: How Movies Tell the Story of Italy
CIMS 1901Topics in Portuguese, African and Brazilian Cultures
CIMS 1910Sicily on Page and Screen
CIMS 2000Virtual Reality Lab
CIMS 2001Modern Science Fiction Cinema
CIMS 2002Global Jewish Communities (Penn Global Seminar - PGS)
CIMS 2010Film Festivals
CIMS 2011American Independents
CIMS 2012Transnational Cinema
CIMS 2013Documentary Cinema