Comparative Literature Department
Film Studies
Comparative Literature's Film Studies program is one of the oldest in the Midwest, having been established in 1963 by Professor Harry M. Geduld, who introduced and/or taught for the first time sixteen undergraduate and three graduate courses. These courses have, over the years, enrolled, many thousands of students, some of whom have gone to on teach Film Studies at colleges and universities in many countries. In the development of these courses Professor Geduld was ably assisted in the mid-l960s by Klaus Troller, a Teaching Assistant, and, subsequently, by Professor James Naremore and the late Professor Charles Eckert. During the early 1970s Professors Geduld, Naremore and Eckert established the Film Studies Office which serves to this day as an information and service center for film courses in all departments at Indiana University.
In fall 1998, Film Studies became part of IUB’s new Department of Communication and Culture. Faculty members who teach film have remained adjunct members of the Comparative Literature Department, however, and the Department continues to offer courses on literature and film as part of its program in Literature and the Other Arts. Peter Bondanella was the first person to achieve distinguished rank by film scholarship.
The following Comparative Literature film courses are currently available to students enrolled in the department:
C291 Studies in Non-Western Film
C310 Film Adaptation of Literature
C490 Individual Studies in Film and Literature
C492 Comedy in Film and Literature
C493 Film Adaptations of Literature
C692 Comedy in Film and Literature
C693 Film Adaptations of Literature
C790 Studies in Film and Literature
