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Finally, a cutting-edge film city like Seattle has a cutting-edge film program of its own!
Director/Screenwriter Barry Blaustein, Beyond the Mat, Coming to America, The Ringer.
Dr. Edwin WeiheDirector(206) 296-5420eweihe@seattleu.edu
Because Film Studies is an independent B.A. program, Film Studies majors and minors can also double-major or minor in English or English/Creative Writing, literary disciplines that importantly complement the visual storytelling discipline of film study.
With this extraordinarily comprehensive and visionary film studies program, Seattle University instantly places itself at the forefront of America’s top universities offering courses in the art, craft, and business of film-making.
Tom Wright, producer, screenwriter (Newjack City) and author of Working in Hollywood and American Screenwriters
Director, Associate ProfessorEnglish, Film Studies
Curriculum Vitae
Phone
(206) 296-5426
Email
eweihe@seattleu.edu
Office
Casey 513
Welcome statement (teaching/research/personal interests): My professional commitments are divided, always unequally, between teaching, writing fiction, and program administration and development. Whenever possible, I like to focus my courses sharply on a few authors, like Joyce, Lawrence, and Hemingway, and a few texts, like Moby Dick and Ulysses, closely analyzed from several theoretical perspectives, particularly psychoanalytic. My own fiction writing is always encouraged, and often inspired, by my fiction writing classes and our many talented young students. My program development projects, which include Matteo Ricci College, the Creative Writing Program, Summer Abroad, and currently Film Studies, are always aimed at creating alternative approaches to learning.
Current and Recent Courses: Writing Fiction and Advanced Fiction Writing, Moby Dick and Its Context, and American Drama.
Film Courses: Film Genre, Film History, Film Seminar.
Dream or Future Courses: Art of the Novel; seminars on Kafka and Kundera, Henry James, and William Faulkner.
B.A. Brown UniversityM.F.A. Iowa Writers WorkshopM.A., Ph.D. University of Iowa
Students take home awards from MOHAI's "History Is" Competition
More awards from 2013 Northwest College Film Festival
Filmmaking I Filmmakng II Filmmaking IIIDocumentary FilmmakingNarrative FilmmakingFilm Studies Honors
History of FilmHorror FilmsInternational Women DirectorsCult FilmsPolitical CinemaIntl. Cinemas of OthernessDirector: AndersonDisneyGangster FilmsClassical HollywoodRussian/Soviet CinemaDirector: KubrickWesternsStory DevelopmentGreater Middle EastStory DevelopmentDocumentary FilmmakingWomen in CinemaFilm NoirScreen AdaptationsItalian CinemaNarrative FilmmakingFilms of the 1960sArt of FilmScreenwritingLatin America CinemaProducingThe Festival
Nothing could be easier! Come to the English Department (Casey 5th) and complete a form declaring your major or minor in Film Studies. You will be assigned a faculty advisor right away. And you will be encouraged to introduce yourself to Dr. Edwin Weihe, director of Film Studies, and other Film Studies faculty.
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