Summer Session II: June 28-August 6

Producing in the Digital Revolution
This is an interdisciplinary course, for film and non-film students. It is designed for aspiring film producers who want to better understand the industry and the historical and creative significance of digital cinema as well as anyone interested in exploring the brave new digital world. Some of the films discussed will include Miguel Arteta’s Chuck and Buck, Lars Von Trier’s Dancer in the Dark, Brian  De Palma’s Redacted, Steven Soderbergh’s Bubble, David Fincher’s Zodiac, Rebecca Miller’s Personal Velocity, among others.

View the full summer course list for Open Arts.

Armed Robbers & Smoking Guns: Crime Cinema
As a genre of popular film, crime films play a significant role in the history of both French and American cinematic traditions. This course examines both the American crime film and the French policier – with specific focus on their gangster and heist variants – as cinematic mediations of their respective national cultures and as cultural markers of the sociological and political values of each nation.

View the full summer course list for Cinema Studies.

Playwriting II
The course covers the writing and completion of a full-length play. Required work in the class includes extensive scene work.

Screenwriting II
The course covers the writing and completion of a full-length screenplay. Students must come to the first class with an outline or treatment for a full-length film.

View the full summer course list for Dramatic Writing.

Theatre in NY: Cracks in the City
This course explores the ecology of artistic creation in the “downtown” New York scene. New venues, performance forms and modes of expression and distribution are attracting audiences to unconventional experiences in “the cracks of the city.”

Studies in Shakespeare: Shakespeare on Film
The study of Shakespeare on film offers an opportunity for observing actual historical artifacts (the films) in relation to the texts on which they were based (the plays). By engaging directly with performed versions of the scripts, it is possible to more fully consider how changing social, cultural, political and technological mores affect the performance and interpretation of seemingly fixed texts that are often the object of deep cultural reverence and a purist devotion to the “original.”

Stonestreet Screen Acting I Workshop
This course covers film and television training from the audition process to performance and production. All areas of film and television acting are covered: film (dramatic and comedic), dramatic series, sit-coms, soap operas, commercials, as well as vocal and physical work as it applies to film acting.

CAP 21: Summer Musical Theatre
This studio course provides young artists with the extensive technique and experience required by the professional field of musical theatre performance. This comprehensive six-week program trains you to become a balanced performer, powerful in all disciplines of musical theatre performance.

View the full summer course list for Drama.

Chair of the Department of Cinema Studies, Richard Allen, discusses his work as a film scholar, the role of cinema studies in the modern world and summer courses in his department.

ITC Adjunct Professor and Alumni Gabe Barcai-Colombo discusses life in New York City and his summer 2010 courses

Campbell Baird, Assistant Arts Professor in Design for Stage and Film, discusses his summer courses.

Design for Stage and Film Adjunct Professor Christopher Muller discusses his Drawing for Stage and Film summer course!

This summer, Tisch School of the Arts is offering classes with two acclaimed producers. The classes run from May 17 – June 25 as part of NYU Summer Session I, and are open to just about everyone, even those not currently enrolled in school.

The Digital Revolution is taught by Jason Kliot, an Academy Award® nominated producer whose credits span over 40 feature films by such acclaimed directors as Jim Jarmusch, Miguel Arteta, Brian De Palma, Hal Hartley, Steven Soderbergh, Nicole Holofcener and Todd Solondz.

Film Development: The Tools of Creative Movie Producing is taught by Hardy Justice, Senior Vice President of Scott Rudin Productions, where he manages a staff of 4 development executives and overseas all aspects of development for the company’s New York Office.  During his time at Scott Rudin, he has worked on such films as Nora Ephron’s JULIE AND JULIA, Wes Anderson’s FANTASTIC MR. FOX, Nancy Meyer’s IT’S COMPLICATED and the upcoming film GREENBERG (from writer/director Noah Baumbach).

This is just the tip of the iceberg for classes at Tisch this summer. We have many more, including many courses in Film and Television.

Want to travel a bit farther than NYC? How about one of our study abroad programs in Dublin, Paris, or Prague?

Tisch has something for you this summer.

Thomas Drysdale, Associate Professor in the Department of Photography & Imaging, discusses his summer course in analog photography and why film is still important.

Bob Power, record producer and Adjunct Faculty Member of The Clive Davis Department of Recorded Music speaks about his upcoming summer course and what makes a great record.

Record Executive and entrepreneur Kevin Liles and The Clive Davis Department of Recorded Music Chair Jeffrey Rabhan discuss their summer course and the landscape of the changing music industry.

Photographer/Creative Director Joe Mama-Nitzberg speaks about his upcoming course with legendary rock photographer Mick Rock.