Early Film
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| August |
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| Week 1
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Introduction |
| 17 |
Introduction to course, policies, etc. |
| 19 |
Introduction to
Silent Film |
| Reading:
Mast, Chapter 2 |
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| In-class
Screening: Selection of shorts by Lumière
brothers and Edison |
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| Week 2 |
Silent Narrative Film |
| 24 |
Reading: Mast,
Chapter 3 |
| In-class Screening:
Méliès and Porter |
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| 26 |
Discussion of Griffith |
| Reading: Mast, Chapter 4 (p.45-59) |
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| In-class
Screening: Griffith
blockbusters |
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| Week 3 |
Russian Formalism and
Film Form |
| 31 |
Reading: Mast, Chapter 8 |
| Screenings:
October (Eisenstein, 1927) [STUDENTS MUST VIEW October BEFORE CLASS ON WEDNESDAY] |
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| QUIZ #1 (Silent Film and Beginnings of Narrative Film) | |
| September | |
| 2 |
Discussion
of October
and "montage" |
| Week 4 |
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| 7 |
Labor Day - NO CLASSES |
| 9 |
Comedy and Early Hollywood |
| Reading: Mast, p. 66-84 |
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| In-class Screening: Chaplin and Sennett shorts |
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| Week 5 |
Early German Cinema to Sound |
| 14 |
Reading: Mast,
Chapter 7 |
| Screening: M (Lang, 1931) [STUDENTS MUST VIEW M BEFORE CLASS ON WEDNESDAY] | |
| 16 |
Discussion
of M and
cinematic language |
| QUIZ #2 (Griffith, Comedy/Early Hollywood, and
Russian Formalism) |
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| Week 6 |
Classical Hollywood |
| 21 |
Readings:
Mast, Chapters 9 & 11 |
| Screenings: The Little Foxes, (Wyler, 1941) [STUDENTS MUST VIEW Little Foxes BEFORE WEDNESDAY] | |
| 23 |
Discussion
of The Little
Foxes
and "realism" |
| Week 7 |
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| 28 |
In-Class Essay |
| 30 |
Classical Hollywood (cont.) |
| Reading: Mast, Chapter 11 | |
| Review for Midterm |
| October |
Post-War Changes and New Film Movements
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| Week 8 |
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| 5 |
MIDTERM EXAM |
| 6th = LAST DAY to withdraw with grade of W | |
| 7 |
The Studio System in Transition |
| Reading: Mast, Chapter 12 | |
| Week 9 |
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| 12 |
Post-war period and auteurs |
| Screening: The Searchers (Ford, 1956) [STUDENTS MUST VIEW Searchers BEFORE CLASS ON WEDNESDAY] | |
| 14 |
Discussion of The Searchers |
| Week 10 | The
French New Wave |
| 19 |
Readings:
Mast, Chapter 13 (p.251-69) |
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Screening: Les Quatre Cents Coup
[400 Blows] (Truffaut, 1959) [STUDENTS MUST VIEW 400 Blows BEFORE CLASS ON WEDNESDAY] |
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| 21 |
Discuss Les Quatre Cents Coup and the "jump cut" |
| Week 11 |
Post-Colonial and Documentary Cinema |
| 26
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Reading:
Mast, Chapter 16 (p.350-363) |
| Screening:
La
Battaglia di Algeri (Pontecorvo, 1965) [STUDENTS MUST VIEW Battle of Algiers BEFORE CLASS ON WEDNESDAY] |
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| 28 |
Discuss La Battaglia di Algeri and
"post-colonialism" |
| November | |
| Week 12 |
New American Cinema, Ideology, and Auteurs |
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2 |
Reading: Mast, Chapter 15 |
| Screening: Badlands (Malick, 1973) [STUDENTS MUST VIEW Badlands BEFORE CLASS ON WEDNESDAY] | |
| 4 |
Discuss Badlands and "independent" visions |
| QUIZ #3 (Post-war
Hollywood, French New Wave, and Post-colonial cinema) |
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New Hollywood, Global Cinemas, and
Others
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| Week 13 |
New
Hollywood Myth and the Blockbuster Industry |
| 9 |
Reading: Mast,
p.390-424 |
| Screening: Jaws (Spielberg, 1975) | |
| 11 |
Discuss Jaws and myth |
| Week 14 |
Three
Chinas and Other National Cinemas |
| 16 |
Reading: Mast,
p.295-314 |
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Screening:
Chungking
Express (Wong Kar-Wai, 1994) |
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| 16 |
Discuss Chungking Express and "postmodernism" |
| Week 15 |
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| 23 |
QUIZ #4 (New American Cinema, Hollywood Blockbusters, and Cinemas East) |
| 24-29 |
THANKSGIVING BREAK
- NO CLASSES |
| 30 |
Digital Cinema |
| Reading:
Mast, Chapter 19 |
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| December |
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| 2 |
Last Day of Classes |
| Review for Exam |
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| Presentation Essay DUE | |
| 7 |
FINAL EXAM -
from 2-4 pm |