Reading Schedule for Intro to the Art of Film 2080-01:

Readings due on day written.    Assignments Due.   Events and Holidays.    Class Lecture.

Films to be screened by day posted.   

 

Week One:       

Wednesday,

Jan. 6

Syllabus, Reading Schedule

Working Definitions of “Critical Reading” and “Text”

Film as Text:  Opening of Malcolm X (Lee, 1992)

Introduction to the Art of Film

The Film Experience (hereafter referred to as TFE):  Chapter 1 Contexts

 

Week Two:                               

Monday,

Jan. 11

Stagecoach (1939, John Ford)

Wednesday,

Jan. 13

TFE:  Chapter 2—Production, Distribution, Promotion, Exhibition                    

 

 Week Three: 

Monday,

Jan. 18

MLK Day:  No Class

Wednesday,

Jan. 20

Psycho (1960, Alfred Hitchcock)

Marketing Analysis

Production/Marketing

  

Week Four: 

Monday,

Jan. 25

The Star System

Sunset Boulevard (1950, Wilder) 

Wednesday,

Jan. 27

TFE: Chapter 3—Mise-en-scène

 

 

Week Five:  

Monday,

Feb. 1

Rebel Without a Cause (1955, Ray) 

Mise-en-scène Analysis

Wednesday,

Feb. 3

Mise-en-scène

Marketing Analysis Due

 

Week Six:   

Monday,

Feb. 8

Citizen Kane (1941, Orson Welles)  

Wednesday,

Feb. 10

TFE:  Chapter 4—Cinematography

 

 

Week Seven:       

Monday,

Feb. 15

Raising Arizona (1987, Coen Brothers)

Wednesday,

Feb. 17

Cinematography continued

Mise-en-scène Analysis Due

 

Week Eight:   

Monday,

Feb. 22

Midterm

Wednesday,

Feb. 24

 

First Production Meeting

 

Week Nine:   

Monday,

March 1

Last Day to Withdraw with Grade of W

Breathless (1959, Godard)

Wednesday,

March 3

TFE Chapter 5—Editing

Cinematography Analysis Due

 

Week Ten:   

Monday,

March 8

Do the Right Thing (1989, Spike Lee)

Wednesday,

March 10

TFE Chapter 14—Writing a Film Essay

Shot-by-Shot Analysis

 

 

Week Eleven:   

Monday,

March 15

The Conversation (1974, Coppola)

Wednesday,

March 17

TFE:  Chapter 6—Film Sound

 

 

SPRING BREAK:  March 22-26

 

Week Twelve:   

Monday,

March 29

 Monsoon Wedding (2001, Nair)

Editing Analysis Due

Wednesday,

March 31

TFE:  Chapter 6—Narrative Form

  

Week Thirteen:   

Monday,

April 5

Man With a Camera (1929, Vertov)

Shoot Scene 1

Wednesday,

April 7

TFE:  Chapter 8Documentary & Chapter 9—Experimental Film

Sound Analysis Due

Shoot Scene 2

  

Film Society:  2nd Annual Film & Music Festival.  Free.  Student Films and Musical Performance by Treehouse Talk and Baby Baby.   

    Tuesday, April 6, 5:00 p.m., Campus Center Ballroom

    Wednesday, April 7, 6:30 p.m., TLC 1200

 

Week Fourteen:   

Monday,

April 12

 Shoot Scenes 4 & 5

Wednesday,

April 14

TFE: Chapter 10—Movie Genres

 

Final Shooting Day

  

Week Fifteen:   

Monday,

April 19

Revision of Analysis Due

500 Days of Summer (2009, Marc Webb)

Montage elements due for scene 3.

Editing, Sound & Graphics Plan

Wednesday,

April 21

 TFE:  Chapter 11 & 12—Hollywood and the World

 

  

Week Sixteen:   

Monday,

April 26

Post Production

Teacher Evaluations

Shot-by-shot Analysis Due--Everyone must do this assignment and it must be turned in by this day.

Wednesday,

April 28

Post Production

ArtOfFilm/Spring2010/Lectures/WorldCinema.pptx

 

Film Premiere: 

 

Final Exam:

 

Section 2080-01

Friday, April 30, 2:00-4:00