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SUBJECT TO CHANGES ANNOUNCED IN CLASS
Date | Topic/Screening | Readings |
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1/8 | Early Cinema click for images Le Prince Shorts (1880s) Blacksmith Scene #1 (Edison, 1893) click for video Something Good - Negro Kiss (Selig, 1898) click for video Lumière Shorts (1890s) click for video A Trip to the Moon (Méliès, 1902) click for video click for images |
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1/13 | The Evolution of Narrative Film click for images Life of an American Fireman (Edison, 1903) click for video The Great Train Robbery (Porter, 1903) click for video click for video Rescued by Rover (Hepworth / Fitzhamon, 1904) click for video The Lonedale Operator (Griffith, 1911) click for images click for video |
Chs. 2, 3 |
1/15 | The Evolution of Narrative Film, Continuedclick for images The Birth of a Nation (Griffith, 1915) click for images click for video (excerpt) click for video The Artist (Hazanavicius, 2011) |
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1/20 | MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. DAY | |
1/21 | Recommended: Parasite (BAH), 7:30 | |
1/22 | German Silent Film: Expressionism & Kammerspielfilm | Ch. 7 |
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Wiene, 1920) click for images click for images click for images click for video Recommended Kammerspiel example: The Last Laugh (Murnau, 1924) click for video |
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1/27 | Silent Film Comedy: Buster Keaton click for images click for images | Ch. 4, 6 |
1/29 | The Art of the Gag (Zhou, 2015) click for video Steamboat Bill, Jr. (Reisner, Keaton [uncredited]; 1921) |
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2/3 | Russian Formalism: Sergei Eisenstein click for images | Ch. 8 |
2/5 | The Battleship Potemkin (Eisenstein, 1925) The Odessa Steps & its Descendants (barthesian; newer version) click for images View Part 5 (final 16 minutes) online, through Blackboard. READINGS TEST 1: Chs. 2, 3, 4, 6, 7 (not chapter 8) Study Tips & Sample Questions |
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2/10 | Classical Hollywood Cinema click for images | Ch. 9 |
2/12 | Sullivan's Travels (Sturges, 1941) Recommended: How to Sleep (1935) |
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2/17 | Bazinian Realism: Jean Renoir click for images click for images | Ch. 10 |
2/18 | Recommended: Tel Aviv On Fire (BAH), 7:30 | |
2/19 | The Crime of M. Lange (Renoir, 1936) click for images click for images | |
2/24 | MID-TERM EXAM Study Tips & Sample Questions |
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2/26 | North by Northwest (Hitchcock, 1954) View final 30 mins. online, through Blackboard. |
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3/1, Sunday | North by Northwest at the Cobb Hollywood 16 Theater | One Extra Credit Point |
3/2 | Auteur Theory: Alfred Hitchcock click for images click for images click for images | Ch. 11 |
3/4 | Documentary
Form Nanook of the North (Flaherty, 1922) click for video, click for video Congorilla (Johnson, 1932) click for video Triumph of the Will (Riefenstahl, 1935) click for video The Nazis Strike (Capra, Litvak, 1943) click for video (Internet Archive version) Date Etiquette (Peshak, 1952) click for video Dont Look Back (Pennebaker, 1967) click for video Taxicab Confessions (Gantz & Gantz, 1995) click for video |
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3/9 | Italian
Neorealism: Vittorio DeSica click for images |
Ch. 12 + 13 (pp. 220-231 only) |
3/11 | Bicycle Thieves (DeSica, 1948) READINGS TEST 2: Chs. 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 (pp. 220-231 only) Study Tips & Sample Questions |
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3/13 -29 |
SPRING BREAK | |
week of 3/30 |
Genre
Study: Film Noir click for images The Lady from Shanghai (Welles, 1947) |
Ch. 15 |
week of 4/6 |
French New Wave: Jean-Luc Godard click for images click for images Breathless (Godard, 1960) click for images Hommage Kit (Butler, 1978) click for images |
Ch. 13 (pp. 231-250 only) |
canceled | ||
canceled | ||
week of 4/13 |
New German Cinema: Werner Herzog click for images Encounters at the End of the World (Herzog, 2007) |
Ch. 16 |
4/15, Wed. |
READINGS TEST #3: chs. 13 (pp. 231-250 only), 15, 16, 18, 19 Study Tips & Sample Questions |
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week of 4/20 |
The Breakdown of Hollywood Classicism click for images click for images click for images Booksmart (Wilde, 2019) |
Chs. 18, 19 |
4/24, Friday |
Last day to drop a course with grade of "W". Postponed from March 25. Also: 5:00 deadline for choosing the pass/fail option. |
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4/30, Thursday |
FINAL EXAM Study Tips & Sample Questions |