Week 1: Introduction to Cinema: History, Art and Moving Pictures
Screenings: Hotel Chevalier (Anderson, USA/France, 2013) / A Trip to the Moon (Méliès, France, 1902) / Early Cinema Shorts (Lumiere, Porter, Griffith)
Reading: David Bordwell, et al. Film Art: An Introduction, Chapters 1 and 12
Week 2: Dramatic Narrative: Classical Hollywood Cinema
Screening: The Big Sleep (Hawks, USA, 1946)
Reading: David Bordwell, et al. Film Art: An Introduction, Chapter 3
Week 3: Editing: Continuity and Discontinuity
Screening: Audition (Miike, Japan, 1999)
Reading: David Bordwell, et al. Film Art: An Introduction, Chapter 6
Week 4: The Image: Mise-en-Scene, Space, Composition, Light, Color
Screening: Marie Antoinette (Coppola, USA, 2006)
Reading: David Bordwell, et al. Film Art: An Introduction, Chapters 4 and 8
**FIRST SHORT PAPER DUE**
Week 5: Cinematography and Camera Movement
Screening: Gojira (Honda, Japan, 1954)
Reading: David Bordwell, et al. Film Art: An Introduction, Chapter 5; David Bordwell, "Writing A Critical Analysis of Film"
Week 6: The Take and Montage
Screening: Cidade de Deus (Meirelles & Lund, Brazil, 2002)
Reading: David Bordwell, et al. Film Art: An Introduction, Chapter 12; Andre Bazin, "The Ontology of the Photographic Image" (1960); Sergei Eisenstein, "A Dialectic Approach to Film Form" (1928); Vsevolod Pudovkin, "On Editing"
Week 7: Technological Innovation: Sound, Color and Widescreen
Screening: The Conversation (Coppola, USA, 1974)
Reading: David Bordwell, et al. Film Art: An Introduction, Chapters 7 and 9
**ONE PAGE OUTLINE DUE IN FIRST CLASS**
Week 8: Modernist Narrative/Narrative Space: Auteur Theory and Ideology
Screening: The Long Goodbye (Altman, USA, 1973)
Reading: Francois Truffaut, "A Certain Tendency of the French Cinema
**MID-TERM PAPER DUE**
Week 9: Feminist Film
Screening: Eve’s Bayou (Lemmons, USA, 1997)
Reading: Laura Mulvey, "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema"
Week 10: Political Film
Screening: Pariah (Rees, USA, 2011)
Reading: Fernando Solanas & Octavio Getino, "Towards a Third Cinema"; Med Hondo, "What is Cinema for Us?"
Week 11: Non-Narrative Cinema: Documentary
Screening: Grey Gardens (Hovde & Maysles, USA, 1975)
Reading: David Bordwell, et al. Film Art: An Introduction, Chapter 10
Week 12: Post-Classical and the Independent
Screening: Get Out (Peele, USA, 2017)
Reading: David Bordwell, et al. Film Art: An Introduction, Chapter 12
**SECOND SHORT PAPER DUE**
Week 13:
Art Cinema and Avant-Garde Film
Screening: La Jetée (Marker, France 1962); Meshes of the Afternoon (Deren, USA, 1943); Window Water Baby Moving (Brakhage, USA, 1959)
Reading: David Bordwell, et al. Film Art: An Introduction, Chapter 10; David Bordwell, "The Art Cinema as a Mode of Film Practice"
**ONE PAGE OUTLINE DUE IN FIRST CLASS**
Week 14: The End and The Future
Screening: Ex Machina (Garland, UK, 2014)
Reading: Frederic Jameson, "Postmodernism and Consumer Society"
**FINAL PAPER DUE**