*FILMS ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE*
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: Babyface (Green, USA, 1933) OR The Hitch-Hiker (Lupino, USA, 1953)
Reading: David Bordwell, et al. Film Art: An Introduction, Chapter 3
Week 3: Editing: Continuity and Discontinuity
Screening: Memento (Nolan, USA, 2000) OR Rope (Hitchcock, USA, 1948)
Reading: David Bordwell, et al. Film Art: An Introduction, Chapter 6
Viewing: Constructive Editing in Robert Bresson’s Pickpocket (David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson, 2012): https://vimeo.com/52312154
Week 4: The Image: Mise-en-Scene, Space, Composition, Light, Color
Screening: Let The Right One In (Alfredson, Sweden, 2008) OR Pan's Labyrinth (del Toro, Mexico, 2006)
Reading: David Bordwell, et al. Film Art: An Introduction, Chapters 4 and 8
Viewing: Mise-en-scène - Composing the frame: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyJFeY0GBQw / In Praise of Chairs: https://youtu.be/FfGKNJ4mldE
**FIRST SHORT PAPER DUE**
Week 5: Cinematography and Camera Movement
Screening: The Housemaid (Ki-Young, South Korea, 1960) or The Raid (Evans, Indonesia, 2011)
Reading: David Bordwell, et al. Film Art: An Introduction, Chapter 5; David Bordwell, "Writing A Critical Analysis of Film"
Viewing: Akira Kurosawa, Composing Movement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doaQC-S8de8 / Who Should Win the 2017 Oscar for Best Cinematography: https://vimeo.com/205406251
Week 6: The Take and Montage
Screening: Rashomon (Kurosawa, Japan, 1960)
Reading: David Bordwell, et al. Film Art: An Introduction, Chapter 12; Vsevolod Pudovkin, "On Editing"
Viewing: Eisenstein’s Method of Montage Explained: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtnTs90knro / The History of Cutting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYedfenQ_Mw
Week 7: Technological Innovation: Sound, Color and Widescreen
Screening: Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (Stuart, USA, 1971)
Reading: David Bordwell, et al. Film Art: An Introduction, Chapters 7 and 9
Viewing: Film Sound Techniques and Theory: https://youtu.be/nkt-vRpF7sE?t=6
**ONE PAGE OUTLINE DUE IN FIRST CLASS**
Week 8: Modernist Narrative/Narrative Space: Auteur Theory and Ideology
Screening: Bande a part (Godard, France, 1964)
Reading: Francois Truffaut, "A Certain Tendency of the French Cinema
Viewing: The Origins of Auteur Theory: https://youtu.be/nfHnuZqtV68?t=29 / Modernism in film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEsMS8-CRbQ
**MID-TERM PAPER DUE**
Week 9: Art Cinema and Avant-Garde Film // Video Essay Tutorial
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"
Viewing: Free Radicals: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrsGVmuo6R0 / A Brief History of Experimental Film: https://vimeo.com/76272882 // Elements of the Essay Film: https://vimeo.com/90150897 / The Spielberg Face: https://vimeo.com/199572277
Week 10: Genre
Screening: Grey Gardens (Hovde & Maysles, USA, 1975) OR The Thing (Carpenter, USA, 1982)
Reading: David Bordwell, et al. Film Art: An Introduction, Chapter 9
Viewing: Six modes of documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79jjN47ST0E OR A History of Horror: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukeS-nj0pxs / The History of Horror: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RZxsgDNSXQ
Week 11: Feminist Film
Screening: Jennifer's Body (Kusama, USA, 2009)
Reading: Laura Mulvey, "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema"
Viewing: http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/intransition/2017/03/12/looking-be-looked-ness-feminist-videographic-criticism
Week 12: Political Film
Screening: Rabbit-Proof Fence (Noyce, Australia, 2002)
Reading: Fernando Solanas & Octavio Getino, "Towards a Third Cinema"; Med Hondo, "What is Cinema for Us?"
Viewing: Roots of Third Cinema: https://vimeo.com/12888864
**SECOND SHORT PAPER DUE**
Week 13: Post-Classical and the Independent
Screening: Cidade de Deus (Meirelles & Lund, Brazil, 2002) OR Killer of Sheep (Burnett, USA, 1978)
Reading: David Bordwell, et al. Film Art: An Introduction, Chapter 12
**ONE PAGE OUTLINE DUE IN FIRST CLASS**
Week 14: The End and The Future
Screening: RoboCop (Verhoeven, USA, 1987)
Reading: Frederic Jameson, "Postmodernism and Consumer Society"
Viewing: Postmodernism in Film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qebm_7gGSKw
**FINAL PAPER DUE DURING EXAM WEEK**