*FILMS ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE*
*ALL READINGS AND LECTURE SLIDES WILL BE AVAILABLE ON MYJCU/MOODLE*
ORIGINS OF CINEMA
**Week 1: Introduction and Early Cinema**
Screening:
Freaks (Tod Browning, USA, 1932)
Readings:
"Origins and Survival" in The Oxford History of World Cinema
"Early Cinema" in The Oxford History of World Cinema
CINEMATIC LANGUAGE
**Week 2: Dramatic Narrative and Classical Hollywood Cinema **
Screening:
They Live (John Carpenter, USA, 1988, 97)
Readings:
"Narrative Form" in Film Art: An Introduction
"The Hollywood Studio System" in The Oxford History of World Cinema
Viewing:
Classical Hollywood Style: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftjMvYfg16k
**Week 3: Editing and Montage**
Screening:
Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (Russ Meyer, USA, 1965, 83)
Readings:
"The Relation of Shot to Shot: Editing" in Film Art: An Introduction
"Historical Changes in Film Art: Conventions and Choices, Tradition and Trends" in Film Art: An Introduction
Viewing:
Cuts & Transitions 101: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAH0MoAv2CI
The Soviet Theory of Montage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYedfenQ_Mw
**FIRST SHORT PAPER DUE IN WEEK 3**
**Week 4: Mise-en-Scène**
Screening:
Little Shop of Horrors (Frank Oz, USA, 1986, 102)
Reading:
"The Shot: Mise-en-Scene" in Film Art: An Introduction
Viewing:
Mise-en-scène - Composing the frame: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyJFeY0GBQw
**Week 5: Cinematography and Camera Movement**
Screening:
Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer, UK, 2013, 108)
Readings:
"The Shot: Cinematography" in Film Art: An Introduction
David Rosenwasser & Jill Stephen. Writing Analytically (excerpt)
Viewing:
Cinematography 101: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXAr2yiYCV4
**Week 6: Sound and Color**
Screening:
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Jim Sharman, USA, 1975, 101)
Readings:
"Sound in the Cinema" in Film Art: An Introduction
"The Introduction of Sound" in The Oxford History of World Cinema
Viewing:
Film Sound Techniques and Theory: https://youtu.be/nkt-vRpF7sE?t=6
**SECOND SHORT PAPER DUE IN WEEK 6**
CINEMA THEORY
**Week 7: National Cinemas**
Screening:
Battle Royale (Kinji Fukasaku, Japan, 2000, 122)
Readings:
"Indian Cinema: Origins to Independence" in The Oxford History of World Cinema
"India: Filming the Nation" in The Oxford History of World Cinema
**Week 8: Auteur Theory and Modernist Cinema**
Screening:
Eraserhead (David Lynch, USA, 1977, 89)
Readings:
Francois Truffaut, "A Certain Tendency of the French Cinema
Andrew Sarris, "Notes on the Auteur Theory in 1962"
David Sedaris, "Andrew Sarris and the 'A' Word"
Viewings:
The Origins of Auteur Theory: https://youtu.be/nfHnuZqtV68
Modernism in film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEsMS8-CRbQ
**ONE PAGE OUTLINE DUE IN FIRST CLASS OF WEEK 8**
**Week 9: Genre // Video Essay Tutorial**
Screening:
The Room (Tommy Wiseau, USA, 2003, 99)
Readings:
"Film Genres" in Film Art: An Introduction
"Cinema and Genre" in The Oxford History of World Cinema Guide to
Video Essays: https://digitalmedialab.johncabot.edu/video-essays/
Viewing:
Elements of the Essay Film: https://vimeo.com/90150897
**MID-TERM PAPER DUE IN WEEK 9**
**Week 10: New Hollywood and the Independent**
Screening:
Welcome to the Dollhouse (Todd Solondz, USA, 1995, 90)
Readings:
"The New Hollywood" in The Oxford History of World Cinema
"New Technologies" in The Oxford History of World Cinema
"Dreams and Nightmares in the Hollywood Blockbuster" in The Oxford History of World Cinema
Viewing:
How New Hollywood Created the American Indie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qvubc_khZs
**Week 11: Counter Cinema**
Screening:
Dolemite (D’Urville Martin, 1975, 90)
Readings:
Peter Wollen, "Godard and Counter Cinema"
Med Hondo, "What is Cinema for Us?"
"The Black Presence in American Cinema" in The Oxford History of World Cinema
Viewings:
Roots of Third Cinema: https://vimeo.com/12888864
Blaxploitation 101: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPHWcXNUFho
**THIRD SHORT PAPER DUE IN WEEK 11**
**Week 12: Feminist Film**
Screening:
The Watermelon Woman (Cheryl Dunye, USA, 1996, 90)
Readings:
Laura Mulvey, "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema"
Claire Johnston, "Women's Cinema as Counter Cinema"
Viewing:
Male Love Through Female Eyes: https://vimeo.com/160059496
**Week 13: Art Cinema and Avant-Garde Film**
Screening:
Hausu (Nobuhiko Obayashi, Japan, 1977, 88)
Readings:
"Documentary, Experimental and Animated Films" in Film Art: An Introduction
"Art Cinema" in The Oxford History of World Cinema
Maya Deren, "Cinematography: The Creative Use of Reality"
Viewing:
Free Radicals: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrsGVmuo6R0
A Brief History of Experimental Film: https://vimeo.com/76272882
**ONE PAGE OUTLINE DUE IN FIRST CLASS OF WEEK 13**
**Week 14: Postmodernist Film**
Screening:
Repo Man (Alex Cox, USA, 1984, 95)
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**