LEARNING OUTCOMES:
Students will learn how to discuss the principal formal and technical properties of film. They will develop an ability to discuss and analyse film as an artistic, industrial, and socio-cultural phenomenon. They will gain an awareness of the different contexts surrounding film production and exhibition, and the relationship between popular, documentary, and avant-garde production. They will be able to trace a history of film narrative and participate in debates including the race, gender, and the ideology and ethics of cinema.
By the end of this course, students will be better skilled in:
- Watching, describing and analyzing films.
- Reading and critically assessing academic literature on films and cinema.
- Researching, drafting, editing and writing an academic essay.
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Introduction to Cinema: History, Art and Moving Pictures
Screenings: Early Cinema Shorts (Lumiere, Melies, Porter, Griffith); The
Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Weine, Germany, 1920)
Dramatic Narrative, Classical Hollywood Cinema, Narration and Point of View
Screening: His Girl Friday (Hawks, USA, 1940); Citizen Kane (Welles, USA, 1941); Irreversible (Noé, France, 2002)
Editing: Continuity and Discontinuity
Screening: The Killer (Woo, Hong Kong, 1989); Psycho (Hitchcock, USA, 1960)
The Take and Montage: Cinematic Specificity
Screening: Stromboli (Rossellini, Italy, 1949); Strike (Eisenstein, USSR,
1924); Battleship Potemkin (Eisenstein, USSR, 1925)
Cinematography and Camera Movement
Screening: Irma Vep (Assayas, France, 1997)
The Image: Mise-en-Scene, Space, Composition, Light, Color
Screening: Ugetsu (Mizoguchi, Japan, 1953); Singing in the Rain (Donnen,
USA, 1952)
Modernist Narrative/Narrative Space: Auteur Theory and Ideology
Screening: Masculine Feminine (Godard, France, 1966)
Non-Narrative Cinema: Documentary and Avant-Garde Film
Screening: High School (Wiseman, USA, 1968); Meshes of the Afternoon
(Deren, USA, 1943); Window Water Baby Moving (Brakhage, USA, 1959); Umano
Non Umano (Schifano, Italy, 1966)
Gender, Race, Genres and Stars
Screening: La Noire de.../Black Girl (Sembene, Senegal, 1966); Vertigo (Hitchcock, USA, 1959); Vagabond (Varda, France, 1984); Halloween (Carpenter, USA, 1978)
Post-Classical & Post-Cinema Cinema: What Now?
Screening: Wayne's World (Spheeris, USA, 1992); Psycho (Van Sant, USA, 1998); Pulp Fiction
(Tarantino, USA, 1994); Toy Story (Lasseter, USA, 1995); Melancholia (Von Trier, Denmark, 2011)
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