Week 1.1: Introduction to Cinema
Critical film analysis (description, interpretation, evaluation)
Screening: Land Without Bread (Buñuel, 1932, 27’)
Week 1.2: History, Art and Moving Pictures
Screenings: Early Cinema Shorts (Lumiere, Melies, Porter, Griffith); The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Weine, Germany, 1920)
Week 2.1: Screening: His Girl Friday (Hawks, USA, 1940); Citizen Kane (Welles, USA, 1941); Irreversible (Noé, France, 2002)
Week 2.2: Dramatic Narrative, Classical Hollywood Cinema, Narration and Point of View
Week 3.1: Screening: The Killer (Woo, Hong Kong, 1989); Psycho (Hitchcock, USA, 1960)
Week 3.2: Editing: Continuity and Discontinuity
Week 4.1: Screening: Stromboli (Rossellini, Italy, 1949); Strike (Eisenstein, USSR, 1924); Battleship Potemkin (Eisenstein, USSR, 1925)
Week 4.2: The Take and Montage: Cinematic Specificity
Week 5.1: Screening: Irma Vep (Assayas, France, 1997)
Week 5.2: Cinematography and Camera Movement
Week 6.1: Screening: Ugetsu (Mizoguchi, Japan, 1953); Singing in the Rain (Donnen, USA, 1952)
Week 6.2: The Image: Mise-en-Scene, Space, Composition, Light, Color
Week 7.1: Screening: Masculin Feminin (Godard, France, 1966)
Week 7.2: Modernist Narrative/Narrative Space: Auteur Theory and Ideology
MID-TERM DUE
Week 8.1: 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)
Week 8.2: Non-Narrative Cinema: Documentary
Week 9.1: Screening: Meshes of the Afternoon (Deren, USA, 1943); Window Water Baby Moving (Brakhage, USA, 1959); Umano Non Umano (Schifano, Italy, 1966)
Week 9.2: Non-Narrative Cinema: Avant-Garde Film
Week 10.1: Screening: La Noire de.../Black Girl (Sembene, Senegal, 1966); Vertigo (Hitchcock, USA, 1959); Vagabond (Varda, France, 1984); Halloween (Carpenter, USA, 1978)
Week 10.2: Gender, Race, Genres and Stars
Week 11.1: Screening: La Noire de.../Black Girl (Sembene, Senegal, 1966); Vertigo (Hitchcock, USA, 1959); Vagabond (Varda, France, 1984); Halloween (Carpenter, USA, 1978)
Week 11.2: Gender, Race, Genres and Stars
Week 12.1: 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)
Week 12.2: Post-Classical & Post-Cinema Cinema: What Now?
Week 13.1: 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)
Week 13.2: Post-Classical & Post-Cinema Cinema: What Now?
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