Class Syllabus

 

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9/06 Class 1 Precursors to film and the early cinema
Full Screening
  • Various Lumiere, Melies and Porter including: Life of an American Fireman (Porter) and Dream of a Rarebit Fiend (British).
  • A Time for Drunken Horses (Iranian.)
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9/13 Class 2 Evolving cinema
Readings
  • Braudy & Cohen:Kracauer 171-182, Balasz 304-311, Arnheim 312-321, Munsterberg 401-407, Eisenstein 426-434, Gunning 461-472.
  • Cook: 1-101.
Full Screening
  • Keystone Cops sampler. Griffith: A Corner in Wheat, The Lonely Villa, Muskateers of Pig Alley. Chaplin: The Tramp. Keaton: One Week.
Clips
  • The General
  • Birth of a Nation
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9/20 Class 3 Expressionism
Readings
  • Braudy & Cohen:Kracauer 183-194.
  • Cook: 102-129.
Full Screening
  • Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Clips
  • NosfuratuLast LaughMetropolisLoves of Jeanne Ney (or Pandora's Box)
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9/27 Class 4 Soviet montage
Readings
  • Braudy & Cohen:Pudovkin 9-14, Eisenstein 15-42, Kracauer 293-303.
  • Cook: 130-195.
Full Screening
  • Potemkin
Clips
  • The Man with a Movie Camera
  • Passion of Jeanne d'Arc
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10/4 Class 5 Transition to sound
Readings
  • Braudy & Cohen:Panofsky 279-292, Metz 356-359, Eisenstein 360-362, Belton 376-384.
  • Cook: 196-273.
Full Screening
  • M
Clips
  • The Blue Angel
  • Scarface
  • Modern Times
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10/11 Class 6 Classical Hollywood
Readings
  • Braudy & Cohen:Metz 68-89, Mast 329-333, Cavel 334-344, Gunning 818-832, Metz 800-817.
  • Cook: 274-346, 392-420.
Full Screening
  • Gold Diggers of 1933
Clips
  • Citizen Kane
  • Frankenstein
  • Bringing up Baby
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10/18 Class 7 Genre: Film Noir
Readings
  • Braudy & Cohen:Haskell 562-575, Braudy 613-629, Altman 630-641.
  • Cook: 449-460.
Full Screening
  • Double Indemnity
Clips
  • Kiss Me Deadly
  • The Big Heat
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10/25 Class 8 Genre: Westerns (and the Gangster film)
Readings
  • Braudy & Cohen:Harman 90-98, Prince 99-117, Dayan 118-129, Browne 148-164, Warshow 654-667, Shartz 643-653.
  • Cook: 486-515
Full Screening
  • Stage Coach
Clips
  • Shane, Seven Samurai, Wild Bunch, Star Wars, Scarface, The Searchers
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11/01 Class 9 Auteurism
Readings
  • Braudy & Cohen:Sarris 515-518, Wollen 519-535, Ellis 539-546, Wood 668-678.
  • Cook: 834-848.
Full Screening
  • Rear Window
Clips
  • North by Northwest, Vertigo, Psycho, Frenzy, Tokyo Story
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11/08 Class 10 Neorealism
Readings
  • Braudy & Cohen:Bazin 195-198, 203-211, 408-418.
  • Cook: 421-448.
Full Screening
  • The Bicycle Thief
Clips
  • La Strada
  • Roma, Open City
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11/15 Class 11 New Wave
Readings
  • Braudy & Cohen:Chatman 473-486, Thompson 487-498, Wollen 499-508, Baudry 760-777.
  • Cook: 516-567.
Full Screening
  • Breathless
Clips
  • Hiroshama, Mon Amour; 400 Blows; Weekend; Sex, Lies and Video Tape; Like Chocolate for Water; Eat, Drink, Man Woman.
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11/29 Class 12 Psycho-analysis and other interpretive. And experimental film
Readings
  • Braudy & Cohen: Deren 216-227, Gledhill 251-272, Hausen 584-601, Benjamin 731-751, Carrol 778-794, Tyler 795-799, Mulvey 833-844, Millen 576-583.
  • Cook: 607-681.
  • Braudy & Cohen:Brakhage 228-234, Baudry 345-355, Bordwell 716-724.
  • Cook: 362-391
Full Screening
  • Meshes of the Afternoon
  • Cleo from 5-7
  • Ballet Mecanique, Un Chien Andalou, A Propos de Nice; A Movie
Clips
  • 1/2, Veridiana, Wild Strawberries, Swept Away
  • Le Sang de Poet
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12/06 Class 13 Documentary
Full Screening
  • Night and Fog High School
Clips
  • Nanook of the North Television: "Cops," "Real Sex," etc.
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