| 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.
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| Full Screening |
- Keystone Cops sampler. Griffith: A Corner in Wheat, The Lonely
Villa, Muskateers of Pig Alley. Chaplin: The Tramp. Keaton:
One Week.
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| 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.
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| Full Screening |
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| 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.
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| Full Screening |
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| 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.
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| Full Screening |
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| 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.
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| Full Screening |
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| 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.
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| Full Screening |
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| 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
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| Full Screening |
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| 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.
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| Full Screening |
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| 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.
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| Full Screening |
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| 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.
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| Full Screening |
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| 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
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| Full Screening |
- Meshes of the Afternoon
- Cleo from 5-7
- Ballet Mecanique, Un Chien Andalou, A Propos de Nice; A Movie
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| 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
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| Clips |
- Nanook of the North Television: "Cops," "Real Sex," etc.
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