INTRO TO FILM -- Class Assignment Schedule -- Spring 2008
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WEEK DATE |
FILM SCREENING |
READING
ASSIGNMENTS and DISCUSSION TOPICS |
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Jan 8-9-10 |
Singin’ in the Rain (1952) Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen |
Ch. 1a - What is a Movie? Appendix pp
345-371 - Hollywood Production Systems – ONLINE READING: Night at the Movies |
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Jan 14-15-16 |
Film history anthology (1870s-1920s) |
Ch. 1b – history &
experimental – ONLINE READINGS: Development
of Cinema and D. W. Griffith |
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Jan 22-23-34 |
American Movie (1999) Chris Smith |
Ch. 1c - documentary & genre – ONLINE READING: Hollywood
Production Code |
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Jan 29-30-31 |
Stagecoach (1939) John Ford |
Ch. 2a – narrative; genres, the
Western start to read Gocsik & Barsam’s “Writing
About Movies” booklet, especially p. 12 and pp 21-53. |
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Feb 5-6-7 |
The General (1926) Buster Keaton; plus
Easy Street (1917) Charles
Chaplin and
Never Weaken (1921) Harold Lloyd |
Ch. 2b – narrative; genres,
silent comedy |
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Feb 12-13-14 |
Miracle of Morgan’s
Creek (1944) Preston
Sturges |
Ch. 1d & 2c – narrative
& writers, genres, screwball comedy
FIRST UNIT TEST (narrative form,
film history, genre, production & distribution) |
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Feb 19-20-21 |
Girl With a Pearl
Earring (2003) Peter
Webber |
Ch. 3 - mise
en scene |
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Feb 26-27-28 |
Touch of Evil (1958) Orson Welles |
Ch. 4a – cinematography, film
noir -- FIRST PAPER DUE Tuesday, February 26th!-- |
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March 1-9 |
S P R I N
G B R E A K |
EXTRA CREDIT: Attend Fargo Film
Festival March 5-8 |
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Mar 11-12-13 |
Contempt (1963) Jean-Luc Godard |
Ch. 4b – cinematography;
French new wave (No
Lecture-Discussion sections this week!) |
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Mar 18-19-20 |
Citizen Kane (1941) Orson Welles |
Ch. 5 – acting, Citizen
Kane |
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Mar 25-26-27 |
Bicycle Thieves (1948) Vittorio DeSica |
SECOND UNIT TEST
(mise en scene and cinematography, acting; filmmaking styles) |
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Apr 1-2-3 |
Rear Window (1954) Alfred Hitchcock |
Ch. 6 – editing |
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Apr 8-9-10 |
Run Lola Run (1999) Tom Tykwer; plus Success Through
Violence (2003) &
other shorts |
Ch. 6-7 – editing and sound |
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Apr 15-16-17 |
Walkabout (1971) Nicholas
Roeg |
Ch. 7 – sound &
style -- SECOND PAPER DUE Tuesday, April 15th!-- |
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Apr 22-23-24 |
Blue Velvet (1986) David Lynch |
Ch. 8 – theory and analysis |
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Apr 29-30-May 1 |
The Player (1992) Robert Altman |
LAST UNIT TEST (editing,
sound, film theory & analysis) |
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FINALS WEEK |
View final movie projects |
Student movie
projects will be screened at the time normally scheduled for a final exam |