Class Syllabus

Week
Date
Topic
1
9/10
  • D.W. Griffith, The Lonely Villa
  • Georges Melies, A Trip to the Moon
  • Lumiere Brothers, Various
2
9/17
  • Munsterberg
  • Vsevolod Pudovkin, Mother (1926, 73 mins)
3
9/24
  • Pudovkin 9-14
  • Eisenstein 15-42, 426-434
  • Sergei Eisenstein, Potemkin (1925, 65 mins)
4
10/1
  • B. Ejxenbaum, "Problems of Cinema Stylistics"
  • J. Tynjanov, "On the Foundations of Cinema"
  • Dziga Vertov, "Kino-Eye"
  • Eisenstein, Pudovkin, et. al. 360-362 "Statement on Sound"
  • Dziga Vertov, Man with a Movie Camera (1928, 69 mins)
5
10/8
  • Bazin, 43-56, 195-211 "Evolution of Film Language,"
  • Ontology of the Film Image," "Myth of Total Cinema,"
  • "DeSica: Metteur en Scene"
  • Vittorio de Sica, Umberto D. (1952, 89 mins)
6
10/15
  • Quiz
  • Bazin 408-418 "Theater and Cinema"
  • Braudy 419-425 "Acting"
  • Ingmar Bergman, Persona (1967, 81 mins)
7
10/22
  • Paper due
  • Deren 216-227 "Cinematography"
  • Brakhage 228-234 from Metaphors on Vision
  • Panofsky 279-292 "Style and Medium in the Motion
  • ictures"
  • Maya Deren, Study in Choreography
  • Stan Brakhage, Cat's Cradle, Window Water Baby Moving, Sirius Remembered
8
10/29
  • Arnheim 312-321 from Film as Art
  • Carroll 322-328 from Philosophical Problems
  • Mast 329-333 from Film/Cinema/Movie
  • Chris Marker, La Jetee (1962, 29 mins)
  • Bruce Conner, A Movie (15 mins)
  • Ernie Gehr, Serene Velocity (20 mins)
11/5
  • Holiday
9
11/12
  • Kracauer xlvii - 73, 157 - 174
  • Robert Wiene, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1919, 72 mins)
10
11/19
  • Kracauer 175-192, 285-312
  • Jafar Panahi, The White Balloon (1996, 85 mins)
11
11/26
  • Metz 68-89 356-359
  • Chatman 435-451
  • Jean Renoir, A Day in the Country (1935, 40 mins)
12
12/3
  • Metz 800-817
  • Su Friedrich, Sink or Swim (1990, 60 mins)
13
12/10
  • Quiz
  • Sarris 515-518 "Notes on the Auteur Theory"
  • Wollen 519-535
  • Barthes 536-538
  • film tbd
12/13
 Paper Due
 

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