Word Film History to 1945 Fall 2008 University of Pennsylvania CINE101/ENGL091/ARTH108 TR 10:30am-12:00pm, 402 Claudia Cohen Hall Fulfills Arts & Letters General Requirement course website: decherney.org/FH Prof. Peter Decherney decherney@sas.upenn.edu, 215-746-3156 office hours: Fisher-Bennett 211, Tu/Th 3-4pm and by appointment graders: Timothy Carmody (carmody@sas.upenn.edu) James Fiumara (jfiumara@sas.upenn.edu) Greg Steirer (steirer@english.upenn.edu) ASSIGNMENTS: Film analysis (25 points), annotated bibliography (25 points), midterm (25 points), and final (25 points). For extra credit (5 points), you may write a one-page conference report on the Penn Film and Media Pioneers symposium, taking place on October 25th. Attendance in class is mandatory; more than two unexcused absences will result in the reduction of your course grade. Detailed assignments will be distributed in class and posted on the course website. Exam questions will be drawn from class reading, lectures, and screenings. REQUIRED TEXT (available at the Penn Book Center on 34th Street): Kristin Thompson and David Bordwell, Film History: An Introduction, 2nd ed. (Boston: McGraw Hill, 2002) [FH below]. Other readings available through course website (click the syllabus link above). * Van Pelt film search catalog: www.library.upenn.edu/catalogs/vcat *PennTags bibliography site: http://tags.library.upenn.edu/ PRINTER FRIENDLY VERSION