Aug 28) Precinema
FH, ch. 1
Sept 2) No class – Labor Day
Sept 4) Early Cinema
Maxim Gorky, “Lumière Program at Nizhni-Novgorod” (1896)
Sept 9) The Rise of Narrative
FH, ch. 2
John Collier, “Cheap Amusements” (1908)
Sept 11) Clip Day
Sept 16) Hollywood
FH, ch. 3, 7, 10
Sept 18) The French Avant-Garde
FH, chs. 4
Germaine Dulac, “The Avant-Garde Cinema” (1927)
Sept 23) Weimar Cinema
FH, ch. 5
Fritz Lang, “The Future of the Feature Film in Germany” (1926)
view: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) – available here
Sept 25) Soviet Cinema
FH, ch. 6
S.M. Eisenstein, “The Montage of Attractions” (excerpt) (1923)
Dziga Vertov, “The Birth of Kino-Eye” (1924)
view: Battleship Potemkin (1925) – available here
Sept 30) No Class – Rosh Hashanah
Oct 2) Guest Speaker – Elizabeth Weitzman
Oct 7) African-American Film in the Silent Era
Robyn Wiegman, “Race, Ethnicity, and Film”
Oct 9) No class – Yom Kippur
Oct 14) Clip Day
Oct 16) Silent Comedy
Donald Crafton, “Pie and Chase”
Noël Carroll, “Notes on the Sight Gag”
view: The Immigrant (Chaplin, 1917) – available here
FILM ANALYSIS DUE – hard copy to class and email
Oct 21) Sound
FH, ch. 9
Eisenstein, Pudovkin, Alexandrov, “A Statement on the Sound Film” (1928)
view: King Kong (1933)
Oct 23) Clip Day
Oct 28) Library Workshop / Writing Workshop
Oct 30) Library Workshop / Writing Workshop
Nov 4) In-Class Midterm
Nov 6) Guest speakers: Alexandra Milchan and Scott Lambert
Nov 11) Censorship and Globalization
Richard Maltby, “Censorship and Self-Regulation”
view: Scarface (1932)
Nov 13) Japanese Cinema
Guest Speaker: Julia Alexseyeva
FH, ch. 11
additional readings on Canvas
Nov 18) Ethnography and Documentary Film
FH, ch. 14
Robert Sherwood, “Robert Flaherty’s Nanook of the North”
view: Nanook of the North (1922)
Nov 20) Nazi Film and the Popular Front
FH, chs. 12 & 13
Siegfried Kracauer, introduction, From Caligari to Hitler (1947)
view: Grand Illusion (1937)
Nov 25) World War II
Thomas Doherty, “Government Work”
Dec 2) Animation and Walt Disney
Dec 4) After 1945 & Exam Review
BIBLIOGRAPHIES DUE – submit through canvas
Dec 18, 3-5pm) FINAL EXAM (room TBD)