Introduction to Film Studies / Fall 2005

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To help prepare for class discussions ( and The Quiz) take a look at the Study Guide ! (Start at the bottom, and work your way up. The end of the semester is at the top of the document...)

Check your progress in The Quiz.

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Week Date (Mon.) Monday Screening Reading Tuesday Thursday
0 8/29 Intro to Class:
Why Film Studies?
1 9/5 'Robot Monster' Borwell/Thompson
ch. 2 & ch. 3
(up to p. 78 only!)		 Conventions & Narrative Conventions & Narrative
2 9/12 'Auch Zwerge Haben Klein Angefangen' Gianetti:
Photography		 Composition Composition
3 9/19 'Tout Va Bien' Gianetti:
Editing		 Editing Editing
4 9/26 Experimental Films
(long program)		 Borwell/Thompson
ch. 6		 Mise En Scene Mise En Scene
5 10/3 'The Player' Borwell/Thompson
ch. 9		 Sound Combined Analysis
6 10/10 'Citizen Kane'

Bordwell

Borwell/Thompson
ch. 3, pp. 78-89

Citizen Kane

NO CLASS

Fall Break

7 10/17 'The Thing'
'My Darling Clementine'		 Wollen Auteurs
Presentations		 Auteurs
Further Discussion
8 10/24 'The Wild Bunch'

Prince

McKinney

Violence, Film, Society: Presentations Violence, Film, Society:
Further Discussion
9 10/31 'Force of Evil'
'Double Indemnity'

Shrader

Harvey

Place

Film Noir
Presentations		 Film Noir
Further Discussion
10 11/7 Lecture: Ideology
'Alien'

Byers

Newton

Ideology & Content
Presentations		 Ideology & Content
Further Discussion
11 11/14 'The Godfather, part 2'
(3 hrs., 20 minutes - fyi))

Hess

Biskind

Ideology & Form
Presentations		 Ideology & Form:
Further Discussion
12 11/21 'Vertigo read Mulvey after Tues. lecture Lecture:
Laura Mulvey		 THANKSGIVING
13 11/28 'Gentlemen Prefer Blondes'

Turim

Arbuthnot/Seneca

Feminist Analysis
Presentations		 Feminist Analysis
Further Discussion
14 12/5 'The Texas Chainsaw Massacre'
'Dressed to Kill'

Williams

Wood

American Demons:
Presentations		 American Demons:
Further Discussion
15 12/12 Lecture: Postmodernism NONE PoMo:
Discussion


See a printable version of the complete syllabus in Acrobat Reader format (.pdf).