| Week Module | Start Date | Course Topics | Required Reading (page #s are for the 7th ed) | Film / Media Screening | Assignments Due (in Canvas at 11:59pm on the day noted) |
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| Week and Module 1 | 4/7 | Principles of Film Form Types of film analysis, genre |
Textbook Reading cha. 1, 3 |
Film screening The Apartment
(U.S. 1960) |
Week 1 Assignment Rumi try out assignment due 4/9 |
| Week and Module 2 | 4/13 | Film History Early cinema technologies, history and aesthetics of Hollywood studio era filmmaking The Motion Picture Production Code of 1930 |
Textbook Reading
cha. 2, cha.10 pp. 343-351, 358-362 (precinema, silent, code, U.S. Studio system), cha. 11 pp. 402 - 414 (studio system) Module Reading The MPPC 1930 |
Film screening Babyface (U.S. 1933) |
Week 2 Assignment Short writing #1: |
| Week and Module 3 | 4/20 | Cinematography pt 1 Production terminology: color temperature, lenses, shot types, depth of field, camera angle and height, black & white, color |
Textbook Reading cha. 6 pp. 180 - 203 (cha. 6 up to camera movement) & cha. 11 pp. 397- 400 (How a Movie is Made-postproduction) |
Film screening
Rear Window (U.S. 1954) Tutorial Screenings camera angles, shot types and proxemics, focal length Optional screening History of Technicolor |
Week 3 Assignment |
| Week and Module 4 | 4/27 | Cinematography pt 2 lighting, screen direction, camera movement, POV, & special effects writing about film |
Textbook Reading
cha. 6 pp. 203 – 226 (camera movement – end of chapter), and chapter 5 on composition & the rule of thirds pp.162 -167 Optional Module Reading writing about movies |
Film Screening Documentary Visions of Light (1992) (available in Canvas module) Tutorial screenings on cinematography |
Week 4 Assignments
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| Week and Module 5 | 5/4 | Mise en scene Film history: realism in cinema: Italian Neorealism, British free cinema, Dogme 95 Midterm practice exam |
Textbook Reading
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Film Screening
The Florida Project (U.S. 2017) Module screening Film scenes and tutorials on mise en scene |
Week 5 Assignment Short writing #4: Mise en scene in The Florida Project due 5/7 Peer review due 5/11 |
| Week and Module 6 | 5/11 | Editing pt 1 Continuity editing & screen direction Narrative Structure |
Textbook Reading cha. 8: pp. 266– 290 (to “other transitions between shots”); cha. 4: pp. 116-120 (narrative structure); cha. 10 pp. 371 – 374 (Japan) |
Film Screening
Rashomon (Japan 1950) Module Tutorial Screenings Continuity editing & screen direction, editing histories |
Week 6 Assignment Midterm exam due 5/14 Video essay topic and thesis ideas 5/15 Peer review of topics due Monday 5/18 |
| Week and Module 7 | 5/18 | Narrative Art house and experimental cinema |
Textbook Reading
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Film Screening
Dogtooth
(Greece 2009) Module Tutorial Screenings Narrative concepts and film scenes for further analysis |
Week 7 Assignment Video Analysis Project Scripts due 5/21 Two peer reviews of scripts due 5/25 |
| Week and Module 8 | 5/25 | Editing part 2
Discontinuity in editing Film history: Soviet montage |
Textbook Reading |
Film Screening City of God (Brazil 2002)
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Week 8 Assignment Short writing #5 Analysis of editing, narrative, and mise en scene Rashomon & Dogtooth due 5/28 Peer review due 6/1 |
| Week and Module 9 | 6/1 | Sound Film history: French New Wave |
Textbook Reading cha. 9, cha. 10 pp. 379 - 381 (Latin American Film) |
Module Tutorial Screenings selected scenes and tutorials on film sound, documentary: Sound in the Films of Alfred Hitchcock |
Week 9 Assignments |
| Week and Module 10 | 6/8 | Acting Hollywood and independent film production today |
Textbook Reading
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Film Screening no screening this week |
Week 10 Assignment Video Analysis Project final due 6/11 |
| Week and Module 11 | 6/15 | Wrap-up week Race and gender representation in cinema |
Module Reading gender and race representation in cinema |
Tutorial Screening selected scenes, documentary on race and gender representation in media |
Week 11 Assignment Peer reviews for analysis project due Monday 6/22 Works cited page for project due 6/22 Study for final exam |
| Week and Module 12 | 6/22 | Final Exam | Week 12 Assignment Final Exam due Wednesday 6/24 |