January 22
Course
Introduction, Film Narrative, Gender in Cinema
Review Syllabus, Class
Assignments, Readings, Viewings, Policies
January 25
Pre-cinema, Early
Cinema & Narrative
Readings: Mast & Kawin pp.
pp. 1-6, 11-20
In Class Screening: from Paris
Je T'aime (2006), Fred Ott’s Sneeze (1894), Arrival of
a Train (1895), & The Execution of Mary, Queen of
Scots (1895)
January 27
Gender, Genre,
and Narrative cont…
Readings: Mast & Kawin pp. 21-31,
35-38
Screen on your own: A
Trip to the Moon (1902), The Great Train Robbery (1903) (links
on course website)
Quiz 1
January 29
Visual theory,
Elements of Meaning, Gender Representation
In-Class
Screening: from My
Darling Clementine (1946)
February 1
The Camera Eye,
Cinematography, & Adaptation
Readings:
The Western (link available in “Readings”tab)
In Class Screening: from Seven Samurai (1954) and The Magnificent Seven (1960)
February 3
Mise-en-scéne
In-Class Screening: from My
Darling Clementine (1946)
February 5
John Ford and
Gender
Screen
on your own: The Searchers (1956)
Quiz 2
February 8
The
Searchers (1956)
cont…
February 10
Classical
Continuity & Editing, D.W. Griffith & Early Innovations
Readings:
Mast & Kawin pp. 42-56
Screen
on your own: Birth of a Nation (1915) (link on
course website: only selected time listed.)
Quiz 3
Note-Taking
Exercise 1 and Response 1 (Due 2/12 at 11:59pm on Turnitin)February 12
Silent Comedy
& Chaplin
Readings:
Mast & Kawin pp. 63-70, 94-100
In-Class
Screening: from Modern Times (1936), The Tramp (1915),
Nanook of the North (1922), Reel
Injun (2009)
February 15
Silent
Documentary, Movie Czars
Readings:
Mast & Kawin pp. 71-94, "Defining the Documentary Film" (link in
the "Readings" tab.)
In-Class
Screening: from Nanook of the North (1922), Reel Injun (2009)
February 17
Expressionism,
Surrealism
Readings: Mast & Kawin pp.
104-119, 145-151, Expressionism, German Expressionism, Surrealism (links in “Readings” tab)
Screen on your own: The
Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) (link available on course
website)
Quiz 4
February 19
Expressionism,
Surrealism cont…
In-Class Screenings: from Un
Chien Andalou (1929) & Eraserhead (1977)
February 22
Structuralism,
Shot-by-Shot Analysis, Female Representation in Cinema
Readings:
Mast & Kawin pp. 120-133,
Structuralism pp.14-22 (links available in "Readings" tab)
In-Class Screening: from Battleship
Potemkin (1925), The Birds (1963)
February 24
Film Noir, Orson
Welles
Readings: Film Noir (link
available in “Readings”tab)
Screen on your own: Touch of Evil (1958)
Quiz
5
February 26
Sound and Genre,
Science Fiction
Readings: Mast & Kawin pp.
137-144
Screen on your own: The
Skeleton Dance (1929) (link
available on course website)
In Class Screening: from The
Jazz Singer (1927), 2001: A
Space Odyssey (1968)
February 29
Touch
of Evil (1958)
cont…
Note-Taking
Exercise 2 and Response 2 Due (Turnitin)
March 2
The American
Studio Years and Women in the Studio Era
Readings:
Mast & Kawin pp. 161-185
Screen
on your own: Rebecca (1943)
Quiz 6
End of Material
for Mid-Term Exam
March 4
Rebecca
(1943)
cont…
March 7
Hollywood in
Transition and Style
Readings: Mast & Kawin pp.
195-219
Screen on your own: High
Noon (1952)
Quiz
7
March 9
High
Noon (1952)
cont…
March 11
Mid-Term
Examination
March 21
Italian
Neorealism
Readings:
Mast & Kawin pp.220-236
In-Class
Screenings: from Open City (1945), La Dolce Vita (1960)
March
23
French
New Wave
Readings:
Mast & Kawin pp.237-250
In-Class
Screenings: from Contempt (1963) and 2 or 3
Things I Know About Her (1967)
March
25
Hitchcock
and Gender
Screen on your own: Psycho (1960)
Quiz
8
March
28
No Class
No Class
March
30
National
Cinemas, British Comedy
Readings:
Mast & Kawin pp. 251-270
In-Class Screenings: from The
Ruling Class (1972) and Monty Python
and the Holy Grail (1974)
April
1
National Cinemas
Cont., Japanese Horror
Readings:
Mast & Kawin pp. 270-290
In-Class
Screenings: from Ju-on: The Grudge (2002)
and Ringu (1998)
Note-Taking
Exercise 3 and Response 3 Due (Turnitin)
April 4
National
Cinemas Presentations
April
6
National
Cinemas Presentations
April
8
No
Class
April
11
Hollywood
Renaissance
Readings:
Mast & Kawin pp. 291-312
In-Class
Screenings: from Night of the Living Dead (1968), Taxi
Driver (1976), Apocalypse Now (1979)
April
13
Women
Directors
In-Class Screening: Real Women Have Curves
April
15
Women
Directors
Screen on your own: Winter’s Bone (2010)
Quiz
9
April
18
Women
Directors
Screen on your own: Pariah (2011)
Quiz
10
April
20
National Cinemas
2, Third World Cinemas
Readings:Mast
& Kawin pp. 313-326
In-Class
Screening: El Norte (1983) and The Last Supper (1976)
April
22
National Cinemas
2, The New Internationalism
Readings:
Mast & Kawin pp. 327-345
In-Class
Screenings: Pan’s Labyrinth (2006), Amores Perros (2000), Y Tu Mama Tambien (2001)
April
25
National
Cinemas Presentations
Note-Taking
Exercise 4 and Response 4 Due
April
27
National
Cinemas Presentations
April
29
The Return of
Myths
Readings: Mast & Kawin pp:
346-360
Screen on your own: Star
Wars (1977)
Quiz
11
May
2
No Class
Readings: Jungian Archetypes
(link available in “Readings” tab)
Screen on your own: The Power of Myth
May
4
Post-Modernism,
Conglomerates, Video, and DVD
Readings: Mast & Kawin
pp. 373-384
Screen on your own: Pulp
Fiction (1994)
Quiz
12
May
6
Post-Modernism
cont…
In-Class Screenings: from Mulholland
Drive (2001)
May
9
Digital Cinema
Readings: Mast & Kawin pp. 390-415
Readings: Mast & Kawin pp. 390-415
In-Class Screenings: O,
Brother Where Art Thou? (2002), Rope
(1948), Birdman: (Or the Unexpected
Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)
Film
Review Due (Turnitin)
Final
Exams: TBA
