Topic | Time Devoted to Each Topic | Activity |
Introduction to Film History | 1 class | Screening: Edison Co.: Sandow (The Strong Man) (1894); Barber Shop (1893)
Annabelle Butterfly Dance (1894); Corbett and Courtney Before the Kinetograph (1894)
The Invention of Cinema: USA, France, England
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The Invention of Cinema: USA, France, England | 1 class | Reading: Tom Gunning, "The Cinema of Attractions" Screening: Edison Co.: Cockfight (1894); Annie Oakley (1894); The Kiss (1896); Interrupted Lovers (1896); Going to the Fire (1896) Lumiere Brothers (1895-1897): Leaving the Factory; The Baby's Meal; The Sprinkler Sprinkled; Arrival of a Train; Niagara Falls; Swimming in the Sea; Promenade of Ostriches; Childish Quarrel; Photograph; Transformation by Hats
Birt Acres: Rough Sea at Dover (1895)
Actualities: President McKinley at Home (1896)
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The Invention of Cinema: USA, France, England | 1 class | Screening: R.W. Paul: The Countryman & the Cinematograph (1901); A Chess Dispute (1903); Extraordinary Cab Accident (1903) George Albert Smith: The Kiss in the Tunnel (1899); As Seen Through a Telescope (1900); Mary Jane's Mishap (1903) Bamforth & Co.: The Kiss in the Tunnel (1899); Ladies' Skirts Nailed to a Fence (ca. 1900) James Williamson: The Big Swallow (1901) Cecil Hepworth: How It Feels to Be Run Over (1900); Explosion of a Motor Car (1900) Pathe: Parle Trou De Serrue (1901); Dream and Reality (1901) |
The Grammar of Narrative Cinema | 1 class | Reading: Jennifer Peterson, "Glimpses of Animal Life" Screening: James Williamson: Fire (1901) Georges Melies: A Trip to the Moon (1902) Sheffield: Daring Daylight Burglary (1903) Edison/Porter: The Great Train Robbery (1903) |
The Grammar of Narrative Cinema | 1 class | Case Study: Thomas Edison & Co. Screening: Mr. Edison at Work in His Chemical Laboratory (1897) Jack and the Beanstalk (1902), The Gay Shoe Clerk (1903) Dream of a Rarebit Fiend (1906), The "Teddy" Bears (1907) |
International Cinematic Developments: 1906-1912 | 1 class | View Before Class: The Acrobatic Fly, Charles Urban Co., (England, 1910) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hlocZhNcOM
Reading: "Some Tricks of the Moving Picture Maker" (1909) "House Fly Actors Make Their Debut" (1910) Screening: San Francisco Earthquake: Aftermath (US, 1906) Troubles of a Grass Widower, Max Linder (France, 1908) Nero, or the Fall of Rome, Arturo Ambrosio (Italy, 1909) Princess Nicotine; Or, The Smoke Fairy, J. Stuart Blackton (US, 1909) The Fly Pest (England, 1910) |
International Cinematic Developments: 1906-1912 | 1 class | Case Study: Alice Guy Blache Reading: "Alice Guy Blache: A Prominent Figure in Motion Pictures" (1912) Alice Guy Blache, "Woman's Place in Photoplay Production" (1914) Mark Garrett Cooper, "Preface," Universal Women Screening: Making an American Citizen (US, 1912) Falling Leaves (US, 1912) Matrimony's Speed Limit (US, 1913) |
International Cinematic Developments: 1906-1912 | 1 class | Case Study: D. W. Griffith Reading: Janet Staiger, "Mass Produced Photoplays" "Lessons from Lyman Howe" and "Moral Teaching by Films" (1911) Screening: The Girl and Her Trust (1912) The Musketeers of Pig Alley (1912) The Birth of a Nation (1915) (excerpts) |
International Cinematic Developments: 1906-1912 | 1 class | View Before Class: The Temple of Moloch (1914), Thomas Edison Co. http://archive.org/details/temple _of_ moloch Screening: How Men Propose, Lois Weber (1913) Cabiria (1914) (excerpt), Giovanni Pastrone The Immigrant (1917), Charlie Chaplin Within Our Gates (1919) (excerpt), Oscar Micheaux |
American Film in the 1920s | 1 class | View Before Class: Wildlife 011 the Deserts of America's Great Southwest (William and George Allen, 192*) http://archive.org/details/wildlife _deserts_ americas_ southwest Reading: Jennifer Peterson, "Glimpses of Animal Life" Screening: One Week (1920), Buster Keaton & Edward Cline Struggle for Existence (1925), Bray Co. Bigelow family Kodacolor home movie (1929) |
American Film in the 1920s | 1 class | Screening: It (1927), Clarence Badger Paper Due to Moodle Site by 8:00 a.m. |
American Film in the 1920s | 1 class | Reading: "She Wants to Succeed," Motion Picture Classic (June 1926) "Interview with Clara Bow," Motion Picture (November 1928) "That Awful 'IT'," Photoplay (July 1930) Screening: The Life and Death of a Hollywood Extra (1928), Vorkapich & Florey |
French Cinema in the 1920s: The Avant-Garde | 1 class | Reading: Andre Breton, "The Surrealist Manifesto" (1924) Screening: Onesime, Clock Maker, Jean Durand/Ernst Bourborn (France, 1912) Entr'acte (1924), Rene Clair Anemic Cinema (1926), Marcel Duchamp Un Chien Andalou (1929), Luis Buiiuel/Salvador Dali |
Soviet Cinema in the 1920s: Montage | 1 class | Screening: Strike (1925), Sergei Eisenstein |
Soviet Cinema in the 1920s: Montage | 1 class | Reading: Dziga Vertov, "The Factory of Facts and Other Writings" Clips: Potemkin (1925), Sergei Eisenstein Man With a Movie Camera (1929), Dziga Vertov |
German Cinema in the 1920s: Expressionism | 1 class | Clips: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), Robert Wiene Nosferatu (1922), F.W. Murnau Metropolis (1927) |
The Coming of Sound | 1 class | Stephen Botto more, "An International Survey of Sound Effects ... " Clips: Dickson Experimental Sound Film (1894/S) Cyrano de Bergerac (1900) The Jazz Singer (1927), Alan Crosland Sunrise (1927), F.W. Mumau Applause (1929), Rouben Mamoulian |
The Coming of Sound | 1 class | Screening: M (1931), Fritz Lang |
American Film in the 1930s-In Black & White, and Color! | 1 class | Clips: Modern Times (1936), Charlie Chaplin American Film in the 1930s-In Black & White, and Color! |
American Film in the 1930s-In Black & White, and Color! | 1 class | Screening: I Am A Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932), Mervyn LeRoy |
American Film in the 1930s-In Black & White, and Color! | 1 class | Reading: Thomas Doherty, "Criminal Codes" Clip: Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933), Mervyn LeRoy |
American Film in the 1930s-In Black & White, and Color! | 1 class | Screening: The Wizard Of Oz (1939), Victor Fleming |
American Film in the 1930s-In Black & White, and Color! | 1 class | Reading: Douglas Churchill, "Hollywood Says Oz" (Oct. 30, 1938) Mervyn LeRoy, "Director LeRoy Explores a Myth" (Aug. 13, 1939) Frank Nugent, Review of The Wizard ofOz (Aug. 18, 1939) Screening: The Talio11 Punishment (1906), Pathe Flowers and Trees (1932), Disney |
International Cinema in the 1930s | 1 class | Japan: Screening: Hitori musuko (The 011ly So11) 1936, Yasujiro Ozu |
International Cinema in the 1930s | 1 class | France: Reading: Mariana Johnson, "Schools Out" Screening: Zero du conduite [Zero for Conduct] (1933), Jean Vigo L 'Hippocampe ou cheval marin [The Sea Horse) (1933) Jean Painleve |
International Cinema in the 1930s | 1 class | England: Screening: The 39 Steps (1935), Alfred Hitchcock |
International Cinema in the 1930s | 1 class | Clips: Blackmail (1929), Alfred Hitchcock The Lady Vanishes (1938), Alfred Hitchcock |