| Tue | Thu | Required Film: | Required Reading: |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sept | I. THE SILENT ERA | ||
| 10 | Porter, The Great Train Robbery
Griffith, A Beast at Bay |
Cook, A History of Narrative
Film, (4th ed) Pp 1-41, 51-85 |
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| 15 | 17 | Griffith, Lonely Villa |
Cook, 177-82 Mast, from A Short History of the Movies |
| 17 | SHORT RESPONSE DUE | ||
| 22 | 24 | Chaplin, The Immigrant
Easy Street Modern Times |
Agee, "Comedy's Greatest Era" |
| 29 | Murnau, The Last Laugh | Cook, ch. 4-5 | |
| Oct | 1 | FIRST PAPER DUE | |
| II. HOLLYWOOD GENRES | |||
| 6 | 8 | Capra, It Happened One Night Hitchcock, Shadow of a Doubt |
Cook, ch. 7-8 |
| -- | 15 | QUIZ | |
| 20 | 22 | Donen/Kelly, Singin' in the Rain |
Braudy, "Genre: The Conventions of Connection" |
| 27 | 29 | Fosse, Cabaret | Cook, ch. 12 |
| 29 | SECOND PAPER DUE | ||
| Nov | |||
| 3 | 5 | Ford, The Searchers Altman, McCabe and Mrs. Miller |
Cook, 845-68 |
| III. INTERNATIONAL MASTERS | |||
| 10 | 12 | Renoir, Grand Illusion |
Cook, 303-26 |
| 17 | 19 | DeSica, Bicycle Thieves | Cook, 355-68 |
| 24 | HOUR TEST [No required flm this week; test given at 4 pm in the lecture room] | ||
| Dec | |||
| 1 | 3 | Kurosawa, Seven Samurai | Cook, 735-45 |
| 3 | THIRD PAPER DUE | ||
| 8 | 10 | Summary Perspectives: Film as Art and Artifact | |
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