Calendar

= Schedule of Readings, Screenings, and Assignments = Summer 2014

Week One

 * Mon, 6/16: Introductions **

Read //Film//, Ch. 1: "Introduction" (1-8) and Ch. 2, "An Approach to Film Analysis" (9-20), Ch. 13, "Genre" (392-393), and Greg M. Smith, [|"It's Just a Movie"].
 * Tues, 6/17: ** **Screening: Chinatown** (dir. Roman Polanski, 1974)

Read Film, Ch. 2 (21-36) Write **response to //Chinatown//** (due on the wiki before class). Questions for responding to Chinatown.
 * Wed, 6/18: Introduction to Film Analysis **

Read Film, Ch. 4, "Narrative Form" (65-80, 84-90); Ch. 11, "Social Context and Film Style" (343-353)
 * Thurs, 6/19: ** **Screening: [|The 400 Blows]** (dir. Francois Truffaut, 1959)

Write ** response to //The 400// ** //Blows//. Questions for responding to The 400 Blows. Note: If you are unable to edit the wiki, then post your response in the Discussion board in Blackboard.
 * Fri, 6/20: Narrative Form **

Week Two
Read Film Ch. 5: "Mise-en-Scene" (91-113)
 * Mon, 6/23: Mise-en-Scene: Design and Staging **
 * Practice writing 1 due**

Read Film Ch. 10, "Film and Ideology" (309-318)
 * Tues, 6/24: ** **Screening: [|Written on the Wind]** (dir. Douglas Sirk, 1956)
 * Quiz 1 ** on film analysis and narrative form

Read Film Ch. 5: "Mise-en-Scene" (114-128). Watch:[| "Setting and Expressionism"] and [|"Composing the Frame."] Optional:[| Interview with Douglas Sirk]. Write ** response to //Written on the Wind.// **Questions for responding to Written on the Wind.
 * Wed, 6/25: Mise-en-Scene: Composition **


 * Thurs, 6/26: ** Screening: **[|Road to Perdition]** (dir. Sam Mendes; cin. Conrad Hall, 2002)

Read Film Ch. 6, "Cinematography" (129-147); Write **response to //Road to Perdition//**
 * Fri, 6/27: Cinematography **

Week Three
Read Film Ch. 6, "Cinematography" (148-190)
 * Mon, 6/30: Cinematography **
 * Practice writing 2 due **


 * Tues, 7/1: ** **Screening: //[|His Girl Friday]//** (dir. Howard Hawks; ed. Gene Havlick, 1940)
 * Quiz 2 **; Read Film Ch. 3 (37-43) and sample student papers

Read Film Ch. 7, "Editing" (191-215); Watch [|"The History of Cutting: The Birth of Cinema and Continuity Editing"] and [|Editing: The 180-degree rule] Write **response to //His Girl Friday//**
 * Wed, 7/2: Editing: Continuity **

Read Film Ch. 7, "Editing" (215-226); Watch [|"The History of Cutting: The Soviet Theory of Montage"]
 * Thurs, 7/3: ** **Screening: [|Battleship Potemkin]** (dir. Sergei Eisenstein, 1925) and discussion

Response to Battleship Potemkin not required
 * Fri, 7/4: No class meeting **

Week Four
Read Film Ch. 4, "Narrative Form" (78-84) Be prepared to share the topic of your sequence analysis.
 * Mon, 7/7: Editing/Narration **
 * Practice writing 3 due **


 * Tues, 7/8: ** **Screening: //[|Psycho]//**(dir. Alfred Hitchcock, music by Bernard Herrmann, 1960)
 * Quiz 3 **

Write **response to //Psycho//** Read Film, Ch. 8, "Sound" (227-238)
 * Wed, 7/9: Point of View/Narration/Sound **

Read Film, Ch. 8, "Sound" (239-269)
 * Thurs, 7/10: ** **Screening: [|Chungking Express]** (dir. Wong Kar Wai, 1994)

Write **response to //Chungking Express//** Read [|"Stuff that Dreams Are Made of: Music and the Future in Wong Kar Wai's Chungking Express"] by Brook McCorkle Music and the Future in Wong Kar-wai’s Chungking Express - See more at: http://norient.com/en/academic/the-future-in-wong-kar-wais-chungking-express-1994/#sthash.4wh9VtGo.dpuf
 * Fri, 7/11: Sound **

Week Five

 * Mon, 7/14: Documentary. Screening: [|The Plow that Broke the Plains] **(dir. Pare Lorentz, 1936)
 * Sequence Analysis essay due **


 * Tues, 7/15: ** **Screening: [|The Thin Blue Line]** (dir. Errol Morris, 1988)
 * Quiz 4; ** Read Film Ch. 9, "Alternatives to Narrative Fiction Film" (275-291)

Write ** response to //The Thin Blue Line// **
 * Wed, 7/16: Documentary **

Read Film Ch. 9 (291-305)
 * Thurs, 7/17: Experimental Film & Review **


 * Fri, 7/18: Final Exam **