Syllabus

=Schedule of Readings, Screenings, and Assignments= Summer 2012 LM = Looking at Movies DVD = Looking at Movies DVD

Week One

 * Mon, 6/18: Introductions**

What details stand out to you? Do you notice any narrative or visual patterns that recur? How do you respond to the movie emotionally? What do you think it is about?
 * Tues, 6/19: Screening: //[|Pan's Labyrinth]// (Guillermo del Toro, 2006)**

Read LM Ch. 1 and Ch. 2 (1-39). Watch DVD Ch.1 and Ch. 2 videos. Response to //Pan's Labyrinth// due on your wikipage before class.
 * Wed, 6/20: Film Analysis**


 * Thurs, 6/21: Screening:** **//[|The Night of the Hunter]//(Charles Laughton, 1955)**

Read LM Ch. 2 (50-55) and Ch. 5 (156-182). Watch DVD Ch. 5: "Setting and Expressionism," and "Lighting and Familiar Image in //The Night of the Hunter."// Response to //The Night of the Hunter// due on your wikipage by 6:00 a.m. 6/22.
 * Fri, 6/22: Mise-en-Scene: design, realism and expressionism**

Week Two
Read LM Ch. 5 (182-206). Watch DVD Ch. 5: "Composing the Frame," ". . .Actualites" Read sample essays on wiki. Bring copies of essays on "The Big Heat" and "Road to Perdition" to class (print out or bring laptop)
 * Mon, 6/25: Mise-en-Scene: composition**

What elements of design make the mise-en-scene realistic or expressionistic? How are light and color used? Can you notice specific examples of visual storytelling, instances in which images (rather than dialogue) convey character, story, and significance?
 * Tues, 6/26: Screening:** **//[|Days of Heaven]// (Terrence Malick, 1978)**

Read LM CH. 6 (208-242) Watch DVD Ch. 6 "Lighting," "Shot Types," "Point of View," and "Focal Length" Response to //Days of Heaven// due on your wikipage by 6:00 a.m. on 6/27
 * Wed, 6/27**: **Cinematography: light**


 * Thurs, 6/28:** **Screening:** **//[|Notorious]// (Alfred Hitchcock, 1946)**

Read LM Ch. 6 (242-268) and Ch. (320-335) Watch DVD Ch. 6, "Camera Angles," "Zoom and Moving Camera Effects," "The Moving Camera" Response to Notorious due on your wikipage by 6:00 a.m. on 6/29
 * Fri, 6/29: Cinematography/Editing**

Week Three
Read LM Ch. (335-365) Watch DVD Ch. 8, "The Evolution of Editing: Continuity. . .," "The 180- Degree Rule," "Editing Techniques in Snapshot"
 * Mon, 7/2: Editing (Continuity and Point of View)**

Please bring paper.
 * Tues, 7/3: Midterm Exam**


 * Wed, 7/4: No class**


 * Thurs, 7/5:** **Screening: //[|Bonnie and Clyde]// (Arthur Penn, 1967)**

Review LM Ch. 8 Watch DVD Ch. 8, " . . . Montage," "The Kuleshov Experiment" Response to Bonnie and Clyde due on your wikipage by 6:00 a.m. on 7/6
 * Fri, 7/6: Editing (Discontinuity)**

Week Four
Read LM Ch. 9 (368-409) Watch DVD Ch. 9, "Sound in //Snapshot//"
 * Mon, 7/9: Editing (Associational Editing); Introduction to Sound**


 * Tues, 7/10:** **Screening: //[|The Conversation]// (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974)**

DUE: Sequence analysis essay No response due
 * Wed, 7/11: Sound Design**


 * Thurs, 7/12:** **Screening: //[|The Social Network]// (David Fincher, 2010)**

Read LM Ch. 5 (114-114-153); Read [|"What's True in the Facebook Movie."] Response to The Social Network due on your wikipage by 6:00 a.m. on 7/13
 * Fri, 7/13: Narrative Structure**

Week Five
Read LM Ch. 3 (60-78)
 * Mon, 7/16: Documentary**


 * Tues, 7/17: Screening: //[|Last Train Home]// (Li Xin Fan, 2009)**

Response to Last Train Home due on your wikipage by 6:00 a.m. on 7/18
 * Wed, 7/18: Documentary and Narrative**

Austin and Jake: //Boogie Nights// Janelle and Christine and Steve: //Pulp Fiction// Zak and Scott and Caroline: //Drive//
 * Thurs, 7/19:** **Presentations**


 * Fri, 7/20:** **Final Exam**