Mondays, 6:30 – 9:30
p.m.
Dammann
5
& Wednesdays, 10-10:50 a.m. (Section 1) Phone:
323-5104
11-11:50 a.m. (Section 2) hartmannv@mville.edu
Course Texts:
Gerald Mast and Bruce Kawin, A Short History of the Movies
Louis Giannetti, Understanding Movies
Course Requirements:
Attendance at all films and discussion classes
Weekly response papers due on Wednesdays
Three critical analysis papers (4 pages each)
Midterm exam
Final exam
Schedule:
W 9/3 Introduction & Organization
M 9/8 Film: D.W. Griffith, Broken Blossoms
Read: Mast & Kawin, Ch. 4
W 9/10 Read: Giannetti, Ch. 1
1-page response
M 9/15 Film: Buster Keaton, The General
Read: Mast & Kawin, Ch. 5 & Ch 6 (pp. 134-144);
W 9/17 Read: Giannetti, Ch. 2
1-page response
M 9/22 Film: Sergei Eisenstein: The Battleship Potemkin
Read: Mast & Kawin, Ch. 8
W 9/24 Read: Giannetti, Ch. 4 (pp. 134-180)
4-PAGE PAPER
M 9/29 Film: John Ford, Stagecoach
Read: Mast & Kawin, Ch.11;
W 10/1 Read: Giannetti, Ch. 5
1-page response
M 10/6 Film: Leni Riefenstahl, Triumph of the Will
Read: Mast & Kawin, Ch. 7
W 10/8 Film: Alain Resnais, Night and Fog
1-page
response
M 10/13 FALL
BREAK
W 10/15 MIDTERM
M 10/20 Film: Joe Berlinger & Bruce Sinofsky, Brother’s Keeper
Read: Giannetti, Ch.6
W 10/22 Film: Maya Deren, Meshes of the Afternoon
Read: Giannetti, Ch. 3
1-page response
M 10/27 Orson Welles, Citizen Kane
4-PAGE PAPER
M 11/3 Ingmar Bergman, The Seventh Seal 1
Read: Mast & Kawin, Ch. 14
W 11/5 Read: Giannetti, Ch. 7
1-page response
M 11/10 Jean-Luc Godard, Breathless
Read: Mast & Kawin, Ch. 13
W 11/12 Read: Giannetti, Ch. 8
1-page response
M 11/17 Alfred Hitchcock, North by Northwest
Read: Mast & Kawin, Ch. 12
W 11/19 Read: Giannetti, Ch. 4 (pp. 181-205) & Ch. 9
1-page response
M 11/24 Arthur Penn, Bonnie and Clyde
Read: Mast & Kawin, Ch. 15
W 11/26 THANKSGIVING BREAK
M 12/1 Spike Lee, Do the Right Thing
Read: Mast & Kawin, Ch. 17
W 12/3 Read: Giannetti, Ch. 10
4-PAGE PAPER
M 12/8 Jane Campion, The Piano
Read: Mast & Kawin, Ch. 16
W 12/10 Read: Giannetti, Ch. 11
1-page response
FINAL EXAM TBA
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