Film Study

Fall 2007

Dr Gonder

FLM 120.001 

Introduction to Film

Tuesday-Thursday class

*viewing and reading schedule/hyperlink list*

August  

 28  course introduction

 30  Narrative and Visual Aesthetics

September

4   The Gold Rush (72m); The General (63m); Chapter 1, complete

6   Battleship Potemkin (66m); Eisenstein and Montage

11  focus on ‘The Odessa Steps Sequence’; Chapter 1, analysis and review

13   Metropolis [restored version, available virtually everywhere, including the AACC Library] (147m) and German Expressionism

18  Chapter 2, complete; short film screened in class

20  Touch of Evil [restored director’s cut] (112m); Chapter 2, analysis and review; Film Noir

25  Film Noir continued; Chapter 3 complete

27  High Noon (85m); the Cold War and the ‘Adult’ Western; Chapter 3, analysis and review

 October

2    examination #1

4   Rashômon (88m); Chapter 4, complete; Modernism in the cinema post-WWII

            Modernism and cinema  and Rashômon

9   Chapter 4, analysis and review; short film screened in class

11  The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (100m); cinematic Surrealism and Marxism

16  Chapter 5, complete; short film screened in class

18  Repulsion (105m); psychology and expressionism

23  Chapter 5, analysis and review; short film screened in class

25  Swept Away (114m); on the ‘reader’s response’

30  examination #2

November

1   Apocalypse Now  [the theatrical release] (153m); on surrealism and  war; 

6   Chapter 6, complete; study of visual elements of Apocalypse Now

8   Short Cuts (189m); on the consummate Auteur,  Chapter 6, analysis and review

13  Blade Runner [the director's cut] (117m); philosophy and the mixed-genre film

15  Chapter 7, complete; short film screened in class

20  The Silence of the Lambs (118m); on the exotic diets of the criminally demented

22  Thanksgiving Day:  no class

27  chapter 7, analysis and review; short film screened in class;  FINAL PROJECT DUE TODAY! 

29  The Truman Show (103m); cinematic reflexivity

December

4   short film screened in class

6   in-class review of Final Projects; final examination review

Nota Bene:      This course may contain some material that is offensive to some individuals.

                                The last date to withdraw from this course with a 'W' is listed in the AACC Course Catalog.