This course provides an advanced introduction to the history of cinema from the end of thenineteenth century through the international development of film as a transformative technology,art form, and commercial medium up to the present time. We will explore the major movementsin cinema (including the silent era; classical and post-classical Hollywood cinema; GermanExpressionism; Soviet montage cinema; experimental, documentary, and avant-garde cinema;Italian Neorealism; French New Wave; Black Cinema; global art cinema; video and installationart). By concentrating on the historical development of filmic mise-en-scene, the photographicimage, editing, cinematography, and the relation of sound to the image, students will learn toview film as a complex visual language and to understand how the combination of sound andimage articulate film’s narrative, psychological, social and ideological purposes. We willintegrate our investigations of cinematic issues with those of class, gender, and race.

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