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FILMG-6420-2: Graduate Film History

Spring 2023

Subject: Graduate Film
Type: Seminar
Delivery Mode: In-Person
Level: Graduate

Campus: San Francisco
Course Dates: January 17, 2023 — May 07, 2023
Meetings: Mon 12:00-03:00PM, Hooper GC - GC2
Instructor: Topiary Landberg

Units: 3.0
Enrolled: 7/9

Description:

This course provides an advanced introduction to the history of cinema from the end of the nineteenth 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 movements in cinema including the silent era; classical and post-classical Hollywood cinema; German Expressionism; Soviet montage cinema; experimental, documentary, and avant-garde cinema; Italian Neorealism; French New Wave; Third Cinema; Black Cinema; and global art cinema. By concentrating on the historical development of filmic mise-en-scene, the photographic image, editing, cinematography, and the relation of sound to the image, students will learn to view film as a complex visual language and to understand how the combination of sound and image articulate film’s narrative, psychological, social and ideological purposes. We will integrate our investigations of cinematic issues with those of class, gender, and race.

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