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 significant movements in cinema (including the silent era, classical and post-classical Hollywood cinema, German Expressionism, Soviet montage, Italian Neorealism, French New Wave, Third Cinema, Asian cinema, and video and installation art, among others). 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.HAAVC 3000 seminars continue developing students' visual analysis and research skills while providing students the opportunity for in-depth study of the visual/structural artifacts associated with a particular topic, region, or movement. Students will also engage with the relevant primary/secondary literature for the specific topic/theme. Courses will pay particular attention to the larger cultural, historical, and theoretical/ideological contexts in which the visual artifacts and structures under consideration were created. This course cannot fulfill the HAAVC 2000 requirement.

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