English 313
History of the Cinema
Schedule
Spring 2006
Tuesday 6-9 PM--FH 208
Helen Roulston
1. Jan. 17 Introduction
2. Jan. 24 Chapters l-3. 1915 film Birth of a Nation (154 m tape) dir. D. W. Griffith. Panel Discussion
3. Jan. 31 Chapter 4. 1922 film Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (A Symphony of Horrors (81 m) dir. F. W. Murnau
Chapter 5. 1925 film Bronenosets Potyomkin (Battleship Potemkin) (74 m) dir. Sergei M. Eisenstein & Grigori Aleksandrov (co-directors)
4. Feb. 7 Chapter 6. 1924 film Greed (140 m) dir. Erich von Stroheim. Panel Discussion
5. Feb. 14 Chapter 6. 1925 film The Gold Rush (90 m) dir. Charlie Chaplin.
Chapters 7-8. 1933 film Duck Soup (68 m) dir. Leo McCarey.
Hand out Takeout Midterm Exam Questions
6. Feb. 21 Chapter 8. 1933 film King Kong (100 m) dir. Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack. Panel Discussion
Chapter 9. 1929 film Un chien andalou (An Andalusian Dog) (16 m) dir. Luis Buñuel
Chapter 9. 1927 film Napoléon excerpts (10 m) dir. Abel Gance. Panel Discussion
7. Feb. 28 Chapter 10. 1941 film Citizen Kane (119 m) dir. Orson Welles. Panel Discussion
Journals & Midterm Exams Due
8. Mar. 7 Chapters 8 & ll. 1946 film Notorious (101 m) dir. Alfred Hitchcock. Panel Discussion
9. Mar. 14 Chapter 12. 1950 film High Noon (85 m) dir. Fred Fred Zinnemann
Chapter 12. 1956 film Invasion of the Body Snatchers (80 min) dir. Don Siegel
10. Mar. 28 Chapter 13. 1946 film La Belle et la Bête (Beauty and the Beast (96 m) dir. Jean Cocteau
Chapter 14. 1969-74 TV Programs Monty Python Flying Circus Selected Skits (25 m) dir. Ian McNaughton
11. Apr. 4 Chapter 15. 1963 film 8 1/2 (138 m) dir. Federico Fellini. Panel Discussion
12. Apr. 11 Chapters 16-17. 1966 film Ostre sledované vlaky (Closely Watched Trains) (92 m) dir. Jirí Menzel. Panel Discussion
13. Apr. 18 Chapters 18-19. 1950 film Rashômon (88 m) dir. Akira Kurosawa. Panel Discussion
14. Apr. 25 Chapters 20-21. 1967 film Bonnie and Clyde (111 m) dir. Arthur Penn. Panel Discussion.
Journals Due
15. May 2 Conclusion
Teaching
English 313 Syllabus
Film Analysis Guidelines
Celluloid Historian 2006
Journal of Student Essays & Information on Films