Jeremy Butler (jbutler@bamanet.ua.edu), Telecommunication and Film Department, P.O. Box 870152, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487.
Additionally, midterm (25 points) and final (30 points) exams will be given. These exams will consist of open-note, open-book essay questions drawn from the lectures and referring to the films. (Photocopied notes may not be used during these exams; any other notes or books are permissible.)
Dates of the tests/exams are indicated below. Makeup test/exams will be given at the discretion of the instructor. No tests/exams will be given before their scheduled dates.
Readings Tests (3@15) | 45 |
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Midterm Exam | 25 |
Final Exam | 30 |
TOTAL | 100 |
A | 93-100 |
A- | 90-92 |
B+ | 88-89 |
B | 83-87 |
B- | 80-82 |
C+ | 78-79 |
C | 73-77 |
C- | 70-72 |
D+ | 68-69 |
D | 63-67 |
D- | 60-62 |
F | 59 and below |
Date | Lecture/Film | Readings |
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1/9 | Intro/Origins of Film | |
1/11 | Lumiére Shorts (1895) | Chs. 1, 2 |
A Trip to the Moon (Méliès, 1902) | ||
The Night Bird (Newmeyer, 1928) | ||
1/16 | German Silent Film: Expressionism | |
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day | ||
1/18 | The Last Laugh (Murnau, 1924) | Ch. 4 |
1/23 | Silent Film Comedy: Buster Keaton | |
1/25 | Sherlock, Jr. (Keaton, 1924) | Ch. 3 |
Reading Test 1: Chs. 1, 2, 3, 4 | ||
1/30 | Russian Formalism: Dziga Vertov | |
2/1 | Man With a Movie Camera, (Vertov, 1 929) | Ch. 5 |
2/6 | Classicism and the Auteur Theory: Frank Borzage | |
2/8 | A Man's Castle (Borzage, 1933) | Ch. 6 |
2/13 | Bazinian Realism: Jean Renoir | |
2/15 | Rules of the Game (Renoir, 1939) | |
2/20 | Midterm Exam | |
2/22 | Documentary Form | |
Nanook of the North (Flaherty, 1922 | ||
Night and Fog (Resnais, 1955) | ||
2/27 | Auteur Theory II: Howard Hawks | |
3/1 | Only Angels Have Wings, (Hawks, 1939) | |
3/6 | Italian Neorealism: Roberto Rossellini | |
3/8 | Open City (Rossellini, 1945) | Ch. 9 |
3/13 | Genre Study I: Screwball Comedy | |
3/15 | My Man Godfrey (LaCava, 1936) | |
Reading Test 2: Chs. 5, 6, 8, 9 | ||
3/20 | French New Wave: Jean-Luc Godard | |
3/22 | The Married Woman (Godard, 1962) | Ch. 12 |
Spring Break 3/24-4/2 | ||
4/3 | Feminism and Film | |
4/5 | Reassamblage (Trinh, 1982) | |
4/10 | New German Cinema: Werner Herzog | |
4/17 | Genre Study II: Film Noir | |
4/19 | The Big Heat (Lang, 1953) | |
4/24 | The Breakdown of Classicism | |
Course Summary | ||
4/26 | The Freshman (Bergman, 1992) | Chs. 10, 11, 14 |
5/3 | Wednesday, 2-4:30 p.m. | |
Reading Test 3: Chs. 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 | ||
Final Exam |