FILM 210: History of Film I: 1890-1945
Description: This course will provide students with an introduction to the history of narrative film from its beginnings to the Second World War. It will focus on narrative cinema's development from aesthetic, social, technological and economic perspectives while also touching on a selected number of issues in film theory. Films will include silent slapstick productions by Harold LLoyd, Buster Keaton, and Charlie Chaplin; early-sound films like The Jazz Singer; German Expressionist masterpieces like The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and challenging Avant-Garde films such as Un Chien Andalou and The Seashell and the Clergyman. FILM 210: History of Film will be offered again in Fall 2010.
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For more information about this course, contact April Miller