Date |
Activity |
Reading |
Due |
1/2 |
Course Introduction |
|
|
1/3 |
Screening: Keystone shorts
Barney
Oldfield's Race for a Life (Sennett,
1913),and A
Movie Star (Hibbard,
1916); Chaplin
shorts Face
on the Barroom Floor (1915) The
Immigrant (1917), and
Easy
Street (1917) |
Sklar, “”The Birth of
a Mass Medium,” “Nickel Madness,” “Edison’s Trust and How it Got Busted”
(P) |
Posting
on Chaplin
and Keystone shorts due by 9:00 p.m. |
1/4
[top] |
Discussion of
Chaplin
shorts and early cinema history |
Sklar, “Chaos, Magic,
Physical Genius and the Art of Silent Comedy” (P) |
|
1/8 |
Screening: D.W.
Griffith Biograph shorts A
Corner in Wheat (1909), Musketeers
of Pig Alley (1912), For
His Son (1912), What
Shall We Do With Our Old? (1911)
Workshop: Introduction to Cinema
Studies Research Methods |
Corrigan, “Researching
the Movies,” pages 144-177 |
Posting
on D.W.
Griffith shorts due by 9:00 p.m. |
1/9 |
Discussion of
D.W.
Griffith shorts |
Brinkley, “The Progressive
Era” (distributed in class on 1/8) |
|
1/10 |
Screening: The
Cheat (DeMille,
1915)
Workshop: Introduction to Course
Computer Tools |
Corrigan, “Film Terms
and Topics for Film Analysis and Writing,” pages. 41-91
Optional Bridgman Lecture: The
Movies and the Progressive Era |
Posting
on The Cheat
due by 9:00 p.m. |
1/11
[top] |
Discussion of
The
Cheat |
Higashi, “Race, Gender,
and Class in Cecil
B. DeMille’s The
Cheat” (P) |
|
1/15 |
Martin Luther King Holiday |
|
|
1/16 |
Continue discussion of
The
Cheat |
|
|
1/17 |
Screening: The
Crowd (Vidor,
1928) |
|
Posting
on The Crowd
due by 9:00 p.m. |
1/18
[top] |
Discussion of The
Crowd |
Belton, “Silent Melodrama”
(P) |
|
1/22 |
Screening: The
Jazz Singer (Crosland,
1927)
Workshop: Web Tools 1 |
|
Posting
on
The Jazz
Singer due by 9:00 p.m. |
1/23 |
Student
presentation and discussion of The
Jazz Singer |
Rogin, “Blackface, White
Noise: The Jewish Jazz Singer Finds His Voice” (P) |
Presentation:
Mass Culture, the Melting Pot, and The
Jazz Singer (Shenna Bautista and Marcie MacRae) |
1/24 |
Screening: Mantrap
(Fleming,
1926), Female
(Curtiz,
1933), Our
Dancing Daughters (Beaumont,
1928), and Our
Modern Maidens (Conway,
1929) |
Optional Bridgman Lecture:
The
Roaring Twenties: The Motion Pictures and the New Morality |
Posting
on Mantrap
due by 9:00 p.m. |
1/25 |
Student
presentation and discussion of Mantrap
and clips
Take-home
midterm distributed |
|
Presentation:
Pre-Code Films, Censorship, and the Production Code (Taylor Matson and
Lyquoc Vo) |
1/26
[top] |
|
|
Take-home
midterm due by 4:00 p.m. in hard copy, via email, or via Web form |
1/29 |
Screening: Mr.
Smith Goes to Washington (Capra,
1939)
Discussion of approaches to Web
project |
|
Posting
on Mr. Smith
Goes to Washington due by 9:00 p.m. |
1/30 |
Student
presentation and discussion of Mr.
Smith Goes to Washington |
Wolfe, “Mr.
Smith Goes to Washington: Democratic Forums and Representational
Forms” (P) |
Presentation:
The Politics of Hollywood Film: Mr.
Smith Goes to Washington (Ranielle Gray and Daniel Halsey) |
1/31 |
Screening: Gold
Diggers of 1933 (LeRoy,
1933)
Workshop: Web Tools 2
|
Corrigan, “Film History,”
pages 94-97, “National Cinemas, pages 97-101, “Ideology,” pages 108, and
“Sample Essays,” pages 108-115 (all in “Six Approaches to Writing About
Film”)
Optional Bridgman Lecture: The
Great Depression and the Great Escape from Reality |
Posting
on Gold Diggers
of 1933 due by 9:00 p.m. |
2/1
[top] |
Student
presentation and discussion of Gold
Diggers of 1933 |
Rubin, “The Crowd, the
Collective, and the Chorus: Busby Berkeley and the New Deal” (P) |
|
2/5 |
Screening: Sergeant
York (Hawks,
1941)
Discussion of Web
project proposal |
|
Posting
on Sergeant
York due by 9:00 p.m. |
2/6 |
Student
presentation and discussion of Sergeant
York |
Belton, “The War Film”
(P) |
Presentation:
Sergeant
York and Hollywood’s Call to War (Josh Platis and James Veitch) |
2/7 |
Screening: Bataan
(Garnett,
1943)
Workshop: Web Tools 3 |
Optional Bridgman Lecture:
The
Second World War: Hollywood Re-Enlists |
Posting
on Bataan
due by 9:00 p.m. |
2/8 |
Student
presentation and discussion of Bataan |
|
Presentation:
Ethnic Unity/National Unity in Bataan(Jason
Clifford and Annalisa Pesek) |
2/9
[top] |
|
|
Web
project proposal due by 4:00 p.m. (commented proposals will be uploaded
before class on 2/12) |
2/12 |
Screening: Double
Indemnity (Wilder,
1944)
Discussion of Web
project annotated bibliography |
|
Posting
on Double
Indemnity due by 9:00 p.m. |
2/13 |
Student
presentation and discussion of Double
Indemnity |
Belton, “Film Noir: Somewhere
in the Night” (P) |
Presentation:
Double
Indemnity, Film Noir, and Post-War Culture (Cherise Agua-Andrews
and Colin Loney) |
2/14 |
Screening: Invasion
of the Body Snatchers (Siegel,
1956) |
Optional Bridgman Lecture:
The
Cold War and Film Noir |
Posting
on Invasion
of the Body Snatchers due by 9:00 p.m. |
2/15 |
Student
presentation(s) and discussion of Invasion
of the Body Snatchers |
Samuels, “The Age of
Conspiracy and Conformity” (P) |
Presentation:
Hollywood, HUAC, and Invasion
of the Body Snatchers (Kristina Patton and Jason Woerner) |
2/16
[top] |
|
|
Web
project annotated bibliography due by 4:00 p.m. (commented annotated
bibliography will be uploaded before class on 2/20) |
2/19 |
Presidents Day Holiday |
|
|
2/20 |
Lab Period: Web Project |
|
|
2/21 |
Screening: Dr.
Strangelove (Kubrick,
1964)
Lab Period: Web
project |
|
Posting
on Dr. Strangelove
due by 9:00 p.m. |
2/22 |
Student
presentation and discussion of Dr.
Strangelove |
Maland, “Dr.
Strangelove (1964): Nightmare Comedy” (P) |
Presentation:
Dark Comedy and the Cold War (Lanna Apisukh, Brian Rash, and Ivan Winkler) |
2/23
[top] |
|
|
Web
project design template and site map with description of page contents
due by 4:00 p.m. (comments on design and map will be uploaded before class
on 2/26) |
2/26 |
Screening: Easy
Rider (Hopper,
1969), The
Deer Hunter (Cimino,
1978), Part I |
|
Posting
on Easy Rider
due by 9:00 p.m. |
2/27 |
Student
presentation and discussion of Easy
Rider |
Klinger “The Road to
Dystopia” (P) |
Presentation:
Easy
Rider as Counter-Culture Film (Kara Creelman, Melissa Murdock,
and Stephanie Shushan) |
2/28 |
Screening: The
Deer Hunter (Cimino,
1978), Part II |
|
Posting
on The Deer
Hunter due by 9:00 p.m. |
3/1 |
Student
presentation and discussion of The
Deer Hunter |
Wood, “Two Films by Michael
Cimino” (P) |
Presentation:
Hollywood, Vietnam, and The
Deer Hunter (Peter Escher and Megan King) |
3/2
[top] |
|
|
First draft of
Web
project due by 4:00 p.m. (commented drafts will be uploaded before
class on 3/5) |
3/5 |
Screening: Do
the Right Thing (Lee,
1989)
Discussion of Web
project drafts and writing style |
Corrigan, “Style and
Structure in Writing,” pages 122-143 |
Posting
on Do the
Right Thing due by 9:00 p.m. |
3/6 |
Discussion of
Do
the Right Thing
Course Evaluation |
Kellner, “Aesthetics,
Ethics, and Politics in the Films of Spike Lee" |
|
3/7 |
Web
project presentations and feedback |
|
Presentations:
Web
project |
3/8
[top] |
Kimberlee presenting
at the Southwest
Popular Culture Association Conference—No Class |
|
|
3/12
[top] |
|
|
Final draft of
Web
project due by 5:00 p.m. |