Section #6641
CONTEMPORARY FILM HISTORY SYLLABUS
Spring – 2013 – Friday Class
INSTRUCTOR: Prof. Candice Larson
e-mail: clarson@vcccd.edu
clarson@vcccd.edu
Text:
Film History II: Contemporary Film History, 1st ed. (With Great River
Technologies Access) isbn #978-0-7575-8482-4, Foster
The text book is available at the publisher’s web site
(kendallhunt.com) discounted to $56.00. The quiz system associated
with the text book requires a new access code. Do not purchase a
used book.
Date
Topic & Assignment
1-11
Course Introduction & Method
Hollywood in the Fifties
Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
Begin chapter quizzes.
All chapters available until
April 26th
Chapter 1
1-18
Hitchcock
North By Northwest (1959)
Chapter 2
1-25
The New Wave
Truffaut
400 Blows (1959)
Breathless (1960)
Chapter 3
2-1
Post Code Hollywood
Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
Chapter 4
2-8
Counter-culture: The Sixties and the New
Auteurs - Mike Nichols
The Graduate (1967)
Chapter 9
2-15
NO SCHOOL
2-22
Roman Polanski
Midterm Review
Rosemary’s Baby (1968)
Chapter 5
3-1
MIDTERM EXAM
3-8
NO SCHOOL
Film Review (Term Paper)
assigned
3-15
The Film School Generation Inherits
Hollywood
Francis Ford Coppola
The Godfather (1972)
Chapter 6
3-22
The Godfather (1972)
Film Review (Term Paper)
due
Chapter 7 & 8
3-29
NO SCHOOL
4-5
Dominance of Corporate Cinema
Silence of the Lambs (1991)
4-12
American Independent Cinema
Memento (2000)
4-19
Independent Film and the Festival Movement
Run Lola Run (1998)
Children of Men (2006)
4-26
International Cinema
Pan’s Labyrinth (2006)
5-3
Final Exam – 1pm
Extra Credit Papers Due
Student Learning Outcomes:
1. Students will be able to identify the major developments and events in contemporary
film history as demonstrated on quizzes and examinations.
2. Students will be able to identify major figures and their contributions to
contemporary motion picture history as demonstrated on quizzes and examinations.
3. Students will be able to identify major films on contemporary film history as
demonstrated on quizzes and lectures.
4. Students will be able to analyze motion picture style, mise en scene, theme and
presentation as demonstrated through class discussion and writing assignments.
GRADING:
Attendance (45 points)----------Chapter quizzes-------------------Term Paper (100 points)--------Midterm (50 points)---------------Final Exam (100 points)---------Total Points-------------------------Extra Credit 25 points maximum
A = 375-337
B = 336-300
C = 299-262
D = 261-225
F = 224 or below
45
80
100
50
100
375
Chapter Quizzes:
1. Your access code comes with your text book. It is the only access code you
will receive. Do not buy a used book as it will not contain an active access
code.
2. Quizzes must be completed by noon on the date stated in this syllabus.
3. You will have twelve minutes to complete each quiz. Do not log off or lose
your internet connection while taking a quiz. If you do log off or lose your
connection, you will not get credit for that quiz.
ATTENDANCE:
1. One or no absences
45 points
2. Two absences
30 points
3. Three absences
15 points
4. Four or more absences expect to fail
5. There is no such thing as an excused absence
Other Course Policies:
1. No papers accepted by e-mail.
2. Plagiarism (def.): “To steal and use (the ideas or writings of another) as
one’s own.”
Plagiarized term papers will receive an automatic zero grade.
Plagiarized extra credit papers will result in a 25 point deduction from
the final grade.
3. Repeated cell phone use will result in a charged absence.
4. It is your responsibility to sign the sign-in sheet.
5. It is your responsibility to read and understand the syllabus.
Office Hours – Spring 2013
Candice Larson
Theatre 7B
January 18th
Noon 1pm
Forum
January 25th
Noon 1pm
Forum
March 1st
Noon 1pm
Forum
April 19th
Noon – 1pm
Forum
April 5th
Noon 1pm
Forum
April 26th
Noon 1pm
Forum