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CART228 CINEMATIC HISTORY: 1849 to 1960 SPRING 2016
Course Syllabus
Course Description:
This course offers a chronological and international survey of film as an art, business, technology, and as
an expression of the culture and politics of the times and places it emerges from. Timeline covers the birth
of cinema & early pre-cinema experiments in the 1840s up to approx.1960. Periods and movements
covered will include the Cinema of Attractions, the Silent Era, German Expressionism, Soviet & European
avant-garde movements, French classicism, the American studio period, the coming of sound on film, as
well as the history of censorship, race, ethnicity and disability in Hollywood films. No prerequisites.
Course Schedule/Registration Number: CRN #20747
Course Attributes: Fulfills CSU GE Requirement C-1 Arts
Required Textbook: available at the Bookstore in paperback or e-book Film History: An Introduction
Thompson & Bordwell; McGraw-Hill; Third Edition. Additional required materials posted on iLearn
Course Meeting Days/Times/Location:
Tu/Th Noon-1:50pm, Valley Hall Room A115
Course Instructor:
Karen Davis, M.F.A. & Senior Film Programmer, Mill Valley Film Festival
Office Hours: Thurs. 2pm-2:30pm and 5pm-6pm, by appointment
(Please email me 24 hr in advance to confirm your appointment)
Contact: kdavis@csumb.edu (831) 582-4396 (for a quicker response, please use email)
Methods of Instruction, Course Format, and Student Expectations/“Deliverables”:
Course format will consist of lecture, discussion and screenings during each class session. Instructional
focus on the historical analysis of narrative and documentary production and dramaturgy, visual design,
technology, and cultural referents. Students are expected to keep up with the reading requirement for each
week (listed below), and to be present throughout the entire class in order to view each film or film
sequence screened during the session. Students are also expected to complete and turn in all assignments
on time, except in cases of documented medical/personal emergency. Official documentation may be
requested as verification.
Cinematic Arts Major Learning Outcomes:
MLO 1 Historical, Theoretical and Analytical Understanding
Students develop fluency in media criticism, media history and media ethics in order to describe and
analyze the major historical movements (events, artists, genres, developments, etc.) and their
interrelationships. Students learn to understand media contextually, in relationship to social movements
and technological developments so that they can describe and analyze relationships between aesthetics and
content. Students apply ethical, social and political analysis in critique.
Additional TAT 228 Learning Outcomes:
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
 Understand how pre-World War II film movements, genres and tendencies reflected the
sociopolitical cultures of their times and places of origination
 Distinguish what may be uniquely “American” about the culture of American film, and what
other national cinemas reveal about the cultures from which they emerge
 Analyze filmmakers’ use of techniques and narrative structure to manipulate the emotional impact
on the audience
 Refine students’ own standards of judgment and quality when determining preferences of films
 Define and distinguish realism and other artistic choices, genres, and movements
 Deepen knowledge of national cinema movements, their sociopolitical origins, artistic
specificities, characteristics, and their influences
 Develop and refine the ability to criticize a filmmaker’s choices and vision using cohesive
evidence and well-supported and well-reasoned oral or written argumentation
 Learn to describe, characterize, and analyze the merits of students’ own subjective film
preferences
 Learn to identify, describe and analyze influences on particular film movements or directors
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Course requirements include:
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2 short analytical (*not* descriptive!) commentaries (3-4 pages each) integrating the course
readings with the films screened
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2 quizzes (multiple choice or short essay answers)
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An in-class midterm examination (multiple and short essay answers)
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An in-class final examination (essay questions)
Student Work Assessment Weighted Breakdown:
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Analytical commentaries (15pt each x 2)
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Quizzes (10 pts each x 2)
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In-class Midterm Exam (20 pts)
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In-class Final Essay Exam (20 pts)
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Class participation/attendance (10 pts – see below)
30% DUE DATES: MAR 1 & APR 21
20% QUIZ DATES: FEB 18 & APR 12
20% MIDTERM DATE: MAR 17
20% IN-CLASS FINAL DATE: MAY 17
10% SEE NOTE BELOW ON THIS
Note on Attendance/Participation:
Your regular class participation (as demonstrated by your attendance throughout the entire class each
week, your work on assignments, tests and other projects) is required. Failure to submit an assignment, or
missing an exam, will automatically reduce your course grade by at least one half of a letter grade. Only
officially-documented medical (and other) emergencies will be excused from this point deduction. You
will not pass this class after your 4th absence – lateness (more than 10 mins) counts as one absence, as
does departure before the end of class discussion (unless medical documentation is provided)
Course communication: the best way to reach me is via email: kdavis@csumb.edu and each student
should check email daily and iLearn at least 3x per week, for updates and course information from me.
Access to Films and Online Media:
All film choices listed below are subject to change. In order to get the best grade possible in this class, I
highly recommend that you view each film at least twice, and take notes in class on discussion and during
screenings. I have provided web-links for many of our required films, but keep in mind that some links are
unstable and you are responsible for finding a source of the material (Netflix Instant, for instance,
http://www.netflix.com/HowItWorks is your best bet for reliability).
Disabilities:
Students with disabilities, who may need accommodations, please contact me within the first two weeks of
class during office hours or make an appointment by e-mail: KDavis@csumb.edu Also, contact:
Student_Disability_Resources@csumb.edu Phone: 831/582-3672 voice, 582-4024 fax/TTY;
http://www.csumb.edu/student/sdr/
Submittal of Assignments and Exams:
All out-of-class written assignments are to be submitted to me in TWO ways by the due date:
1. In printed, STAPLED, hard copy by noon on the due date listed in your syllabus
(page format: one inch margins; double-spaced; 12 pt font – you must number and STAPLE the pages).
2. Submitted to me online by the due date as a “.doc” or “.docx” in Word – not as a PDF or any other
format and labeled as follows: YourLastNameFirstInitialEssay1.doc (or .docx). Example:
SmithJEssay1.doc (or .docx). Be SURE to save all your assignments on your computer – never delete!
Assignment Details: Specific topic suggestions for each essay/critique will be made available in advance
of the due dates. See iLearn for instructions.
Academic Honesty:
Within CSUMB, plagiarism and other forms of academic dishonesty are not tolerated. Students who are
found by faculty to have committed plagiarism in an assignment will, at minimum, upon the first offense
fail that assignment. Further violations have additional consequences. Each incident and the student's name
will be reported to the college administration. Further Clarification:
http://students.berkeley.edu/uga/conduct.asp. Plagiarism is defied as the use of intellectual material
produced by another person without acknowledging its source. This includes, but is not limited to:
(a.) Copying from the writings or works of others into one's academic assignment without attribution, or
submitting such work as if it were one's own;
(b.) Using the views, opinions, or insights of another without acknowledgment; or
(c.) Paraphrasing the characteristic or original phraseology, metaphor, or other literary device of another
without proper attribution. (NOTE: this includes fellow classmates’ work – students have failed this
course due to this violation.)
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WEEKLY COURSE SCHEDULE
ALL READINGS ARE DUE BY THE DATE THEY ARE POSTED BELOW except for Week #1
NOTE: on iLearn and listed below, I have provided web-links for many of our required films, but keep in
mind that some links are unstable and if you are not in class, you are responsible for finding a source of
the material (Netflix Instant, for instance, is your best bet for reliability). Best solution: come to each class!
NOTE: The California Faculty Association is in the midst of a difficult contract dispute with management.
It is possible that the faculty union will call a strike or other work stoppage this term. I will inform the
class as soon as possible of any disruption to our class meeting schedule.
Jan 26/28
Week #1:
Introduction to the Study of Film History - & Early Cinema Experiments
Readings for next class:
“Doing Film History”: http://www.davidbordwell.net/essays/doing.php:+ Bordwell Text, Chapter 1 & 2
Required Screening Links:
“How Men Propose” Lois Weber 1913 6 min. (possibly available on iLearn – but may be hard to find!)
ZOETROPE ANIMATION:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MyxPwSQvUk
PRAXINOSCOPE ANIMATION:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOItdZOGnx8
PHENAKISTOSCOPE ANIMATION:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bljZ5L_R6sE&feature=related
KINETOSCOPE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRIjUYh3MEs
LUMIERE BROTHERS’ FIRST FILMS 1895-approx 1900 6 mins approx FRANCE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nj0vEO4Q6s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nj0vEO4Q6s&feature=related
EDISON COMPANY early films 1894-1896 (w color tinting)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQk5RftSdF8
THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY Edwin S. Porter 1903 12 mins
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz7zNDZfwk0&feature=related
MELIES, GEORGES – early films 1899-? Approx 6 mins FRANCE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWY3LjLw91Q
VOYAGE DANS LA LUNE 1902 (Melies) 13 mins FRANCE (w.added sound to explain the action)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pfdQ_ftHQs
Feb 2/4
Week #2:
International Expansion of the Cinema, 1905-1912
READINGS DUE THIS WEEK FOR DISCUSSION:
“Doing Film History”: http://www.davidbordwell.net/essays/doing.php
and:
Bordwell Text, Chapter 1 & 2
Required Screenings Links:
“RESCUED BY ROVER” Cecil Hepworth 1905 6 min U.K.
http://www.britishpathe.com/video/rescued-by-rover
MAX LINDER: “TROUBLES OF A GRASSWIDOWER” 1912 10 min FRANCE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HY4OwpbGZB4
THE LONELY VILLA 1909 D.W. Griffith 8 min
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEI18n_GcuQ
THE PAINTED LADY 1912 D.W. Griffith 13 min (this video has no added soundtrack)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RgRdPz-CO4
HUMOROUS PHASES OF FUNNY FACES 1906 J.Stuart Blackton 3 min
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGh6maN4l2I
THE CAMERAMAN’S REVENGE Wladyslaw Starewicz 1912 13 min RUSSIA
Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCQCxk8M0Ls&feature=related
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77zNnGLMZuE&feature=related
GERTIE THE DINOSAUR Windsor McCay 1914 12 mins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ww6zqGHlgsc
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Feb 5
NOTE:
Last day to add/drop courses w/o petition and a “W” grade
Feb 9/11
Week #3:
National Cinemas, Hollywood Classicism & World War I, 1913-1919
COMMENTARY #1 – Instructions Available on iLearn: Due Week #6 printed/stapled & online – you
will submit as one single Word document (NOT a PDF) & hard copy printed, stapled for class
Readings Due: Text, Chapter 3 (for discussion this week)
Required Screenings Links:
LES VAMPIRES (Louis Feuillade) 1915 FRANCE (watch this clip & more if you dare!)
http://www.archive.org/details/LesVampires1915DirectedByLouisFeuillade
BEHIND THE SCREEN (Charlie Chaplin) 19 mins - 1916
http://www.archive.org/details/CC_1916_11_13_BehindtheScreen
BIRTH OF A NATION 1915 DW Griffith (excerpt below – watch approx 15 mins)
http://www.archive.org/details/dw_griffith_birth_of_a_nation?start=6839.5
BROKEN BLOSSOMS DW Griffith 1919 88 mins
http://archive.org/details/brokenblossoms1919
THE TRAMP Charlie Chaplin 1915 25mins
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-Y45rcGX3s
NOTE: QUIZ #1 Next Week THURS at noon – no early or late quizzes – be there!
Feb 16/18
Week #4:
The Late Silent Era: 1920s – Surrealism (France) Expressionism (Germany)
QUIZ #1 THURSDAY AT NOON (10pts) – no makeup quizzes
Readings Due: Text, Chapter 4, Chapter 8 & beginning of Chapter 5 (for discussion this week)
Required Screenings Links:
PARIS QUI DORT René Clair 1924 (52min) FRANCE
http://archive.org/details/TheCrazyRay
MENILMONTANT Dimitri Kirsanoff 1925 37mins (w live accompaniment) FRANCE
PART 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOeIqYCeVxk
THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER France Jean Epstein 1928 66 min FRANCE
(w added music/voiceover) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAj86dFm-PE
ANDALUSIAN DOG Salvador Dali/Luis Bunuel 1929 14 mins FRANCE
http://vimeo.com/18540575
ANEMIC CINEMA – Marcel Duchamp 1927 7 mins silent FRANCE
http://www.ubu.com/film/duchamp_anemic.html
BALLET MECANIQUE Fernand Leger 1924 10mins FRANCE
With sound mixing original score by Antheil: Part 1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SgsqmQJAq0
With sound mixing original score by Antheil: Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEBCJjQKoh0&feature=related
ENTR’ACTE Renee Clair 1924 20 mins FRANCE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGvauaVlz3o
L’ETOILE DE MER Man Ray 1928 17mins (with sound) FRANCE
http://www.ubu.com/film/ray_mer.html
THE LIFE & DEATH OF 9413 A HOLLYWOOD EXTRA Robt Florey 1927 13mins
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xco0on_the-life-and-death-of-9413-a-hollyw_shortfilms
THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC Carl Theodor Dreyer 1928 82 min France
http://archive.org/details/DreyersThePassionOfJoanOfArc
THE ADVENTURES OF PRINCE ACHMED Lotte Reiniger 1926 GERMANY
*** http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2fke4p
RAIN Joris Ivens 1929 12 min NETHERLANDS
http://www.ubu.com/film/ivens_regen.html
THE CABINET OF DR CALIGARI Robert Wiene 1919 51 mins GERMANY
http://www.archive.org/details/DasKabinettdesDoktorCaligariTheCabinetofDrCaligari
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Feb 23/25
Week #5:
The Late Silent Era: German Expressionism (cont’d) & Intro to Soviet Cinema
COMMENTARY #1 (Instructions Available on iLearn) DUE NEXT WEEK – TUES @ Noon
Readings Due: Text, Chapter 5 cont’d (for discussion this week) & beginning of Chapter 6
Required Screenings Links:
METROPOLIS Fritz Lang 1927 148 mins total
You may need to rent this classic film on your own if link is down (but it is on DVD in the Library too)
*** https://archive.org/details/Metropolis1927EnglishVersion
BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN Sergei Eisenstein 1925 73 min
*** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcUKH9hQKWw
Mar 1/3 (NOTE: Class meets TUESDAY - No in-person class on THURSDAY)
COMMENTARY#1 DUE TUES@ Noon 15pts STAPLED/PRINTED uploaded to iLearn: docx not PDF
Week #6:
The Late Silent Era: Soviet Cinema cont’d and Hollywood in the 1920s
Readings Due: Text, Chapter 6 cont’d and Chapter 7 (for discussion this week)
Required Screenings Links:
MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA Dziga Vertov 1929 w Alloy Orchestra 68mins
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZkvjWIEcoU or if this link is down try:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=La-8RhnKDNs
COPS 1922 – Buster Keaton 18mins
*** https://archive.org/details/CopsbusterKeaton
THE PLAYHOUSE 1921 – Buster Keaton (watch the first 5 minutes for full effect)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7eEnVQqCHE
SAFETY LAST (excerpt) – Harold Lloyd 1923
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEcTjhUN_7U
STEAMBOAT WILLIE Walt Disney 1928 7 mins
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBgghnQF6E4
COMICALAMITIES (Felix the Cat) Pat Sullivan/Otto Messmer 1928 7 mins
https://archive.org/details/FelixTheCatInComicalamities
MODELING (Koko the Clown) Fleischer Bros 1921 7 mins
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyetrAePLTA
WINGS William Wellman 1927 (screen the following trailer):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqOqXj2biG0
SUNRISE F.W. Murnau (excerpt)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6t0DCtIOBA
Mar 8/10
Week #7
Race, Ethnicity & Disabilities in the Movies – Early History
REVIEW SESSION for MIDTERM EXAM IN CLASS THIS WEEK
NOTE: Next THURS. is the In-Class Midterm Exam (you must bring an exam book & pen to class)
Readings Due: Text, Ch & 7 cont’d + iLearn readings TBA (for discussion this week)
Required Screenings Links:
NANOOK OF THE NORTH Robt Flaherty 1922 65 min CANADA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoUafjAH0cg
FREAKS Tod Browning 1932 64mins
http://archive.org/details/freaks1932
OSCAR MICHEAUX – short docu bio: “Midnight Ramble: Oscar Micheaux…” aired on PBS
http://vimeo.com/10396511
THE SYMBOL OF THE UNCONQUERED (Oscar Micheaux 1920)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0l-uoKiaOA
BODY AND SOUL (clip): Oscar Micheaux 1925
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTK4gNUeXB0&feature=related
WITHIN OUR GATES (77mins): Oscar Micheaux 1920
http://www.archive.org/details/WithinOurGates
BLACK CINEMA – RACE MOVIES documentary (aired on TCM – these links may be down at present)
*** Part 1: http://fan.tcm.com/video/race-movies-38-the-birth-of-black-cinema-part-1
Part 2: http://fan.tcm.com/_Race-Movies-38-Birth-of-Black-Cinema-part2/video/1461674/66470.html?createPassive=true
MAR 15/17 MIDTERM EXAM on THURS (20pts) You must bring an Exam Book & a Pen to Class
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Week #8
Introduction to Sound
Readings Due: Text, Chapter 9 (for discussion this week)
Required Screenings Links:
Rare HITCHCOCK SOUND CHECK in Early Sound Cinema! 1929 3 min.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3186w_GpuXk
BLACKMAIL 1929 Hitchcock 84 min U.K.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwkfM-Gi7KU
Mar 22/24
SPRING BREAK – no classes…have fun!
Mar 29
(NOTE: NO CLASS THURS MARCH 31 campus closed – catch up on screenings/readings)
Week #9
The Introduction of Sound Cont’d
Readings Due: Text, Chapter 9 (cont’d) (for discussion this week)
Required Screenings Links:
M Fritz Lang 1931 108 mins GERMANY
*** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nM0w1dTNAH0
MODERN TIMES: Charlie Chaplin 1936 87min (watch min. first 20mins + last 15mins – Charlie speaks!)
*** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJTVtXK92Fc
Apr 5/7
Week #10
The Hollywood Studio System, 1930-1945
REMINDER: Quiz #2 next week, TUESDAY at noon!
Also: DUE NEXT IN 2 WEEKS: COMMENTARY #2 (instructions available in class & online)
Readings Due: Text, Chapter 10 (for discussion this week)
Required Screenings Links for this week
DOUBLE INDEMNITY Billy Wilder 1944 107min (required: full film)
You may have to rent this or download it on your own if the link is down
http://www.veoh.com/watch/v935605abrFaqkd?h1=Double+Indemnity
DETOUR 1945 Edgar Ulmer (69 min)
http://www.archive.org/details/Detour
42nd STREET Lloyd Bacon/Busby Berkeley 1933 79 (excerpt: “Young & Healthy”)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSvQtAnh_CI
HIS GIRL FRIDAY Howard Hawks 1940 92 mins
http://www.archive.org/details/his_girl_friday (full film -watch 24 min)
FRANKENSTEIN James Whale 1931 (trailer)
http://www.archive.org/details/JamesWhalesfrankensteinTrailer1931
DRACULA Tod Browning 1931 (trailer)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Nfmh178L98
LITTLE CAESAR Mervyn LeRoy 1930 (trailer)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBLVJW8ULxY
PRE CODE BETTY BOOP Max & Dave Fleischer 1932 8 min (“Boop-Oop-A-Doop”)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWPCfyCY97Q
SNOW WHITE & THE 7 DWARVES Walt Disney 1937
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnN2bWjmKR8 (theatrical trailer)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwBWZ3z1I6w (Wishing Well Scene excerpt 7 min)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQZ6zzLpoNQ (“With a Smile and a Song” excerpt 3 min)
BUGS BUNNY: “Fresh Hare” Warner Bros 1942 7mins
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WM5Gwzk3Vfc
STAGECOACH John Ford 1939 (excerpt 10 mins)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByK8ZNb7J8w&feature=related
Apr 12/14
Week #11
Other Studio Systems of the 30s and 40s
QUIZ# 2 THIS WEEK TUES IN CLASS at noon (10pts)
Also: DUE NEXT WEEK - THURS: COMMENTARY #2 (instructions available in class & online)
Readings Due: Text, Chapter 11 (for discussion this week)
Required Screening:
(links cont’d next page)
LATE SPRING Yasujiro Ozu 1949 108min JAPAN (available in Library may be on Hulu no guarantee)
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*** http://www.hulu.com/watch/238248 (you may be able to use a free trial)
Additional Required Screenings Link:
RASHOMON Akira Kurosawa 1950 88 mins JAPAN http://archive.org/details/dom-24164-rashomon
Apr 19/21
Week #12
Cinema & the State: USSR, Germany, Italy, Britain & the USA 1930-45
COMMENTARY #2 DUE THURS. noon (STAPLED, PRINTED, & UPLOADED as docx not PDF!)
Readings Due: Text, Chapter 12 & 13 (for discussion this week)
Required Screenings Links:
TRIUMPH OF THE WILL Leni Riefenstahl 1934 110 mins GERMANY (watch first 36mins)
http://www.archive.org/details/TriumphOfTheWillgermanTriumphDesWillens
JUD SUSS Viet Harlan 1940 100 mins GERMANY (watch the first 27 mins)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIvaBOxHDj0&skipcontrinter=1
LISTEN TO BRITAIN Humphrey Jennings 1942 19 min UNITED KINGDOM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nq1UqU2u1hs
WHY WE FIGHT – PRELUDE TO WAR Lt. Col. Frank Capra 1942 (excerpt)
https://archive.org/details/PreludeToWar
HELL BENT FOR ELECTION Chuck Jones 1944 13min
https://archive.org/details/Hell-bentForElection
Apr 26/28
Week #13
France, 1930-1945: Poetic Realism, the Popular Front & Occupation. Also: Leftist,
Documentary & Experimental Cinemas 1930-45
Readings Due: Text, Chapters 14 & 15 (for discussion this week)
LA GRANDE ILLUSION (The Big Illusion) Jean Renoir 1937 114 min FRANCE
(Not available for free online- you must get this from Netflix Instant or another source)
Required Screenings Links:
THE RIVER Pare Lorentz 1937 31 mins
http://archive.org/details/TheRiverByPareLorentz
MAN OF ARAN Robert Flaherty 1934 U.K. (excerpt: view first 15 mins)
http://archive.org/details/manOfAran1934?start=773.5
A NIGHT ON BALD MOUNTAIN Alexander Alexieff 1933 10min
*** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYbjW7XrWDo
MOTION PAINTING #1 Oskar Fischinger 1937 7min
https://vk.com/video2804234_168196055
May 3/5
Week #14
American Cinema in the Post-War Era, “Citizen Kane”
Readings Due: Text, Chapter 15 cont’d (for discussion this week)
CITIZEN KANE Orson Welles 1941 119mins
(NOTE: you will need to get this from Netflix Instant or another source –not available free)
Here is an interview with the director, Orson Welles, Paris 1960:
*** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sd4mMmrpIB0
and here is Welles praising one of his favorite films: “La Grande Illusion” on the “Dick Cavett Show”!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yjfa1GFwmUA (it’s at the end of the clip)
Required Screenings Links:
GLEN OR GLENDA (I Changed My Sex) Ed Wood 1953 (trailer)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taoDcurT738
PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE Ed Wood 1959 (trailer) (More required links – cont’d next page)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2ukRYsYPmo
BLACKBOARD JUNGLE Richard L. Brooks 1955 (trailer)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKZcHwiv0E4
INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS Don Siegel (trailer)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFnSxeDfENk
SINGIN IN THE RAIN Gene Kelly/Stanley Donen 1952 (trailer)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEKQwy13j_8
OKLAHOMA! Fred Zinnemann 1955 (excerpt)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEwVAV3VPw4 (links cont’d next page)
IMITATION OF LIFE Douglas Sirk 1959 (excerpt) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaanE7v6uJI
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May 10/12
FINAL EXAM REVIEW IN CLASS THIS WEEK – Final Exam is TUES 5/17
Week #15
Italian NeoRealism, “The 50s” & The Introduction of American Television
Readings Due: Text, Chapter 16 & 17 (for discussion this week)
Required Screenings Links:
BICYCLE THIEVES Vittorio DeSica 1948 90min ITALY
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x10jp1t_bicycle-thieves-1948-pt-1_creation (PART 1)
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x10gijj_bicycle-thieves-1948-pt-2_creation (PART 2)
GERMANY YEAR ZERO Roberto Rossellini 1948 (excerpt – ending)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jWi3JymbSI
AMOS n ANDY: episode: “Income Tax”
*** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNRjWR3Jw-E
Below is the introduction of the first TV black cast by the white radio actors who played Amos n Andy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FMB8EkrHf8
ERNIE KOVACS – pre-video live experiments in television (excerpts – watch as many as you like)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DX5khYGqjPY (Kitchen Symphony)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EXKMJ4LMKA&feature=fvsr (Musical Office)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoLTFQsFswM&feature=fvsr (Nairobi Trio)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQUbDGrPg9U (Percy Dovetonsils)
SID CAESAR – live comedy (excerpts – watch as many as you like)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apwsZWUjl7g (This is Your Story Part 1)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xol79-mhhrY&feature=related (This is Your Story Part 2)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0SG4YhiuYU&feature=related (The Clock)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZR7yj-7SU8&feature=related (5 Dollar Date)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=He4S5UdQ76Y (The 3 Haircuts)
May 17
FINAL EXAM ON TUESDAY, OUR LAST CLASS (no class on Thursday)
Week #16
FINAL EXAM IN CLASS TUESDAY AT NOON EXAM BOOK & PEN REQUIRED! (20pts)
Thanks for all your work this semester and hope to see you again! - Karen
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