An introduction to film

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In London

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    Course

  • Location

    London

  • Start date

    Different dates available

Concepts and critical approaches in the study of film and film history.
Screenings of extracts from films, talks by the tutor, reading materials, small and large group discussions.

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London
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Keeley Street, Covent Garden, WC2B 4BA

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Different dates availableEnrolment now open

About this course

• Describe and evaluate a range of themes, critical approaches and concepts in the study of film and film history
• Describe and evaluate key developments in film history
• Evaluate cinema within a critical framework.

You will require a pen and paper (or laptop/device) but the tutor will provide all other materials.

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Subjects

  • Hollywood
  • Cinema
  • Philosophy
  • Television Journalism
  • Radio Journalism
  • Online Journalism
  • Magazine Journalism
  • Newspaper Journalism
  • Journalism Skills
  • Freelance Journalism
  • University
  • Writing
  • Media
  • Buddhism

Course programme

• Early film and the emergence and development of narrative cinema (1900-1920)
• The classical Hollywood style and mode of production (1920-1960)
• Post-classical Hollywood style and mode of production (the 'new' Hollywood,1967-1977)
• European cinema (1920s and post 1945)
• East Asian cinema since 1945
• Concepts of narrative, genre, spectatorship, authorship and national cinema
• Popular film style
• Art film style
• How to read a film (including mise-en-scène, cinematography, editing and sound)
• Film history

The course will include extracts from the following films:
A Trip to the Moon (1902), Rescued by Rover (1905), The Birth of a Nation (1915), The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), Cœur Fidèle (1923), Battleship Potemkin (1925), The General (1926), Sunrise (1927), Un Chien Andalou (1929), Blackmail (1929), M (1931), Citizen Kane (1941), Casablanca (1942), Bicycle Thieves (1948), Rashomon (1950), Tokyo Story (1953), Rear Window (1954), Vertigo (1958), Psycho (1960), Breathless (1960), Persona (1966), Bonnie & Clyde (1967), The Graduate (1967), Jaws (1975), Star Wars (1977), Uzak (2002), Hidden (2005), The Great Beauty (2013), Get Out (2017).

Additional information

This course is a perfect introduction to the film courses on offer throughout the year. Please look at the Film section in the prospectus or on our websitte under History, Culture and Writing. General information and advice on courses at City Lit is available from the Student Centre and Library on Monday to Friday from 12:00 – 19:00. See the course guide for term dates and further details

An introduction to film

£ 109 VAT inc.