An introduction to film
Course
In London
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Location
London
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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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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).
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An introduction to film