This course examines the history of motion picture development from its beginning
in the 1890s to World War II.  The class concentrates on major films, directors,
movements, and technological changes in American and international cinema.  Much of
the course concerns silent cinema, foreign national cinemas, and the growth of the
studios.  A weekly film screening is required.

I.  Early Experiments in Moving Images
II.  Edison's Kinetoscope vs Lumiere's Cinematographe
III.  Early Narrative Cinema:  Edwin S. Porter and Georges 
Melies
IV.  D.W. Griffith and American Cinema of the 1910s
V.  European Cinema in the 1910s
VI.  The American Studio System
VII.  French Cinema of the 1910s-20s
VIII.  German Expressionist Cinema
IX.  Soviet Montage Cinema and Sound-era Cinema
X.  Classical Hollywood Cinema of the 1920s
XI.  The Advent of Sound and Color in Cinema
XII.  American Sound Genres:  The Musical and Gangster Film
XIII.  Shift from Silent to Sound Cinema in Japan, Latin 
America, and China
XIV.  France and Sound:  Poetic Realism and Jean Renoir
XV.  American Film Noir and World War II

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Please refer to the University Student Handbook regarding this policy.  Violations
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