CINE 266 Film History 2-The Sound Era through the 1960s

This is the second course in a three-part survey of film history: aesthetic, economic, technological, and cultural. This course explores the maturation and decline of the studio system in postwar U.S., as well as key international film movements that were informed by, but also challenged, the Hollywood model. Students will be introduced to the basic visual and aural elements of film language and tasked with using this vocabulary to analyze cinematic texts. The primary goals of the survey are twofold: to help students recognize and identify particular historical approaches to understanding film; to enable students to apply a cinematic vocabulary to identify and analyze cinematic style in and across film texts and within and between film movements. Weekly campus screenings are required, and clips of films are used in class for close analysis and are an integral part of the course.

Credits

4

Prerequisite

Recommended: placement into WR 115 or higher

Course Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
1. Develop and use a cinematic vocabulary to analyze individual film texts
2. Use a cinematic vocabulary to identify and analyze film style across texts and within and between film movements
3. Recognize and explain key figures and events of/in international film history: e.g., the significance of national cinemas and modes of production
4. Situate cinematic texts within their historic, cultural, economic, and technological contexts
5. Describe key approaches to film history: historic, aesthetic, technological, and economic analysis
6. Use an inquiry process to develop questions pertinent to the study and analysis of film history