THR 334W (3 Credits) Spring 2003 Movies and Films (3+0) h Explores rotating thematic topics in the art of classic cinema (films) and popular mass media (movies). Comparative analysis of classics and recent motion pictures is used to present elements of film language, analysis and criticism. Textbook: How to Read a Film, Jim Monaco, 3rd. ed. ISBN 019503869X readfilm.com Recommended: Sergei Eisenstein _Film Form_ (Essays in Film Theory) Seven Chapters for serious students: Through Theatre to Cinema (Elements of Film Language), The Filmic Fourth Dimension (Time-Space), A Dialectic Approach to Film Form (Conflict), The Cinematographic Principle and the Ideogram (Shots), Methods of Montage (Cuts), The Structure of the Film (Style), Film Language (Potemkin) Script Analysis Directory & DramLit * making movies Links Featured Pages: Film Directing NEW: • View films and read screenplays • Lectures on fundamental concepts • Analysis and discussion of films and screenplays "In art economy is always beauty." --Henry James my eGroups 2005 Fall * Spring 2007 Andrey Tarkovsky Kurosawa Fellini Ingmar Bergman Antonioni

Film & Movies

I can't fix the old pages (it makes me sick). I have to make a new page for the Spring 2003 class (new title and new textbook).

I plan to use Film-North webpages (new domain name filmplus.org), especially film directing pages. If the students could handle it, maybe some pages from Film600 directory.

There are five main parts in the textbook:
1. Film as an Art
2. Technology: Image and Sound
3. The Languager of Film: Signs and Syntax
4. The Shape of Film History
5. Film Theory: Form and Function

6. Media: in the Middle of Things
7. Multimedia: Digital Revolution

Appendix I and II

Read ahead of class time! Take notes! Watch the movies in advance! Subscribe to the forum, if in class.

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NEW: you see "bars" like -- topics, subjects and themes. I have to work on them yet. Also, the vertical hierharchy (subdirectories 1 - 2 - 3 ).

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Four levels = four parts on each my webpage!

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First -- the easiest. Last -- most difficult.

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From required (definitions) to recommended

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Notes and comments

(pp. ) Jim Monaco, The World of Movies, Media, and Multimedia [Language, History, Theory ] U. of Oxford 2000 updates ? see NEW : NOTES

Summary

Next class: THR470 Fundamentals of Film and Video Directing recommended!

Questions

Homework

Listing of titles (DVD and Video) are in htmlgears (Amazon).

Notes

Bookmark the class pages you need!

Next: back to title

GODOT.06: Doing Beckett -- main stage 2006 *

[ Bergman, Antonioni, Dryer, Eisenstein, Silents + Plays ]

Film Analysis:

2005