MIT OpenCourseWare
The City in Film
- Instructor
- Ezra Haber Glenn
- Term
- Spring 2015
- Level
- Undergraduate
- What's inside
- 2 readings · 27 other files · 7 web pages
- Materials open
- MIT OCW
About this course
Source: MIT OpenCourseWare 11.139 The City in Film, Spring 2015, Ezra Haber Glenn — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: none is claimed; materials are grouped by MIT's own sections. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 23, 2026. How RedLectern is built.
Materials are grouped the way MIT organized them. A verified, course-wide order has not been established here.
Before you start
Prerequisites are not listed here. Check MIT's own syllabus for this course.
How this course was organized
What's here, and what isn't
- MIT lists a session calendar for this course, but it could not be verified well enough to build a sequence from it — materials are grouped by section instead.
Not included here
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- MIT's page format for this item wasn't recognized clearly enough to place it safely. (57 items)
Materials by section
Grouped by section, as MIT organized them. Not sequenced or ordered.
Assignments
28 items in this section
Weekly Film Notes
17 files
- Film Notes: Berlin Download
- Film Notes: Bicycle Thieves Download
- Film Notes: Do The Right Thing Download
- Do The Right Thing Notes Download
- Film Notes: London Download
- Film Notes: Metropolis Download
- Metropolis Film Notes Download
- Film Notes: Midnight Cowboy Download
- Film Notes: Modern Times Download
- Film Notes: Play Time Download
- Play Time Notes Download
- Film Notes: The Crowd Download
- Film Notes: The Crowd Download
- Film Notes: The Naked City Download
- Film Notes: The Naked City Download
- Film Notes: West Side Story Download
- Film Notes: West Side Story Download
Paper 1: Observing City Scenes
Paper 2: Close Reading
- "You're All Thieves": The Individual vs the City in Bicycle Thieves Download
- The City as a System of Production Download
Paper 3: Films and Themes
- Culture within the Modern City Download
- "Meet Cute" and Impossible Love in the City Download
- Heaven and "El": The Depiction of the City Apartment Download
Final Paper
MIT OpenCourseWare, Ezra Haber Glenn, 11.139 The City in Film, Spring 2015.
License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 · Edition: Spring 2015 · Open the original course on OCW ↗
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