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The Film Experience

Art: Gustave Doré, Gustave Doré, Illustration for John Milton’s “Paradise Lost“, 1866.…, 1866 · Public domain

Instructor: Prof. David Thorburn
Term: Fall 2013
Level: Undergraduate
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Lecture 1: Introduction (2007)

Lecture 2: Keaton (2007)

Lecture 3: Chaplin, Part I (2007)

Lecture 4: Chaplin, Part II (2007)

Lecture 5: Film as Global & Cultural Form; Montage, Mise en Scène

Lecture 6: German Film, Murnau

Lecture 7: The Studio Era

Lecture 8: The Work of Movies; Capra & Hawks

Lecture 9: Alfred Hitchcock

Lecture 10: Shadow of a Doubt, Rear Window

Lecture 11: The Musical

Lecture 12: The Musical (continued)

Lecture 13: The Western

Lecture 14: The Western (continued)

Lecture 15: American Film in the 1970s, Part I (2007)

Lecture 16: American Film in the 1970s, Part II (2007)

Lecture 17: Jean Renoir and Poetic Realism

Lecture 18: Renoir's Grand Illusion (1937)

Lecture 19: Italian Neorealism, Part I (2007)

Lecture 20: Italian Neorealism, Part II (2007)

Lecture 21: Truffaut, the Nouvelle Vague, The 400 Blows

Lecture 22: Kurosawa and Rashomon

Lecture 23: Summary Perspectives - Film as Art and Artifact