Unit Unit 1 8/21 Silent Film: In-Class Topics and Reading Homework Review Course Syllabus, Course Calendar and View at Home List Chapter 1 (Photography), and Fire and Desire: Race, Melodrama, and Oscar Micheaux by Jane Gaines (49-59) Review the selected Web Links with information and clips from Birth of a Nation (1915) Dir. D. W. Griffith and Within Our Gates (1920) Dir. Oscar Micheaux. (You do not have to watch the entire version of either film.) Send me an email before next class indicating that you have read and understand the Syllabus and Course Calendar. Unit 1 Due: Unit 2 8/28 Online Introduction and Discussion of Birth of a Nation and Within Our Gates and Two Student Responses per post due Sunday 8/25 by midnight. Innovation in Cinema: Orson Welles Read the Film Terms worksheet in Film Files Watch Citizen Kane (1941) by Orson Welles Read the selected Web Links for Citizen Kane Read Chapter 12 (Synthesis) Unit 2 Due: Online Discussion on Citizen Kane and Two Student Responses per post due Tuesday 9/3 by midnight. Unit 3 9/4 Labor Day Week Film Noir: Read the Hays Code worksheet in Film Files Watch Double Indemnity (1944) by Billy Wilder OR Scarface (1932) Dir. Howard Hawks and Richard Rossen (Watch at Home) Read the selected Web Links for Film Noir and Double Indemnity Read Chapter 2 (Mise en Scène) 1
Unit 3 9/11 War and Crime: 1930 s-1940 s Review the Hays Code worksheet in Film Files Review Film Noir web links Watch Casablanca (1942) Dir. Michael Curtiz Read the selected Web Links for Casablanca Read Chapter 4 (Editing) Unit 3 Due: Casablanca Discussion and Two Student Responses Due 9/15. Film Noir Quiz due 9/15. Unit 4 9/18 Suspense: Alfred Hitchcock Review Realism and Formalism worksheet in Film Files Watch Psycho (1960) Dir. Alfred Hitchcock Read the selected Web Links for Psycho and Alfred Hitchcock Read Chapter 3 (Movement) Unit 4 Political Thrillers/ Musicals 9/25 Watch The Manchurian Candidate (1962) Dir. John Frankenheimer OR The Sound of Music (1965) Dir. Robert Wise (Watch at Home) Read the selected Web Links Read Chapter 8 (Story) Review the Mid Term Study Guide Unit 4 Due: Quiz on Psycho and (The Manchurian Candidate OR The Sound of Music) due Sunday 9/29 by midnight. 2
Unit 5 10/2 The 1960 s & 70 s: Counter Culture and Viet Nam Review Three Act Structure Worksheet in Film Files Watch Bonnie and Clyde (1967) Dir. Arthur Penn Read the selected Web Links for Bonnie and Clyde Read Chapter 10 (Ideology) Review Montage clip from The Battleship Potemkin in Web Links Review the Mid Term Study Guide (Mid Term will be open from 10/6-10/11) Unit 5 10/9 Mid Term Exam to be completed on Blackboard by 10/11. No Film Required this week. Work on Research Paper and Mid Term Exam Unit 5 Sci-Fi, Action and Horror: 10/16 Watch Aliens (1986) Dir. James Cameron Or Jurassic Park (1993) Dir. Steven Spielberg Read the selected Web Links for Aliens or Jurrassic Park Read Chapter 5 (Sound) Unit 5 Due: Online Discussion on Aliens or Jurassic Park and Two Student Responses per post due Sunday 10/20 by midnight. Unit 6 10/23 Research Essay DUE Monday 10/21: Turn in to Blackboard by midnight Empowerment: Women in Film Watch Thelma and Louise (1991) Dir. Ridley Scott (Watch at Home) Read the selected Web Links for Thelma and Louise Read Chapter 6 (Acting) and Chapter 11 (Critique) 3
Unit 6 Minority Voices in Film 10/30 Watch Eve s Bayou (1997) Dir. Kasi Lemmons (Watch at Home) Read the selected Web Links for Eve s Bayou Read Chapter 7 (Drama) and Chapter 9 (Writing) Unit 6 Due: Unit 6 Film Quiz on Thelma & Louise and Eve s Bayou due 11/3 by midnight. Unit 7 11/6 Innovation in Cinema: Martin Scorsese & Quentin Tarantino Watch Goodfellas (1990) OR Pulp Fiction (1994) (Watch at Home) Read the selected Web Links for Goodfellas (1990) OR Pulp Fiction (1994) Review Final Exam Assignment (E-mail with questions) Unit 7 Due: Online Discussion on either Goodfellas OR Pulp Fiction and Two Student Responses per post due Sunday 11/10 by midnight. Unit 8 Modern Film: Comedy, Drama and Formalism 11/13 Watch Silver Linings Playbook (2012) Dir. David O. Russell OR The Descendants (2011) Dir. Alexander Payne OR Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012) Dir. Benh Zeitlin (Watch at Home) Work on Scene Analysis 11/20 Unit 8 Due: Post your scene analysis and two Student Responses for Silver Linings Playbook, The Descendants or Beasts of the Southern Wild by 11/25. 4
11/25 Online Work on Final Exam Final Week 12/3-12/9 Final Exam to be submitted to Blackboard by midnight on exam day 12/3. *This course calendar is subject to change at the instructor s discretion. 5