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This course is an advanced survey class on some aspects of American movie history, filmic techniques and seminal texts in film theory. We will look at some of the major steps in the development of American cinema; we will discuss influential film theories by David Bordwell, Jean-Louis Baudry, Laura Mulvey and Linda Williams as well as some chapters from an introduction into film theory by Thomas Elsaesser and Malte Hagener; and we will have a look at basic filmic techniques such as image and shot, perspective, camera movement, lighting, color and sound, editing, film narratology and semiotics.
There will be a moodle site for this class: keyword “Jazz Singer”.
No registration through Agnes!
Readings:
• Texts will be uploaded onto the Moodle platform.
• Apart from the theoretical texts we will be working with Richard Barsam, Looking at Movies, New York: Norton, 2010. |
