How To Watch Movies

Catalog description

This course examines film-watching from a literary and technical perspective. What are the eras? limitations? How are scenes constructed? What is the effect of lighting and music? How did film go from a ?magic trick? to becoming a tentpole of popular culture. The course also delves into storytelling and compares some movies to the literature that inspired it. Films and excerpts include Charlie Chaplin?s silent comedies, Rebel without a Cause, The Godfather, Fight Club, T¿r, and digital breakthroughs in special effects.