History of Cinema: 1895-1960

Catalog description

This course provides a survey of significant moments in the creation, delivery, reception, and influence of cinema from the 1890's to 1960. Instruction will include the origins of film technology and its increasing usefulness for narrative, historical documentary, and political argument or indoctrination, and aesthetics. Analysis will include the discovery of how technology, society, public taste, history and social concerns shaped the medium. (A, Cal-GETC, CSU, UC)