Film History for Filmmakers I: The Development of the Cinema to 1960

Catalog description

Film History I describes the prehistory and history of the medium of cinema to 1960. The course explores the artistic, technical, economic development of the cinema, and the cultural contexts in which this development occurred. The course covers narrative, experimental, and documentary cinema and trains students in the techniques of close formal analysis of the cinema. The course stresses formal, thematic, and cultural analysis of the cinema throughout the first decades of its history. This course is integral to the curriculum in Film-Video. It provides Film-Video students with a detailed description of trends in their art form. It provides students with intensive study in the history of an influential medium in the development of the concept of mass media and communications.