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This is a survey course that starts with filmmaking before D.W. Griffith, with films by Thomas Edison, the Lumiere brothers, George Melies, Edwin S. Porter, Cecil Hepworth and Ferdinand Zecca, and continues with D.W. Griffith, including his American Biograph one and two reelers, BIRTH OF A NATION, INTOLERANCE, WAY DOWN EAST, TRUE HEART SUSIE and ISN'T LIFE WONDERFUL? The class will also study comedy shorts by Mack Sennett, Hal Roach, Buster Keaton, Charles Chaplin and Harold Lloyd, followed by works of Eric Von Stronheim, Rex Ingram, Cecile B. DeMille, King Vidor, Josef von Sternberg and F. W. Muranu, ending with Frank Borzage.
Unless preregistered students attend the first class meeting or communicate directly with the instructor prior to the first class, they will be dropped from the class list. NOTE: Students must still submit a completed Drop/Add form to the Registrar's Office.
COURSE FORMAT: Lecture
Level: UGRD Credit: 1 Gen Ed Area Dept: HA ART Grading Mode: Graded
Prerequisites: NONE Links to Web Resources For This Course.
Last Updated on MAR-26-2001
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