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American Silent Cinema
FILM321 SP

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.

MAJOR READINGS

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS

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

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Level: UGRD    Credit: 1    Gen Ed Area Dept: HA ART    Grading Mode: Graded   

Prerequisites: NONE

SECTION 01

Instructor(s): Smith,Robert E.   

Times: ..T.T.. 01:10PM-04:00PM;     Location: AWKS010

Reserved Seats:    (Total Limit: 25)

SR. major:    Jr. major:

SR. non-major:    Jr. non-major:    SO:    FR:

Special Attributes:

Curricular Renewal:    Reading Non-Verbal Texts

Permission:    Permission of Instructor Required

Last Updated on MAR-24-2000

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