FIL 1031 History of Film I - Armstrong
Tallahassee Community College, Fall 2010
*PACING SCHEDULE:  (NOTE: Chapter listings are for class book)

UNIT ONE (weeks 1-4)	

  - Introduction - The evolution of narrative continuity (Chapter 1)
  - Melies, Lumiere brothers, Edwin S. Porter
  - International Expansion/Hollywood, 1907-1918 (Chapter 2)
  - D.W. Griffith and Narrative form (Chapter 3)		 
    Broken Blossoms
									UNIT ONE EXAM

UNIT TWO (weeks 5-10)	

  - German Cinema/Expressionism (Chapter 4)
  - Lang, Murnau, Pabst
    Metropolis, The Last Laugh
    Das Kabinett des Dr. Caligari
  - Soviet Cinema/Montage (Chapter 5)
  - Vertov, Kuleshov, Eisenstein, Pudovkin
    Bronenosets Potyomkin
									UNIT TWO EXAM 

UNIT THREE (weeks 11-15)	

- Hollywood in the Twenties (Chapter 6)
- Ince, Sennett, Chaplin, Keaton, Lloyd
- Scandals, DeMille, Von Stroheim
  The General, Sunrise
- The Coming of Sound 1926-1932 (Chapter 7)
- Vitaphone, Movietone, Theoretical debate over sound
- Sound film and the American studio system
- Introduction of color
  The Jazz Singer, M, Blackmail

(Note: This final unit can serve as transitional material
as well for students interested in taking HISTORY OF FILM II -
FIL 2023 in the spring semester)
									UNIT THREE EXAM

*Students will be notified in advance of any schedule changes

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