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READINGS: Italian Neorealist Cinema: an Aesthetic approach by Christopher Wagstaff VIEWINGS: Bitter Rice (1949), Rome, Open City (1945), Paisan (1946), Bicycle Theives (1948) Bawn Jor No! Welcome back to the Loosely Scripted Film Course. This unit covers Italian Neorealism, the movement in Italian Cinema immediately following the end of WWII. I’ll start out by mentioning
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READINGS: Film Noir: An Introduction by Mark Bould VIEWINGS: Double Indemnity (1944), Detour (1945), Sunset Boulevard (1950), Vertigo (1958) We’re back baby! This go-round we’re looking at Film Noir. The reading in this case actually helped me understand why the idea of Film Noir had always been somewhat elusive to me. Mark Bould proposes that,
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READINGS: A Short History of Film by Wheeler Winston Dixon (Chapter 4) VIEWINGS: Casablanca (1942), A Star is Born (1954), Gone With the Wind (1939) “Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.” “Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn” “I just wanted to take
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Loosely Scripted Film Course Unit 4.5: Sound and Color and Censorship, Oh My! Landmarks of the 1930s
READINGS: SOUND HISTORY IN FILM: EARLY RECORDING, 10 Great Early Sound Films, How Movies Went From Black and White to Color, Remembering Hollywood’s Hays Code, 40 Years On, Omnibus Podcast Episode 436: The Hays Code VIEWINGS: Dickson Experimental Sound Film (1894), THE JAZZ SINGER (1927), Blackmail (1929), Flowers and Trees (1932), The Wizard of Oz
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READINGs: Experimental Cinema: The Film Reader by Wheeler Winston Dixon and Gwendolyn Audrey Foster (Introduction and First Essay) VIEWINGS: Un Chien Andalou (1929), The Life and Death of 9413, a Hollywood Extra (1928), Manhatta (1921) To start, a brief anecdote: I took a digital photography class in high school (shout out once again to Mrs.
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READINGs: german expressionism, What is German Expressionism? Defining the Style VIEWINGS: Nosferatu (1922), Metropolis (1927), The Haunted Screen: German Film After World War I (1998) So I actually had a hard time tracking down the intended reading for this unit German Expressionist Cinema by Ian Roberts (it was available on Amazon but it was expensive
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READING: A Short history of film BY wheeler winston dixon & GWENDOLYN AUDREY FOSTER (CHAPTERs 2 and 3) VIEWINGS: kid auto races at venice (1914), return to reason (1923), the gold rush (1925), the cabinet of dr. caligari (1920) This week, I delved a bit further in depth and chronology into the early history of
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READING: THE STORY OF FILM BY MARK COUSINS (CHAPTER 2) VIEWINGS: The great train robbery (1903), life of an american fireman (1903), those awful hats (1909), the birth of a nation (1915), cabiria (1914), intolerance (1916) Apologies for the late entry this week, but the holiday did make it difficult to get in as much
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Reading: The Story of Film by Mark Cousins (Introduction and Chapter 1) Viewings: Cinderella (1899), the arrival of a train at la ciotat (1897), the infernal cauldron (1903), the four troublesome heads (1898), a trip to the moon (1902) In my first week of self guided film education, we started — well, at the start.
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