Course Notes

WEEK # FILMS COURSE NOTES
I. The Silent Era
1

Porter, The Great Train Robbery

Griffith, A Beast at Bay, Lonely Villa, The Lonedale Operator, Musketeers of Pig Alley

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2

Keaton, One Week, Cops, The General

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3

Chaplin, The Immigrant, Easy Street, Modern Times

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4 Murnau, The Last Laugh

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II. Hollywood Genres
5 Capra, It Happened One Night

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6 Hitchcock, Shadow of a Doubt

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7 Donen/Kelly, Singin' in the Rain

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8 Ford, The Searchers

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9

Altman, McCabe and Mrs. Miller

Fosse, Cabaret

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III. International Masters
10 Renoir, Grand Illusion

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11 DeSica, Bicycle Thieves

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12

Truffaut, The 400 Blows

Summary Perspectives: Film as Art and Artifact

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