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Introduction to Film Art
Fall 2013
Malcolm Turvey
Office: Heimbold 304F
Extension: 2644
E-mail: [e-mail]
Syllabus
Required Textbook:
David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson, Film Art: An Introduction
(New York: McGraw Hill, 2012; 10th edition)
Class Schedule:
NB: Readings marked (X) must be downloaded from MySLC
Week 1
Conferences 9/10:

NO CONFERENCES

Screening 9/10:

Collateral (Michael Mann, 2004, 120 min.)

9/11:
Read:

Introduction: Film as Art
Film Art, Chapter 1
Part 1: Film Form

Screening 9/11:

Shadow of a Doubt (Alfred Hitchcock, 1942,
108 min.)

9/13:
Read:

Film Form
Film Art, Chapter 2

Week 2
A Week Group
Conferences 9/17:

Interpretation and Evaluation of Shadow of a
Doubt

Screening 9/17:

The Killing (Stanley Kubrick, 1956, 85 min.)

9/18:

Narrative Form, Narration and Classical
Hollywood Cinema

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Read:

Film Art, pp. 72-99; 466-469; 480-483

Screening 9/18:

Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941, 119 min.)

9/20:
Read:

Narrative and Narration in Citizen Kane
Film Art, pp. 99-110
Carroll, "Interpreting Citizen Kane" (X)

Week 3
B Week Group
Conferences 9/24:

Interpretation and Evaluation of Shadow of a
Doubt
Part 2: Film Style

Screening 9/24:

Jerry Maguire (Cameron Crowe, 1996, 139 min.) 9/25:
Read:

Editing
Film Art, pp. 218-255

Screening 9/25:

October (Sergei Eisenstein, 1929, 103 min.)

9/27:
Read:

Alternatives to Continuity Editing
Film Art, pp. 255-265; 476-479

Week 4
A Week Group
Conferences 10/1:

Discuss Eisenstein, "The Dramaturgy of Film
Form"

Screening 10/1:

Three Kings (David O. Russell, 1999, 114 min.) 10/2:
Read:

Cinematography
Film Art, pp. 160-204

Screening 10/2:

The Red and the White (Miklos Jancso, 1967,
90 min.)

10/4:
Read:

The Mobile Frame and the Long Take
Film Art, pp. 204-217

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Week 5
B Week Group
Conferences 10/8:

Discuss Eisenstein, "The Dramaturgy of Film