Revised Class Schedule

Hi all,

Please see below for a revised class schedule through week 9. This is only pertinent for our Tuesday (lecture meetings). I will print hard copies for everyone and go over this further on Tuesday.

CMA 2165 Revised Schedule (weeks 4-9, lecture only)

WEEK 4           

2/10                             Griffith Shorts (cont.)

                                    Soviet Editing Theory

Reading: Dancyger, Chapter 1 (PDF)

   Pudovkin (PDF)           

                                    Screening: Mother (Pudovkin, 1926)

                                                     Battleship Potemkin (Eisenstein, 1925)

WEEK 5           

2/17                             Challenges to Linearity

Screening: M (Lang, 1931)

     *Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941)

                                                                  JFK (Stone, 1991)           

                                                                  Inland Empire (Lynch, 2006)

                       

WEEK 6           

2/24                                   

                                    Continuity – Invisible Editing vs. Emphatic Editing

                                                Screening: Casablanca (Curtiz, 1942)

                                                                  Psycho (Hitchcock, 1960)                       

SPRING BREAK: 3/2-3/6

WEEK 7                                               

3/10                             Open Lab for Assignment 2                       

           

NO CLASS 3/12 – Presidential Inauguration

                                               

WEEK 8           

3/17                             Hitchcock/Editing Action

Reading: Dancyger, Chapter 6 & 21 (PDF)

Screening: Lots of Hitchcock

                  The French Connection (Friedkin, 1971)

WEEK 9           

3/24                             Documentary Editing

Aesthetics of Sound

**Reading: Bordwell and Thompson (PDF)

                                    Screening: Letter From Siberia (Marker, 1957)

     Blue Velvet (Lynch, 1986)

*Citizen Kane is on reserve in the library. I would like everyone to watch the entire film outside of class and write a blog on the linear structure (this will count as one of your blogs).

**I have added this reading. It can be accessed via the original “readings” blog post.