Jan 5-6: The Coming of Sound
Screening: 42nd Street (Lloyd Bacon and Busby Berkeley, Warner Brothers, 1931)
Other Films: Busby Berkeley, Gold Diggers of 1935; Charlie Chaplin, Modern Times; King Vidor, Hallelujah!
Reading: Ch 7 (pp 205-230)
Jan 7-8: Josef von Sternberg; also, Hollywood Before the Code
Screening: The Devil is a Woman (Josef von Sternberg, Paramount, 1935)
Other Films: Josef von Sternberg, Morocco; John Francis Dillon, Millie; Wesley Ruggles/Mae West, I'm No Angel
Reading: Ch 8, pp 231-238, 255-259
Jan 12-13: Fritz Lang; also, Ethnic Cinema
Screening: Fury (Fritz Lang, MGM, 1936)
Other Films: Fritz Lang, You Only Live Once; Oscar Micheaux, Murder in Harlem; Spencer Williams, Blood of Jesus; Joseph Green, Yidl With a Fiddle
Reading: Ch 8, pp 251-255; also pp 97-100
Jan 14-15: Comedy in the 1930s
Screening: Trouble in Paradise (Ernst Lubitsch, Paramount, 1932)
Other Films: Howard Hawks, Bringing Up Baby; Leo McCarey, The Awful Truth; Leo McCarey/Marx Brothers, Duck Soup
Reading: Ch 8, pp 235-236
Jan 20: The Hollywood Studio System
(No Screening)
Other Films: George Cukor, Camille; Mitchell Leisen, Easy Living; Mervyn LeRoy, I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang; John Ford, How Green Was My Valley; Shirley Temple, Bright Eyes; George Stevens, Swing Time
Reading:Ch 8, pp 239-251
Jan 21-22: Howard Hawks and Other Auteurs; also, Studios continued
Screening: To Have and Have Not (Howard Hawks, Warner Brothers, 1944)
Other Films: Frank Capra, It Happened One Night and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Reading: Ch 8, pp265-268, 284-288
Jan 26-27: Orson Welles and Hollywood in the 1940s
Screening: Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, RKO, 1941)
Other Films: Orson Welles, The Lady From Shanghai
Reading: Ch 10 (pp 327-353), Ch 11(pp 368-385)
Jan 28-29: Jean Renoir and French Film Before World War II
Screening: Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir, 1939)
Other Films: Rene Clair, Under the Roofs of Paris; Jean Cocteau, Blood of a Poet; Jean Vigo, L'Atalante
Reading: Ch 9 (pp 289-326)
First Paper Due: Hollywood in the 1930s
Feb 2-3: Italian Neo-Realism
Screening: Open City (Roberto Rossellini, 1946)
Other Films: Luchino Visconti, Obsessione; Vittorio De Sica, Miracle in Milan
Reading: Ch 11(pp 355-368)
Feb 4-5: French Film After World War II
Screening: Pickpocket (Robert Bresson, 1959)
Other Films: Max Ophuls, Lola Montez; Jacques Tati, Mon Oncle; Jean-Pierre Melville, Bob the Gambler
Reading: Ch 13, pp 431-443
Feb 9-10: Japanese Film, 1930-1959
Screening: Sansho the Bailiff (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1954)
Other Films: Yasujiro Ozu, Tokyo Story; Akira Kurosawa, Rashomon
Reading: Ch 18, pp 731-752
Feb 11-12: Other Postwar Auteurs
Screening:Luis Bunuel, El, This Strange Passion
Other Films: Satyajit Ray, Pather Panchali; Carl Theodor Dreyer, Ordet
Reading: Ch 15, pp 572-578; Ch 18, pp 768-773
Second Paper Due: Hollywood in the 1940s
Feb 17: 1950s Hollywood Genres
(No Screening)
Other Films: Cecil B. DeMille, The Ten Commandments; William Wyler, Ben Hur; Don Siegel, Invasion of the Body Snatchers; Elia Kazan, A Streetcar Named Desire and On the Waterfront; Frank Tashlin, Artists and Models; Michael Gordon, Pillow Talk
Reading: Ch 12 (pp 387-429)
Feb 18-19: Hollywood Reflects On Itself
Screening: Sunset Boulevard (Billy Wilder, Paramount, 1950)
Other Films: Stanley Donen, Singin' in the Rain; Vincente Minnelli, The Bad and the Beautiful
Feb 23-24: The Musical
Screening: The Band Wagon (Vincente Minnelli, MGM, 1953)
Other Films: Vincente Minnelli, An American in Paris; Otto Preminger, Carmen Jones
Feb 25-26: Film Noir
Screening: Pickup on South Street (Samuel Fuller, 20th Century Fox, 1953)
Other Films: Jacques Tourneur, Out of the Past, Joseph H. Lewis, The Big Combo, Fritz Lang, The Big Heat
Third Paper Due: Non-English-language films, 1930-1959
March 1-2: John Ford and the Western
Screening: The Searchers (John Ford, Warner Brothers, 1956)
Other Films:
Reading: Ch 8, pp 259-265
March 3-4: The Youth Film and Other Changes
Screening: Rebel Without A Cause (Nicholas Ray, Warner Brothers, 1955)
Other Films: Otto Preminger, The Man With the Golden Arm
March 8-9: Alfred Hitchcock
Screening: Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, Paramount, 1958)
Other Films:
Reading: Ch 8, pp 268-284
March 10-11: Douglas Sirk and Melodrama
Screening: Imitation of Life (Douglas Sirk, Universal, 1959)
Other Films:
Fourth Paper Due: Hollywood in the 1950s
There are four four-page papers, each counting for 25% of your final grade: