Los Angeles Valley College Media Arts Department Cinema 107: Understanding Motion Pictures (3) UC:CSU Summer 2016

Instructor: Joel Trudgeon Office: SSC 108 Email: [email protected] Office Hour: Tuesday 11:30am-12:30am or by appointment Prerequisite/ Corequisite: No

Overview: This course provides students with an analytical critical survey of motion pictures as an art form, entertainment industry, and communication medium via screenings, lectures, readings about 'classic' and contemporary films, American and foreign, theatrical and non-theatrical.

Textbook: Understanding Movies 13th Edition by Louis Giannetti

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Assignment Points Assignments/ Participation 100 Term paper 100 Exam 1 100 Exam 2 100 Exam 3 100 TOTAL 500

Total Points Grade 450-500 A 400-459 B 350-399 C 300-349 D 299 and below F

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Examples of Academic Dishonesty (non-inclusive) • Copying answers from another student during in-class or online exams and handing them in as one’s own. • The use of notes, books, dictionaries, or other references during an in-class or online exam that are not authorized by the instructor. • Signing one’s name to an official college document for another not present in class, in a lab, or for any other reason. • Unauthorized use of electronic devices to communicate such as text messaging, cell phone, or emailing any other person during an in-class or online exam. • Unauthorized talking during in-class exams.

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Week Date Topics Reading 1 6/13/16 Introduction o What is Cinema o Cinematic Time and Space

Writing o The Screenwriter o Original Vs. Adapted Screenplays o Points of View o Figurative Comparisons o Genres & Mythology

The Story o Narratology o The Spectator o Aristotle and the Classic Paradigm o Realistic Vs. Formalistic o Plots and Subplots

6/14/16 Acting o Stage Vs. Screen o American Star System o Acting Styles o Casting

Drama o Dramaturgy & The Director o Auteurist Vs. The Collaborative Art

6/15/16 Design o Production Designer & The Art Director o Settings and Décor o Costumes and Make-Up Design

6/16/16 Photography o The DP/ Cinematographer (& Team) o Shots/Angles o Lenses/Opticals o Filmstock/Gauges o Light/Dark & Color o Realistic Vs. Formalistic Style

Mise-en-Scene o Framing o Space & Patterns

Movement o Kinetic & Moving Vs. Static Camera o Altered or Distorted Movement

6/17/16 Exam 1

2 6/20/16 Editing o The Cutting Edge

6/21/16 Sound o Historical Evolution o Sound Recording and Mixing Team o Dialog/Spoken Language o SFX and Sound Design o Music’s Purpose and Styles

6/22/16 Animation Techniques & Special Effects o Digital and Traditional Analog

Documentary o Fact Vs. Fiction o Docudrama

6/23/16 Exam 2

6/24/16 View Citizen Kane

3 6/27/16 Ideology and Theory/Criticism o Critic Vs. Reviewer o Ideology – Left/Center/Right o Auteurism o Realism and Formalism o Avant-Garde o Eclectic/Synthetic Theories o Structuralism/ Semiology

6/28/16 Analysis/Synthesis

6/29/16 Criticism of Orson o Citizen Kane o His Other Films

6/30/16 Exam 3

Films can be found at your local library, Netflix, huluplus, redbox or on TV. Selected, Suggested Viewing: o The Great Train Robbery, Edwin S. Porter 1903 o Nanook of the North, Robert J. Flaherty 1922 o The Birth of a Nation, D.W. Griffith 1915 o The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, Powell and Pressburger, o Broken Flowers, D.W. Griffith 1919 1943 o The Cheat, Cecil B. De Mille 1915 o 8 ½, Federico Fellini 1963 o The Gold Rush, Charlie Chaplin 1925 o The Apartment, 1960 o Greed, Erich von Stroheim 1924 o Blow Up, Michelangelo Antonioni 1966 o Sunrise, F.W. Murnau 1927 o The Graduate, Mike Nichols 1967 o The Crowd, King Vidor 1928 o Easy Rider, Dennis Hopper 1969 o Potemkin, Sergei Eisenstein 1925 o The Wild Bunch, Sam Peckinpah 1969 o The Phantom Carriage, Victor Sjostrom 1921 o Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, George Roy Hill 1969 o Earth, Alexander Dovzhenko, 1930 o , Albert Lamorisse, 1956 o Metropolis, Fritz Lang 1926 o Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love o Nosferatu, F.W. Murnau 1922 the Bomb, Stanley Kubrick 1963 o The Palm Beach Story, 1942 o 2001: A Space Odyssey, Stanley Kubrick 1968 o Public Enemy, William Wellman 1931 o The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Sergio Leone 1966 o Gone with the Wind, Victor Fleming 1939 o Divorce, Italian Style, 1962 o The Gold Diggers of 1935, Busby Berkeley 1935 o The Deer Hunter, Michael Cimino 1978 o Angels with Dirty Face, Michael Curtiz 1938 o Chinatown, Roman Polanski 1974 o Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Frank Capra 1939 o Dirty Harry, Don Siegel 1971 o Stagecoach, John Ford 1939 o M*A*S*H*, Robert Altman 1970 o The Triumph of the Will, Leni Riefenstahl 1935 o One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Milos Forman 1975 o M, Fritz Lang 1931 o The Godfather, 1972 o La Ronde, Max Ophuls 1950 o Jaws, Steven Spielberg 1975 o Grand Illusion, Jean Renoir 1937 o Being There, Hal Ashby 1979 o Brining up Baby, Howard Hawks 1938 o Shaft, Gordon Parks 1971 o The Asphalt Jungle, John Huston 1950 o Taxi Driver, Martin Scorsese, 1976 o The Philadelphia Story, George Cukor 1940 o Rocky, John Avildsen 1976 o Double Indemnity, Billy Wilder 1944 o Solaris, Andrei Tarkovsky 1971 o Sunset Boulevard, Billy Wilder 1950 o Blade Runner, Ridley Scott 1982 o The Great Dictator, Charles Chaplin 1940 o First Blood, Ted Kotcheff 1982 o Citizen Kane, 1941 o Apocalypse Now, Francis Ford Coppola 1979 o The Third Man, Carol Reed 1949 o Alien, Ridley Scott 1979 o Open City, Roberto Rossellini 1945 o The Terminator, James Cameron 1984 o The Bicycle Thief, Vittorio De Sica 1948 o Aliens, James Cameron 1986 o Force of Evil, Abraham Polonsky 1948 o Grave of the Fireflies, Isao Takahata 1988 o Los Olvidados, Luis Bunuel 1950 o The Silence of the Lambs, Jonathan Demme 1991 o Singin’ in the Rain, Gene Kelly, Stanley Domen 1952 o Do the Right Thing, Spike Lee 1989 o The Defiant Ones, Stanely Kramer 1958 o A Room with a View, James Ivory 1986 o Rebel without a Cause, Nicholas Ray 1955 o Ran, Akira Kurosawa 1985 o On the Waterfront, Elia Kazan 1954 o 12 Monkeys, Terry Gilliam 1995 o 12 Angry Men, Sidney Lumet 1957 o Kill Bill 1 and 2, , 2003, 2004 o Stalag 17, Billy Wilder 1953 o El Mariachi, Robert Rodrgiuez 1992 o The Ten Commandments Cecil B. DeMille 1956 o Schindler’s List, Steven Spielberg 1993 o Pickpocket, Robert Bresson, 1959 o Raising Arizona, Joel Coen 1987 o Spartacus, Stanley Kubrick 1960 o The Hudsucker Proxy, Joel Coen 1994 o Psycho, Alfred Hitchcock 1960 o Fight Club, David Fincher 1999 o Pather Panchali, Satyajit Ray 1955 o Amelie, Jean-Pierre Jeunet 2001 o Rashomon, Akira Kurosawa 1950 o The Devil’s Backbone, Guillermo del Toro 2001 o Seven Samurai, Akira Kurosawa 1954 o Avatar, James Cameron 2009 o Good Morning, Yasujiro Ozu 1959 o Unforgiven, Clint Eastwood 1992 o Cleo from 5 to 7, Agnes Varda, 1962 o The Shawshank Redemption, Frank Darabont 1994 o The Seventh Seal, Ingmar Bergman 1957 o Slumdog Millionaire, Danny Boyle 2008 o Macario, Roberto Gavaldon 1960 o Ida, Pawel Pawlikowski 2013 o Medium Cool, Haskell Wexler 1969 o Mad Max: Fury Road, George Miller 2015 o Persona, Ingmar Bergman 1966 o Whiplash, Damien Chazelle, 2014 o Nightcrawler, Dan Gilroy 2014