Search : Index : Faculty of Arts : Cinema Studies
Next 107-074 Introduction to Cinema B: Film Theory

 107-073 Introduction To Cinema A: Classical Hollywood and Art Cinema

Note

Formerly available as 111-105. Students who have completed 111-105 are not eligible to enrol in this subject.

Availability

1st year

Credit Points

12.5

Coordinator

Ms Angela Ndalianis

Semester

1 (view timetable)

Contact

A 2-hour screening, a 1.5-hour lecture, and a 1-hour tutorial per week

Subject Description

This course will introduce students to the formal, stylistic and interpretative strategies that relate to narrative cinema forms. The course will cover three interrelated areas: film narrative, film style, and film history. Students will be expected to understand aspects of narrative form and film style, including the pre-cinematic effect on early cinema; the silent era; the classical Hollywood model and its dependence on the genre system (e.g.. the screwball comedy, the western, the melodrama); art cinema narration (e.g.. Italian neo-realism, the French New Wave); narrative form and political cinema (e.g. Eisenstein and political cinema); b-films and animation.

Assessment

A classpaper of 1000 words, and an essay of 2000 words, and a visual test equivalent to 1000 words.

Prescribed Texts

  • D Bordwell & K Thompson, Film Art: An Introduction. (3rd ed) McGraw-Hill 1990.


Search : Index : Faculty of Arts : Cinema Studies
Next 107-074 Introduction to Cinema B: Film Theory
Status:                   Official 1999
Last Modified:            Tuesday October 20 11:46
SGML to HTML Conversion:  Information Technology Services
Authorised by:            Academic Registrar
Email Enquiries:          Course_Information@registrar.unimelb.edu.au