ENG 195 - Film Studies: Film As Art

Summer 2012

Michael Dembrow, Instructor

Course Overview

Film List

Course Schedule 1

Course Schedule 2

Textbook Web Site

Film Study Links

Study Questions for Casablanca

Study Questions for Notorious

Study Questions for North by Northwest

Study Questions for Citizen Kane

Study Questions for The Conversation

Study Questions for Apocalypse Now

Study Questions for Children of Heaven

Study Questions for The 400 Blows

Study Questions for Murderball

Study Questions for The Celebration

• Dogme 95

Study Questions for Winter's Bone

Study Questions for Textbook Chapters 1 & 2

Study Questions for Textbook Chapter 5

Study Questions for Textbook Chapter 6

Study Questions for Textbook Chapter 7

Study Questions for Textbook Chapter 8

Study Questions for Textbook Chapter 10

Study Questions for Textbook Chapter 4

Study Questions for Textbook Chapter 9

Study Questions for Textbook Chapter 13

Frame Analysis Handout

Frame Analysis Worksheet

Example - Frame Analysis

Midterm

• Example 1

• Example 2

Take-Home Final

Neorealism

New Wave

Short recap of camera distance

Another on camera distance

Intro to Film Technique and Terminology - with help from The Fellowship of the Ring

Shot Analysis of Casablanca - "La Marseillaise"

• You Tube of the "La Mareillaise" Sequence

Shot Analysis of Notorious - "The Key" Sequence

• You Tube of "The Key" Sequence

North by Northwest - Storyboard for the Cropduster Sequence

Shot Analysis of The Conversation - In the Van

• You Tube of the van scene (begin at 4min 50sec.)

The Boarding-House Scene from Citizen Kane

The Breakfast Montage from Citizen Kane

Shot Analysis of Psycho - Marian Packs to Leave

The "Odessa Steps Sequence" from Battleship Potemkin

Selections from Various Musicals:

• Dames

• Gold Diggers of 1933

• Top Hat

• On the Town

• Singin' in the Rain - "Make 'Em Laugh," "Singin' in the Rain"

• West Side Story - Prologue, America, When You're a Jet

Sound Analysis of Apocalypse Now

The Bicycle Thief - Opening, Ending

Cleo from 5 to 7 - Opening

Hiroshima Mon Amour - Opening, Second Part

Breathless - Hommage/Synopsis

Meshes of the Afternoon

La Jetee - Part 1, Part 2

Dogma Clips:

• Mifune (1999, Soren Kragh-Jacobsen)

• The King Is Alive (2000, Kristian Levring)

• Italian for Beginners (2000, Lone Scherfig)

• Open Hearts Trailer; Scene (2002, Susanne Bier)

• Brothers Trailer(2004, Susanne Bier)

• After the Wedding (2006, Susanne Bier)

• In a Better World (2010, Susanne Bier)

Glossary of Film Terms

Elements of Film Analysis

Handout on the birth of the Star System

Prehistory of Film

Narrative Film: Scene, Story, Drama

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