ENG 195 - FILM AS ART

ENG 195 - Film Studies: Film As Art

Fall 2009

Michael Dembrow, Instructor

Director's Statement

Course Overview

Film List - Fall 2009

Course Schedule 1

Course Schedule 2

Textbook Web Site

Film Study Links

Study Questions for Casablanca

Study Questions for The Conversation

Study Questions forCitizen Kane

Study Questions for Psycho

Study Questions for Apocalypse Now

Study Questions for Chinatown

Study Questions forThe 400 Blows

Study Questions forThe Battle of Algiers

Study Questions for After Life

Director's Statement

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 4

Study Questions for Textbook Chapter 9

Study Questions for Textbook Chapter 10

Study Questions for Textbook Chapter 13

Frame Analysis Handout

Frame Analysis Worksheet

Example - Frame Analysis

Midterm

Neorealism

New Wave Take-Home Final

Shot Analysis of Casablanca - "La Marseillaise"

Shot Analysis of The Conversation - The Recording

The Boarding-House Scene from Citizen Kane

The Marriage Montage from Citizen Kane

Shot Analysis of Psycho - Marian Packs to Leave

The "Odessa Steps Sequence" from Battleship Potemkin

Sound Analysis of Apocalypse Now

The Bicycle Thief - Opening, Restaurant Scene, Ending

Cleo from 5 to 7 - Opening

Hiroshima Mon Amour - Opening, Second Part

Breathless - Opening, Hommage/Synopsis

Elements of Film Analysis

Handout on the birth of the Star System

Prehistory of Film

Narrative Film: Scene, Story, Drama

New Wave

Take-Home Final