| September 8 |
Introduction; Film Terms and Philosophy |
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Do We Need
Film Theory? |
September 13
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Carroll and Turvey in Wartenberg and Curran (W&C), Part
1
Film: Scarlet Street
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| September 15 |
White, Oxford Guide (OG) 117-131
Video screening in class from American Cinema |
| September 20 |
Deleuze in W&C
OG 77-90
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Film: Man With a Movie
Camera and The Flicker |
| September 22 |
Smith in OG, 395-412 |
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September 27
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What is the Nature of Film?
Munsterberg and Arnheim in W&C
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Film: Casablanca |
| September 29 |
Jarvie (ER)
OG 272-288 |
| October 4 |
No Class: Rosh Hashanah,
Film Showing as Ususal |
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Rules of the Game |
October 6
October 7** |
Bazin and Walton in
W&C, OG 486-488
**First Paper Due Paper
Topics
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| October 11 |
Fall Break |
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Do Films Have Authors? |
| October 13 |
No Class: Yom Kippur;
Note extra readings for next week
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| October 18 |
Tuffaut, Sarris, Kael,and Heath in W&C,
OB 310-324
Film: Jules and Jim |
October 19***
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Talk by Carl Plantinga,
7:30 p.m., Skinner 216
"Disgusted at the Movies: the
Rhetoric of the Revolting
in Film" |
| October 20 |
Hanson (ER)
OG 461-466 |
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Film Narration
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| October 25 |
Bordwell and Chatman in
W&C |
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Film: Memento |
October 27
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Wilson in W&C |
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Documentary Film |
| November 1 |
Ponech in W&C
Plantinga (ER)
Film: Sherman's March |
| November 3 |
OG 426-433; Ross McElwee in class
Special Screening of Bright Leaves 4
pm Tower Theatre****
Discussion with Filmmaker Ross McElwee
to follow
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Horror |
November 8
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Paradox of Fiction: http://www.iep.utm.edu/f/fict-par.htm
Caroll in W&C
Film: Silence of the Lambs
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November 10
November 11 |
Freeland in W&C
OG 327-341
**Second Paper Due, 5 pm via electronic
submission
Paper Topic
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Emotion in Film |
| November 15 |
Plantinga and Currie in W&C
Film: The Man Who Knew Too Much |
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November 17
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Smith in W&C |
November 22
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Discussion/Film Screening
Can Films Be Socially Critical?
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| November 29 |
Ryan and Kellner in W&C
OG 354-364 |
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Film: Guess Who's Coming
to Dinner |
| December 1 |
Wartenberg in W&C |
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Film As Philosophy |
| December 6 |
Wittgenstein, Tractatus |
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Film: Wittgenstein's
Tractatus |
December 8 |
Davis (ER) |
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December 13
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Final Discussion
**Third Paper Due |
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