Screenings of films shown for the "Introduction to Film" course this semester begin at 2:10 in the Korb Classroom of the Fine Arts Center.

Wednesday, August 29: Lumière actualities (1895-1900), A Trip to the Moon (Méliès, 1902) and The Great Train Robbery (Porter, 1903)

Wednesday, September 5: The Gold Rush (Chaplin, 1925)

Wednesday, September 12: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Weine, 1920)

Wednesday, September 19: Battleship Potemkin (Eisenstein, 1925)

Wednesday, September 26: Trouble in Paradise (Lubitsch, 1932)

Wednesday, October 3: Casablanca (Curtiz, 1942)

Wednesday, October 10: The Bicycle Thief (De Sica, 1948)

Wednesday, October 17: Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941)

Wednesday, October 24: Breathless (Goddard, 1960)

Wednesday, October 31: North by Northwest (Hitchcock, 1959)

Wednesday, November 7: The Searchers  (Ford, 1956)

Wednesday, November 14: Wild Strawberries (Bergman, 1957)

Wednesday, November 28: Bonnie and Clyde (Penn, 1967)

Wednesday, December 5: Moulin Rouge! (Luhrmann, 2001)

Course Description: THE 104 / Introduction to Film
This course is intended to introduce students to film as an international art form and provide an historical survey of world cinema from its inception to the present. The course will focus on key films, filmmakers, and movements that have played a major role in pioneering and shaping film. Selected motion pictures will be screened, studied, and discussed with special emphasis placed on learning how to "read" a film in terms of its narrative structure, genre, and visual style. Specific filmic techniques such as mise en scene, montage, and cinematography will also be considered. Genre study, auteurism, and ideology will be explored in relation to specific films and filmmakers, as well as the practice of adaptation (from theater to film, and most recently, film to theater). This course is offered in the fall semester. Credits: 1