Course Outline:

Recognize and explain the multinational nature of cinema

	Key inventors
	Key inventions and the relationships of inventions to technological cinematic progress
	Patent Controversies
	Early exhibitions and public response

Compare narrative development and techniques in silent film in the United States, Germany, France, and the Soviet Union

	Development of silent movies and movie stars
	Development of early major studios and directors
	Soviet Montage/Avante- Garde of 1920s
	German Golden Age (1920s-30s)
	American Film pioneers (Griffith, Sennett, Chaplin)
	France between the Wars (surrealism, Renoir)

Explain how the invention of sound influenced the development of film in the United States
		A Effect on destruction of stars, directors and modes of storytelling
		B. Effect of sound on creation of American studio System and new genres of  movies (the 1930s musical, for example)
		
Explain and evaluate the Hollywood Studio Years: 1930-45

	American film musicals
	Art and Commerce (studio domination of film making and distribution)
	Some Key directors: Sternberg, Ford, Hawks, Hitchcock, Welles, Cukor, Capra, Sturges)
	Economic and social role of key stars 
	Key genres (musical, gangster, social realism, comedy, western) and relation to current society
	Censorship and film making

Hollywood in Transition: 1946-65

	HUAC and the Hollywood Blacklist
	Film Noir
	Message movies 
	D effect of new ratings system

Neorealism and the New Wave

	Italian neorealism (Rosselini, Visconti, Fellini, etc.)
	French postwar classicism (Cocteau, Tati, etc.)
	1959 and after ( new wave, Truffaut, Godard, etc.)

Hollywood Renaissance: 1964-76

	Focus on new American Directors ( Woody Allen, Robert Altman, Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Stanley Kubrick)
	Film as mirror on society

American Film 1979-present

	Blockbusters
	Technological advances and impact on film
	Modern mythology: Star Wars, ET, etc.
	Current issues of race, gender, social equity and censorship in contemporary American film
	Stars and popular culture