Welcome

Welcome to the class blog. This website should be a resource for you, so feel free to share any web resources that you find that may help your classmates develop into better film-viewers, film-critics and film-theorists.

You may share resources by sending them to my email address, or, if you're interested, let me know, and I'll make you a co-contributor to the blog!

The easiest way to navigate the blog is by using the right hand menus. I'm regularly adding more of them, and better ways to navigate.

Assignments

You will watch films each week for this class. The list of films can be found here.

You will respond to each film that you want by responding to a "prompt" which can be found in the google doc called "FILM PROMPTS" in your google drive.

You will be assessed based on how you contribute to the learning community. Read more about that here.

There will be two essay exams at midterm and finals. They will be cumulative and integrative in nature.

You will write two critical essays.

You will work (in a group or alone) to develop a more in depth understanding of a filmmaker, a film critic or a film theorist. This will be your summative project.

List of Films

Metropolis  

Modern Times

Stagecoach

Citizen Kane

The Bicycle Thieves

Singin in the Rain

On the Waterfront

Vertigo

Breathless

Blow Up

Taxi Driver

Killer of Sheep

Annie Hall

The Thin Blue Line

Festen

The Piano