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When I came to UAF, the place has no Film Studies and this class was to help build a film minor, at least.
The title "Film and Drama" -- because the theatre department was the originator of the film studies ("Drama program" at the time). Theatre UAF is still a coordinator of "film minor" and we have BA with the emphasis in video directing.
Now this course has the name "Film and Movies" and, if you read my webpage, you understand why? Films are the movies which advance the language of cinema... and this is what we study in this class.
The Art of Watching Films has 15 chapters: my best advise -- read the whole book ahead (last five chapters 11-15 are recommended, not required). I'm still working on making web pages and the book closer; watch this page -- it will be updated throughout the semester.
Films/Directors for our class have separate pages (Bergman, for example).
Richard Dyer McCann: "The film that simply says life is chaos is a film which has not undertaken the battle of art." (p. 7)
I hope at the end of this course you will understand that any film brings more structure to life. The difference between good and bad movies is that the bad ones do it badly.
See Glossary (in addition to film dictionary on the Film-North website) or/and Boggs (p. 436)
Check Writing a Film Analysis in Appendix (p. 423)
And the list of recommended books in Selected Bibliography (p. 445). I have several web book pages for additional reading.
(If you are majoring in Film Studies and plan to go to graduate school, I'll have another page for you).
Please fill out the survey form in order for me to know how much do you know about film and film theory.
Sight, Sound, Motion: Applied Media Aesthetics Developed at San Francisco State University, this textbook isolates the five fundamental image elements of television and film--light and color, 2D space, 3D space, time/motion, and sound--examines their aesthetic characteristics and potentials, and structures them in their respective aesthetic fields. The fourth edition adds sections on inductive shot sequences, electronic cinema, and alternative storytelling techniques. ***
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