3-3-0

This course offers a survey of the technological innovations and aesthetic movements that shaped film production and direction from the 1890's to the outbreak of World War II. Topics to be studied include: early experiments in photography, the beginnings of narrative cinema, German Expressionism, French Poetic Realism, forms of comedy, Soviet Silent Cinema and the theory of montage, the Hollywood studio and star systems, and the introducation of sound and colour to motion pictures. A wide range of films are studied to acquaint students with the contours of film history to 1939.



Professor Woodward