Course details

Name: ENFL - 250

Title: MAJOR FILM DIRECTORS

Section: 01

Semester: Spring - 2011

Credits: 3

Description:
Major Film Directors introduces students to key principles of film authorship. This semester, we will employ auteur criticism to study filmmakers who characteristically make use of extensive, extraordinary camera movements. Directors under consideration utilize camera movement not simply to follow moving characters, but rather as an organizing principle in presenting especially intricate narratives, psychologically complex characters, “moving\" emotional moments, etc. Special attention will be given to advances in the choreographic relationship between the mobile camera and the visible world. In this way, the course features directors whose works are united by a common thread, despite their production in different countries, historical periods and genres. We will study the evolution of each director’s distinctive style and identify shared thematic and aesthetic concerns.

Possible filmmakers include: Robert Altman, Bruce Baillie, Jean-Luc Godard, Alfred Hitchcock, Miklos Jancso, Buster Keaton, Stanley Kubrick, Auguste and Louis Lumiere, Rouben Mamoulian, F.W. Murnau, Max Ophuls, Jean Renoir and Martin Scorsese.

Requirements:

Take Home Mid-Term
Final Exam
Readings on Blackboard
Participation in class and on Blackboard
Outside-of-class viewing of additional films on DVD

Schedule: Tuesday From 2:30 pm To 5:15 am

Graduation requirements:

• Genre Study (Film)
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Teaching Faculty: Cutler Janet (cutlerj)

Is course canceled: No