Class discussions of students' work and the problems of creating in this field. Students will read novels and plays and view the films made from them, with class discussions to focus on the potentialities and limitations of each art form. The course will consider the comic techniques of the performers and the particular cinematic devices that are used to convey the performance. Showings of films by Chaplin, Lloyd, Keaton, Lubitsch, Laurel and Hardy, the Marx Brothers, W.C. Fields, and others. Projects shot on film will be edited on video.
Emphasis is placed on the ability of students to work in production crews.
This course may be repeated for credit. This course may be repeated for credit. Those studied may include Olmi, Tanner, Herzog, Fassbinder, and Bergman. Those studied may include Wajda, Szabo, Forman, Kurosawa, Mizoguchi, and Ray. For graduate courses in Cinema Studies see the Graduate Catalog.