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Film Studies

Course Overview

This course is an elective. We will be watching approximately twelve feature films in class. Course work will include reading the chapters in the textbook, defining the terms and concepts for each chapter, tests on the chapters, writing review of each film and group work and presentations. Students should try to avoid absences, especially on film days, because missed work and viewing of films must be made up promptly. If a student is absent when a film is being shown, he/she will have to watch the film at home on his/her own time.

Parents should be aware that a few of the films do include violence and profanity. Each film has been approved by the Red Bank Regional Board of Education. All films have been recognized for their various attributes for studying film and film techniques. The following films is a list of the films that may be viewed over the period of one semester.  These titles are also linked to imdb.com, a on-line film database with useful information for the students about each of the films.

Assignments

Film Evaluation Form

Chapter 1: Film Structure

Chapter 2: Cinematography

Chapter 3: Production Design

Chapter 4: Acting

Chapter 5: Editing

Chapter 6: Sound Design


Chapter 7: The Nature of Narrative in Film


Chapter 8: Modes of Screen Reality


Chapter 9: Hollywood International


Chapter 10: Cinema in Multiple Contexts


Chapter 11: Film Criticism and Interpretation


Chapter 12: Models of Film Theory





Film Evaluation Form

Film Catalog

Apocalypse Now (1979)
Blade Runner (1982)
Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)
Casablanca (1942)
Citizen Kane (1941)
Do The Right Thing (1989)
Edward Scissorhands (1990)
Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)
Goodfellas (1990)
The Graduate (1967)
The Matrix (1999)
Memento (2000)
Michael Clayton (2007)
Nosferatu (1922)
On the Waterfront (1954)
Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
Psycho (1960)
Rear Window (1954)
Shane (1953)
The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Some Like It Hot (1959)
There Will Be Blood(2007)
Unforgiven (1992)

HW: Unforgiven and the Western

Shawshank Redemption Response

Wes Anderson's Symmetrical Style
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