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Film & Lit
Film & Lit
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Film & Lit is an elective course that will provide students with an introduction to film history, analysis, criticism, and filmmaking. In this course students will learn the history of film from the first moving pictures to modern-day summer blockbusters. Students will also learn more technical aspects of film, such as editing, shot composition, scripting, dialogue, cinematography, and much more, culminating in an extended film project to end the year. Additionally, students will learn to analyze and critique films as culturally and historically significant art forms.
Class Information
Class Information
Q1
Unit 1: Film History
Hugo (2011)
A Trip to the Moon (1902)
Modern Times (1936)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Bicycle Thieves (1948)
Jaws (1975)
Unit 2: Plot and Story
Casablanca (1942)
Seven Samurai (1954)
North by Northwest (1959)
Star Wars Episode VI: A New Hope (1977)
O, Brother Where Art Thou? (2000)
Dune (2021)
Unit 3: Genre
Metropolis (1927)
Singing in the Rain (1952)
Some Like it Hot (1959)
Psycho (1960)
The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly (1966)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
Unit 4: Shot Composition & Cinematography
Citizen Kane (1941)
The Seventh Seal (1957)
Hero (2002)
1917 (2019)
Unit 5: Editing & Sound
Battleship Potemkin (1925)
Jurassic Park (1993)
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
The Social Network (2010)
Unit 6: Filmmakers and Actors
The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
My Dinner With Andre (1981)
Moonrise Kingdom (2012)
The Fabelmans (2022)
Unit 7: Special Effects & Animation
Snow White (1937)
Spirited Away (2001)
Fantastic Mr. Fox (2011)
Interstellar (2014)
Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse (2018)
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