1/12

1/17 Lecture – The Great Depression

1/19 Lecture – The Golden Age of Hollywood

Film School: The One-Minute Movie

1/24 Lecture/Discussion – The Western as American Narrative

Quiz 1

1/26 Lecture/Discussion – The Evolution of Funny 

1/31 Lecture/Discussion – The Musical as Escape

Quiz 2

2/2 Lecture/Discussion – Why Monsters?

Film School: Yale Film Analysis – Basic Terms

2/4 (Saturday) Response Paper One Due 5:00 p.m. 

2/7 Lecture: The Ike Age

Turn in Movie Journals 

Quiz 3

2/9 Lecture: Hollywood in the 1950s

Film School: Yale Film Analysis – Mis-en-Scene

2/14 

Lecture/Discussion – The Western and the Demands of Nation

Quiz 4

2/16

Lecture/Discussion – The Humor of the New World Order

2/21 

Lecture/Discussion – Music and the World

Quiz 5

2/23 

Lecture/Discussion – Fear in the Fifties

Film School: Yale Film Analysis – Editing

2/25 (Saturday)

Response Paper Two Due 5:00 p.m.

2/28

Lecture: The Me Decade 

Turn in Movie Journals 

Quiz 6

3/2

Lecture: Post-Hays Hollywood

Film School: Yale Film Analysis – Sound

3/7 

Lecture/Discussion – The Dark West 

Quiz 7

3/9

Lecture/Discussion – Comedies and the Counterculture 

3/28 

Lecture/Discussion – New Music 

Quiz 8

3/30 

Lecture/Discussion – American Limitations and the New Terrors

Film School: Kael, “The Man from Dream City“

4/1

(Saturday) Response Paper Three due 5:00 p.m. 

4/4

Lecture: Boomers Triumphant America in the Nineties

Turn in Movie Journals 

Quiz 9

Film School: Didion, John Wayne: A Love Song

4/6

Lecture: The New Hollywood

4/11

Storck Film Design in-Class Filmmaking Workshop I

Quiz 10

4/13

Storck Film Design in-Class Filmmaking Workshop II

4/18

Lecture/Discussion – Rock and Roll Triumphant

Quiz 11

4/20

Lecture/Discussion – Tech Fear

4/22 (Saturday)

Response Paper Three due 5:00 p.m.

4/25

Turn in Movie Journals 

4/27

5/2