Contents

FrontPage

Elements of Film

• Camera Movement
  • Camera Movement in La Grande Illusion
• Color
• Depth Of Field
• Character Development
• Film Editing
  • Axis of Action
  • Continuity Editing
  • Parallel Editing
  • Soviet Montage
• Film Music
• Film Narrative
  • Narrative Analysis
• Framing
• Ideology in Film
  • Class in Film
• Mise en Scene
  • Acting
    • Acting in 12 Angry Men
  • Blackface
  • Lighting
  • Mise en Scene in 2001 A Space Odyssey
  • Mise en Scene in La Belle et la Bete
  • Expressionist mise-en scene in Metropolis 
  • Set Design and Locations
• Sound in Film
  • Diegetic and Non-Diegetic
  • Sound in 12 Angry Men
• Special Effects

Films

• 2001: A Space Odyssey
  • Editing in 2001: A Space Odyssey
  • HAL
  • Interpretations of 2001
  • Mise en Scene in 2001 A Space Odyssey
  • Narrative Structure (Repetitions) in2001: A Space Odyssey
• Audition
  • 'Asia Extreme', Oliver Dew and Japanese Cinema
  • The "Dream Sequence" in Audition
  • Film Noir in Audition
  • Gender Politics in Audition
  • Societal Commentary in Audition
• The Battleship Potemkin
• Beauty and the Beast
  • Mise en Scene in La Belle et la Bete

• The Birth of a Nation
  • Editing in The Birth of a Nation
• Blade Runner
  • Allusions in Blade Runner
  • Lighting in Blade Runner
  • The Replicants
• The Grand Illusion
  • Camera Movement in La Grande Illusion
• The Holy Mountain
  • American Counterculture and The Holy Mountain
  • Color in The Holy Mountain
  • Occult Symbolism in The Holy Mountain
• Howl's Moving Castle
  • The Character of Narrative in Howl's Moving Castle
  • Environmental Issues in Howl's Moving Castle
  • Howl's Moving Castle and Disney
  • Physical Metamorphosis in Howl's Moving Castle
  • Western Qualities of Howl's Moving Castle

• Metropolis
  • Messianic Themes in Metropolis

• A Trip to the Moon
• Twelve Angry Men
  • Acting in 12 Angry Men
  • Camera Movement in 12 Angry Men
  • Sound in 12 Angry Men
  • Symbolism of Objects in Cinema

Film Criticism

• Auteur Theory

Genre

• Actualities
• Anime
• Cinematic Responses to Fascism
• Cinema Novo
• French Cinema
  • The New Wave
  • Realism
• German Expressionism
• Soviet Montage
• Queer Cinema

Historical Figures

• Jean Cocteau
• Thomas Alva Edison
• Sergei Eisenstein
• Lillian Gish
• David Llewelyn Wark Griffith
• HAL
• Alejandro Jodorowsky
• Stanley Kubrick
• Fritz Lang
• Lumière Brothers
  • Film examples of the Lumière brothers
• Georges Méliès
• Edwin Stanton Porter
• Jean Renoir 

Readings

• 'Asia Extreme', Oliver Dew and Japanese Cinema
• Bazin on The Grand Illusion
• The Cinema of Attraction
• Exterminating Fetuses: Abortion, Disarmament, and the Sexo-Semiotics of Extraterrestrialism
• Film Form: Methods of Montage
• Desser: Blade Runner Science Fiction and Transendence

Cinema and Technology

• Film: "The Stuff"
• Kinetoscope
• Movie Technology

Sources and Help

• Works Consulted

Administrative Material

• Sean's Page: Announcements, readings, etc
• Syllabus
  • Revised Original Page Rubric
  • Revised Major Edit Rubric
  • Wiki Maintenance Rubric
• Old Front Page Material 

• Calendar 

• How to use Cinematize
• Weekly Task Logs (retired)

Major Teams

• Film Aesthetics Team Members
• Film History Team Members
• Clip-Grabbing Team

Choosing Our Films

• Films from the 1910's, 1920's, and 1930's
• Films from the 1940's, 1950's, and 1960's
• Films from the 1970's, 1980's, and 1990's
• Films from the 2000's