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Jun 04, 2025
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FLM 171 - History of Film
Credits: 4
4 Lecture Hours
Description
This course explores the history of cinema, from both an American and international perspective. Diverse voices and different artistic movements are analyzed and studied. Students learn film history starting in the early silent days of cinema and discover how world events and changing culture influenced cinema of the time.
Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of the course, the student will:
- Interpret films for historical context and artistic merit through in-class screenings.
- Identify the early pioneers of silent cinema.
- Explain the shift to talkies and the effects it had on cinema through a verbal presentation.
- Analyze how diverse voices changed the language of cinema through an analysis of international filmmakers.
- Research influential filmmakers of each decade and their contributions to the medium.
- Analyze the cinematic and historical context of a director of choice.
Listed Topics
- Rise of silent film
- German cinema of the 1920s
- Rise of talkies
- WWII and the Hays Code
- Cinema of the 1950s: Opulence, conformity and repression
- Post-WWII Japanese cinema
- French New Wave
- Cinema of the 1960s
- The 1970s: A new wave of pessimism and a new guard
- Return of cinematic optimism in the 1980s
- Black cinema
- Grunge comes to cinema in the independent boom of the 1990s
- Cinema of the 2000s
- 2000s International cinema
Reference Materials
Instructor-approved current films, textbooks and materials
Students who successfully complete this course acquire general knowledge, skills and abilities that align with CCAC’s definition of an educated person. Specifically, this course fulfills these General Education Goals: - Communication
- Critical Thinking & Problem Solving
Approved By: Dr. Quintin B. Bullock Date Approved: 02/28/2025
Last Reviewed: 02/28/2025
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