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Sep 07, 2024
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2023-2024 College Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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DAR 173 - History of American Cinema 3 Credits, 3 Contact Hours 3 lecture periods 0 lab periods
American cinematic film making as an art form, a global cultural influence, economic force in America and internationally, and a system of production and distribution. Includes history of American cinema, development of classical Hollywood style and world-wide storytelling on film, cinema genres, alternative American films, analysis and criticism, and film production teams.
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Course Learning Outcomes
- Discuss the characteristics of American cinema and the classical Hollywood style as related to the technical and narrative elements of filmmaking.
- Describe American film history in terms of specific periods, such as the silent era, the golden age, and identify how Hollywood stardom and the studio system existed as a cultural phenomenon.
- Compare and contrast critical elements of film genres such as documentary, film noir, horror, science fiction, musical, comedy, western, and war.
- Analyze the relationships between American film production and distribution based on a variety of cultural, political, and corporate influences including those related to war, social awareness, and current events.
Outline:
- Introduction to the History of American Cinema
- First frames
- American film industry
- Early technology
- National cinemas and film movements
- Film stars
- Global influences of American cinema
- Development of the Hollywood Style/World-Wide Storytelling
- Thomas Edison
- Early mechanisms
- The movie camera
- Expressive techniques
- Cinema Genres
- History of genre criticism
- Cultural influence of film
- Western
- Melodrama
- Gangster/crime
- Film noir
- Horror
- Musical
- Documentary
- Science fiction
- War
- Comedy
- History of Narrative Film
- Early cinema
- Classic narrative system
- Development of editing
- Development of sound
- Economics of the studio system
- International influence
- History of Narrative Film Sound
- Silent films
- Early invention
- Movies talk
- Synchronous sound
- Asynchronous sound
- Music: the film score
- Sound perspective
- Hollywood and the silent film
- Sound and the narrative film
- Alternative American Films
- Documentary
- Experimental film
- Independent film
- Animated film
- Auteur theory
- Analysis and Criticism
- Film reviewing
- Film criticism
- Film theory
- Exporting American culture
- American Cinema Production Team
- Writer
- Director
- Producer
- Cinematographer
- Editor
- Sound Designer
- Art Director
Effective Term: Full Academic Year 2020/2021
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