Fall 2009 English MA Course Guide - Schaumburg Campus
Department of Literature and Languages

407  Film History

Larry Howe                                                                                              (W 6:00 – 8:30 pm)

In this course, we'll trace film history from silent film, through sound film, to color and special effects.   As this technology developed, filmmakers found new ways to tell stories.  We’ll note how film works with genre and how in creating its own history it reflected the social history of the cultures in which it emerged.  We’ll also note how film-makers develop and exploit a self-reflexive fascination with film’s own processes.  Titles we’ll study include the following:  Altman’s The Player,  Keaton’s Sherlock Junior,  Griffith’s Birth of a Nation, Micheaux’s Within Our Gates, Lang’s Metropolis, Jolson’s The Jazz Singer, Chaplin’s Modern Times, Welles’s Citizen Kane, De Sica’s The Bicycle Thief, Hitchcock’s Rear Window,  Goddard’s Breathless, and Penn’s Bonnie and Clyde, and one chosen by the class.

453  Advanced Studies in Literary Genre

STAFF

(M W 2:00 – 3:15 pm)

This course is not yet staffed so that topic has not yet been determined, but it should be set by mid- to late-March. Please check the course descriptions on the department website for updated info on this course: http://www.roosevelt.edu/english/default.htm.

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