"Groggy's About To Get His Horizons Broadened!"

"These are degenerate films, you know. As a loyal member of IMDB, I should detest them."

My syllabus for World Film History:

Week One
Introduction to Course
Jan 6 Screening: Dogme #1 - Festen ([The Celebration], Vinterberg, 1998, 105 min); excerpt The Name of this Film is Dogma 95

Week Two
Jan 13 Early Cinema
Lumiere Brothers films, Le Voyage dans la Lune ([A Trip to the Moon], Melies, 1902, 14 min), The Great Train Robbery (Porter, 1903, 11 min), The Cheat (Demille, USA 1915, 59 min); The Scar of Shame (Pelegrini, 1927, 68 min)
Reading: Chapters 1, 2, 3

Week Three
Jan 20 German Expressionism
Screenings, Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari ([Cabinet of Dr Caligari], Weine, 1920, 67 min or 51 min), excerpt Nosferatu (Murnau, 1922, 84 min)
Reading: Chapter 4, Caligari essay, and Courseweb Coates “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari”

Week Four
Jan 27 Soviet Montage
Strike (Eisenstein, 1925, 82 min) and Dezertir ([Deserter] Pudovkin, 1933, 105 min), excerpt Potemkin
Read; Chapter 5, Courseweb Eisenstein “A Statement,” Pudovkin “On Editing”

Week Five
Feb 3 French Impressionism and the Avant Garde
Screening: Un Chien Andalou (Bunuel, 1928, 16 min), Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer, 1928, 82 min), excerpt Dulac
Reading Chapter 6, Bazin article (119-127)

Week Six
Feb 10 Italian Neorealism
Screning: Germany, Year Zero, Rossellini, 1945, 100 min), Il Miracola (Rossellini, 1948)
Reading: Chapter 11, Zavattini essay (151-158)

Week Seven
Feb 17 England and Northern Irish Noir
Screening: Odd Man Out (Reed, 1947, 116 min), excerpts from Poitin (Quinn, 1979, 65 min)
Reading: Courseweb McIlroy “Rorschach Test: Carol Reed's Odd Man Out”

Week 8
Feb 24 French New Wave
Screening: A bout de soufflé (Breathless Godard, 1960, 90 min), excerpts from Band a part (Godard, 1964, 95 min)
Reading: Chapter 16, 17, Neupert “Breathless” Courseweb
MIDTERM EXAM

Week Nine
Mar 3 New German Cinema
Screening: Veronika Voss (Fassbinder, 1982, 105 min)
Reading: Chapter 22
PAPER 1 DUE

Week Ten
Mar 10 SPRING BREAK

Week 11
Mar 17 Francophone Africa
Screening:Black Girl (Sembene, 1966, 65 min), Boram Saret (Sembene, 1966, 20 min)
Reading: Chapter 25, Landy “Black Girl”on Courseweb

Week Twelve
Mar 24 Post neorealist Italy
Screening: Il Desserto Rossa ([Red Desert], Antonioni, 1964, 120 min)
Reading: Chapter 19-21 including Lev (259-264)

Week Thirteen
Mar 31 Post war Japan
Rashomon (Kurasawa, 1950, 88 min) excerpt from Kwaidan (Kobayashi 1964 165 min)
Reading Chapter 13

Week Fourteen
Apr 7 Hong Kong and China
Chung Hing Sam Iam ([Chung King Express], Wong Kar Wai, 1994, 102 min)
Reading: Chapter 24, 26

Week Fifteen
Apr 14 28 Days Later (Boyle, 2002, 113 min)
Reading: Chapter 28

Looks like I have my work cut out for me.

See you tonight for another John Ford review!