Film History: Silent Cinema
Dan Streible
Wednesdays / 12:30PM – 4:30pm / Room 648
4 points
CINE-UT 15 / Class # 14979
DESCRIPTION
Examines cinema form and culture from the late 19th-century through the late 1920s, commonly known as "the silent era." Explores the historical contexts that governed the emergence of film as art and mass culture. Investigates the different approaches to filmmaking that developed, internationally, in the silent period. Screenings include early cinema, works of Hollywood drama and comedy, Russian film and Soviet montage cinema, Weimar cinema, and silent black cinema.
Recitations
Tuesdays / Room 646
Class #
002: 11:00am – 12:15pm 14980
003: 12:30pm – 1:45pm 14981
004: 2:00pm – 3:15pm 14982