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during class unless I have given you explicit permission to use them. I will make accommodations to this policy for those students who have arranged for one through the DRC. Course Schedule (subject to change):
Week One –
Overview
MON: Introduction to the course and outline for how the subject matter will be presented and studied. Outline the rules for the class and expectations. Brief History of Cinema
TUE: An understanding of basic cinematic language, the Cahier du Cinema
WED: The roles of filmmakers. Who makes the films and what does each does on a movie.
THUR: Theme vs. Plot: Gaining a basic understanding of the difference between the plot of a film and the theme of a film so that a clear distinction is made and we can discuss the films subject matter appropriately throughout the course.
Watch: Great Train Robbery, To the Moon
Week Two
The 1920s & 1930s
MON: Movies as Church: the ritualistic shared cultural experience of watching films and how that environment becomes the basis for influencing culture and shaping cultural mores. READINGS: Reel Spirituality (Engaging Culture)
Theology and Film in Dialogue, Robert Johnston
TUE: The equipment and spreading of film as a form of entertainment Shaking up Hollywood: Cecile D. DeMille and The Ten Commandments (1923) and Sign of the Cross (1934, Dir. Cecil B. DeMille). Watch excerpts from films and discuss how the films confronted the established churches with “Immoral morality” and reflected a country in transition from the Roaring Twenties through the Great Depression. *
WED: The Roaring 20s, sound comes to town, the Hays Commission - Lecture on the list of thirteen prohibitions from the Hays Commission, The Legion of Decency, and depictions of women on film. (The Motion Picture Production Code was the set of industry moral guidelines that was applied to most United States motion pictures released by major studios from 1930 to 1968. It is also popularly known as the Hays