How can you still enjoy movies, I am often asked [. . .], when you spend all your time analyzing them and researching them? All I can say in response is that I enjoy movies more than ever, but admittedly, in a very different way from my very first excursions into the illuminated darkness (Andrew Sarris).

FILM 2700 – History of Cinema
Email: michaelbass@clayton.edu
Office: TBD
Visitation Hours: MW 8am-9:45am, or by appointment

Spring 2024 Full Course Syllabus

Course Readings (Password Protected)

Great Filmmaker Project Sign-Ups

Resources/Videos
Clayton State Academic Calendars
Clayton State Film, Communication, and Performing Arts Department
Clayton State Communications and Media Studies Department
Clayton State Film Production Department
Clayton State Film Production BA Suggested Course Sequence
Film Terms Glossary
(Some) Georgia Film Festivals!
SWANK – CSU Library’s Streaming Service!
Kanopy – CSU Library’s Other Streaming Service!
Hoopla – Atlanta-Fulton Public Library’s Streaming Service!
Atlanta Fulton County Public Library
Criterion Channel
Videodrome Atlanta
Midtown Art Cinema Atlanta
Plaza Theatre Atlanta
Box Office Mojo
Film-Related Podcasts
Film Beginnings Timeline (Tiki Toki)
D.W. Griffith Video Dr. Jim Roberts
German Expressionism “Scoop.It” presentation
Howard Hawks Video Password: Roberts (case sensitive)
Orson Welles Video Password: roberts (case sensitive)
Clayton State Writers’ Studio
Gauntlett, “Essay-Writing: The Essential Guide”
A Brief Guide to Writing Film Papers
More Paper Tips
Adblock Plus
Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL)
How to Email a Professor
What is a Scholarly Article?
How to Read Scholarly Articles
How to Find Scholarly Articles
Citation Styles Help

Lecture Notes
Introduction to Film Studies
How to Film Major…
Academic Writing
Smith – “It’s Just a Movie”
The Invention and Early Years of Cinema
Ch. 2 – Early US Film, Ch. 3 – CHC, & Ch. 7 – Foreign Filmmakers
Micheaux & Griffith
German Expressionism
Soviet Montage
The Introduction of Sound
French Impressionism & Poetic Realism
CHC Style
The Hollywood Studio System
Hawks, Welles, Hitchcock, & Ford
Hollywood Genres
Altman – Cinema and Genre
Post-1946 & Film Noir
Lewis – Adjusting to Postwar America, 1945-1955
Postwar European Cinema (Italian Neorealism)
Lewis – Moving Toward a New Hollywood, 1955 – 1967
New Waves and Young Cinemas – French New Wave
Art Cinema
Nowell-Smith – Art Cinema
Experimental Cinemas
Dixon & Foster – Introduction: Toward a New History of the Experimental Cinema
Documentary Cinema
Saunders – The ‘D’ Word: Definitions, ‘Obligations’, and Functions
Hollywood’s Rise and Fall: 1960-1980
Cutler – Reclaiming the Black Family: Charles Burnett, Julie Dash, and the L.A. Rebellion
American Cinema and the Entertainment Economy
American Independent Cinema: 1980s and Beyond
Politically Critical Cinema of the 60s and 70s
Women Filmmakers
Digital Technology and the Cinema
Japanese Cinema
Chinese Cinema
1990s Independents
Blockbuster Films, CGI, and Current Media Landscape

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