Description
A film history seminar, this discussion-based course traces the evolution of film language from Etienne-Jules Marey’s scientific experiments in the 1880s to the Lumière Brothers in 1895 to the mid-20th Century. In this course students study how films evolved from static, one-shot set-ups to the language we recognize as the continuity system: establishing shots, parallel action, close-ups, sophisticated camera movements, lighting, the introduction of sound, the revolution in deep focus photography, and how the Surrealists along with Sergei Eisenstein changed the way film and filmmakers saw the possibilities in the cut.
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