Motion Photography Syllabus
The University of Texas at Austin
Department of Radio-Television-Film
RTF 314: Development of the Motion Picture
Unique # 08160 / Spring 2013
Lectures: Monday, Wednesday and Friday: 1:00 – 2:00 p.m., BMC 2.106
Screenings: Monday, 7:30 – 10:00 p.m., BUR 106
Professor:
Caroline Frick, PhD
Office: CMA 5.112
Office Hours: Wednesdays, 9am to 12pm and by appointment
Email: cfrick@austin.utexas.edu
Teaching Assistants:
Paul Gansky: gansky.paul@gmail.com
Colleen Montgomery: colleen.montgomery@gmail.com
Mike O’Brien: mike.w.obrien@gmail.com
Office Hours: TBA
Discussion Sections: Tuesday (according to the following schedule)
08160 5:00 – 6:00 p.m., BMC 3.206 (O’Brien)
08165 5:00 – 6:00 p.m., BMC 4.206 (Montgomery) …show more content…
We will explore how film has developed from novelty to industry as well as how cinema can be understood and evaluated as a socio-cultural, technological, aesthetic and economic artifact. RTF 314 will examine a number of key film movements, filmmakers and genres – both mainstream and alternative. Although a special emphasis will be placed upon the development of the Hollywood narrative film, discussion will focus upon a number of national cinemas from other parts of the world. This class is geared for the student who has not taken previous work in the history of the motion …show more content…
14 (M): Introduction to course, syllabus, schedule Screening: Bowfinger (1999, USA)
Jan. 16 (W): Origins and Invention of Cinema
Jan. 18 (F): Origins and Invention of Cinema
Readings: Textbook Preface, Ch. 1: pp. 8-22
Week 2
Jan. 21 (M): NO CLASS / NO SCREENING
Jan. 23 (W): Filmmaking becomes BIG BUSINESS
Jan. 25 (F): Filmmaking becomes BIG BUSINESS
Readings: Text, Ch. 1: pp. 23-33; Packet: “The Nickel Madness” Watch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bc7wWOmEGGY Watch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cJlddQ7TKg
Week 3
Jan. 28 (M): Filmmaking becomes BIG BUSINESS Screening: Beyond the Rocks (1922, USA)
Jan. 30 (W): Filmmaking becomes BIG BUSINESS / Hollywood and the 1920s
Feb. 1 (F): Hollywood and the 1920s
Readings: Text Ch. 2: pp. 36-50; Packet: “Discourses of Gender and Ethnicity: The Construction and De(con)struction of Rudolph Valentino as Other”
Week 4
Feb. 4 (M): Silent German Cinema Screening: Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari/The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920, Germany)
Feb. 6 (W): Silent German Cinema/ Griffith and Micheaux – Racist and Race
Department of Radio-Television-Film
RTF 314: Development of the Motion Picture
Unique # 08160 / Spring 2013
Lectures: Monday, Wednesday and Friday: 1:00 – 2:00 p.m., BMC 2.106
Screenings: Monday, 7:30 – 10:00 p.m., BUR 106
Professor:
Caroline Frick, PhD
Office: CMA 5.112
Office Hours: Wednesdays, 9am to 12pm and by appointment
Email: cfrick@austin.utexas.edu
Teaching Assistants:
Paul Gansky: gansky.paul@gmail.com
Colleen Montgomery: colleen.montgomery@gmail.com
Mike O’Brien: mike.w.obrien@gmail.com
Office Hours: TBA
Discussion Sections: Tuesday (according to the following schedule)
08160 5:00 – 6:00 p.m., BMC 3.206 (O’Brien)
08165 5:00 – 6:00 p.m., BMC 4.206 (Montgomery) …show more content…
We will explore how film has developed from novelty to industry as well as how cinema can be understood and evaluated as a socio-cultural, technological, aesthetic and economic artifact. RTF 314 will examine a number of key film movements, filmmakers and genres – both mainstream and alternative. Although a special emphasis will be placed upon the development of the Hollywood narrative film, discussion will focus upon a number of national cinemas from other parts of the world. This class is geared for the student who has not taken previous work in the history of the motion …show more content…
14 (M): Introduction to course, syllabus, schedule Screening: Bowfinger (1999, USA)
Jan. 16 (W): Origins and Invention of Cinema
Jan. 18 (F): Origins and Invention of Cinema
Readings: Textbook Preface, Ch. 1: pp. 8-22
Week 2
Jan. 21 (M): NO CLASS / NO SCREENING
Jan. 23 (W): Filmmaking becomes BIG BUSINESS
Jan. 25 (F): Filmmaking becomes BIG BUSINESS
Readings: Text, Ch. 1: pp. 23-33; Packet: “The Nickel Madness” Watch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bc7wWOmEGGY Watch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cJlddQ7TKg
Week 3
Jan. 28 (M): Filmmaking becomes BIG BUSINESS Screening: Beyond the Rocks (1922, USA)
Jan. 30 (W): Filmmaking becomes BIG BUSINESS / Hollywood and the 1920s
Feb. 1 (F): Hollywood and the 1920s
Readings: Text Ch. 2: pp. 36-50; Packet: “Discourses of Gender and Ethnicity: The Construction and De(con)struction of Rudolph Valentino as Other”
Week 4
Feb. 4 (M): Silent German Cinema Screening: Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari/The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920, Germany)
Feb. 6 (W): Silent German Cinema/ Griffith and Micheaux – Racist and Race