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Cinema Studies: Silent Silver Screen

X400.1 (2 semester units in Film Studies)

The invention of the motion picture at the turn of the century forever changed the face of art and entertainment. In this course the early history of film is explored in depth, from the three-minute novelties created in the 1890s to the feature-length silent films of the late 1920s and the advent of sound. Study the innovative contributions of early filmmakers such as Griffith, Méliès, Eisenstein, Chaplin, Lang, Murnau, von Stroheim, Dreyer and others, then view landmark films by these cinematic pioneers and observe how various styles, genres, and filmic conventions evolved.

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Sat. June 13, San Francisco

DOMINIC ANGERAME, M.F.A., director of Canyon Cinema, is an independent filmmaker whose more than 35 films have won awards in numerous film festivals and been featured at the Whitney Biennial (2006) . He has been nominated for a Rockefeller Foundation Grant, participated in an exhibition held at the Foundation Cartier in Paris, and had a retrospective at the Havana Film Festival in 2006.

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• $445 (EDP 025056)

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