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El Paso Community College Syllabus • Spring 2012 Class meeting location: Class Syllabus, click below to download the pdf file EXAM 1: • How to Read a Film - Ch. 1 & 2 (concentrate on the second half of ch 2 more than the first half...based on what we have been discussing in class) • LECTURE!!! (including any handouts) Links relavent to the class for this semester: IMDb: Years (Most popular films released by year) How To Write A Movie Review For Aspiring Movie Critics - MovieFilmReview.com Calendar of topics: 17 Special Note: All information is subject to changes and/or corrections. Students will be given sufficient time to complete assignments if any changes are made.
INTRODUCTION TO FILM - COMM 2366 - CRN 23859
Tues/Thurs 9:00 am - 10:50 am
VV A 2706
Updated April 14, 2012
Tuesday/Thursday schedule
January
Intro to class
19
Lecture PP presentation
24
Charlie Minn talk
26
Contd. ppt lecture to ch. 2
31
Viewed original 1922 "Nosferatu"
February
2
Viewed "8 Murders a Day"
7
Finished "8 Murders" and viewed "Un Chien Andalou"
9
Contd. ppt up to ch. 3
14
contd. ppt and viewed George Melies films "A Trip to the Moon" and "The Haunted Castle"
List of five (5) movies form the year you were born
16
Distributed "Birth of a Nation" review and contd. ppt. up to sound
21
View "Birth of a Nation"
23
View "Birth of a Nation" contd.
28
Began viewing "Nosferatu: Hertzog" and distributed film review guide
"Review/opinion" of 8 Murders (required) and Murder Capital of the World (optional)
March
1
Contd viewing "Nosferatu: Hertzog"
6
Review of revised ppt
8
EXAM 1
possible room change TBD, will announce day of exam
12 - 16
NO CLASS - SPRING BREAK
20
Dracula - Extra features (from Bella Lugosi English version)
22
Began screening Spanish version of Dracula
Film "from the year you were born" that I assigned you following the handouts I gave in class (also linked to above)
27
Finished screening Spaninsh Dracula
29
Bram Stokers Dracula - discussion
April
3
"Cutting Edge" video
5
"Cutting Edge" video contd.
10
Sound ppt. & videos on Foly (linked to from my site and others)
Distributed "grades" and accounting of papers that have been turned into me
12
Contd. videos on foly (Wall-E & Star Wars)
17
19
24
26
May
1
3
7 - 11
FINALS WEEK
Thursday
May 10th
