Modern scholar

"14 lectures, 7 compact discs"--Container

The origins of cinema and the grammar of film -- Film imagery and the theory of montage -- Storytelling in the 1930s and Stagecoach -- Citizen Kane: an American masterpiece -- World War II and the cinema of community: Casablanca; Now, Voyager; and It's a Wonderful Life -- Noir and neorealism: Bicycle Thieves and On the Waterfront -- Love and the mirror of death: Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo -- Widescreen: The world writ large and intimate: The Apartment -- The new wave in France: The 400 Blows and Week-end -- The American new wave I: Politics and family: The Godfather -- The American New Wave II: The social canvas: Nashville -- The rule of the blockbuster: Star Wars and Raiders of the Lost Ark -- Gender, race and the varieties of cinematic experience: Vagabond, Do the Right Thing, and Lone Star -- The contemporary maverick: Goodfellas, Million Dollar Baby, Persepolis

This course covers the history and aesthetics of the movies. It traces the experiments and innovations that gave rise to the modern cinema, developing a vocabulary that helps explain the variety of choices filmmakers make when they construct shots and edit them together

Accompanying course guide includes bibliographical references

Compact disc

Unabridged

Professor Raphael Shargel