21L.011 The Film Experience
21L.011 The Film Experience (Fall 2013, MIT OCW). Instructor: Prof. David Thorburn. This course concentrates on close analysis and criticism of a wide range of films, from the early silent period, classic Hollywood genres including musicals, thrillers and westerns, and European and Japanese art cinema. It explores the work of Griffith, Chaplin, Keaton, Capra, Hawks, Hitchcock, Altman, Renoir, DeSica, and Kurosawa. Through comparative reading of films from different eras and countries, students develop the skills to turn their in-depth analyses into interpretations and explore theoretical issues related to spectatorship. (from ocw.mit.edu)
| Lecture 08 - The Work of Movies; Capra and Hawks |
Continue discussion of the Hollywood "Studio Era" of 1930s-1940s. Explore cultural implications of film as entertainment and as consensus narrative. Survey careers of Capra and Hawks, and preview their films It Happened One Night and His Girl Friday.
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