Our final exam covers a lot. Please study and use the notes you took in class (there was a reason you should have taken notes) to study from. Look back at the blog posts and read or view the clips/articles that were linked. You will be responsible for anything that is posted there--including:
- The Movies Learn to Speak (article)
- The Jazz Singer (1927) & Don Juan (1926), Al Jolson, Vitaphone, etc.
- The Benefits and Problems concerning SOUND IN FILM
- 1930's Golden Age of Film: (blog post and crash course video)
- Hal Roach, Laurel & Hardy, "The Music Box" (1931), The Little Rascals
- Universal Horror films and stars
- Screwball comedies & style
- Frank Capra films, in particular, It's a Wonderful Life (article/blog)
- Genre films of the 1930's/1940's: Gangster, War, Westerns, Musicals, Animation, Adventure
- Famous actors/personalities in 1930's & 1940's films
- The Marx Brothers: Duck Soup (1933)
- Influence of the Great Depression on film, Cary Grant, Katherine Hepburn, Jimmy Stewart
- Bringing Up Baby & His Girl Friday (Screwball comedy)
- Narratology, style of film, narrative techniques, avant-garde films
- Technicolor (Walt Disney article) and color in film
- Walt Disney, Snow White (1937) (article & blog posts)
- The Wizard of Oz & Gone With the Wind (1939, color in film)
- How to write a treatment, 3-act structure; how to write a script
- John Huston, dir.; Humphrey Bogart: The Maltese Falcon
- Film Noir (article "Murder, Greed, & Betrayal: The Dark Streets of Film Noir")
- The characteristics of Film Noir, how German Expressionism influenced Film Noir, etc.
- Orson Welles; "Orson Welles Comes to Town" (article); Citizen Kane (1942) (article/blog)
- Greg Toland's cinematography and innovation in Citizen Kane (article) & this video as well: Citizen Kane: Crash Course Film Criticism #1
- World War II and its effect on the film industry
- Alfred Hitchcock, Rear Window (1954), Rope (1947), Psycho (1960); the MacGuffin (blog & article handouts)
- Rope: How Alfred Hitchcock Changed Editing Forever (video)
- Rear Window: Hitchcock's Manipulation of the Audience (viewer) (video)
- Alfred Hitchcock on 3 Theories of Editing (video)
- The Emergence of Television (article)
- Samuel Goldwyn (MGM), the influence of television on the film industry ("The Emergence of Television" article)
- Elia Kazan, Lee Strasberg & the Actor's Studio in New York; influence on actors like Marlon Brando, James Dean, and Paul Newman, Elizabeth Taylor, etc.
- HUAC and the Communist Witch Hunt, McCarthy Era, Fatty Arbuckle scandal, Ring Lardner, blacklisting (HUAC article)
- Teenage films of the 1950's (blog)
- Drive-in Theaters (blog)
- AIP & Samuel Z. Arkoff (American International Pictures: A Blueprint for Success" article)
- Ed Wood & Roger Corman & "B" films
- William Castle
- 1950's Science Fiction films, The Cold War & its influence on film
- 1960's film trends
- MPPA relaxing its restrictions (Article)
- Jack Valenti, Mike Nichols, "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" (1966) ("Relaxing Restrictions: MPAA Ratings System article)
- Rating system: G, M, R, X and what the letter stands for--later G, PG, R, NC17
- Writing a film treatment
- How to direct, produce, shoot, and how to edit a film; how to write a film script
- Mise-en-scene & deep focus shots, auteur, diegetic & non-diegetic sound, styles of film, mise-en-shot, montage, continuity editing, editing, producing, etc. (various posts)
- Angles, shot types, 180-degree rule, how to direct, produce, and write a film, etc.
- Producers, directors, writers, foley artist, grip, cinematographers, and film occupations
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