Duration
30h Th, 30h Pr
Number of credits
Lecturer
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
All year long, with partial in January
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
With course meetings distributed over the entire school year, numbering twenty sessions of one hour and a half (not including showings of films), this course covers most of the history of cinema, from its invention by the Lumière brothers up to the 1960s. The course gives equal importance to aesthetic considerations (history of major currents and schools, genres, styles, authors, languages) and to economic ones (history of the film industry in all its parts, from Hollywood studios to small producers and European distributors). Each class meeting will feature a full-length showing of one or more films, related to the historical period being studied at that time.
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
This course has three main objectives:
1 To see: To see films in which students generally have access and learn to look critically. Learn to detect the signs of labor in which each film is the fruit and traces of human history, societies and arts that brings in its wake. To this end, the course is illustrated by a major program of projections.
2 To know: Provide basic knowledge, to have essential landmark to gain an overview of the cinema history from its origins to the end of sixties. The course has an encyclopaedic dimension.
3 To design: Over its already long history, cinema has portrayed several visions of the world (sometimes conflicting) and that we can now analyze the performances and understand the effects. The history of cinema invited to reflect the multiple ways in which the film was over a hundred years (and still today) a powerful instrument meaning production.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
Not available
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
The students have to see 20 films(one per lesson) among the titles in the filmography basis or on notes. For each movie, the students have to do a work : summary, review, and selection of ten keywords. This work, at the end of the course, is the basis for the oral assessment.
Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)
30 hrs, 1st and 2nd semester. Classroom and schedule: Room Gothot on Moonday (Q1) and Tuesday (Q2) 14h to 18h (Projections included). A meeting will be organized in order to obtain more information about the course. Documents related to documents and projections will be distributed at this meeting.
Organisational adjustments related to the current health context
Not available
Recommended or required readings
Required reading
Bernard Mathias, Introduction au XXe siècle, Tome 1 : 1914 à 1945; Tome 2 : de 1945 à 2001, Paris, éd. Belin, 2003-2011.
Lecture(s) conseillée(s):
BARNIER, Martin & JULLIER, Laurent, Une brève histoire du cinéma (1895-2015), Fayard, Pluriel, 2017.
LEUTRAT, Jean-Louis, Le cinéma en perspective : une histoire, Paris, Nathan-Université, coll. "128", 1996.
MITRY, Jean, Histoire du cinéma (jusqu'en 1950), Paris, Ed. Universitaires - J.-P. Delarge, 1967-1980, 5 vol.
PREDAL, René, Histoire du cinéma. Abrégé pédagogique, in CinémAction n°73, 4e trimestre 1994, 200 p.
SADOUL, Georges, Histoire du cinéma mondial, des origines à nos jours, Paris, Flammarion,1949.
SADOUL, Georges, Histoire générale du cinéma (réédité et complété par Bernard EISENSCHITZ; 6 vol.: 1. L'invention du cinéma. 2. Les pionniers du cinéma. 3. Le cinéma devient un art - L'avant-guerre. 4. Le cinéma devient un art - La première guerre mondiale. 5. L'Art muet - L'après-guerre en Europe. 6. L'Art muet - Hollywood - La fin du muet.), Paris, Denoël, 1950-1975.
Assessment methods and criteria
Below you will find information on the evaluation methods planned for in-person and remote exams as well as those planned for hybrid sessions. Depending on how the health crisis evolves, the chosen method will be communicated to you no later than one month before the start of the exam session.
- Personal work
- Oral exam
The mark of the midterm exam in January will count for 10% of the June final mark if > or = 10/20. The mark will have no effect on the final grade if it doesn't reach 10/20 and the final exam will then be cumulative.
Work placement(s)
Organizational remarks
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