CINE 311 - Silent Cinema: Technology, Industry, Modernity

FC ARHU

4 credits
The thirty years between the cinemas invention in the 1890s and the institution of synchronized sound in the late 1920s constitute a dynamic and contested era of film history. This course will seek to understand the silent cinema from a variety of perspectives, including the cinema as a representative technology of modernity, the formation of the cinema as industry and cultural institution, and the relationship between the cinema and other media.
Prerequisites & Notes: CINE 290 or consent of instructor.