Lecture Videos and Notes
Videos of four class sessions -- LEC 1-3 and LEC 20 -- are linked in the following table.
About the Class Notes
**Disclaimer: In the following table, the class notes files for LEC 1 through LEC 20 include detailed outlines captured during the Fall 2006 by a student for publication in OpenCourseWare. These detailed outlines are not Prof. Thorburn's own notes.
All the class notes files begin with Prof. Thorburn's summary outline of the lecture session. No detailed student notes are available for the last two sessions, so these files just contain the summary outlines.
Prof. Thorburn's brief outlines for all 2007 lectures, compiled in single file (PDF)
These videos are also available from VideoLectures.
| WEEKS | LEC # | TOPICS | CLASS NOTES** | VIDEOS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| I. The silent era | ||||
| 1 | 1-2 | Introduction Keaton | (PDF) | Lec 1 Lec 2 |
| 2 | 3-4 | Chaplin | (PDF 1) (PDF 2) | Lec 3 |
| 3 | 5-6 | Film as a global and cultural form: german film | (PDF 1) (PDF 2) | |
| II. Hollywood genres | ||||
| 4 | 7-8 | Hollywood in the 1930s: sound comedy | (PDF 1) (PDF 2) | |
| 5 | 9-10 | Hitchcock | (PDF 1) (PDF 2) | |
| 6 | 11-12 | The musical | (PDF 1) (PDF 2) | |
| 7 | 13-14 | The western | (PDF 1) (PDF 2) | |
| 8 | 15-16 | Film in the 1970s | (PDF 1) (PDF 2) | |
| III. International masters | ||||
| 9 | 17-18 | Renoir and poetic realism | (PDF 1) (PDF 2) | |
| 10 | 19-20 | Italian neorealism | (PDF 1) (PDF 2) | Lec 20 (MP4 - 111.7MB) (RM - 220K) |
| 11 | 21 | Fellini | Summary outline (PDF) | |
| 12 | 22 | Summary perspectives: film as art and artifact | Summary outline (PDF) | |
| Final exam | ||||
