The Film Experience

Lecture Videos & Notes

This page compiles lecture content from several versions of the class:

• Lecture outlines by Prof. Thorburn, from 2013.
• Detailed notes taken by a student, from 2006.
• A complete sequence of lecture videos, assembled from the 2007 and 2013 classes.

Please note there will be some inconsistencies among the materials from the different years, reflecting continued refinement in the course. For instance, the 2006 student notes end with the lecture on DeSica’s Bicycle Thieves, and do not cover these aspects of the 2013 class as reflected in the videos and lecture outlines:

• Howard Hawks was added to the 2^nd “Hollywood in the 1930s” session (lecture 8).
• Rear Window was added to the 2^nd Hitchcock session (lecture 10).
• Truffaut’s The 400 Blows and Kurosawa’s Rashomon are discussed in lectures 21 and 22.

Lecture Outlines (2013)

Prof. Thorburn’s Fall 2013 lecture outlines (PDF)

Lecture Notes by a Student (2006)

Compiled lecture notes taken by a student in 2006 (PDF - 1.1MB)

Lecture Videos

Lecture 1: Introduction (2007)

Lecture 2: Keaton (2007)

Lecture 3: Chaplin, Part I (2007)

Lecture 4: Chaplin, Part II (2007)

Lecture 5: Film as Global & Cultural Form; Montage, Mise en Scène

Lecture 6: German Film, Murnau

Lecture 7: The Studio Era

Lecture 8: The Work of Movies; Capra & Hawks

Lecture 9: Alfred Hitchcock

Lecture 10: Shadow of a Doubt, Rear Window

Lecture 11: The Musical

Lecture 12: The Musical (continued)

Lecture 13: The Western

Lecture 14: The Western (continued)

Lecture 15: American Film in the 1970s, Part I (2007)

Lecture 16: American Film in the 1970s, Part II (2007)

Lecture 17: Jean Renoir and Poetic Realism

Lecture 18: Renoir's Grand Illusion (1937)

Lecture 19: Italian Neorealism, Part I (2007)

Lecture 20: Italian Neorealism, Part II (2007)

Lecture 21: Truffaut, the Nouvelle Vague, The 400 Blows

Lecture 22: Kurosawa and Rashomon

Lecture 23: Summary Perspectives - Film as Art and Artifact