ANNOUNCEMENTS
- We've changed class timing to 3:30-6:00, Thursdays.
SYLLABUS
1. Introduction to film narrative
January 9 • SC/GG |
Read: Bordwell, Thompson, J. Smith, Film Art (2017, 11th edition)
Read: Tim Smith, "The Attentional Theory of Cinematic Continuity" (2012)
Film clips:
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2. Discourse coherence
January 16 • SC |
Read: Hobbs, Literature and Cognition, Ch. 5
Read: McCloud, Understanding Comics, Ch. 3 Film clips:
Extra:
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3. Film space
January 23 • GG |
Read: Greenberg, "The Structure of Visual Content" (MS), Section 1-4
Read: Klatsky, "Allocentric and Egocentric Spatial Representation" (1998), Lecture Notes in Computer Science Read: Waller and Nadel, "Frameworks for Understanding Spatial Thought" (2013) from Handbook of Spatial Cognition Extra:
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NO CLASS
January 30
January 30
4. Viewpoint constraints
February 6 |
Read: Cumming, Greenberg, and Kelly, "Conventions of Viewpoint Coherence in Film"
watch: Leff, "Spatial Coherence in Film" (short film) Read: Mercado? / Katz? / Arjon? |
5. Conventions, focal points, and pragmatics
February 13 |
Read: Bordwell, "Convention, construction, and cinematic vision"
Read: Lepore and Stone, Imagination and Convention, Chs. 2.1; 14.1-14.3 |
8. Dynamic update
March 5 |
Read: Lepore and Stone, Imagination and Convention, 14.4
Read: Maier and Bimpikou, "Shifting Perspectives in Pictorial Narratives" |
9. Non-Western visual narrative
March 12 |
Read: Munn, Walbiri Iconography (1973), Ch. 3: "The Sand Story"
Read: Wilkins, "Alternative representations of space: Arrernte narratives in sand" (1997) |
10. Student presentations
[Week of March 16] |
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