NOTES ON HOLLYWOOD STUDIO 1930-1945

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a second reading journal due

2^nd IFH reading journal due on

Dec 6^th, Wed, 5pm

Week 9*Nov 30th The Hollywood Studio System: 1930-1945

Week 8*Nov 23^th National Holiday, No Class

Week 9*Nov 30th The Hollywood Studio System: 1930-1945

NOTE: we would have discussion on OZ at the end of the lecture.

Required Reading

Schatz, William. 1997. “Hollywood: the Triumph of the Studio System”, in The Oxford History Of World Cinema: The Definitive History Of Cinema Worldwide, edited by Geoffrey Nowell-smith, Oxford University Press, p220-234

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TK&BD. 2010. “The Hollywood Studio System, 1930-1945”, Film History: an Introduction (third edition), McGraw-Hill Education, 195-218

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notes on Early Cinemas in East Asia until the 1930s

Ruan Lingyu

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Reading Journal Assignment

Due dates Nov 1^st/Dec 6^th/Jan 10^th.

Write a 300-word reading journal (typed, double-spaced, 12-point font, and 1” margins all around; refer to CMS format style) focusing on assigned reading for the previous month.

Please submit the Journal to the lecturer’s email address maran@lit.nagoya-u.ac.jp with the subject “IFH reading journal I/II/III”. I’d send out confirmation email once your assignment is received. Late submission is not accepted unless emergency happens.

All assignments are preferably submitted to the teacher in Word Doc (if you haven’t installed Microsoft, PDF is fine). The Word file should contain “IFH”+ the student’s name in its file name.

Format

Include the following information at the top of each assignment:

Your Name Course Title Submission Date Reading Journal Essay # [you should write either 1 or 2 here; not just #!!!]             Title of article (do think of a title)

In a reading journal for this course, you do NOT have to review all the topics covered in the previous weeks. Try to focus on ONE specific topic/argument (for instance, “Georges Melies is a French filmmaker” is NOT an argument; “Melies is perhaps one of the most important filmmakers in the early years” is an argument).

You are expected to review, evaluate and even critique certain discussions/arguments regarding part of the film history we have covered; you could look at film movements (like montage); could turn to filmmakers (their achievements; contributions), or aspects of film culture, and so forth. Besides paraphrasing the authors' ideas/notions/concepts/arguments, you should be able to present your own interpretation and viewpoints.

You should engage with at least 1 reading as listed in our syllabus. Secondary resources are welcome. Put them in the Notes/Bibliography per CMS (I have uploaded a document on how you could work with CMS).

Take-home Project

NOTE: a correction has been made since I forgot to include the part on Asian cinemas.

Deadline: Jan 15^th 2018, 5pm to my email account. No late submission is allowed.

Description:

For this project, you are expected to conduct a mini-research as our film history course progresses. For the following lectures/topics covered throughout our semester, you are supposed to choose one of them and present to me a list of films (minimum 5, maximum 10) that you think are important to this particular theme/period; they do not have to be the extant films (which means that you could include films we have lost/people cannot find the existing copies as well).

Films screened in-class should be excluded; and I hope through some historical research on your own (or simply by browsing closely the reference readings), you could present to us a filmography of some sort.

1. Early Cinema: Origins, Machines and Attractions

2.     National Cinemas: 1913-1919

3.   Soviet Cinema: 1919-1929

4. the Late Silent Era in Hollywood (and Europe)

5. Early Cinemas in East Asia until the 1930s

6. The Hollywood Studio System: 1930-1945

7. Postwar European Cinema: Art Cinema & New Waves

8. The New Hollywood

Format (the list of book/film should be stylized according to CMS)

You have to

 1) list out the films (CMS format); and 2) offer some brief reason why you think it could be included in this historical study list; 3) include a bibliography based on which your list of films has been drafted.

Length: 1-2 A4 pages

(It is more important that you could do independent research and construct the book list than proving how many words you have written)