Aug
22   Introduction  Interviews with Top Actors

27   Chapters 1 & 2: D.W. Griffith
       Read: The Birth of a Nation

29   Chapter 3 (to p. 69): The Silent Era
            Films: "The Silent Comics"
            Silent Comics Outline
           Keaton: Seven Chances & The Bachelor

Sept
  3   Labor Day.  No Classes!

  5  Chapter 4: Silent Film in Europe
            Films: Dr. Caligari; Potemkin; Un Chien Andalou
            European Cinema in 1920s Outline

10  pp. 74-80 & Chapter 5: The Studio System

12  Chapter 6: American Film in the 1930s
      Read: Thirties Films Outline
      Read: The Motion Picture Production Code (I-XII)

17  cont. Chapter 6
       read more about Screwball Comedy and
       Screwball Comedy in its Time 
       Thirties Comedy Outline
       Read about the Marx Brothers'  Night at the Opera:     
        @ http://www.filmsite.org/night.html
       Read about Bringing Up Baby:
        @ http://www.filmsite.org/brin.html
    
19   cont. Chapter 6.  Re-read the material on directors, pp. 141-
               157.

 24  Chapter 8: American Film in the 1940s

 26  cont. Chapter 8
       Read: Citizen Kane
Oct
  1   Chapter 10: American Film in the 1950s
  3   cont. Chapter 10: American Film in the 1950s

  8  cont. Chapter 10, pp. 249-258
     Chapter 11: International Film in the 1950s, pp. 277-284.

 10 Mid-Term Exam

     Fall Break

15 Chapter 13: International Films in the 1960s

17 Chapter 12: American Cinema in the 1960s
     Outline of Sixties Films

22 cont. Chapter 12
24  Chapter 14: American Film in the 1970s
      Outline of 70s Films
      American Gangster & The Godfather

29  cont. Chapter 14

31 cont. Chapter 14

Nov
5   Chapter 16: American Film in the 1980s
     OUTLINE OF 80s FILMS
     TV Political Ads

7 cont. Chapter 16
     OUTLINE OF 80s FILMS

12 cont. Chapter 16

14  Chapters 15 & 17: International Films in the1970s &  
      1980s
       Term Project Due

                         Thanksgiving

26  Chapter 18: American Film in the 1990s:                  
                         Trends in Films of the 1990s

28   cont. Chapter 18:
                    Issues in the Film Industry
    a. Big Business
    b. Video Piracy
    c. Films: Shape or Reflect Violence?
    d. Independent Films
    e. Hollywood after 9/11
    f.  Censorship

Dec.
 3  Chapter 20: Film Today
     AFI 100 Best Films
     Sidney Lumet
     Beowulf

  5  Review  Study Guide for Final Exam