JCM112 Motion Picture History and Criticism

Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck in the film noir, Double Indemnity.

JCM 112 Motion Picture History and Criticism is a film-survey course taught by Jeremy Butler.

Lecture notes

Alphabetical order.

• Auteur Theory
• Bazinian Realism
• The Breakdown of Hollywood Classicism
• Classical Hollywood Cinema
• Documentary Form
• Feminism and Film
• French New Wave
• Early Cinema
• The Evolution of Narrative Film
• German Silent Film
• Italian Neorealism
• New German Cinema
• Russian Formalism
• Silent Film Comedy

List of lecture notes

Category:TCF112 Lecture

Texts & resources

Textbook

• Gerald Mast, A Short History of the Movies, Abridged Version.