Film Aesthetics
Tentative Schedule
MACO 1309
 
date
topic and viewing
assignment 
January     19       T 

 
 

What are "aesthetics?"
All Quiet on the Western Front
(1930)  2:16
 
Chapter 1
 

 

                26       T 
 

 

Light
It Happened One Night
(1934)  1:45
 
Chapter 2 
 

 

February   2       T 
 

 

Lighting
Citizen Kane
(1941)  2:00
 
Chapter 3
 
 
 
                 9       T 

 
 

Color
Casablance
(1943)  1:44
 
Chapter 4
 
 
 
               16       T 

 
 

The Functions of Color
A Man and a Woman
(1966)  1:43
 
Chapter 5
 
 
 
               23      T 
 

 

Image Area
Mrs. Miniver
(1942)  2:15
 
Chapters 6 & 7
 
 
 
March       2      T 
 

 

Screen Forces
On the Waterfront
(1954)  1:48
 
Chapter 8
 

 

                 9      T 
 

 

Screen Depth and Volume
Shane
(1953)  1:47
 
Chapters 9 & 10
 

 

               16      T 
 
   Spring  Break
 
               23      T 
 

 

Visualization
West Side Story
(1961)  2:33
 
Chapter 11
 

 

               30      T 

 
 

Time
Mr. Holland's Opus
(1995)  2:23
 
Chapter 12
 

 

April        6      T 
 

 

Motion
The Sting
(1973)  2:09
 
Chapter 13
 

 

               13      T 
 

 

Timing and Motion
Out of Africa
(1985)  2:41
 
Chapter 14
 
 
 
               20       T 
 

 

Editing
Rain Man
(1988)  2:14
 
Chapters 15 & 16
 
 
 
               27       T 
 
Sound
Driving Miss Daisy
(1989)  1:39
 
Chapter 17
 

 

May          4       T 
 
Sound Structures
The Piano
(1993)  2:01                 no report due
 
Chapter 18
 & The final paper
 
 
                 5       T 
 
Dead Day  No classes
 
               14       T 
 
Robing  and Graduation