Film History: Part 2
8-weeks | Registration closed 9/1/2024
This course (the second of 3 or 4 semesters), looks at film history from 1927-1945, from the coming of sound to the end of World War II. We will cover film's development, both technological and artistic; the challenges of sound; Hollywood in the ‘thirties; French Poetic Realism; the avant-garde film; Italian Neo-Realism and Hollywood at war. We will examine works by Hitchcock, Renoir, Rossellini, de Sica, Dali, Bunuel and Ford, among others. Participants will be expected, outside of class, to screen feature films that will be made available on Vassar's website, or access them through various other sources, such as streaming, libraries, etc.
Suggested Readings: be assigned throughout the semester.
Sybil Delgaudio
Sybil DelGaudio is Emerita Professor of Radio, Television and Film at Hofstra University, where she served for six years as Dean of its School of Communication. Her research has been published in books and journals and her production work has combined her interest in animation scholarship with a passion for documentary, resulting in two projects she directed for public television: Animated Women and Independent Spirits. Both works have been shown on PBS stations around the country as well as an Emmy for Animated Women.