Lesson 1: Classical Hollywood Cinema

• The Eye & the I of Cinema
• Classical Hollywood Cinema
• Film Narrative
• Film Style
• Terms for Film & Television Analysis

Lesson 2: Early Cinema: From Muybridge to The Great Train Robbery

• Photography into Moving Image: Muybridge and Early Image Toys
• The Beginnings of Cinema: Reality, Artifice, & Spectacle: Edison, Lumière, Méliès
• Edison: Entertainment
• Lumiere Brothers and The Cinematographe: Actualites
• Melies: The "Magic" of Illusion
• Narrative and Style Together: The Great Train Robbery

Lesson 3: Silent Film

• The Language of Film Develops
• Narrative and Conventions: Genre
• It and The Crowd
• Music in the Silent Era

Lesson 4: Coming of Sound in Film in the 1930-40s

• Narrative and Acting in Sound Film
• Genre Iconography
• Life Cycle of a Genre, Including Television
• The Studio System

Lesson 5: Film Sound

• Diegetic and Non-Diegetic Sound
• The Sound Mix
• The Elements of a Score
• Sound and Image Make Meaning

Lesson 6: Network Television

• Origins of Television Culture: I Love Lucy
• Television Genres
• Economics of Production
• Television in Everyday Life

Lesson 7: Documentary, Experimental, and Animated Film and Television

• Beyond Classical Hollywood Cinema
• Documentary
• Experimental/Avant-Garde
• Animation
• Influences on Mainstream Film and Television

Lesson 8: Mise-en-Scene: What Is in the Shot

• Setting
• Costume and Make-Up
• Lighting
• Performance and Movement (Acting, Blocking, Staging)

Lesson 9: Cinematography: Photographic Qualities of the Shot

• The Look of an Image
• Framing
• Scale/Proximity
• Camera Movement
• How the Camera "Speaks" the Language of Film

Lesson 10: Editing

• Continuity Editing: Invisible Style
• The Development of Editing
• Montage—Editing as Art
• Editing in Television

Lesson 11: Television in the Cable and Internet Eras

• Television Genres
• Spectatorship in the Cable and Internet Era
• What Stays the Same: The Sitcom Today

Lesson 12: The Digital Era

• The Digital Revolution
• From CGI to Whole Sets, Worlds, Digital Performers
• Transmedia
• Digital Television: Aesthetics and Narratives

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