REVIEW FOR TEST TWO EMC / JOUR 3000 Introduction to Motion Pictures, Fall 2011 MTSU College of Mass

Com, Dept. of Electronic Media Communications Location: Com 103 M/W 2:20 -3:45 PM
FILM HISTORY THE SILENT ERA Magic Lantern Phantasmagoria Eadweard Muybridge and sequential photographs Zoopraxiscope Louis Le Prince Thomas Edison W.K.L Dickson Kinetoscope / Kinetograph The Black Maria Content of early Edison / Dickson movies Racism in early Edison movies Vitascope William S. Porter Life of an American Fireman The Great Train Robbery The Motion Picture Patents Company (The Trust) Production relocation to California Louis and Auguste Lumiere Content of early Lumiere movies Georges Melies Trick films A Trip to the Moon D.W. Griffith Early short films and advancements The Birth of a Nation advances and controversy Oscar Michaeux and early race films Midnight Ramble Easy Street The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari German expressionism Cops The Battleship Potemkin Soviet Montage Metropolis The Jazz Singer You will be asked to write brief essays on two of the following films Nickelodeon The Mark of Zorro Safety Last Sunrise Singin in the Rain You will also have the option to write on any other silent film you have seen, provided the essay convinces me you have seen the film in its entirety.