1. History and Criticism of Film Survey II 1940-Present (AHIS 2810) Tuesdays 6.00pm-10.00pm Prof. Bruce Barber Office Hours: Monday and Thursday 1.30pm-4.30pm. Other times by appointment (494-8149) Academy Building Cineflux Centre Office bbarber@nscad.cabbarber@nscad.ca

2. Justin Timberlake on the set of David Fincher's The Social Network 2010

3. Required Text: Thompson, Kristin and Bordwell, David. Film History: an Introduction Second Edition Boston, McGraw Hill (2003) Available NSCAD U Bookstore. Recommended Texts: Hayward, Susan. Key Concepts in Film Studies London and New York, Routledge. 1996 (Available, http://lib.myilibrary.com/browse/open.asp?id=51803 &loc library reserve). http://lib.myilibrary.com/browse/open.asp?id=51803 &loc Braudy, L & Cohen, M. Film Theory and Criticism: Introductory Readings, 5 th ed., Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1995 (on Library reserve

4. : Requirements for Course, Due Dates and Evaluation: Attendance & Participation (10%) Assignment 1: In class Film Glossary test (20%) Tuesday January 25 th Assignment 2: In class Film Sequence analysis (20%) Tuesday February 15 th Assignment 3: Research Essay (25%) Due: Tuesday March 29 th

5. Recommended website for film information: http://www.imdb.co// The Internet Movie database! http://www.imdb.co// Sideshows each week: Become a film buff? Own computer with a writable DVD drive? Download films from http://www.movielink.com/; www.channel4.com; and film scripts www.imsdb.com/; www.zzippeddskripptzz.com..http://www.movielink.com/www.channel4.comwww.imsdb.com/ www.zzippeddskripptzz.com Begin your own film collection?. n.b..Please Beware of copyright!

6. Week 1: The War Years 1939-1945 Reading: Thompson and Bordwell Film History: An Introduction 2nd Edition. Glossary, pp 732- 737 (n.b. for glossary test January 26 th ) and T&B Chapters 13 & 14, pp 303 - 317 Thompson & Bordwell. Supplementary Reading:Hayward, Key Concepts: Theory pp 380-384Theory http://lib.myilibrary.com/browse/open.asp?id=51803&loc http://lib.myilibrary.com/browse/open.asp?id=51803&loc ; Casablanca screenplay Note library reserve items may not be available in the library until after January 17 thCasablanca screenplay Screening: Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1943).

7. Background. 1939 witnessed the Nazi invasion of Poland and the beginning of the Second World War. This year has also been described as an annus mirabilis for Hollywood. During this year a number of important and popular films were produced including: Frank Capra’s: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington with Jimmie Stewart. John Ford’s Stagecoach, Young Mr. Lincoln, and Drums Along the Ninotchka.

11. Victor Fleming's Technicolor classic The Wizard of Oz (1939) with the young Judy Garland as Dorothy, and MGM Cukor/Selznik, Director Fleming's Gone With the Wind (1939) a four hour Epic based on Margaret Mitchell's novel about the US Civil War with Clark Gable as the hero Rhett Butler and Vivien Leigh as heroine Scarlet O'Hara. This year also witnessed the release of at least another dozen all time favourites among them Howard Hawks Only Angels Have Wings, William Wyler’s Wuthering Heights.

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19. War Time Thematic: “Women bolstering their confidence by wearing huge elaborate hats; ashtrays full of stubs and smoke filled rooms; brief casual encounters; jealousy often figuring as poisoning; terror and consolation as evidence of the supernatural.” Eric Rhode, British Film Historian Add: nostalgia, anxiety, the emphasis of gendered stereotypes, the ‘tough guy’ and the ‘fatal woman.’ (femme fatale) War Time Thematic

20. Out Of the Past (1947) Jane Greer and Robert Mitchum

21. cinema realism and romance

22. Chaplin's The Great Dictator (1940) with its premise - the physical resemblance between Chaplin and Hitler, and a parody of Reifenstahl's Triumph of the Will ; Fritz Lang's Hangmen also Die (1943) and Detlef Sierck (Douglas Sirk) Hitler's Madman (1942)

26. Propaganda Films: Propaganda Films: The Why We Fight documentary series (Frank Capra,1942-43) The Negro Soldier (1944) Stuart Heisler (Why African Americans should fight). U.S. still a segregated society/ US army thus so as well. Memphis Belle (42 mins long 16mm) directed by William Wyler (1902-1981)

30. The Negro Soldier (1944)

31. John Huston (1906-1987) The Maltese Falcon (1941) The Maltese Falcon (1941) The Battle of San Pietro (1945) Doc. Italian operation suppressed and censored for horrific documentation of battle engagement with heavy US losses. Let There be Light (1946) Doc. On hospitalized psychoneurotic (Shell-shocked) soldiers and therapeutic techniques to help them resume useful working lives.

32. Humphrey Jennings (1907-1950) GPO Film Unit John Grierson, Watts et. al. London can take it! ten minute film (1940) for American audiences showing the “indomitable spirit” of Londoners..... Accompanied by a Quentin Reynolds' voiceover. Fires Were Started (1943) This film combines actuality footage with acted material (firefighters) c.w. Night Mail the iconic documentary of some years before. Listen To Britain (1942). Noel Coward (1899-1973) and David Lean (1908- 1991) In Which we Serve

34. Soviet Union: Sergei Eisenstein’s Ivan The Terrible

37. Germany: Campaign in Poland (1939) Baptism of Fire Hans Bertram Fritz Hippler The Eternal Jew (Jew Suss 1940)

42. Italy: Visconti's Ossessioni (1942) based on James M Caine’s Novel The Postman Always Rings Twice Massimo Girotti and Elio Marcuzzo in Luchino Visconti's Ossessione (1942). France: Jacques Prévert and Marcel Carne’s: Les Enfants du Paradis (Children of Paradise) 1945 France 195 mins

43. Massimo Girotti and Elio Marcuzzo in Luchino Visconti's Ossessione (1942)

48. Casablanca (1943) (Michael Curtiz) Ref. to important book on making of Casablanca Howard Koch's Casablanca: Script and Legend 1973- script 1943. Alfred Hitchcock's Lifeboat (1944) based on John Steinbeck story and an allegory of the struggle between democracy/liberalism and totalitarian fascism.

51. Casablanca (1943) Release date November 26, 1942

52. Production Data Directed by Director: Michael Curtiz Producer: Hal B. Wallis for Warner Brothers Writers: Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein & Howard Koch Cinematography Cinematography: Arthur Edeson Editing: Owen Marks

53. Cast Humphrey Bogart - Rick Blaine Ingrid Bergman - Ilsa Lund Paul Henreid - Victor Laszlo Claude Rain - Captain Louis Renault Conrad Veidt - Major Strasser Sydney Greenstreet - Signor Ferrari Peter Lorre - Ugarte S.Z. Sakall – Carl, the waiter Dooley Wilson - Sam

54. Book: Howard Koch's Casablanca: Script and legend (1973)-his script, 1943 Origin: A play written by Murray Burnett, a NYC high school teacher. A classic story of an embittered loner who regains his lost love and with it his ideals. Casablanca has been read allegorically as an estranged America’s reluctance to enter the war being overcome by a recognition of the bonds which inevitably tie Europe to the United States.

55. Julius and Phillip Epstein

56. Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart) talks to his former sweetheart Ilsa Lund- Laszlo (Ingrid Bergman) with Capt. Louis Renault (Claude Rains) and Victor Lazlo (Paul Henreid) between them.

57. music The score was written by Max Steiner, who was best known for the musical score for Gone with the Wind. The iconic song “As Time Goes By” by Herman Hupfeld. “La Marseillaise" is played by a full orchestra, rather than just the small band actually present in Rick's club, competing against a small group of Germans singing "Die Wacht am Rhein" ("The Watch on the Rhine")

59. Humphrey Bogart

60. Ingrid Bergman

62. Conrad Veidt

66. Awards At the 1944 Academy Awards Casablanca won three awards: Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Director, and Best Picture. Wallis was resentful when Jack Warner, rather than he, collected the best picture award. The slight led to Wallis severing his ties with the Warner Brothers studio in April that year.

67. Next Week Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane (1941) Wexman, Orson Welles: Boy Genius and Films of the Period pp143-147; Hayward Key Concepts: Realism pp 298-300