HC 421H, Honors College colloquium The Middle Ages and the Movies discussion starters

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Week 2 April 9
  • David D. Day on MPHG
  • Donald Hoffman on MPHG
  • Martha Driver on "Teaching the Middle Ages on Film"
 April 11Understanding Movies, Chapter One
  • Realism and formalism
  • Shots, angles, light and dark, color
  • Lenses and the cinematographer
Week 3

April 16

  • Blind Harry's Wallace, books 1 through 3
  • Blind Harry's Wallace, books 4 through 7

April 18

Film viewing: BRAVEHEART
Week 4

April 23

  • Blind Harry's Wallace, books 8 through 10
  • Blind Harry's Wallace, books 11 and 12

April 25

Understanding Movies, Chapter Two

  • The frame, composition and design, territorial space
  • Proxemic patterns, open and closed forms

 
Week 5

April 30

  • Introduction to The Letters and Other Writings
  • The Calamities of Peter Abelard, pp. 1-46

May 2

Film viewing: STEALING HEAVEN
Week 6

May 7

  • Letters 1 through 4
  • Letters 5 and 6
  • Letter 7

May 9

  • Understanding Movies, Chapter Three, "Movement"

Week 7

May 14

  • Etienne de Bourbon's "exemplum" (on Blackboard)
  • Ed Benson article on Sorceress (on Blackboard)

May 16

Film viewing: SORCERESS
Week 8

May 21

Trial of Joan of Arc (on Blackboard)

  • pp. 23-55 (narrative)
  • pp. 62-128 (the sixteen sessions)
  • pp. 129-153 (her answers)
  • pp. 154-173 (university charges, admonition, sentence, relapse, execution)

May 23

Film viewing: PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC
Week 9 no class -- Memorial Day

May 30

Understanding Movies, Chapter Four, "Editing"

  • Continuity, classical cutting
  • Montage, the formalist tradition, the realist tradition
Week 10

June 4

  • John Aberth, "Movies and the Maid" (on Blackboard)
 June 6 Term paper due

 

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