ClassInfo - Spring 2024 Cultural Stdy/Comparative Lit Classes

Spring 2024 | CSCL 5910 Section 001: Topics in Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature -- Silent Cinema for Today (67774)

Instructor(s): Margaret Hennefeld
Class Component:: Discussion
Credits:: 3 Credits
Repeat Credit Limit:: 32 Credits
Grading Basis:: Student Option
Instructor Consent:: No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:: In Person
Class Attributes:: Topics Course
Times and Locations:: Regular Academic Session

01/16/2024 - 04/29/2024

Tue 02:30PM - 05:00PM

UMTC, East Bank

Nicholson Hall 135
Enrollment Status:: Open (7 of 30 seats filled)
Also Offered:: (Tentative) Fall 2024
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Course Catalog Description:: Topics specified in Class Schedule.
Class Notes:: Have you ever seen a silent movie? In films made over a century ago, magicians juggle their own heads while playing the banjo, teenage pranksters electrocute the police, and hashish smokers are visited by tiny nicotine fairies. Over 80% of all silent films are lost forever. Miraculously, thousands of beautiful, weird, incredible silent films do survive, and they are enjoying a popular global resurgence in 2023! There are archival silent film festivals all over the world where viewers flock to see new restorations of 35mm film prints projected with live musical accompaniment. In this class, we will study the history of silent-era filmmaking (1890s-1920s) and its vast afterlife in the present, with a focus on its relevance for media culture and social politics today. We will watch promiscuously across a range of genres and movements. We will explore the art of silent film gesture, the emergence of narrative film language, the work of archival film preservation, the craft of musical accompaniment, and the revival of silent film fan cultures in the twenty-first century.
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