FILM 381
Spring 2025
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Martin Scorsese is a student of the cinema who, for over 60 years, has openly processed his fascination with the medium into strikingly original work. His fiction features--such as Raging Bull and Goodfellas--and documentaries--such as Italianamerican and Rolling Thunder Revue--exhibit the same love for cinema that motivates his parallel efforts as film historian and preservationist. His directorial style has continued to evolve across his career, finding new approaches to form and content that engage and provoke audiences.
In this course, students are asked to:
- Define Scorsese's film style and its evolution over time.
- Make comparisons between Scorsese's work and films from which he drew inspiration and reference.
- Navigate the confrontational "push-and-pull" around difficult protagonists in social worlds defined by sexism, racism, and violence.
- Develop tools of film analysis and an understanding of cinema that they can, in turn, carry into their own academic and creative work. |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA FILM |
| Course Format: Lecture / Discussion | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: FILM304 AND FILM307 |
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Fulfills a Major Requirement for: (FILM-MN)(FILM) |
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Past Enrollment Probability: Not Available |
| SECTION 01 |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
This is a film analysis class with an emphasis on cinema as primary texts. Optional, supplementary readings include CONVERSATIONS WITH SCORSESE (Schickel) and SCORSESE ON SCORSESE (Thompson, Christie).
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Examinations and Assignments:
Two papers and one oral presentation |
Additional Requirements and/or Comments:
Attendance at all class meetings is required. |
| Instructor(s): Longenecker,Marc Robert Times: .M.W... 01:20PM-04:40PM; Location: TBA |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 16 | | SR major: 8 | JR major: 8 | | |
| Seats Available: 16 | GRAD: X | SR non-major: 0 | JR non-major: 0 | SO: X | FR: X |
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