Going to film school is an expensive luxury that not everyone can afford across the world. It's also one of those things that is not necessary at all if you want to succeed in film and television. One of the things I have admired about people online today is that they're grabbing the film school curricula from prestigious schools and placing them online where you or anyone with a library card and some time can study them for free. The latest one I saw posted comes from Yale. Let's dive in. — (@) In case you don't want to zoom in on the text for those tweets, I took the liberty of making them into a more legible thing here. Yale's Film Studies Course Curriculum Early Film Theories Ricciotto Canudo, “The Birth of a Sixth Art,” in Richard Abel, French Film Theory Georg Lukács, “Thoughts on an Aesthetics of Cinema,” (1913), in McCormick, Guenther-Pal, pp. 11-16 Béla Balázs, “Sketches for a Theory of Film,” from Visible Man, Or the Culture of Film, (Berghahn Books, 2010), 17-84. Jean Epstein, “Le cinematographe vu de l’Etna” in Jean Epstein Critical Essays 287-310. Dziga Vertov, “We: variant of a manifesto” (1922) and “Kinoks: a Revolution” (1923) in Kino.Eye: The Writings of Dziga Vertov, University of California Press, 1984 Sergei Eisenstein, “A Dialectical Approach to Film Form”; “Word and Image” 2. Art and Media in the 1930s Rudolph Arnheim, chapters 1-3, in Film as Art Erwin Panofsky, “Style and medium in the Motion Pictures,” [1934]...
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