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Training :: Film Theory

Film Appreciation
8 Tuesday evenings

Taught by Robert Furze of DCU, the course will cover a wide array of topics spanning the fascinating history of film. From Hitchcock to Eisenstein, from cinema's earliest days to the arrival of digital technology via New European cinema and the Horror film - the course is a must for anyone with a genuine desire to deepen their understanding of cinematic grammar.

MODULES:

• Early cinema and the importance of film history
• The birth of an art-form: editing and cinematography
• Stories: how Hollywood tells them
• Alternatives to the mainstream: indie cinema and the avant-garde
• Auteur Theory: a case study of Hitchcock
• Genre Theory: the modern Horror film from Night of the Living Dead to Let the Right One in
• New European cinema: the political and the social
• Into the Future: new technologies and digital cinema

SCREENINGS:
The Birth of a Nation; Modern Times; Battleship Potemkin; Vertigo; Citizen Kane; Duck Soup; Angels with Dirty Faces; Shadows; Nosferatu; Children of Men; The Lord of the Rings: the Two Towers

Cost: €220 waged / €200 unwaged
Desposit: €100
Tutor: Robert Furze
Dates: 21st Sep - 9th Nov