1. Citizen Kane: Highly and almost universally regarded as the most important and most critically acclaimed American film of all time, we will bookend our course with Orson Welles' opus. In other words, it will be the first and last film we watch. The first time we watch it, beginning later this week, we will say and do nothing. We will not preface it. We will not provide historical context. We will simply show it. Why? Because I am interested to see how much (or how little) you recognize it as great cinema now...and well, I bet you could figure out my motives.
2. How to Take Notes in Film. This is an art-form quite unlike anything its literary or acadmeic counterparts. Here is some advice from Bryn Mawr College that I find useful. Reading this and being prepared to discuss it some time this week is your first homework assignment, besides printing your syllabus and the survey.
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