ORSON WELLES & HIS INHERITORS (FM2080)

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Studies Welles' chaotic film career - his spectacular rise and fall, quest for a total cinema, exile, frustrations and triumphs, both as actor and filmmaker - and his place in American cinema. Films include: Citizen Kane, The agnificent Ambersons, Journey Into Fear, The Lady From Shanghai, Macbeth, The Third Man, Mr. Arkadin, Touch of Evil, and The Trial.

Code: 
FM2080
Name: 
ORSON WELLES & HIS INHERITORS
Discipline: 
FM (Film)
Type: 
Regular
Level: 
Undergraduate
Credits: 
4
Can be taken twice for credit?: 
No
Pre-requisites: 
None
Co-requisites: 
None

Learning Outcomes

  1. Students learn how better to understand film language and the director’s use of past forms and new technologies to define his filmmaking technique.
  2. Students thereby master not only the director’s style and principal themes but also his place with respect to the evolution of film history.
  3. Students will learn specifics on the technical style of an iconic director and his legacy within the studio system and in larger cultural settings.
  4. They become more conversant with how studio-based versus independent production settings affect the liberty to the filmmaker as an individual artist.
  5. They will equally question the cultural and national diversity of filmmakers are affected by his innovations in cinematic style.

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