THE BLACK SWAN SOCIE
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AIPH MEDIA 1
ART INSTITUTE OF PHILADELPHIA
MEDIA AND POPULAR CULTURE CLASS
MONDAY 12:30 - 4:30
Instructor - M. del Costello
Assignment 5 SOUND FILMS Ask the librarian for new arrivals or silent films that may not be on this list Gold diggers of 1935 What a way to go! Stranger on the third floor The Caine mutiny Say amen, somebody Fantasia Monterey pop Barton Fink Breakfast at Tiffany's Woodstock GRAPES OF WRATH John Ford LADY FROM SHANGHAI Orson Welles ROARING TWENTIES Starring James Cagney BRINGING UP BABY Howard Hawks THE SEARCHERS John Ford GONE WITH THE WIND Mervyn Leroy WIZARD OF OZ Mervyn Leroy SUNSET BOULEVARD Billy Wilder KISS OF DEATH Henry Hathaway 1947 NAKED CITY Jules Dassin 1948 MURDER, MY SWEET Edward Dmytryk 1944 DOUBLE INDEMNITY Billy Wilder 1944 ACE IN THE HOLE Billy Wilder 1951 I AM A FUGTIVE FROM A Mervyn Leroy 1932 CHAINGANG OUT OF THE PAST Jacques Tourneur 1947 SHADOW OF A DOUBT Alfred Hitchcock 1943 SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS Alexander Mackendrick 1957 NIGHT OF THE HUNTER Charles Laughton 1955 NIGHTMARE ALLEY Edmund Goulding 1947 BODY AND SOUL Robert Rossen 1947 IN A LONELY PLACE Nicholas Ray 1950 NIGHT AND THE CITY Jules Dassin 1950 ROARING TWENTIES Raoul Walsh 1939 THE NARROW MARGIN Richard Fleischer 1952 THE LETTER William Wyler 1940 THIS GUN FOR HIRE Frank Tuttle 1942 WHERE THE SIDEWALK ENDS Otto Preminger 1950 The wonderful, horrible life of Leni Riefenstahl The night of the hunter A streetcar named Desire To kill a mockingbird The Fountainhead The Great dictator Mr. Smith goes to Washington Performance The magnificent Ambersons Citizen Kane The quiet man A place in the sun Letter from an unknown woman To have and have not Hearts of darkness, a filmmaker's apocalypse Stagecoach The wild bunch Rio Grande All about Eve The bigamist Fort Apache From here to eternity Stormy weather The Emperor Jones Shadows The last temptation of Christ White heat Raw deal 1948 Mr. Smith goes to Washington The night of the hunter FOREIGN FILMS Biruma no tategoto = Burmese harp Westfront 1918 Beauty and the beast Paisan Hiroshima, mon amour Wings of desire Gate of Hell Through a glass darkly The virgin spring fires on the plain The tin drum Run Lola Run I am Cuba Sanjuro Yojimbo Seven Samurai Raise the red lantern Ossessione Mouchette The 400 blows The Seventh seal Dodes 'ka-den Dersu Uzala Battle of Algiers The bicycle thief Passion of Joan of Arc SILENT FILMS THE WIND J'accuse CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI BIRTH OF A NATION THE LAST LAUGH ORPHANS OF THE STORM PANDORA’S BOX FOOLISH WIVES GOLD RUSH THE SHEIK NOSFERATU SUNRISE BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN THE GOLEM CITY LIGHTS DIARY OF A LOST GIRL METROPOLIS PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC SCAR OF SHAME from THE AFRICAN AMERICAN CINEMA part 2 SPARROWS OSCAR MICHEAUX’s WITHIN OUR GATES HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME THE HOLY MOUNTAIN WHITE HELL OF PITZ PALU BUSTER KEATON – THE GENERAL
Due week 9
WRITE a paper - minimum 3 pages - that is a profile of one of the following major media companies
1. Sony
2. Time Warner
3. Viacom
4. General Electric
5. Disney
6. Fox
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Assignment 6
Due week 9
Write a paper - minimum 4 pages - on one of the following films
You can use the following categories as your guide for analyzing the film
1. Camerawork
2. Lighting
3. Design
4. Costumes
5. Acting
6. Story / Script
7. Production values - did it look big budget or low budget etc.
Use your own ideas and opinions to evaluate each category of the film.
The following films are some of my suggestions and are in the AIPh Library
Use www.imdb.com for a guide as to the story etc. in choosing a film.
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MEDIA AND POPULAR CULTURE
ASSIGNMENT 1
DUE WEEK 2
Write on one of the following topics: 2. What is 3. Should there be a mandatory military draft or compulsory national service for two years in length for all American citizens between the ages of 18 and 24? 4. Is Democracy a failure in the ___________________
1. Is
If so speculate on what the final stages of the predominance of American culture will be and
what will replace it.
ASSIGNMENT 2
Due week 3
4 ASPECTS OF 2 GENERATIONS
1. Money, job opportunites, careers, economy of USA
2. Religion, God, spirituality morality, sexual mores
3. Politics, war, peace, activism, patriotism
4. Culture, music, TV, film, celebrity
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ASSIGNMENT 3
Music Review
Review a song on YouTube by each of these artists. Write a paragraph on each song and performance giving your impressions of each artist and performance. Click on the photo below their name to go to the YouTube clip that I've assigned.
1. INK SPOTS - IF I DIDN'T CARE
2. Dennis Morgan - WHEN IRISH EYES ARE SMILING
3. Dixie Hummingbirds - I'VE GOT SO MUCH TO SHOUT ABOUT
4. MILLS BROTHERS - SWING IT, SISTER
5. BOSWELL SISTERS - SLEEP TIME DOWN SOUTH
6. FIVE KEYS - MY SADDEST HOUR audio only
7. TEMPTATIONS - MY GIRL
TEMPTATIONS - I WISH IT WOULD RAIN live
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyaJnbQfcX8
8. LOUIS ARMSTRONG - I COVER THE WATERFRONT 1932
9. OTIS REDDING - TRY A LITTLE TENDERNESS
10. BESSIE SMITH - ST. LOUIS BLUES 1929
11. HELEN FORREST - DEEP PURPLE with ARTIE SHAW ORCH.
12. COUNT BASIE - ONE O'CLOCK JUMP
13. HOWLIN' WOLF - RAP ABOUT THE BLUES & MEET ME IN THE BOTTOM
14. MUDDY WATERS - GOT MY MOJO WORKING
15. T-BONE WALKER - STORMY MONDAY
16. LIGHTNIN' HOPKINS - MOJO HAND
17. JIMMIE RODGERS - WAITING FOR A TRAIN
18. HANK WILLIAMS, SR. - HEY, GOOD LOOKING
19. PATSY CLINE
20. TIMI YURO - HURT audio only
21. MAHALIA JACKSON - SUMMERTIME & MOTHERLESS CHILD
22. LORD BUCKLEY - THE NAZZ excerpt
23. LAST POETS - BLACK IS audio only
24. GRANDMASTER FLASH & THE FURIOUS FIVE - WHITE LINES audio only
25. THEREMIN
26. PATTI SMITH - FREE MONEY
27. FLEETWOOD MAC with PETER GREEN - OH WELL
28. YAZOO - DON'T GO
29. MC 5 - KICK OUT THE JAMS
30. Hawkwind - MOTORHEAD audio only
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FINAL ASSIGNMENT
PARAMETERS
SYLLABUS
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