Outside of the actual production elements you will eventually learn, the following is a short list of the concepts you will become familiar with as you progress towards a degree. And by familiar I mean very intimate. And by very intimate I mean you will get married, have kids and learn to hate each other but refuse to get divorced due to the belief that benath all your frustration, existential torpor and general ill will there lies a deep, meaningful connection.
- The many angles, transitions and storytelling elements used to get to know Charles Foster Kane
- Mimes playing tennis
- Marxism and all its countless and oftimes impractical, sometimes impossible, applications
- The Odessa Steps sequence
- The auteur theory and its immediate deconstruction
- People that are moved emtionally by avant-garde cinema
- David Bordwell
- [insert European demonym] New Wave and/or Neorealism
- pretension
- pedagogish anti-Hollywood slant
- stereotypical (for a film program) hierarchy of cinematic cultural capital
- television only as an accessory to Hollywood
- André Bazin
- a bunch of quiet kids who only want to know how to make a movie
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