
Early Film History
Five Mondays, March 17 to April 14, from 10am to 1pm
From Edison and the Lumière Brothers to the dark shadows of Film Noir…
Discover how early filmmakers developed the language and syntax of film and eventually learned how to tell compelling stories. Each subsequent era produced a wide and varied generation of films.
Develop a critical understanding of historically and aesthetically significant styles, narrative approaches, and technological developments, as well as the influences of late 19th and early 20th-century art movements like French Impressionism, German Expressionism, and Surrealism. Screenings will include works by Lois Weber, Charlie Chaplin, F.W. Murnau, Alfred Hitchcock, John Ford, and Ida Lupino.
About Barry Marshall
Barry Marshall has been at Emerson College for over two decades, where he teaches film history. He wrote about film for several newspapers in the '70s and early '80s, including the alternative weekly, The Real Paper. He has been curating and presenting film series for the Boston Public Library for the past ten years.