Film and Media Studies 252 - A Global History of Silent Film

Global History Silent Film

Spring
2025
01
4.00
Kiki Loveday

TU TH 2:45 PM - 4:00 PM

Smith College
FMS-252-01-202503
Bass 102
kloveday@smith.edu
This course introduces students to the myths, contradictions, and beauty of global "silent" cinema, screening popular and canonical texts alongside more obscure films and fragments. The course begins with a two-second film known as Roundhay Garden Scene (UK/France, Louis Le Prince1888), believed to be the earliest surviving motion picture, and concludes with the formation of The International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) in 1938. This course brings a feminist transnational perspective to global silent and early sound cinema, engaging contemporary historiographic, methodological, and theoretical debates about periodization, cultural memory, and thinking beyond national borders.
(E)
Multiple required components--lab and/or discussion section. To register, submit requests for all components simultaneously.

Must take Lecture, Laboratory

Permission is required for interchange registration during the add/drop period only.
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