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FILMS

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1. Precursors to film and Early film	Auguste Lumière and Louis Lumière; and Georges Méliès, Le Voyage dans la Lune (Trip to the Moon)
2.The plot thickens	The Great Train Robbery, Sunrise A Song of Two Humans
3.Editing and Montage	Stachka (Strike) Apocalypse Now Bowling for Columbine
4.Sets and Costumes	Das Kabinett des Dr. Caligari (The Cabinet of Dr, Caligari)
5.Symbolism	2001: A Space Odyssey
6.Lighting	Apocalypse Now
7.Sound/Music	The Haunting
8.Photography andComposition	Night of the Demon UK (a.k.a. Curse of the Demon (USA))
9.Some complexities	The Innocents
10.Narrative Structure	Memento
11.Acting	Night of the Hunter
12.Putting it All Together	Citizen Kane
13.The "Question" of Genre	High Noon
14.What Happens in Other Cultures?	Rashomon