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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