MEDA221

School of Liberal Arts

An introductory investigation of the careers and works of three giants of film history: D.W. Griffith, Orson Welles, and Alfred Hitchcock. Attention will be given to the historical era of each director and how they contributed to the dominant cinematic style of their day, their influences upon contemporaries as well as filmmakers who followed, their personal artistic visions and the implications of their works for psychological, gender, genre and cultural studies.

Pass/Fail (P), Standard (S)