September
08 Introduction: Reading Russian film.
12 Film in pre-revolutionary Russia
15 Evgeny Bauer.
19 Avant-garde film in the 1920s: Pudovkin
22 Eisenstein's Potemkin*** Reading : Wollen (Course packet )
26 Sergei Eisenstein Potemkin
29 Dziga Vertov's Man with Movie-Camera
Response paper due

October
03 Dziga Vertov's Man with Movie-Camera
06 “Life as it should be”: Socialist realism and early Soviet comedies
13 Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible
17 Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible
20 Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible.
31 Mid-term exam

November
03 Movies of the Thaw: *** Reading: Woll (Course packet )
07 Kalatozov's Cranes Are Flying
10 Tarkovsky's Andrei Rublev *** Reading : "Andrei Rublev " (Course packet)
14 Tarkovsky's Andrei Rublev
17 The popular industry – cartoons and comedies
21 Perestroika and the liberation of film. ***Reading: Liberation and Decay (Course packet)
Term paper due
24 Chernukha: Vasily Pichul, Little Vera, 1988
28 Russian film after 1991: Mikhalkov's Burnt by the Sun

December
01 Mikhalkov's Burnt by the Sun.
05 Another man with a movie-camera: Sokurov's Russian Ark
07 Russian film today.