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Class Detail:

WN 2013
Screen Arts and Cultures
SAC 330 - Major Directors
Section 001
Robert Altman and Orson Welles

Credits:

Requirements & Distribution:

Waitlist Capacity:

unlimited

Lab Fee:

35.00

Advisory Prerequisites:

SAC 236.

Repeatability:

May be repeated for a maximum of 9 credit(s). May be elected more than once in the same term.

Cross-Listed Classes:

ENGLISH 330 - Major Directors, Section 001

Primary Instructor:

Solomon,Matthew P

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This course will be concerned with film authorship and the archive. In it, we will examine the work of two major American film directors, Robert Altman and Orson Welles, using the papers of each director deposited in the University of Michigan Special Collections Library. Students will conduct original primary-source archival research in the Altman and Welles Collections while viewing and analyzing selected films by these two directors.

Course Syllabi
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Textbooks/Other Materials (data maintained by department in Wolverine Access)

ISBN: 9780700615513

Robert Altman's McCabe & Mrs. Miller : reframing the American West, Author: Robert T. Self., Publisher: University Press of Kansas 2007

Required

ISBN: 087074299X

The magic world of Orson Welles, Author: James Naremore., Publisher: Southern Methodist University Press 1st Southe 1989

Required

ISBN: 9780520251236

Discovering Orson Welles, Author: Jonathan Rosenbaum., Publisher: University of California Press [Online-Au 2007

Required

Other Textbook Editions OK.