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The following is a list of classes taught at the ACFPL Film Society.


  • Meet & Greet
  • History Of Film: 1890's - 1940's
  • History Of Film: 1950's - Present
  • Filmmaking Job Responsibilities
  • How Films Are Made
  • Film Language & Structure
  • Classic Hollywood Cinema
  • Director Ernst Lubitsch
  • Film Set Jargon
  • Special Effects Basics
  • Film Sequels
  • Neorealist Cinema
  • Hollywood Musicals
  • Director Billy Wilder
  • Anti-War Films
  • Cinema's Influence On Society
  • Screenplay: Format
  • Screenplay: Structure
  • Screenplay: Story Analysis
  • Screenplay: Page-By-Page Analysis
  • Film Restoration
  • Shot-By-Shot Analysis
  • Production Design
  • Actor Spencer Tracy
  • Visual Style: Static
  • Visual Style: Movement
  • Film Noir
  • Actor Gene Kelly
  • DVD Transfers
  • Documentary Films
  • Actor Audie Murphy
  • The Academy Awards
  • Academy Award Omissions
  • Director Sergio Leone
  • Producer Talk w/guest Gary W. Goldstein
  • Movie Buff Game Night w/guest Justin Purvis
  • Silent Films
  • Actress Audrey Hepburn
  • Director William Wellman
  • Shakespeare On Film
  • Director Alfred Hitchcock
  • Violence In Cinema
  • An Afternoon with guest Brian Dennehy
  • Native Americans In Cinema
  • Video Essays with guest Jacob T. Swinney
  • Actor Alan Ladd
  • Concert w/guests Martin Payne & Friends
  • Actor Sean Connery with guest Alec Baldwin
  • Racism in Hollywood Cinema

  • Actor Steve McQueen
  • Romantic Comedies
  • Film Editing
  • Director John Ford
  • Film Theme Songs
  • Actor William Powell
  • Hollywood Blacklist
  • Actor Bruce Lee
  • Costume Design
  • Film Stardom
  • Sports Films
  • Biopics
  • Film Research with guest Edward McGinty
  • Page-To-Screen: Fiction
  • Blockbuster Films
  • Posthumous Performances
  • Film Dialogue
  • Actor Cary Grant
  • Film Criticism
  • Martial Arts Films
  • Film Publicity with guest Gary Springer
  • National Film Registry
  • Plot Twists
  • Actor Jack Lemmon
  • Page-To-Screen: Comics
  • Soviet Cinema
  • Disaster Films
  • Director Sidney Lumet
  • Page-To-Screen: Stage Play
  • Storyboards
  • Page-To-Screen: Print Articles
  • Director Preston Sturges
  • Actor Gary Cooper
  • Movie Spoofs
  • Movie Satires
  • Concert Films
  • Actor Leslie Howard
  • Auteur Theory
  • Actor James Dean
  • Cult Films
  • Director George A. Romero
  • World War I in Cinema
  • Sound Design
  • Actor Frank Sinatra
  • Homosexuality In Cinema
  • Film Monologues & Speeches
  • Director Ingmar Bergman
  • 1940's Films
  • Actor Sidney Poitier

  • Page-To-Screen: Short Story
  • Film Scores
  • Actor William Holden
  • Directors' Cuts
  • Film Iconography
  • Phenomenon Of "Gone With The Wind"
  • French New Wave
  • Tearjerkers
  • Gangster Films
  • James Bond Films
  • First Features
  • Slasher Films
  • Voice-Over Narration
  • Director Charles Chaplin
  • Film Remakes
  • Chase Scenes
  • Theme, Story & Plot
  • Director Stanley Kubrick
  • Actor Gregory Peck
  • Character Entrances
  • Opening Scenes
  • Closing Scenes
  • Film Soundtrack Albums
  • Death Scenes
  • Title Sequences
  • End Credits & After Credits
  • GS Film Festival w/guest Diane Raver
  • Breakthrough Performances
  • Director Howard Hawks
  • Film Franchises
  • Director Frank Capra
  • Courtroom Dramas
  • 1980's Action Films
  • Actor Discussion with guest Brian Dennehy
  • Director George Stevens
  • Actor Robert Walker
  • Non-linear Narrative Films
  • Actor Paul Newman
  • Guilty Pleasure Films
  • Actress Katharine Hepburn
  • Western Films
  • Director Leo McCarey
  • Mise En Scene
  • Film Montage
  • Director John Huston
  • Documentary Talk w/guest Craig Dudnick
  • Actor Henry Fonda
  • Film Trilogies
  • Actress Barbara Stanwyck