MDST 2200 Introduction to Film - MWF 9:00-9:50am

MDST 2810 Cinema as an Art Form - TR 6:00-7:15pm

Matt Marshall is a writer, film lecturer and composer. He teaches courses on film criticism and history at the University of Virginia and Hollins University. Marshall has been composing and performing live music accompaniment to classic silent films for over 17 years with the Virginia Film Festival and other venues throughout Virginia.  In 2004 he started the Reel Music Ensemble, a chamber group of rotating members, including UVA students, who play live accompaniment to silent films at theaters, galleries, and festivals. Films he has scored include Nosferatu, the Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Phantom of the Opera, The General, Sherlock Jr., Safety Last, The Thief of Bagdad, and pioneer African American director Oscar Micheaux’s Body and Soul. He has recorded soundtracks for the British Edition of Charlie Chaplin's The Kid as well as George Melies' Conquest of the Pole. Marshall has given presentations on film form and genre at the University of London, Trinity College in Dublin, and the University of Bucharest, and his research interests include Mythic Structure in film narratives; film syntax and semantics relating to linguistics, cinematography and editing; and subjective reality in film.