Puzzle Films

Catalog description

This course explores a group of diverse and increasingly popular films termed “puzzle” or “mind game” films. The first unit of the course focuses on a sample of the debates surrounding post-classical cinema and its stylistic and institutional features. We will then explore these films against the background of the economic and political shift to Post-Fordism and Neoliberalism. Since many of these films explicitly with philosophical issues, we will also examine these. The topics will include skepticism and its relation to a changing and expanding media environment, and the importance of speculation in neoliberal economics and culture.