History of Global Cinemas

Catalog description

A historical and worldwide survey of major film movements from the silent era to the present-day, including Asian, European, African, American, Middle Eastern, Australasian and transnational cinemas. Focus will be placed on the aesthetics, politics and sociocultural contexts of global cinemas, with a focus on films that explore shifting ideologies and cultural identities in times of social tumult. Students will investigate how film movements worldwide respond to issues of geopolitics, globalization, colonization, nation-building, modernization, underdevelopment, migration and social marginalization.