International Cinema: 1960 to Present

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This course will focus on international filmmaking practice since 1960, with special emphasis on "new waves" and other contemporary film movements within a variety of national cinemas. We will consider films from a stylistic, formal, and theoretical perspective, paying special attention to the emergence of modernist and neo-realist inspired stylistic and narrative modes. We will also examine films in relation to their national, historical, industrial and technological context and relative to the particular thematic and artistic concerns of their makers and the communities in which they lived and worked. This course will introduce students to some of the most exciting and challenging films produced within the past fifty years and encourage them to think critically about film aesthetics and narrative structure, national and historical context, and the process of film production. In-class screenings will include films by: Jean-Luc Godard, Nagisa Oshima, Michelangelo Antonioni, Glauber Rocha, Rainer Warner Fassbinder, Chris Marker, John Woo, and Abbas Kiarostami. This course allocates as History & Criticism for Film & TV majors.