History of Film II: World War II - Present

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This course will investigate the main trends in world cinema since World War II. The course will use a number of case studies on national cinemas to explore how new aesthetics, technologies, ideological perspectives, and modes of production and reception have reshaped and enriched storytelling in narrative feature films. Of particular interest will be the ways the new cinemas challenge and alter the paradigm of the classical Hollywood genres as developed and practiced by the American studios in the 1930’s and 1940's.