Spring 2018 - CA 237 E100
Selected Topics in Film and Video Studies (3)
Class Number: 12801
Delivery Method: In Person
Overview
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Course Times + Location:
Jan 3 – Apr 10, 2018: Mon, 5:30–9:20 p.m.
GOLDCORP
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Prerequisites:
3 units in film studies (CA (or FPA) 135, 136, 137, 186, 235, 236, 335, 337, 436) or 30 units.
Description
CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:
This course will cover a specific topic within the field of film and video studies not covered in depth in regularly scheduled courses. The course may be repeated for credit if a different topic is taught. Breadth-Humanities.
COURSE DETAILS:
Starting around 1959 a new generation of iconoclastic filmmakers in Europe and beyond created an astonishing body of modernist cinema, culminating in the political and cultural upheavals of 1968. Auteurs like Bergman, Godard, Truffaut, Resnais, Chytilova, Varda and Bunuel invented new forms and styles that expressed the modernist Zeitgeist of alienation, self-reflexivity, political engagement and radical narrative disjuncture.
Grading
- Weekly journals 60%
- Final exam 30%
- Attendance & participation 10%
NOTES:
Topics
° The historical context of modernism: the influence of 20th c. literature, visual art, and avant garde cinema on dramatic films of the 60’s
° Auteur theory
° Narrative theory
° Marxism, Brechtian drama, political allegory and the essay film
° Psychoanalysis & existentialism
° Style in the work of individual directors
° Long-term effects of the modernist experiments on world cinema
Materials
REQUIRED READING:
° Kovacs, Andras Balint. Screening Modernism: European Art Cinema, 1950-1980. University of Chicago Press, 2007 (on line , SFU Library)
° Custom Courseware
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