Spring 2018 - CA 337 E100

Intermediate Selected Topics in Film and Video Studies (4)

Radical Cinema-Europ Films

Class Number: 12802

Delivery Method: In Person

Overview

  • Course Times + Location:

    Jan 3 – Apr 10, 2018: Mon, 5:30–9:20 p.m.
    GOLDCORP

  • Prerequisites:

    6 credits in film studies (CA (or FPA) 135, 136, 137, 186, 235, 236, 237, 335, 436) or 9 credits in CA (or FPA) courses including CA (or FPA) 136 or 137.

Description

CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:

An intermediate course in critical studies in film addressing a variety of topics. This course can be repeated for credit.

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%
  • Research paper 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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