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CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:

Intermediate seminar on the intersections between World Literature and other modes of cultural expression, or other academic disciplines. May focus on different methodological approaches to World Literature, for instance gender, cultural, or performance studies. Alternatively, may explore literature in relation to music, theatre, film, the visual arts, or digital humanities. This course may be repeated for credit when different topics are offered. Breadth-Humanities.

COURSE DETAILS:

To Capture a World: Global Cinema & The Modern Aesthetics of Sense

This World Cinema course investigates films and film-making practices in global settings far from the commercial needs of Hollywood.  Alongside cultural and aesthetic modes of production including German Expressionism, Italian Neorealism, The French, Japanese, and Hong Kong New Wave styles, our classes investigate the ways in which the art of film teaches itself to communicate both explicit social critique and the quieter moods of individual embodied consciousness.  More specifically, watching how art films, music videos, and, on occasion, song lyrics and still photography continue to affect us, students learn to degree to which the cinema was always already as much about the world as it was the self – and therefore aims itself at moments of beauty and transcendence as much as the challenges of “the real.”

COURSE-LEVEL EDUCATIONAL GOALS:

• Historical and cultural awareness of 20^th Century cinematic cultures.
• Appreciation of film aesthetics as a global phenomenon.
• Ability to undertake cross-cultural comparisons through art and performance.
• Comprehensive grasp of the terms of film appreciation and critique.

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