2020-2021 Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog 
    
    Mar 29, 2024  
2020-2021 Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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FA 262 Film History


3 credits

This class will introduce you to some key movements and moments in the history of world film, from its origins at the end of the nineteenth century through to the present era. It will consider the earliest years of cinema; Russian montage and German Expressionism; the development of the classical Hollywood system and specific genres; the relationship of propaganda media to the Second World War; postwar art cinema; Italian neo-realism; the decline of the studio system and the French New Wave, and finally, the contemporary arthouse film. It will include comparative selections from other influential movements in international filmmaking including French actualites, German expressionism, Soviet montage, the international avant-garde, and Japanese, Italian and New Zealand cinema.



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