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Availability: Not offered in 1996.
Credit points: 16.7 2nd and 3rd years
Coordinator: To be advised.
Prerequisite: 111-105.
Contact: No more than four hours of lectures, tutorials, seminars and film screenings a week.
Objectives:
Students completing this subject should be able to:
- explain the aesthetic, social and critical imaginaries which gave rise to new forms of subjective and objective realism in Italian, French, German and other European films in the silent era and after WWII;
- recognise developments in film interpretation provoked by the ambiguity, existential crisis and fascination with the feminine evident in the films of the French New Wave, Italian neo-realism, New German Cinema and women directors like Dulac, Duras, Akerman, Sanders & Bruckner.
Content:
A study of peak moments in European art cinema from the new subjective modes of Surrealism & Expressionism in the 1920s, to the poetic realism of the 1930s and the post WWII cinema of existential crisis, modernist ambiguity and sexual fascination. The reinvention of film criticism in the Bazinian embrace of cinema as an art form.
Assessment:
Written work which may comprise class papers, essays or take-home examinations totalling 5,000 words.
Prescribed texts:
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Handbook 1996 : Faculty of Arts (Volume 3 page 30)
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