111-105 Introduction To Cinema A: Classical Hollywood and Art Cinema

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This course is concerned with introducing students to the formal, stylistic and interpretative strategies that relate to narrative cinema forms. The course looks at three interrelated areas: narrative form, style and film theory. Students will be expected to understand aspects of narrative form and film style, including: the classical Hollywood narrative model and its dependence on the genre system (e.g. screwball comedy, science fiction, the western); art cinema narration (e.g. Italian neo-realism, the French New Wave); and narrative form and political cinema (e.g. Eisenstein and Soviet cinema). Students will also be introduced to some of the key film theoretical approaches, including genre criticism, 'auteurism', ideological critique, and feminist film theory.

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• Bordwell D & Thompson K, Film Art: An Introduction, (3rd ed) McGraw-Hill New York 1990.