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107-073 Introduction To Cinema A: Classical Hollywood and Art Cinema | |
Note | Formerly available as 111-105. Students who have completed 111-105 are not eligible to enrol in this subject. |
Availability | 1st year |
Credit Points | 12.5 |
Coordinator | Ms Angela Ndalianis |
Semester | 1 (view timetable) |
Contact | A 2-hour screening, a 1.5-hour lecture, and a 1-hour tutorial per week |
Subject Description | This course will introduce students to the formal, stylistic and interpretative strategies that relate to narrative cinema forms. The course will cover three interrelated areas: film narrative, film style, and film history. Students will be expected to understand aspects of narrative form and film style, including the pre-cinematic effect on early cinema; the silent era; the classical Hollywood model and its dependence on the genre system (e.g.. the screwball comedy, the western, the melodrama); art cinema narration (e.g.. Italian neo-realism, the French New Wave); narrative form and political cinema (e.g. Eisenstein and political cinema); b-films and animation. |
Assessment | A classpaper of 1000 words, and an essay of 2000 words, and a visual test equivalent to 1000 words. |
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