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107-075 International Art Cinema | |
Note | Formerly available as 111-246/346. Students who have completed 111-246/346 are not eligible to enrol in this subject. |
Availability | 2nd and 3rd year |
Credit Points | 12.5 |
Coordinator | Assoc Prof Barbara Creed |
Prerequisites | Usually 12.5 points of first year Cinema Studies see Prerequisites |
Semester | 2 (view timetable) |
Contact | A 2-hour screening, a 1-hour lecture, and a 1.5-hour tutorial per week |
Subject Description | A study of major developments in European art cinema such as Surrealism and Expressionism in the 1920s, poetic realism of the 1930s, and the Post World War II cinema of existential crisis, modernist ambiguity and sexual politics. The aesthetic, social and cultural imaginaries which provided the impetus for the development of new forms of subjective and objective realism are examined in relation to developments in film theory, interpretation and criticism. Particular aspects of art cinema to be given close examination include a fascination with the feminine and ambiguity of film narrative characteristic of films of the French New Wave, Italian neo-realism and art cinema, and the New German Cinema. The concept of art cinema in the 1990s is scrutinised in relation to contemporary postmodern, postcolonial and postsocialist forms. |
Assessment | Written work which may comprise classpapers, essays or take-home exams totalling 4000 words. |
Prescribed Texts | A subject reader will be available. |
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