107-075 International Art Cinema

Note

Credit Points

HECS Band

Coordinator

Prerequisites

Usually 12.5 points of First Year Cinema Studies, see Prerequisites.

Semester

Subject Description

This subject is 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 WWII cinema of existential crisis, modernist ambiguity and sexual politics. Students should become familiar with the aesthetic, social and cultural forces behind the development of these new forms of subjective and objective realism, and their relation to developments in film theory, interpretation and criticism. Students will examine closely aspects of art cinema such as: the fascination with the feminine; the 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.