107-073 Introduction to Hollywood & Art Cinema

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107-073 Introduction to Hollywood & 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
HECS Band	1
Coordinator	Dr Angela Ndalianis
Semester	2 (view timetable)
Contact	A 2-hour screening, a 1-hour lecture and a 1-hour tutorial per week
Subject Description	This subject will introduce students to the formal, stylistic and interpretative strategies that relate to narrative cinema forms. The subject will cover three interrelated areas: film narrative, film style and film history. Students should gain an understanding of aspects of narrative form and film style; the silent era; the classical Hollywood model and its dependence on the genre system (e.g. the screwball comedy, the western, the musical); art cinema narration (e.g. Italian neo-realism, the French new wave); narrative form and political cinema (e.g. Eisenstein and political cinema); and B-films.
Assessment	An essay and an annotated bibliography totalling 3000 words and a 1-hour visual test.
Prescribed Texts	A subject reader will be available. D Bordwell & K Thompson, Film Art: An Introduction. 3rd ed, McGraw-Hill, 1990.

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