107-075 Art House Cinema & Film Festival Culture

Usually 12.5 points of first year cinema studies, see Prerequisites, or first year European studies, see Prerequisites.

This subject is a study of the development of international art-house cinema and its relationship with film festival cultures. Through an examination of selected film festivals the changing nature of art-house cinema and its contemporary identity is considered in terms of its complex relationship with the international commercial market and Hollywood cinema, auteur, new wave and national movements, modernist/post modernist, avant-garde, radical, political and existential concerns and questions of gender, sexuality and censorship. Art cinema's wider network of relationships with documentary cinema, animation, short film, video art, theatre and the art world will also be explored.