107-132 Introduction to Hollywood & Art Cinema

Formerly available as 107-073. Students who have completed 107-073 are not eligible to enrol in this subject. Formerly available as 111-105. Students who have completed 111-105 are not eligible to enrol in this subject.

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 (eg. the screwball comedy, the western, the musical); art cinema narration (eg. Italian neo-realism, the French new wave); narrative form and political cinema (eg. Eisenstein and political cinema); and B-films.

An essay and an annotated bibliography totalling 3000 words and a 1-hour visual test.

A subject reader will be available.

• D Bordwell & K Thompson, Film Art: An Introduction. 3rd edn, McGraw-Hill, 1990.