Description
This course is a semester-long survey of films from major producers of films in the world, including France, Japan, Italy, the U.S., Hungary, Poland, England, Sweden, and, among many others, China. This course introduces students to the development of film language after the middle part of the 20th Century, and spends time with Modernism in cinema, and the considerable achievements of filmmakers to develop the subjective experience in cinema. Thus, among the filmmakers we will study are Jean-Luc Godard, Michelangelo Antonioni, Yasujiro Ozu, Akira Kurosawa, Chantal Akerman, Federico Fellini, Roman Polanski, Ingmar Bergman, and Kar-wai Wong. Throughout, we will read critical texts and perform close and careful readings of the films. Students will learn how to see films made from sometimes radically subjective points of view, and how to describe their effects and how they make meanings.
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