2016-2017 Academic Catalog 
    
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2016-2017 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

SCRN 225 - National Cinema


Issues in National and Regional Cinemas. Variable topics.

Fall 2016 Topic: European Art Cinema

Selective survey of European Art Cinema in the decades following the Second World War. Focuses on five superlative national cinemas, those of Italy, Sweden, France, Czechoslovakia and Germany. Addresses the work of canonical auteurs including Visconti, Fellini, Bergman, Bresson, Godard, Varda, Vláčil, Fassbinder, and others. Readings present both historical and critical analysis of this era in European cinema and of the particular films shown, as well as theoretical arguments about the concept of the “art film.”

 

Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every other year