2010-2011 Academic Catalog

Jul 04, 2025

2010-2011 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

SCRN 225 - National Cinema

Issues in National and Regional Cinemas. Variable topics. Fall 2010 Topic: New Europe. With the collapse of Soviet communism and the expansion of the European Union, filmmakers based in Europe have increasingly visualized sociological themes of geographic and linguistic displacement, racial and ethnic marginalization, and hybrid or diasporic cultural identities. Does this tendency further the notion of a post-national Europe, or is this “New European cinema” more symptomatic of a resurgence of nationalism? This course considers a selection of individual films from both Western and East-Central Europe to explore cinematic expressions of a shared subject matter –migration and diasporaand the significance of these subjects for a competitive pan-European film industry. An important source of course concepts are the ongoing contemporary debates about European identity, particularly notions of transnational “citizenship in Europe.”

Instructor: Ms. Butzel

When Offered: Offered periodically

Faculty: Marcia Butzel, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Screen Studies Adjunct Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature Director, Screen Studies Program Michael Siegel , M.A. –