CINE 267 Film History 3-1960s-the present
This is the third course in a three-part survey of film history (aesthetic, economic, technological, and cultural). This course focuses on contemporary world cinema beginning with various counter-cinemas of the 1960s, "new cinemas" of the 1970s, the rise of the entertainment economy in the 1980s, and concludes with a focus on present-day digital cinemas within a global and trans-media market. Students will be introduced to the basic visual and aural elements of film language and tasked with using this vocabulary to analyze cinematic texts. The primary goals of the survey are twofold: to help students recognize and identify particular historical approaches to understanding film; to enable students to apply a cinematic vocabulary to identify and analyze cinematic style in and across film texts and within and between film movements. Weekly campus screenings are required, and clips of films are used in class for close analysis and are an integral part of the course.
Prerequisite
Recommended: placement into
WR 115 or higher