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2024 Spring

HISTORY OF POPULAR CINEMA - FMS255 Spring 2024


Course
Anthony Marais
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Lessons

Here is the course outline:

1. Soviet Montage

Feb 7

Marxist Dialectics, The Five Methods of Montage, Spectrum of Cinematic Trends (1895-2020)

2. German Expressionism

Feb 14

Modernism and the end of Goethe’s Germany, Expressionist Acting

3. Pre-Code Hollywood

Feb 21

American Communism, The Hays Code

4. The Studio System

Feb 28

Mavericks of the Studio System, Genre Films, Studio Aesthetics

5. Film Noir

Mar 6

6. Italian Neorealism

Mar 13

Telefoni Bianchi films and life as it is

7. The French New Wave

Mar 20

8. The British New Wave

Apr 3

Kitchen sink realism and the Angry Young Men

9. New Hollywood

Apr 10

American Dystopia

10. Postmodern Cinema

Apr 17

11. Indie Cinema

Apr 24

12. Bollywood

May 10

13. Contemporary Cinema

May 15
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