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2024 Fall

HISTORY OF CINEMA - THE AUTEURS - FMS256 Fall 2024


Course
Anthony Marais
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Lessons

Here is the course outline:

1. Introduction

Sep 4

What is auteur theory? The ethics of Art.

2. Charlie Chaplin

Sep 11

Course introduction

3. Alfred Hitchcock

Sep 18

Difficult directors of classical Hollywood

4. Akira Kurosawa

Sep 25

samurais and businessmen

5. Orson Welles

Oct 2

The genius behind "showmanship before genius"

6. Federico Fellini

Oct 9

From neorealism to surrealism

7. Agnes Varda

Oct 16

Beyond the French New Wave

8. Stanley Kubrick

Oct 23

"I don't know what I want, but I know what I don't want."

9. Andrei Tarkovsky

Nov 6

Search for the Sublime in Soviet Cinema

10. Milos Forman

Nov 13

From the Czech New Wave to the American Mainstream

11. Woody Allen

Nov 20

"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television."

12. David Lynch

Nov 27

"It's a strange world, isn't it?"

13. Pedro Almodovar

Dec 4

The art of campiness

14. Final Discussion

Dec 11

Discuss the auteur you chose

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