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 |