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2025 Spring

HISTORY OF POPULAR CINEMA - FMS255 Spring 2025


Course
Anthony Marais
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Lessons

Here is the course outline:

1. Soviet Montage

Feb 4

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

2. German Expressionism

Feb 11

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

3. Pre-Code Hollywood

Feb 18

American Communism, The Hays Code

4. The Studio System

Feb 25

Mavericks of the Studio System, Genre Films, Studio Aesthetics

5. Film Noir

Mar 4

6. Italian Neorealism

Mar 11

Telefoni Bianchi films and life as it is

7. The French New Wave

Mar 18

8. The British New Wave

Apr 1

Kitchen sink realism and the Angry Young Men

9. New Hollywood

Apr 8

American Dystopia

10. Postmodern Cinema

Apr 15

11. Indie Cinema

Apr 22

12. Bollywood

May 8

13. Contemporary Cinema

May 13
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