21st Century World Cinema
Course #: ENGL 258L
Description:
This course introduces students to the concept of world cinema and explores films made outside of the English speaking and western-European film traditions. Although the course spends some time tracing the historical development of world cinema, it focuses primarily on contemporary films and how world cinema operates in today's global film markets. Students will engage in a comparative analysis of the technological, aesthetic, economic, and geopolitical function of the major film industries beyond Hollywood and of smaller national cinema traditions. Students will explore how the commercial practices of industries like Bollywood, Nollywood, and Japanese anime shape the kinds of films they make and the ways they think about entertainment and ''good cinema.'' Students will also examine how smaller, art cinema traditions in countries like Iran, Denmark, and Romania express ideas about national culture and heritage and how they represent diverse places, peoples, and histories to the rest of the world. Finally, students will study the ideas of transnational cinema and global film cultures, exploring the effects of migration and immigration, the emergence of transnational film cultures and audiences, and the internationalism of global Hollywood.ENGL 258L and CINE 258L are the same course.
Pre Requisites: Pre-requisite: ENGL 101 or ENGL 102