Course details

Name: ENFL - 255

Title: WORLD FILM

Section: 01

Semester: Fall - 2011

Credits: 3

Description:
The course will feature a variety of provocative, international texts that take filmmaking and film viewing as their subject. These reflexive, self-referential works--silent and sound, narrative and documentary, mainstream and independent—raise important issues about the material of film, the relationship between film and reality, and the impact of film on our lives. Titles will be selected from the following: ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER (Pedro Almodovar), BLEU SHUT (Robert Nelson), CLOSE-UP (Abbas Kiarastami), CONTEMPT (Jean-Luc Godard), DAY FOR NIGHT (Francois Truffaut), DAVID HOLZMAN’S DIARY (James McBride), 8 ½ (Federico Fellini), HEARTS OF DARKNESS (Fax Bahr and George Hickenlooper), LOST IN OBLIVION (Tom DeCillo), THE MAN WHO LEFT HIS WILL ON FILM (Nagisa Oshima), PEEPING TOM (Michael Powell), SHERLOCK JR (Buster Keaton), and others.

Requirements: film screenings, active class participation, weekly posts to the course web site, readings, films on DVD screened outside of class, take-home, mid-term exam, and film journal.

Schedule: Tuesday From 2:30 pm To 5:30 pm

Graduation requirements:

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• Genre Study (Film)
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• International Issues (3a)
• Women and Gender Studies (3c)

Teaching Faculty: Cutler Janet (cutlerj)

Is course canceled: No