Course details

Name: ENFL - 354

Title: WORLD FILM BEFORE 1945

Section: 01

Semester: Spring - 2014

Credits: 3

Description:
This course will provide an introduction to the development of pre-1945 film styles and industries, with an emphasis on the relationship between film culture and its social and political contexts. The birth of cinema coincided with the rapid development of modern ideas and institutions. In the first part of the course, we will consider the influence of political, spatial, moral and psychological aspects of modernity on masterworks of silent cinema made in France, Japan, the USSR, Germany and Denmark. The interwar period between 1918 and 1939 was marked by the polarization and intensification of political life around the world. In the second part of the course, we will consider the influence of political ideologies associated with socialism, fascism, imperialism, liberalism and nationalism on early sound cinema. Screenings will include Man with a Movie Camera, Pandora's Box, Grand Illusion, Vampyr and Flor Silvestre.

Last updated on 2013-10-14 By Lykidis Alexios (lykidisa)

Schedule: Tuesday From 5:30 pm To 8:30 pm

Graduation requirements:

• Genre Study (Film)
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• International Issues (3a)

Teaching Faculty: Lykidis Alexios (lykidisa)

Is course canceled: No