Elective

CLIT7019 World Cinema

This course explores the meaning of "world cinema" in the context of global cultural economy and global screen cultures. It will discuss selected films from the 20th and 21st centuries with the intention to historicize their contribution, to examine film form and authorship, and to attend to (trans)cultural trends and issues. It will take note of the changing roles of national cinema, art cinema, and festival films in world cinema studies. The course will also review existing scholarship on naming, mapping, categorizing, and theorizing that shape understanding of global screen cultures. The course asks students to engage critical concepts and frames to discuss the practices, poetics, and politics of neo-realism, art cinema, Third cinema, accented cinema, and slow cinema. Student experiential learning exercises include collaboration to design a virtual film festival and brochure as well as peer review of world cinema research projects.