HSEM2069H
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HSEM 2069H - Film as Art: Global Practices (3 Cr.) Honors
University Honors Program (10150)
TUED - Undergraduate Education Administration
Course description
“Film as Art” offers a selective overview of the most influential Non-Anglo-American “film authors” in post WWII art film history: Federico Fellini, Luchinothe Visconti, Roberto Rossellini, Michelangelo Antonioni, Vittorio De Sica, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Bernardo Bertolucci, Giuseppe Tornatore (Italy); François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Alain Resnais, Claude Chabrol, Costa-Gavras (France); Ingmar Bergman (Sweden); Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Werner Herzog, Volker Schlöndorff, Wim Wenders (Germany); Andrei Tarkovsky (Russia); Luis Buñuel, Pedro Almodovar (Spain); Krzysztof Kieslowski (Poland); Theodoros Angelopoulos (Greece); Abbas Kiarostami (Iran); Yasujirō Ozu, Shindō Kaneto, Akira Kurosawa (Japan); and Hou Hsiao-hsien (Taiwan).
Throughout the course, we will learn the definitions of “art film” and “film author”, filmmaking as high art practice, major art film movements in the world: Italian New-Realism, French New Wave, New German Cinema, New Taiwanese Cinema, etc. and their influence on the American filmmaking. We will develop a historical appreciation of art film based on cinematic traditions contained within narrative, documentary, and experimental forms, and acquire a critical, technical, and aesthetic vocabulary relating to particular filmmakers. In particular, we will examine and evaluate the importance of genre and the legacy of individual “auteurs” throughout the history of post-war cinema. We will study the individuality of the filmmakers and their contribution to our understandings of politics, society, and human relationship.
Throughout the course, we will learn the definitions of “art film” and “film author”, filmmaking as high art practice, major art film movements in the world: Italian New-Realism, French New Wave, New German Cinema, New Taiwanese Cinema, etc. and their influence on the American filmmaking. We will develop a historical appreciation of art film based on cinematic traditions contained within narrative, documentary, and experimental forms, and acquire a critical, technical, and aesthetic vocabulary relating to particular filmmakers. In particular, we will examine and evaluate the importance of genre and the legacy of individual “auteurs” throughout the history of post-war cinema. We will study the individuality of the filmmakers and their contribution to our understandings of politics, society, and human relationship.
Minimum credits
3
Maximum credits
3
Is this course repeatable?
No
Grading basis
A-F - A-F Grade Basis
Discussion
Requirements
000571
Fulfills the writing intensive requirement?
No
Typically offered term(s)
Periodic Spring