CINE 360 - Strange Cinema

This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
Comparative Literature
Semester Offered: Second Semester
Full Course
Credits: 4 credits
Attribute: 4HU, WINT

This course explores the effect of “strangeness” in movies, particularly in the period from 1960 to the present. The course focuses on works by such filmmakers as Hitchcock, Renais, Bergman, Antonioni, Cronenberg, Hartley, Erice, Tarkofsky, Weir, Greenaway, Scott McGehee, David Siegel, and the Coen Brothers. We will explore strangeness as both a poetics and an aesthetic but also consider the social and cultural significance of the development of such a cinema.
Enrollment Limit: 25
Instructor: W. P. Day
Prerequisites & Notes
CINE 290 or consent of instructor.