CINE 385 - Special Topic: Alternative Global Cinemas

Semester Offered: Second Semester
Credits (Range): 4 Hours
Attribute: 4 HU, CD, WR

This course investigates documentary and aesthetic concerns in a wide range of alternative global cinemas from the 1960s-1970s. Through the lenses of postcolonial and cosmopolitan theory, this class asks how individuals and communities have sought to tell the truth about – and potentially change – their worlds. Texts may be taken from Third Cinema, Cinema Verite, Brazil’s Cinema Novo, the New American Cinema, the British avant-garde, and the Czech, French and Japanese New Waves. Enrollment Limit: 18.
Instructor: T. Takahashi
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: For complete prerequisites, please refer to the Cinema Studies Program section titled “Advanced Cinema Studies Courses.”