CIME 321 - Contemporary World Auteurs

FC ARHU

4 credits
In the last 20 years, the rise of World Cinema, as a category, has gone hand-in-hand with the resurgence of auteurship and realism. In this course we will study the emerging canon of contemporary cinema through the work of its most significant auteurs, including Wong Kar Wai, Jia Zhangke, Lucrecia Martel, Jafar Panahi, Abderrahmane Sissako, and the Dardennes Brothers. How do these filmmakers engage with the local, the national, and the global? What role do film festivals play in cultural exchange? Can we imagine a World Republic of Cinema?