Course Info: HACU-0280
| Course | HACU-0280 New Wave Cinemas |
| Long Title | Breaking the Frame: New Wave Cinemas from Italian Neorealism to Cinema Novo |
| Term | 2023F |
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| Meeting Info | Franklin Patterson Hall 102 on M,W from 2:30-3:50 |
| Faculty | Eva Rueschmann |
| Capacity | 23 |
| Available | 3 |
| Waitlist | 0 |
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| Additional Info | Students are expected to spend a minimum of 6-8 hours of work outside of class time per week Library Materials:I will order several films on DVD which will be placed on Hampflix (around 10 films). |
| Description | This course examined the European New Waves of the 1960s and 1970s, a pivotal era of artistic innovation and revisionism in narrative filmmaking. Focusing on the cinema of this period as a cultural text and formal experiment, we began by exploring the importance of Italian Neorealism and continued with a close examination of modernism in European cinema focusing on key works from France, Italy, Germany, Great Britain, Sweden, and Czechoslovakia. We concluded with a foray into the Japanese New Wave and Cinema Novo in Brazil. Strong emphasis was placed on the attempts to expand traditional film language, visual representations of social and psychological realities, and the complexities of perception. Films by Jean-Luc Godard, Francois Truffaut, Jean-Pierre Melville, Agnes Varda, Federico Fellini, Bernardo Bertolucci, Ingmar Bergman, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Werner Herzog, Vera Chytilova, Hishima Teshigahara, Ousmae Sembene, and Glauber Rocha. |