GLOBAL CINEMA (4 SCU)

Learning Outcomes:

On successful completion of this course, student will be able to: Analyze non-Hollywood cinematic traditions from a variety of historical and social-political circumstances; Explain cinema as a subject of intersections between development of aesthetics, technology and politics; Explain historical formation of film styles and cultures, in both particularly national and global context; Compare and Contrast Hollywood and non-Hollywood tradition; Analyze different modes of interplay among traditions in global cinema.

Topics:

1. Introduction: Geopolitics and Non-Hollywood Cinematic Traditions
2. Postcolonial analysis of Film
3. Third cinema and third world cinema
4. Indian cinema: Bollywood and Beyond
5. Post-1979 Iranian cinema
6. Post-revolution and post-Sovyet Russian Cinema
7. African Cinema
8. China’s 5th Generation and Hong Kong Cinema
9. South Korean Cinema
10. Japanese Cinema
11. Latin America: Cinema Novo and Beyond
12. Middle East cinema
13. Diasporic Cinema