COMP 310
Studies in European Cinema Spring 2016
Division I
Cross-listed ENGL 310
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In this course we will explore the foundations of contemporary European cinema by studying a wide range of landmark films from 1920-1975. We will establish a kind of map of cinematic styles and movements, ranging from German expressionism (films by Wiene, Murnau, Lang) and Soviet montage (Eisenstein, Vertov) in silent films of the 1920s, through Italian neorealism (Rossellini, early Fellini) of the early postwar era, to the insurrectionary films of the French New Wave (Truffaut, Godard, Rivette) and the stylistic innovations of the German New Wave (Herzog, Fassbinder) in the 1960s and 1970s. However, there will be time to explore eccentric masterpieces — e.g., Dreyer’s Passion of Joan of Arc, CarnĂ©’s Children of Paradise, Tarkovsky’s Andrei Rublev. Some pivotal and/or exceptionally distinctive directors — e.g., Sergei Eisenstein, Jean Renoir, Federico Fellini, Ingmar Bergman – will be treated at slightly greater length, but you can expect to move fast.
The Class: Format: seminar
Limit: 20
Expected: 18
Class#: 3319
Grading: yes pass/fail option, yes fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation: regular class participation, two 5- to 7-page papers, and a final examination
Prerequisites: a 100-level ENGL course, or a score of 5 on the AP English Literature exam, or a score of 6 or 7 on the Higher Level IB English exam
Enrollment Preferences: English majors
Distributions: Division I
Notes: This course is cross-listed and the prefixes carry the following divisional credit:
COMP 310 Division I ENGL 310 Division I
Attributes: ENGL Literary Histories C

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