ARHT2653 - Memory of the World: Key Films

Semester 1, 2013  |  Credit Points: 6

Coordinator: Laleen Jayamanne
Phone: +61 2 9351 4084
Email: laleen.jayamanne@sydney.edu.au

Description

1. A historical study of independent cinema, or New Wave movements in post-World War II Europe, including Italian Neo- Realism, the French New Wave and New German Cinema among others. 2. The study of Gilles Deleuze's thesis about these cinematic movements and concepts. 3. A study of the idea of Epic cinema cross-culturally so as to understand how memory is erased, sustained and created anew by film.

Assessments

1x1500wd film analysis (30%), 1x2500wd essay (70%)

Textbooks

A Resource book, available from the University Copy Centre

Classes

1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week

Prerequisites

ARHT1001 and ARHT1002 OR 18 junior credit points including ARHT1002 or ENGL1011 or ENGL1025 or ENGL1026

Prohibitions

ARHT2053

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