3 hours. 2 hours lecture and 2 hours lab per week.
History of Cinema III (1990-Present)
Course Description
The history of international film from 1990 to the present, with
emphasis on cinema’s global narrative, artistic, technological,
and industrial developments, including the implications of
digital production and exhibition in Hollywood and beyond.
Additional Requirements for Graduate Students: Additional readings from academic and archival sources,
increased written assignments incorporating primary research
aimed at an academic level of publication and/or
presentations on historiography, and critical methodology
equivalent to an academic conference.
Athena Title
History of Cinema III
Prerequisite
FILM 2120
Semester Course Offered
Offered fall and spring
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Student Learning Outcomes
Students will understand the events, causes, and consequences of film history from the late 1980s to today so that they can describe the aesthetic, political, cultural, economic, and technological catalysts that distinguished and helped to shape important trends.
Students will refine their skills in critical thinking, writing, and college-level historical research so that they may develop their own credible, original historical discourse about film history during this period.
Students will be able to identify and critically examine the primary texts and contexts of the era's major movements and national cinemas.
Topical Outline
1. New Hollywood and the Rise of the Blockbuster
2. Global Film and Media Culture
3. Eastern European Cinema after the Soviet Bloc
4. Contemporary Asian Film
5. National Cinema in a Global Marketplace
6. Documentary and Experimental Cinema in the Digital Age
7. Middle Eastern and African Cinema
8. Contemporary American Independent Cinema
9. Shifts in Audience and Production: Race and Gender
10. Contemporary African American Cinema
11. Contemporary Latin American Cinema
12. The Digital Revolution: Changes for Production, Distribution, and Exhibition
13. European Cinema Today
14. Hollywood Today: New Stories, Styles, Technologies
