FS 300

This course introduces students to significant themes, tendencies, and techniques in selected films from the 1960s to the 1990s, in relation to their cultural, social, political, and theoretical contexts. Film movements studied may include New German Cinema, Chinese Fifth Generation Cinema, and New Black Cinema, among others. Theories covered may include semiotics and structuralism, Marxist theory, ideology and apparatus theory, psychoanalytic theory, feminist theory, poststructuralism, auteurism, and post-classical cinema. <br>