MDS 342 - World Cinema (4 Cr.)

(Formerly COM 342) (GCR Humanities and Interdisciplinary Studies area)

This course will explore significant international film traditions, movements, and cultures of the past century. Mapping film’s evolution worldwide through consideration of influential national film movements and key directors, and their historical, political, aesthetic, and cultural contexts, we will contemplate how cinema translates local traditions and circulates transformative ideas. We will explore debates around audiences and authorship, transnational production and cross-cultural appropriation, film and/as sociopolitical resistance, and the roles of film critics and festivals, digital technologies, and globalization. Prerequisite: MDS 105, MDS 232, and MDS 262, by the beginning of the course; or permission of instructor. Fall semester. Martin, Program faculty