6 credits| Dr. Ian FONG
This course is designed to explore global cinema by focusing on key genres, directors, and movements that emerged after World War II. It surveys some of the major developments in international film since 1945. It explores a variety of film types from popular genre films to art films, from realist drama to modernist experimentation, produced under a variety of conditions in order to provide students with an understanding of the relationship between film culture and issues of national identity, ethnicity, class, race, gender and sexual orientation. Students are expected to sharpen their critical and analytical abilities through the close analysis of individual films.