CNMS-301 Avant Garde: Cinema as Theory and Critique

A history of alternatives to commercial movies, focusing on surrealist and dadaist film, visual music, psychodrama, direct cinema, the film society movement, personal cinema, the New American Cinema, structuralism, Queer cinema, feminist cinema, minor cinema, recycled cinema and devotional cinema. While conventional entertainment films use the novel, the short story and the stage drama as their primary instigations, experimental and avant-garde films are analogous to music, poetry, painting, sculpture and collage.

Maximum Enrollment

Standard Course (40)

Credits

1

Cross Listed Courses

ARTH-301, LIT-301

Offered

Fall

Notes

Not open to first-year students.