Film History and Aesthetics

Academic year: 2009-2010 Course code module 1MFVI020 Semester: 1st semester Credits: 6 Study load (hours) 168 Theory (hours): 45,00 Practice/Exercises(hours): Other (hours): Part-time program: 1 Instructor(s) Roel Vande Winkel Philippe Meers Language of instruction: Dutch Semester exam information: exam in the 1st semester Contract restriction information: 1. Prerequisites *Algemene competenties No specific prerequisites required. *Sequentiality None 2. Objectives (expected learning outcomes) After following this course module, you should:   -Have knowledge about the evolution of stylistic paradigms and production contexts of film production in Europe and the US. -Have insight into the evolution of stylistic paradigms and production contexts of film production in Europe and the US. -Be able to analyze the most important periods of film history and to dissect its political, social, cultural and economic functions and embeddings. 3. Course content This course module gives an overview of film history between 1895 and 1960. We divide our attention between Europe and the US. After some introductory considerations about film history, we handle (among others) the following periods and movements: pre-cinema and the origins of cinema, Griffith and the silent film, Sovjet cinema, expressionism and Neue Sachlichkeit in Germany, Hollwood in the twenties and thirties and the development of sound and the studio system, French avant-gardes in the twenties and poetic realism, Hollywood between the forties and the sixties, Italian neorealism, French Nouvelle Vague and British New Cinema. Courses are illustrated with film fragments. Film screenings following the course content are organised in MuHKA_media. 4. Teaching method Direct contact: Lectures 5. Assessment method Exam: Written, without oral presentation Open book Open questions 6. Compulsory reading – study material 1. Cook, David (2004) A History of Narrative Film. New York & London: Norton. (Available at Acco).   2. Powerpoint presentations (Blackboard) 7. Recommended reading - study material Nihil. 8. Tutoring After class, by appointment, or via email laatste aanpassing: last update: 25/11/2009 09:29 sonja.vos