GLOBAL ART CINEMA
In the wake of World War Two, European directors began making films that employed location shooting, ambiguity, psychological realism, and unfamiliar stylistic flourishes. Such films drew on literary modernism, experimenting with time shifting, extreme duration, subjectivity, and reflexivity. "Art cinema," as it came to be called, is now the dominant storytelling mode of the contemporary film festival circuit and constitutes a robust alternative to mainstream genre cinema. Explores art cinema from a variety of national and transnational contexts, analyzing its narratives, styles, and cultural contexts. Investigates the work of directors from the first generation of art cinema, including Michelangelo Antonioni, Robert Bresson, Ingmar Bergman, and Agnès Varda, and more recent work by Aki Kaurismäki, Abbas Kiarostami, Wong Kar-wai, and Claire Denis.
Prerequisites & course information
Requisites: COM ARTS 350 or graduate/professional standing Course Designation: Core GenEd - Humanities & Arts Breadth - Humanities Level - Intermediate L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Spring 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify the major directors, films, and cultural contexts that have shaped the history of art cinema Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Analyze distinctive approaches to narrative and style in art Cinema Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Demonstrate understanding of the funding, exhibition, and reception of art cinema Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Evaluate the scholarly literature and assess opportunities to contribute to the field of art-cinema studies Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify the major directors, films, and cultural contexts that have shaped the history of art cinema Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Analyze distinctive approaches to narrative and style in art Cinema Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Demonstrate understanding of the funding, exhibition, and reception of art cinema Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Evaluate the scholarly literature and assess opportunities to contribute to the field of art-cinema studies Audience: Graduate
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027