Introduction to Film History II

Following up on part I, “Introduction to Film History II” aims to provide a general mapping of main figures, movements, and trends within global filmmaking from the aftermath of WWII to the end of the 20^th Century. As such, classes will oscillate between national and transnational emphases, in an effort to establish how post-WWII cinema relates to such categories as “the artistic”, “the popular”, “the political” and “the commercial”. Amongst the topics discussed within this framework: Modernism in Scandinavian Cinema; the Golden Age of Japanese cinema; from “Cinema of Quality” to the “Nouvelle Vague”;  the British “Kitchen Sink” films; popular and art cinema in the Middle East; the decline of the Hollywood Studio System and the rise of the New Hollywood; the German Das Neue Kino; Third Cinema in Latin America and Africa; filmmaking behind the Iron Curtain; Bollywood; the Age of the Megapix and the growth of American Independent Cinema; filmmaking in and out of Maoism within mainland China, Hong-Kong, and Taiwan.