ENF 2089 History of Cinema II: WWII to Present
The course opens with film noir, Italian neorealism, the decline of the Hollywood studios, and new documentary and avant-garde approaches. Also considered: Art cinemas from Europe and Japan and movements from the French New Wave to Brazilian Cinema Novo and New German Cinema, plus African and Indian postcolonial cinemas. We examine Hollywood's revival and its increasing commercialism, China's Fifth Generation and beyond, various forms of independent practice and transnational film, and work from Australia, Cuba, the Middle East, Hong Kong, etc. Part 1 is helpful but not a prerequisite. This course meets the requirement for all majors to take one course in non-Western/post-colonial literature or film(Spring)