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2025 Spring

HISTORY OF POPULAR CINEMA - FMS255 Spring 2025


Course
Anthony Marais
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Lessons

Here is the course outline:

1. Soviet Montage

Feb 12

Marxist Dialectics, The Five Methods of Montage, Spectrum of Cinematic Trends (1895-2020)

2. German Expressionism

Feb 19

Modernism and the end of Goethe’s Germany, Expressionist Acting

3. Pre-Code Hollywood

Feb 26

American Communism, The Hays Code

4. The Studio System

Mar 5

Mavericks of the Studio System, Genre Films, Studio Aesthetics

5. Film Noir

Mar 12

6. Italian Neorealism

Mar 19

Telefoni Bianchi films and life as it is

7. The French New Wave

Apr 2

8. The British New Wave

Apr 9

Kitchen sink realism and the Angry Young Men

9. New Hollywood

Apr 16

American Dystopia

10. Postmodern Cinema

Apr 23

11. Indie Cinema

Apr 30

12. Bollywood

May 7

13. Contemporary Cinema

May 14
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