Classic European Cinema Course English 439/839

THREE WEEKS --- THREE CREDITS

PRE-SESSION SUMMER 2012

English 439/839 - "MODERN AND CLASSIC EUROPEAN CINEMA”
Time Days Sec Faculty Call#
0930-1220p MTWRF 301 Dixon 2777/2786

Screening / lectures meet May 14 - June 1 in RVB 123 at the Ross Theatre.

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Please check out the attached poster for English 439/839; three weeks, three credits, and a superb sampling of recent and classic European cinema, including:

The Films of Alice Guy, the first filmmaker in cinema history;

Battleship Potemkin, one of the most brilliant examples of film editing in cinema history;

the German Expressionist horror film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari;

Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali’s An Andalusian Dog, a landmark of early avant-garde cinema;

Dali and Buñuel's L'Âge d'Or, a stylized and shocking Surrealist film which was banned for more than 50 years;

Jean Renoir’s classic crime drama Le Crime de Monsieur Lange;

Open City, the first Neorealist film, shot in wartime Italy under the noses of the Nazis;

Persona, Ingmar Bergman’s bizarre tale of two women locked in mortal psychological combat;

François Truffaut’s tale of troubled adolescence, The 400 Blows;

A Matter of Life and Death, a film so dazzling in its visuals that it requires more than one viewing to absorb fully;

The Merchant of Four Seasons by Rainer Werner Fassbinder;

Diva, an impressionistic look at the life of an opera star in 1980s France;

Cinema Paradiso, one of the greatest love letters to the cinema ever filmed, and winner of innumerable awards;

Pedro Almodóvar’s comedy Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, a stylish, sophisticated farce;

Emir Kustirica’s wartime absurdist epic Underground, an unpredictable black comedy;

and Thomas Vinterberg’s Celebration, shot entirely on digital video, a domestic comedy drama using shock-cut visuals to tell the film’s story

and much more!

These are some of the greatest films ever made; here’s your chance to immerse yourself in a crash course in European cinema history.