FILM 349: National Cinemas is being offered this summer during the three-week presession in hybrid format. The course will focus on the year 1968 and the impact of various world events international cinema. The year “1968” is globally used as shorthand to signify events of resistance, revolt, and revolution—political events that have inspired the imagination of filmmakers around the world. This course affords students the opportunity to study what “1968” was about—to examine what happened, why, and with what consequences. We will do so by looking at how a range of national cinemas responded to the events of 1968 and their aftermath—responded as both “witnesses” to the events (films that were made more or less right at the time when they transpired) and “historiographers” (films that look back at the events with ever increasing historical distance). In so doing, this course gives students the chance not only to learn something about (film) history but also to think about what kind of images we might need TODAY in order to act upon our crisis-ridden era by countering it for the benefit of a time to come.
For those wanting to take course in person, FILM 349 will meet Monday thru Friday, 9:30-12:20, in Ross Van Brunt 123. Students taking the course in person will view films each day in one of the theaters in the Ross. For those wanting to take the course via Zoom, students will sign on Monday thru Thursday, 9:30-10:30 and then 9:30-12:20 on Friday. Students taking the course via webconferencing will view films at home via Canvas.
FILM 349 fulfills ACE 7, and fits into both the Film Studies major and minor. Any questions about the course should be directed to Dr. Kathleen Lacey at klacey3@unl.edu or Dr. Marco Abel at mable2@unl.edu.