The sound era from World War II to present time.

In this introductory survey course we will examine the history of cinema from the impact on national cinemas of the rise of Fascism in 1930s Europe through the international development of film as a transformative technology, art form, and commercial medium up to the present time. In addition to our main textbook, we will also draw on material from The Oxford History of World Cinema edited by Geoffrey Nowell-Smith and Flashback: A Brief History of Film by Louis Gianetti and Scott Eyman, as well as the scholarship of such film theorists and historians as Tom Gunning, Charles Musser, Linda Williams, John Belton, Hamid Naficy, Thomas Elsaesser, Henry Jenkins, Lev Manovich, and many others, in discussing the way certain landmark short and feature films reflect social, political, and ideological changes through the decades.

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Course is not repeatable for credit.

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