FILM 346 - Surrealism and Cinema

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Bard College

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Description:

This course traces the connections between surrealism and film culture, ranging from early 20th-century European experimental films to the narrative features of Luis Bu?uel and Cinema Novo to Japanese avant-garde cinema of the 1960s and 1970s. Through this spectrum of case studies, the course frames the critical project of surrealism as both an aesthetic discourse and a theoretical endeavor extending across the fields of art history, cinema studies, psychoanalysis, materialist philosophy, sociology, and anthropology. Readings include works by Georges Bataille,Michel Leiris, André Breton, Hal Foster, Rosalind Krauss, Linda Williams, and Fatimah Rony. Open to Upper College and qualified students by permission of the instructor.

Credits:

4.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.bard.edu

Phone Number:

(845) 758-6822

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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