DMS 451 - Avant-Garde Cinema

Institution:

University at Buffalo

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Description:

Credits: 4 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None Type: LEC/LAB Examines the history of the so-called avant-garde, from the Russian and French avant-garde of the 190s to the postwar European and American experimental milieu. While focusing principally on Europe and North America, the course gives attention to related developments in Africa, Asia, and South America, depending on availability. Questions of methodology, canon, genre, marginality, oppositionality, plagiarism, primitivism, originality, and ideology come into theoretical play while we examine the Institutional Mode and its discontents.

Credits:

4.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.buffalo.edu

Phone Number:

(716) 645-2000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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