Film and Media Studies 42 - National Cinemas

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Dartmouth College

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08F: 3A 09W: 2A, 2A 09S: 2A 09F: 3A Focus on a specific national cinema or a particular period of a national cinema. May be repeated for credit with a different topic. Dist: ART (unless indicated otherwise); WCult: Varies. In 08F (Section 2), Korean Film (Identical to, and described under, Korean 63). In 09W (Section 1), 100 years of Song and Dance A History of Popular Hindi Cinema. This course will chart the history of India's mainstream Hindi-language film industry ("Bollywood"). With its melodramatic plots and extravagant song and dance sequences, Bollywood is often dismissed as escapist fare. However, popular Hindi films have a long history of engagement with national politics, drawing on diverse international cinematic and musical traditions. Films will include the nationalist classic Mother India (1957); romantic hits such as Shree 420 (1955) and Kaagaz Ke Phool (1959); films of the "angry young man" oeuvre like Zanjeer (1973) and the "curry western" Sholay (1975); and contemporary family dramas like Kal Ho Naa Ho (2003) that address themselves as much to the Indian diaspora as to audiences in the sub-continent. SIn 09W at 2A (Section 2), Faces of Totalitarianism: A History of a Nation through a History of a Medium (Identical to, and described under, Russian 14). In 09S, Asian Animation. This course will feature the most interesting of works from China. Japan, Korea, Mongolia, India and Iran and students will analyze them within a socio-political and cultural context. Ehrlich. In 09F, Continental Strangers: European Exiles and Emigrés in Hollywood, 1933-1950 (Identical to, and described under, German 43). Gemünden.

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3.00

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New England Association of Schools and Colleges

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