Media and film studies
Global Cinema
Module code: P4083
Level 4
15 credits in spring semester
Teaching method: Lecture, Seminar, Film
Assessment modes: Essay, Report
Global Cinema examines key developments and trends in international cinema, with a specific focus on:
- non-western filmmakers
- movements and industries
- the ‘transnational’ distribution, reception and production of films from the 1950s to the present day.
The module comprises three sections. It begins with an interrogation of the construction of ‘art cinema’ in the post-war period. You’ll look at the western reception of films from, for example India and Japan, and explore:
- auteurism
- orientalism
- cosmopolitanism
- elitism.
It continues with an exploration of political cinema addressing:
- colonialism
- neo-colonialism
- post-colonialism
You’ll look at films from, for example, Africa and Australia, and evaluate Third Cinema and Fourth Cinema as modes of anti-colonial and indigenous praxis.
It concludes with an investigation of the globalisation of popular entertainment from Asia, looking at media from, for example, China and South Korea. You’ll analyse:
- transnational orientations and productions
- global circulation and consumption.
Module learning outcomes
- Understand key developments and trends in global cinema
- Understand relevant critical debates related to global cinema
- Interrogate and evaluate discourses related to global cinema
- Analyse films in relation to debates and discourses related to global cinema