In Spring 2018, Senior Seminar will explore the aesthetics and industry of contemporary international art cinema. The class will address the historical construction of art cinema, its institutional and cultural support structures, and the status of art cinema today. The primary focus of the class will be comparative formal analysis. Featured directors may include Pedro Almodovar, Roy Andersson, Leos Carax, Alan Clarke, Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Terence Davies, Claire Denis, Jaco van Dormael, Agnieska Holland, Jia Zhang-ke, Aki Kaurismaki, Moshen Makhmalbaf, Samira Makhmalbaf, Steve McQueen, Cristian Mungiu, Laszlo Nemes, Jafar Panahi, Corneliu Porumboiu, Lynne Ramsay, Juan Pablo Rebella & Pablo Stoll, Thomas Vinterberg, Edward Yang, and Andrey Zvyagintsev. |