Certificate in Intercultural Communication - Images of Modernity in Cinema: Early Modern Stories on Film
EMSP 2460 Images of Modernity in Cinema: Early Modern Stories on Film
CREDIT HOURS: 3
This course is intended to introduce students to the history and culture of European and Asian societies from the sixteenth to early nineteenth centuries through the study of film. The motion pictures to be screened dramatize such events, themes, and/or stories as the Protestant Reformation, Shakespearean drama, the decline of chivalry in France and Japan, French Absolutism, the wild child phenomenon, and cross-cultural encounters in the Americas and South Pacific. Each week will include both a film screening and relevant lecture and discussion. The films may include such titles as A Man for All Seasons, Henry V, Amadeus, The New World, Seven Samurai, Cyrano de Bergerac, Aguirre: The Wrath of God, Black Robe, The Wild Child, The Bounty, and Ridicule. Selected primary and secondary documents will be assigned to supplement the films. No prior knowledge of early modern history and culture is assumed.
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FORMAT COMMENTS: film screening