Radical Cinemas in the Global Sixties

<p class="p1">In-person Course. This course explores the “long” and “global” sixties as a period of political uprising, social transformation, and cultural revolution. Radical change took place on a global scale: the “Third World” emerged as a political project in the hope of overcoming a world order shaped by centuries of colonialism, war, slavery, patriarchy, exploitation. Another revolution took place in cinema: in the context of global uprisings, filmmakers sought to not only show reality, but to change it. Slogans like “the camera as a gun” linked the filmmaker to a guerrilla fighter. Their subjects were militant mothers, revolutionary poets, rebellious students, combative peasants and workers. They experimented with alternative strategies of storytelling and capturing reality: nonlinear narrative, montage, mobile cameras, music, dance, documentary, testimony. The sixties challenge our conception of the audiovisual medium.&#160;We will study this exceptional period in global cinema through examples from Algeria, Brazil, Cuba, France, India, Senegal, the US, and elsewhere. Students will learn to incorporate formal film analysis into an analysis of ideology, production, circulation, and consumption; broaden their film historical knowledge; and develop skills to construct compelling arguments about the politics of images. Taught in English. No prerequisites. Screenings on Monday night. Films will be subtitled. 1 Credit. Session A: May 27 – June 28. Tuition: $5070.</p>