HUM 215 World Cinema (5 credits)
Distribution Area Fulfilled Humanities; General Transfer Elective
Formerly HUMAN 215
Course Description
World Cinema examines the films and film-making practices around the world. This class explores cinema cultures and influences of film movements such as German Expressionism, Italian Neorealism, Social Realism, The French New Wave, Parallel Cinema, 5th-Generation Chinese films, Cinema Novo, and Third Cinema.
Course Content
A. Interrelationships between international Cinemas, including Hollywood
B. The emergence of sound and its impact on international film audiences and film production
C. Differences between aesthetic values, and audience reception in international film movements (e.g., sound, editing, cinematography, acting)
D. Viewing positions: how the audience/spectator brings his/her values into interpretation and the problems associated with “Othering” in World Cinema
E. The differences between 1st cinema (entertainment and profit), 2nd cinema (arthouse and auteur filmmaking), 3rd cinema (political, anti-colonial films), and 4th cinema (indigenous cinema) objectives and practices
F. Auteur theory in international contexts (e.g., films of Satyajit Ray (India), Ousmane Sembène(Senegal), Fernando Meirelles (Brazil), Ashgar Farhadi (Iran), Claire Denis (France), Mira Nair (India), Zhang Yimou (China) and Kidlat Tahimik (Philippines), Bong Joon Ho (Korea), among others)
G. Various World Cinema movements (e.g., Parallel Cinema, Italian Neorealism, British Social Realism, The French New Wave, 5th generation Chinese filmmaking, Cinema Novo) and their global influence.
Student Outcomes
1. Describe how the cultural context of an audience shapes and influences the interpretation of films and their aesthetic values.
2. Examine how cultural contexts impact film aesthetics and film making.
3. Analyze various film movements, their influences, impact and development.
4. Synthesize the interrelationship between film movements and various storytelling media/mediums.
5. Examine the strengths and limitations of various definitions and conceptions of global cinema
Degree Outcomes
Humanities: Graduates acquire critical skills to interpret, analyze, and evaluate forms of human expression, which can include creation and performance as an expression of human experience.
Intercultural Engagement:: Graduates demonstrate self-efficacy in intercultural engagement to advance equity, diversity, and inclusion through reflections and expressions of cultural humility, empathy, and social and civic engagement and action. Further, graduates examine how identities/positionalities such as races, social classes, genders, sexual orientations, disabilities, and cultures impact perceptions, actions, and the distribution of power and privilege in communities, systems, and institutions.
Global Citizenship: Graduates will be able to critically examine the relationship between self, community, and/or environments, and to evaluate and articulate potential impacts of choices, actions, and contributions for the creation of sustainable and equitable systems.
Lecture Contact Hours 50
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 50
Potential Methods
1. Formal writings: essays, essay exams, research reports, reading responses
2. Projects and presentations: group, individual, multimedia
3. Informal writings: journals, in-class responses, brainstorming, freewriting
4. Group discussions and classroom activities
5. Exams and quizzes: short answer, matching, multiple choice
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