Cinema Studies Summer 2013 Courses
Summer at the Movies
CIN 270Y1Y - American Popular Film Since 1970 (formerly INI225Y1)
Instructor: Chris Babey
Open to all undergraduate students, this course offers a chronological survey of the past 40 years of American film. We will examine the output of what has sometimes been called the 'New' Hollywood or 'Post' Hollywood from a variety of perspectives. In addition to major works by standout directors like Hopper, Scorsese, Eastwood, Lynch, Spielberg, Bigelow, Soderbergh, the Wachowski Brothers, and Anderson, we will consider the emergence of new genres in the period such as Blaxploitation, the Car Chase cycle, the Slasher film, the Erotic Thriller, the Superhero movie and the redefinition of classic forms such as the Western, the Teenpic and SF.
We will also give close scrutiny to contextual issues such as the advent of new audiovisual technologies, marketing and advertising, the vastly altered position of the major studios, and the landmark social upheavals that America underwent during this period. Always in the background will be the fluid notion(s) of the popular that emerge across our targeted four decades as Hollywood, and its spectators, strive to keep up with these massive social changes.
Exclusion: INI225Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Creative and Cultural Representations (1) + Society and its Institutions (3)
Québec Cinema Intensive
CIN 370H1F1 - Canadian Cinemas: Québec (formerly INI385H1)
Lecturer: Kass Banning
This intensive three week long course will examine contemporary Québécois cinema to consider the industrial, institutional, and cultural factors that have given rise to and helped sustain this unique national cinema. Within the current moment of globalized culture and co-productions the rubric of the “nation” that has traditionally informed the study of Québec cinemas has come under critical scrutiny. Yet the contextualizing frame of national cinema remains pertinent as an analytical tool for the study of Québec cinema. Québécois films will be placed and studied in the context of critical discourses and cultural policies that have shaped them and their reception.
Topics will include: the formative role of nationalism and the state; the documentary legacy and cinéma direct; the Québec national populaire; the Québécois auteur; Québec’s distinct star system; how Québec film production is figured within the larger Canadian filmic imaginary;and how co-productions and multiculturalism are re-shaping Québécois cinema.
Prerequisite: CIN105Y1
Exclusion: FCS391H1, INI385Y1, INI385H1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)
For more information about when these courses are offered, please refer to the Arts and Science Summer 2013 Timetable.