Film A Global History

AY2016/2017 Semester 1

Film was the major international cultural form of the twentieth century. This course examines the ways in which the output, the organization and the economics of the film industry impacted on the modern world: it analyses how and why filmic images altered the fabric of social relations at particular points in the twentieth century. The course also challenges students to integrate cinema history into other fields such as social history, geography and economics.