CINE301-18S2 (C) Semester Two 2018

Film History: The Sixties and the New Wave

30 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 16 July 2018
End Date: Sunday, 18 November 2018
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Friday, 27 July 2018
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Friday, 12 October 2018

Description

A survey of the New Wave movements which swept cinema in the 60's, with an emphasis on the nouvelle vague in France.

This course will examine the French New Wave as a revolutionary moment in the history of cinema.  We will address what is generally perceived to be the formative relation between the New Wave film movement and other innovative national cinema styles that emerged in the midst of the political and cultural turbulence of the late sixties.  The first part of our course will focus on the films of core New Wave directors, François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, and Claude Chabrol.  We will address their work from within an historical context of key film movements and styles that served as influences, such as Italian Neorealism, Film Noir, and French Surrealism.  In the second part of the course, we will move beyond the parameters of the nouvelle vague to examine the period known as May ’68 and such “new” cinema styles as the Czechoslovak New Wave, Italian cinema of the 1960s, and cinema verite.

Learning Outcomes

  • By the end of this course, students will have developed:
  • Specialised knowledge of critical concepts and methodologies of discipline
  • Extensive knowledge of the relationships between selected films and their social, cultural and historical contexts
  • Advanced ability to interpret and critically analyse films
  • Independence and confidence in formulating ideas and presenting a critical position, both in oral and written communication
  • Consistent application of standard academic research practices regarding quotations, references and bibliography
  • Initiative and pleasurable engagement in research, viewing, reading and writing
  • Intellectual versatility and independence
    • University Graduate Attributes

      This course will provide students with an opportunity to develop the Graduate Attributes specified below:

      Critically competent in a core academic discipline of their award

      Students know and can critically evaluate and, where applicable, apply this knowledge to topics/issues within their majoring subject.

      Biculturally competent and confident

      Students will be aware of and understand the nature of biculturalism in Aotearoa New Zealand, and its relevance to their area of study and/or their degree.

      Globally aware

      Students will comprehend the influence of global conditions on their discipline and will be competent in engaging with global and multi-cultural contexts.

Prerequisites

30 points in CINE at 200-level, or
equivalent preparation with the approval of the Programme Coordinator.

Restrictions

CULT321

Equivalent Courses

CULT321

Course Coordinator

Mary Wiles

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
Essay 1 40% 2,000 words
Essay 2 40% 3,000 words
Oral presentation and written summary 10%
Online Learn assessment 10%

Textbooks / Resources

Required Reading:
• Making Waves: New Cinemas of the 1960s by Geoffrey Nowell-Smith.

Recommended Reading:  
• Jacques Rivette by Mary Wiles. University of Illinois, 2012.
• A Short Guide To Writing About Film by Timothy Corrigan. 9th Edition, 2014.
• Cinema Studies: The Key Concepts. 4th Edition. Susan Hayward

Note: The above texts are available for purchase from UBS Bookshop and are available on three-hour loan at the Central Library.  

Links to selected readings that are not from the course texts can be found on Learn.

(Image: "breathless still shots of smoking jean seberg: san Francisco (2012)" by torbakhopper, licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0.)

Course links

Library portal
Learn
Course outline (available via Learn for enrolled students only)

Notes

Film List:

Week One: Introduction
The 400 Blows (Les quatre cents coups; Truffaut, 1959)
Zero for Conduct (Zéro de Conduite; Vigo, 1933)

Week Two: Film Noir
The Big Sleep (Hawks, 1946)

Week Three: Jean-Luc Godard: Reinventing Genre
Breathless (A bout de souffle; Godard, 1960)

Week Four: Alain Resnais: Postwar Reflection
Hiroshima mon amour (Resnais, 1959)
Night and Fog (Nuit et Brouillard; Resnais, 1955)

Week Five: Godard: Brechtian Cinema  
My Life to Live (Vivre sa vie; Godard, 1962)

Week Six: Agnès Varda and Chris Marker: Left Bank Filmmaking
Cleo from 5 to 7 (Varda, 1962); La Jetée (Marker, 1962)

Week Seven: Documentary: Cinema Verité or Engagé?
The Lovely Month of May (Le Joli Mai; Marker, 1962)

Week Eight: Jacques Demy
Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1963)

Week Nine: Federico Fellini: The Italian Wave
La dolce vita (1960)

Week Ten: Vera Chytilova: Czech New Wave  
Daisies (Sedmikrasky; Chytilova, 1967)  

Week Eleven: John Cassavetes: New American Cinema
Faces (Cassavetes, 1968)

Week Twelve: Banlieue Cinema: Contemporary Paris
Hate (La Haine; Kassovitz, 1995)

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $1,493.00

International fee $6,075.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

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