Evening Film Courses 2011-12.

Film Studies will offer an evening course on Genre in the 21st Century starting October 4. More forthcoming short courses are to be announced.

Film Studies opens its evening and intensive courses for 2011-12 with a 10-week course on:

Double-take: Genre in the 21st Century

Film genres are today in constant evolution, often as a result of multiple processes of cross-fertilization—between genres and narrative conventions, between various Hollywood and world cinema practices, between cinema and other art forms. How are the classical genres changing? What emerging trends can be identified in the 21st century? How do contemporary cinema’s auteurs approach genre filmmaking?

This course asks what is happening today in science fiction, the psychological thriller, the documentary, the documusical and the western, through an analysis of key films such as Children of Men (Cuarón 2006), Hidden (Haneke 2006), Exit Through the Gift Shop (Banksy 2010), The Orchestra of Piazza Vittorio (Ferrente 2006) and A History of Violence (Cronenberg 2005).

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