FILM3327 · Fine Arts
Morrissey College of Arts & Sciences
This course will survey the extraordinary cultural intensity of East European cinema during the period roughly between 1965 and 2015, thus dividing the course between the Communist period and what comes after. Focusing on the 1960s 'new wave' films of Czechoslovakia that opens the period, and the 2010s Romanian new wave that closes it, we will fill in the time between with films from Poland, Hungary, and the Balkans. What we will uncover is a cinematic culture of extreme richness that takes up central questions of national and human life: the cost of freedom, moral responsibility to others versus self-interest, the burden of history, and the need to love and be loved.
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Fall 2023
2 sections