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COLT 212 - Comparative World Cinema

CRN: 31597

Instructor: Rob Moore

Term: Spring 2018

Fictional Cities

Cinema is a thoroughly urban art form, born from the rapidly advancing technology and mass audiences provided by the city. It is also, therefore, a uniquely effective way of depicting, critiquing, and dreaming city life because it utilizes the very tools of the city to do it. Sometimes this has meant an attempt to re-imagine the origins of the city, and at other times a dreaming ahead to its future. In this course we will look at examples of both, and by a closer study of some of the important formal aspects of film, as well as selected readings on the origins and development of the modern city, come to better understand how both cinema and the modern city have helped create each other.

Satisfies General Education Requirements:

  • Group-Satisfying: Arts and Letters
  • Multicultural Courses: International Cultures (IC)