Contemporary European Film: The Individual and Society
Spring Semester only
| 3 credits
| Elective
Majors:
Communication,
Film Studies,
and
Media Studies
The course offers a study of contemporary European film from the 1960s to the present, focusing on important themes and dominating trends of the medium in relation to the changing attitudes in social, political, and artistic issues. The main emphasis will be on seeing and understanding the films in relation to their historical, social, and political background, partly through film examples, partly through reading material.
This course will address themes such as Family Structure, the Woman’s Role, The Artist in Society, The Outsider and Society, World War II and its Moral and Political Consequences, Tolerance and Aggression and Sanity and Insanity. The course will focus on representative films of directors such as: Pedro Almodóvar, Mike Leigh, Lars von Trier, Thomas Vinterberg, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Wolfgang Becker, Ingmar Bergman, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Nikita Michalkov, Emir Kusturica, Cristian Mungiu, and others.
Field Studies
- Film
- 1-2 film viewings at local theaters.
Instructors
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Morten Egholm
Ph. D., Film and Media Studies, University of Copenhagen, 2009. Cand. mag., Scandinavian Studies, Film and Media Theory, University of Copenhagen, 1997. Associate professor, Danish Language, Literature and Culture, University of Groningen, The Netherlands, 2002-2006. Has written several articles in Danish, English and Dutch on Danish literature, Danish mentality, Danish TV series and film history. Currently lecturing in Media History and Non-fictionTheory at the University of Copenhagen (Film and Media Department). With DIS since 2008.
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Anne Kaplan Jespersen
Cand. mag. (English Literature and Film History and Theory, University of Copenhagen, 1982). Lecturer at the Department of Film & Media Studies, University of Copenhagen, Hamburg Media School, Germany, and the European Film College in Ebeltoft, Denmark. With DIS since 1987.
