FILM 50.01 Cinematic Mirrors: Reflexivity and Authorship in Global Film History

This course investigates a trend in modernist and postmodernist cinema of reflexive films or metafilms: films foregrounding the medium through themes, techniques, style, and formal methods that call attention to the artificiality of cinema. How authorship and the concept of the “auteur” affects production and reception of these films, how different national and political contexts impact their production, and how compatible metafilms are with mainstream commercial practice, are among the questions explored in the course.

Instructor

P. Young

Degree Requirement Attributes

Dist:INT or ART

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