Film is the major original art form of the twentieth century, with broad and deep appeal to both mass and high art audiences.
Why is this so? Which devices of the construction of photographically produced films have made movies so important to so many people? How are some films important as art in relation to twentieth-century life? Can movies still help us to grasp our existential conditions more fully?
Each week an articles or book excerpt that addresses these questions are paired with a major film, available for streaming online: films by Truffaut, Eisenstein, Hitchcock, Huston, Capra, Godard, Herzog, and Almodovar.
- Teacher: Richard Eldridge
- Teacher: Abigail Weil
- Teacher: Hansjakob Werlen