International Cinema after 1960 ??” Final Assignment
Please answer three (3) of the following questions. Your answers should be in the form of typed, well-written, correctly-spelled essays. Write a separate essay for each question answered. The total number of pages for all three of your essays should be eight (8) pages. Don’t write six pages on one question and one each on the other two” you will be graded accordingly.
1. One hallmark of post-1960 cinema internationally was the deliberate referencing of other films and film styles within a film’s narrative. For example, Jean-Luc Godard included images from Carl Th. Dreyer’s THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC in MY LIFE TO LIVE(by Jean-Luc Godard), or different genres as in SHOLAY(by Ramesh Sippy). Using at least three films we have seen this semester, discuss the ways their directors make reference to other films, historical film styles, or to the cinema itself. Make sure that you discuss the importance of these references to each film’s narrative. You may also cite examples in which the films reference other artistic media, for example, theater in LAW OF DESIRE (film by Pedro Almodovar).
2. Many of the films screened for this course explore and/or embrace the new technologies available to the filmmakers. Discuss three of the films, and the role that new technology plays on both a formal level (for example the use of video in Lars von Trier’s THE KINGDOM, and thematic concerns (the different implications of image reproduction in Abbas Kiarostami’s THE WIND WILL CARRY US). Another film as example can be the use of animation technology as WALTZ WITH BASHIR (2008, Ari Folman).
3. ) Much of the most challenging cinema produced post-1960 can be seen to be addressing some notion of “modernism” within the cinema. Discuss the idea of cinematic modernism with regards to at least three films you have seen this semester??”one of which must be a film from a non-European country. Make sure to list those elements and practices that for you help define cinematic modernism. Three films that can be used for this are: Lars Von Trier’s The Kingdom, Sholay (1975 by Ramesh Sippy) and Law of Desire (1989 by Pedro Almodovar).
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