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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

ENL 373 - World Cinema I: Origins to New Wave

Credits 3
Lecture / 3 hours per week
Requirements: Prerequisite: Any 200-level ENL course OR 60 completed credit hours
A study of the international emergence and evolution of narrative film as a major genre of story-telling, from its origins in late 19th century photographic technology through its maturation in the mid-20th century. Through a combination of readings, film-viewing, and Internet research, students study the impact of technological change on the film medium, the development of film theory and aesthetics, major historical movements like German Expressionism and Italian Neorealism, and the impact of such seminal figures as Griffith, Eisenstein, Renoir, Welles, Bergman, Kurosawa, Hitchcock, and Fellini.
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