Sections offered SPRING 2023:
#13944 |
VINCENT BOUCHARD |
TuTh 1:15 PM–2:30 PM |
BH 214 |
CLASS NOTES: IUB GenEd A&H credit; COLL (CASE) A&H Breadth of Inquiry credit
Class meets In Person. For more information visit https://covid.iu.edu/learning-modes/index.html
The study of European cinemas from a sonic perspective: how film commentators and bonimenteurs (film lecturers) flourished while accompanying silent movies; the astonishing technological and paradigmatic evolution, from silent film to the talkies in the 1930s; the surprising influences of popular and oral cultures on cinema after WWII; the question of music, dialogue, and background sound.
Taking a comparative, transnational approach, this course offers an introduction to European cinema (Pre-War propaganda, Italian Neorealism, French New Wave, etc.) as an evolving art and as a means of tracing the evolution of technology, aesthetic, and representation, during the twentieth century. We will also investigate how cinema was shaped by other media (like religious celebrations, popular fairs, dances, games, theatre, opera, novels, printmaking, radio shows, music recordings, etc.). In so doing, our study of film will naturally touch upon a variety of other disciplines, such as history, sociology, media and cultural studies.