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Instructors: Dr. Jochen Ecke
Event type:
Practice class
Displayed in timetable as:
05.874.521
Hours per week:
2
Credits:
4,0
Language of instruction:
Englisch
Min. | Max. participants:
- | 45
Registration group: ELC 521
Contents:
European cinema changed profoundly after the Second World War. First came Italian Neorealism, a movement that rejected the artificiality and classist bias of the previous generation’s cinema. Then, from the late 1950s to the mid-1960s, the directors of the French Nouvelle Vague took newly developed, lightweight cameras to the streets, intent on authentically capturing the postwar generation’s struggles and expressing their cinephilia. Something similar happened at roughly the same time in British cinema: young filmmakers like Lindsay Anderson, Tony Richardson and Karel Reisz, often referred to as the British New Wave, worked from a comparable premise of almost documentarian realism and enormous political awareness, with the express goal of remaking the British film landscape. This class will explore some of their most important films. We will focus on closely analysing the films and their relationship with postwar British culture.
Recommended reading list:
Your instructor will provide access to the films.
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