ART 329 Topics: The Independent Film Movement

Fri, 12 May 2023 18:54:17 -0400

Summer class is a great way to make up credits. ART 329 Topics: The Independent Film Movement offers upper level credits (300+). Enrollment permission for prerequisite override may be provided by the instructor.

The Independent Film Movement

With its genesis in the experimental films of the 1920s, through Cassavetes, the French New Wave and Easy Rider in the 1960s, this course primarily addresses films under the auspices of the independent film movement beginning circa 1970. From its reaction to Hollywood blockbusters to its dilution into the pseudo-independent studio films of the 1990s, we will examine the definition, method, and social context of the movement with iconoclasts like Germaine Dulac, Oscar Micheaux, Stan Brakhage, John & Faith Hubley, Agnes Varda, John Cassavetes, John Sayles, John Waters, Lizzie Borden, Spike Lee, Tarantino, among others.

Summer Session II.

Six Weeks.

Two Evenings Per Week.

Lots of Films.