Lecture (LEC)

• Above class meets with SLAV-R 352, EURO-W 406, and EURO-W 605
• Above class open to graduates only

This course is designed as a survey of the highlight of Russian and Soviet cinema between 1908 and the present. Special attention is paid to the avant-garde film, theory, and the aesthetics of Soviet filmmakers of the 1920s; the totalitarian cinema and the ideological uses of films in the 1930s-1940s; the films of the thaw period of the 1950s-1960s; the stagnation era of the 1970s; perestroika period, and finally cinema in the post-Soviet Russia. In this course students will acquire basic skills of film analysis through film viewing, classroom discussions, and through reading and writing assignments. The course is taught in English; all films are in Russian with English subtitles. "Keywords: Russian cinema, Soviet Cinema, film, theory, history, culture, avant-garde, aesthetics"