We are culturally trained to see movies as entertainment, but while they are often entertaining, there is so much more in cinema. The art of film has a unique potential to combine, investigate, and confront ideas across cultures and time. The course will interrogate the way cinema produces, engages with, and represents ideas, extending beyond the sheer visual spectacle and entertainment. Each film will be considered as a sovereign work of art as well as an intersectional field wherein other cultures and ideas are present and investigated. This approach would require both a close reading of each film and a comparative analysis.
