FS3009: TOPIC IN FILM AND VISUAL CULTURE A (2021-2022)

This course explores how cinema has interacted with war, beginning with Kracauer's theory of the collective unconscious during the post-World War 1 period of Germany before discussing Bazin's approach to Italian neorealism and its provocative post-fascist landscapes. Since the genesis of cinema, armed conflict has been a recurring topic for fiction filmmakers and this module will question how and why key representations have emerged. This approach will include challenging the presentation of European Empires, the frequent jingoism and Orientalism of Hollywood's Vietnam War, China's contemporary "Wolf Warrior" blockbusters and the more recent attempts to readdress colonial or military presence in Africa. Contextualising the study of film with a concurrent understanding of geopolitics and cultural changes, this module will also offer students a study in past and present as well in formative, historical, psychological and realist approaches to cinema.

• Film And Visual Culture (FS) (Studied)
• One of FS2002 Cinema and the Invention of Modern Life (Passed) or FS2003 Cinema and Modernity (Passed) or FS2007 Visualising Modernity (Passed) or FS2505 Cinema and Crisis (Passed) or FS2506 Cinema and Revolution (Passed) or FS2507 Visualising Revolution (Passed)