FMST 024. Contemporary Cinema

Cinema's status as the world's leading form of mass entertainment has been challenged by successive waves of technological and corresponding social change, including television, video games, the internet, mobile platforms, and virtual reality. Yet the movies endure as art, industry, and public culture. This course examines the response to these existential threats through key texts, figures, institutions, and issues in cinema of the past three decades. Balancing the economic dominance of global Hollywood against the cultural capital of international art cinema and American independent auteurs, we will examine such topics as the film festival circuit; the growth of Bollywood, Nollywood, and the Korean and Chinese industries; European coproductions and arthouse auteurs; transmedia franchises and exhibition cultures; stardom; scandal; and diversity and inclusion initiatives.
Humanities.
1 credit.
Catalog chapter: Film and Media Studies
Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/film-media-studies

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