LITR 024R. Russian & East European Cinema

(Cross-listed as RUSS 024)
This course will introduce students to cinema from “the other Europe.” We will begin with influential early Soviet avant-garde cinema and survey the traditions that developed subsequently with selections from Caucasian, Czech, Hungarian, Polish, Russian, Ukrainian and Yugoslav cinema. Screenings will include films by Eisenstein and Tarkovsky, Wajda, Kusturica and Paradzhanov, among others. Students will hone critical skills in filmic analysis while considering the particular cultural, national and political forces shaping the work of filmmakers in this “other Europe” from the early 20th to the early 21st century.
Humanities.
1 credit.
Spring 2027. Staff.
Catalog chapter: Modern Languages and Literatures: Russian

Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/russian

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