Russian 384
Special Topics in Film: Postwar East European Cinema
Full course for one semester. We will screen films by the directors
Andrej Wajda and Jerzy Skolimowski (Poland), Miklós Jancsó
(Hungary), Vera Chytilová and Milos Forman (the former
Czechoslovakia), and Kira Muratova and Sergei Paradzhanov (the
former Soviet Union). In our discussion of the films, we will
attend both to each director’s unique vision and to the shared
context of Eastern Bloc political and social history. Prerequisite:
students who wish to take the course for Russian credit must have
completed Russian 220 or obtain the consent of the instructor.
Conference. Cross-listed as Literature 384. Not offered 2005-06.
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