This subject provides a cross cultural exploration and history of world cinema produced from the 1960s to the present. In this subject students will study a number of key auteurs, movements and manifestoes, by looking at a range of case studies in contemporary global cinema that includes American films, films of the independent sector, the French New Wave, Hong Kong films, Iranian allegorical cinema, Korean horror films, the cinema of exile and diaspora, amongst many others. This subject also provides students with the opportunity to acquire a general understanding of some of the debates, theoretical, practical and creative issues involved with World Cinema and the film festival art cinema circuit.

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