Syllabus C
Sample Syllabi For Use With World On Film: An Introduction
SYLLABUS C: World Cinema And Propaganda
The study of film and propaganda - both films that are propaganda and films that confront propaganda - from an international perspective.
For a 15-week course:
SOVIET FILM: THE MOTHER OF CINEMATIC PROPAGANDA
Show clips from Earth aka Zemlya (Dir. Aleksandr Dovzhenko, 1930) and The Man With a Movie Camera aka Chelovek s kino-apparatum (Dir. Dziga Vertov, 1929)
Show clips from Andrei Rublev (Dir. Andrei Tarkovsky, 1969); Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears aka Moskva slezam ne verit, 1980); Moloch (Dir. Aleksandr Sokurov, 1999)
GERMANY: NAZI AND COMMUNIST PROPAGANDA ON SCREEN, AND THE AFTERMATH
Show clips from The Blue Angel aka Der blaue Engel (dir. Josef von Sternberg, 1930); Dr. Mabuse, The Gambler aka Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler (Dir. Fritz Lang, 1922); Triumph of the Will aka Triumph des Willens (Dir. Leni Riefenstahl, 1935); Jew Suss aka Jud Suss (Dir. Veit Harlan, 1940)
Show clips from East German propaganda films: Berlin-Schonhauser Corner aka Berlin-Ecke Schonhauser (Dir. Gerhard Klein, 1957); The Rabbit is Me aka Das Kaninchen bin ich (Dir. Kurt Maetzig, 1965)
ITALY: FACIST PROPAGANDA, MOTIVE FOR NEOREALISM
Show clips from The Iron Crown aka La corona di ferro (Dir. Allessandro Blasetti, 1941); Scipio l'africano aka Scipio the African; The Defeat of Hannibal (Dir. Carmine Gallone, 1937)
Show clips from Open City aka Roma, città aperta (Dir. Roberto Rossellini, 1945); Umberto D (Dir. Vittorio de Sica, 1952); The Conformist aka Il conformista (Dir. Bernardo Bertolucci, 1970); Life is Beautiful aka La Vita e bella (Dir. Roberto Benigni, 1997); The Truce aka La tregua (Dir. Francesco Rosi, 1997)
JAPAN: DEALING WITH A HISTORY OF MILITARISTIC PROPAGANDA
Show clips from Stray Dog aka Nora inu (Dir. Akira Kurosawa, 1949) and Ugetsu aka Ugetsu monogatari (Dir. Kenji Mizoguchi, 1953)
Show clips from The Seven Samurai aka Shichinin no samurai (Dir. Akira Kurosawa, 1954) and Pigs and Battleships aka Buta to gunkan (Dir. Shohei Imamamura, 1964); Akira Kurosawa's Dreams aka Yume (Dir. Akira Kurosawa, 1990)
MAINLAND CHINA: THE SIXTH GENERATION SPEAKS ABOUT FREEDOM
Show clips from earlier filmmakers to set the stage for Jia Zhangke's protests on behalf of the individual: Spring in a Small Town aka Xiao cheng zhi chun (Dir. Fei Mu, 1948); Farewell My Concubine aka Ba wang bie ji (Dir. Chen Kaige, 1993); To Live aka Huozhe (Dir. Zhang Yimou, 1994)
For example, Kanikosen (Dir. Hiroyuki Tanaka, 2009). An interesting Japanese film about the wearing away of the effects of propaganda.
It might also be interesting to refer to films in other chapters of this book that touch on the subject of free expression and censorship:
1. The Milky Way aka La voie lactée (Dir. Luis Buñuel, 1969). Focuses on dealing with the ironies and complexities of the dogma of the Catholic church throughout history.
2. Mother India aka Bharat Mata (Dir. Mehboob khan, 1957). Is this a work of Communist propaganda?
3. Moolaade (Dir. Ousmane Sembène, 2004). Focuses on dealing with the ironies and complexities of the dogma of patriarchal Islam.
Syllabus A: A Survey of (Inter)national Film Cultures
Syllabus B: Compass Points Of International Film: France, Italy, Japan, And India
Syllabus C: World Cinema And Propaganda
Syllabus D: Postnational Cinema
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