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OVERTEGNET
This course of eleven lectures aims to look at some of the more interesting trends of modern cinema. Taking as its starting point the deathblow to postmodernism dealt by the events of 9/11, it examines, among other topics, the legacy of postmodernism itself, before going on to explore and analyse the re-engagement with history we are witnessing now that the decades of theory have run their course.
The lecture series will be lively and eclectic. We are in search of the current narrative but we are also aware and grateful for the fact that there are a number of exceptions, and that those exceptions may actually prove to be among the more fascinating evidence. The course begins with a lecture on 9/11 itself and its mediatised representations. A second lecture attempts to explore the spirit of postmodernism, retrospectively. A third lecture continues this exploration by looking at some ex-postmodernists: Lynch, Trier, Almodovar. A fourth explores contemporary political documentary, through the prism, or lens, of Michael Moore. A fifth looks at the complex figure (both postmodernist and not postmodernist) of Abbas Kiarostami and the legacy of contemporary Iranian cinema. Other national cinemas that are relevant to our enquiry will be those of China, Korea and the Balkans, the subjects of later lectures in the series. Finally, I would like to look at a key contemporary figure, Edgar Reitz, director of the Heimat series, whose exemplary career is in a certain way untainted by postmodernism; and also at Godard, whose ghost hovers over the whole of modern cinema: a postmodernist avant la lettre before the term was even invented.
The main object of the course is to give a sense of some of the more vibrant currents of contemporary cinema. Assuming that postmodernism, as such, has run its course, the question to be addressed is: what, if anything, has replaced it? How will cinema in the first ten years of the millennium come to be judged historically?
A lively interest in contemporary culture, coupled with a willingness to expose oneself to difficult and challenging movies.
Mark Le Fanu M.A. (Cambridge)
Lectures, with DVD extracts; discussion with students. Now and again screenings of complete films.
AFTER POSTMODERNISM
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Medievidenskab: Medie- og samfundsteori og medieæstetik,
Mediesystemanalyse og kommunikationstilrettelæggelse, valgfag
Digital design: valgfag
Multimedier: valgfag
Audiodesign: valgfag
Inf: 05/07: valgfag
