OAKTON COMMUNITY COLLEGE
GENERIC SYLLABUS
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Course
Prefix
HUM
Course
Number
161
Course
Name
Global Cinema
Credit Lecture
3
3
Lab
0
Prerequisites
None
III.
Course (Catalog) Description
Course offers a survey of the historical development of global cinema outside of
Hollywood and the United States, emphasizing a study of films and innovations in film
production, distribution, and exhibition, as well as changes in national identity, that have
had significant influence on cinema as an international art form.
IV.
Learning Objectives
 Identify the key movements and landmark films in world cinema and key elements
germane to film history and aesthetics.
 Understand the value of films as a reflection of global consciousness and culture.
 Develop an appreciation of film as an art form and recognize how key regional
filmmakers have used film form to represent national identity at strategic moments in
world history.
 Apply concepts and classroom experiences to increase enjoyment of “foreign” film
outside of class.
 Develop critical thinking and writing skills.
V.
Academic Integrity
Students and employees at Oakton Community College are required to demonstrate
academic integrity and follow Oakton’s Code of Academic Conduct. This code prohibits:
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cheating,
plagiarism (turning in work not written by you, or lacking proper citation),
falsification and fabrication (lying or distorting the truth),
helping others to cheat,
unauthorized changes on official documents,
pretending to be someone else or having someone else pretend to be you,
making or accepting bribes, special favors, or threats, and
any other behavior that violates academic integrity.
There are serious consequences to violations of the academic integrity policy. Oakton’s
policies and procedures provide students a fair hearing if a complaint is made against you.
If you are found to have violated the policy, the minimum penalty is failure on the
assignment. A disciplinary record will be established and kept on file in the office of the
Vice President for Student Affairs for a period of 3 years.
Details of the Code of Academic Conduct can be found in the Student Handbook.
VI.
Outline of Topics
This schedule is subject to change.
Week One: German Expressionism
Choose from the following:
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Robert Weine, 1918)
The Last Laugh (F.W. Murnau, 1924)
Metropolis (Fritz Lang, 1926)
Week Two: Russian Montage
Choose from the following:
Battleship Potemkin (Sergei Eisenstein, 1925)
Mother (V.I. Pudovkin, 1926)
The Man with a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov, 1928)
Week Three: French Poetic Realism
Choose from the following:
L’Atalante (Jean Vigo, 1934)
The Grand Illusion (Jean Renoir, 1937)
The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir, 1939)
Week Four: Italian Neorealism
Choose from the following:
Open City (Roberto Ressellini, 1945)
Paisan (Roberto Rossellini, 1946)
The Bicycle Thief (Vittorio de Sica, 1948)
Week Five: Postwar Japanese Cinema
Choose from the following:
Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa, 1950)
Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu, 1953)
Ugetsu (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1953)
Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa, 1954)
Week Six: Eastern European Cinema
Choose from the the following:
Poland
Kanal (Andrzej Wajda, 1956)
Ashes and Diamonds (Andrzej Wajda, 1958)
A Short Film About Killing (Krzysztof Kiéslowski, 1988)
Hungary
The Red and the White (Miklós Jancsó, 1967)
Satantango (Béla Tarr, 1994)
Czechoslovakia
The Fireman’s Ball (Milos Forman, 1967)
Yugoslavia
Time of the Gypsies (Emir Kusturica, 1990)
Russia
Andrei Rublev (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1966)
Brother (Aleksei Balabanov, 1997)
Week Seven: The French New-wave
Choose from the following:
Hiroshima, mon amour (Alain Resnais, 1959)
The 400 Blows (François Truffaut, 1959)
Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard, 1960)
Jules and Jim (François Truffaut, 1961)
My Life to Live (Jean-Luc Godard, 1962)
Week Eight: European Art Cinema (1950s/1960s)
Choose from the following:
Great Britain
Lindsay Anderson, This Sporting Life (1963) or If…(1969)
Richard Lester, A Hard Day’s Night (1964)
France
Jacques Tati, Mon Uncle (1958) or Playtime (1967)
Max Ophüls, Lola Montès (1955)
Robert Bresson, A Man Escaped (1956)
Sweden
Ingmar Bergman, The Seventh Seal (1957) or Persona (1966)
Spain
Luis Buñuel, Viridiana (1961) or Belle de jour (1967)
Italy
Federico Fellini, La Dolce Vita (1960) or 81/2 (1963)
Michelangelo Antonioni, L’Avventura (1960) or The Eclipse (1962)
Luchino Visconti, The Leopard (1963)
Week Nine: European Art Cinema (1960s/1970s)
Choose from the following:
Great Britain
Nicholas Roeg, Performance (1970) or The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976)
Germany
Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974) or The Marriage of Maria
Braun (1979)
Werner Herzog, Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1973)
Poland
Roman Polanski, Repulsion (1965)
Italy
Bernardo Bertolucci, The Spider’s Stratagem (1970) or Last Tango in Paris (1972)
Pier Paolo Pasolini, Salò (1975)
Dario Argento, Suspiria (1977)
Week Ten: Latin American Cinema
Choose from the following:
Brazil
Antônio das Mortes (Glauber Rocha, 1969)
How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman (Nelson Pereira dos Santos, 1971)
Cuba
The Last Supper (Tomás Guitiérrez Alea, 1976)
Strawberry and Chocolate (Tomás Guitiérrez Alea, 1994)
Mexico
Like Water for Chocolate (Alfonzo Arau, 1992)
Amores Perros (Alejandro González Iñárritu, 2001)
Y tu mamá también (Alfonzo Cuarón, 2001)
Week Eleven: Indian Cinema
Choose from the following:
Pather Panchali (Satyajit Ray, 1955)
Pyaasa (Guru Dutt, 1957)
Sholay (Ramesh Sippy, 1975)
Bombay (Mani Rathnam, 1995)
Week Twelve: Chinese Cinema
Choose from the following:
China
Raise the Red Lantern (Zhang Yimou, 1991)
Farewell My Concubine (Chen Kaige, 1992)
Hero (Zhang Yimou, 2002)
Taiwan
A City of Sadness (Jou Hsaio-hsien, 1988)
Week Thirteen: African Cinema
Choose from the following:
Senegal
Xala (Ousmane Sembène, 1974)
Ceddo (Ousmane Sembène, 1977)
Nigeria
Living in Bondage (Kenneth Nnebue, 1992)
Week Fourteen: Middle Eastern Cinema
Choose from the following:
Iran
The White Balloon (Jafar Panahi, 1996)
A Taste of Cherry (Abbas Kiarostami, 1997)
May Lady (Rakhshan Bani-Etemad, 1998)
The Circle (Jafar Panahi, 2000)
Ten (Abbas Kiarostami, 2002)
Israel
Kippur (Amos Gitai, 2000)
Week Fifteen: Contemporary Asian Cinema
Choose from the following:
Japan
Ghost in the Shell (Mamoru Oshii, 1996)
Audition (Takeshi Miike, 1999)
Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki, 2001)
Zaitôichi (Takeshi Kitano, 2003)
Hong Kong
The Killer (John Woo, 1989)
Hard-Boiled (John Woo, 1992)
Chungking Express (Wong Kar-Wai, 1994)
In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-Wai, 2000)
South Korea
JSA (Park Chan-wook, 2000)
Oldboy (Park Chan-wook, 2003)
The Host (Bong Joon-ho, 2006)
Week Sixteen: Contemporary Global Cinema
Choose from the following:
Denmark
Lars Von Trier, Dancer in the Dark (2000)
Germany
Tom Tykwer, Run, Lola, Run (1999)
Spain
Pedro Almodóvar, All About My Mother (1999)
Great Britain
Danny Boyle, Trainspotting (1996)
Michael Winterbottom, 24 Hour Party People (2004)
France
Catherine Breillat, Fat Girl (2001)
Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Amelie (2003)
New Zealand
Jane Campion, Holy Smoke (1999)
Niki Caro, Whale Rider (2002)
Brazil
Fernando Meirelles and Katiá Lund, City of God (2002)
Taiwan
Ang Lee, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
India
Mira Nair, The Namesake (2006)
Iran
Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis (2007)
Students should be able to find the aforementioned films at their local library or with a
temporary account with Netflix, which has all of these films available on DVD.
VII.
Methods of Instruction
Course may be taught as a face-to-face, media-based, hybrid, or online course.
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VIII.
Lectures and discussion
Reading Assignments
Films
Outside Screenings
Course Practices Required
(Please include information here about all expectations you have for your students regarding
behavior, work, etc. The following are sample topics you may wish to cover. Please be aware
that you must require students in this course to produce at least 15 pages of critical written
assignments over the course of the semester. These may be assigned in a variety of ways
including journals, response papers, field trip projects, etc.)
 Attendance
 Standards for written work
 Quizzes/Exams
 Participation
 Essays
 Final Projects
 Special policies about make-up exams, late papers, or other matters of concern
IX.
Instructional Materials
Note: Current textbook information for each course and section is available on Oakton’s
Schedule of Classes.
A text such as A History of Film by Virginia Wright Wexman and relevant films will be used.
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Methods of Evaluation
(In this section, please notify students of dates for major exams and projects, and present the
percentages or point breakdown of their final grade.)
 Quizzes/Exams
 Journals/Essays
 Final Project
 Components of grade
XI.
Other Course Information:
A. Important Dates
B. Disabilities
If you have a documented learning, psychological, or physical disability you may be entitled
to reasonable academic accommodations or services. To request accommodations or services
contact the Access and Disability Resource Center at the Des Plaines or Skokie campus. All
students are expected to fulfill essential course requirements. The College will not waive any
essential skill or requirement of a course or degree program.
C. Discrimination
The Oakton Community College Catalog states:
Oakton Community College does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, creed, religion,
national origin, disability, age, sex, sexual orientation, or marital status in admission to and
participation in its educational programs, activities and services, or employment practices.
The College does not tolerate sexual harassment or sexual assault by or of its students or
employees.
In keeping with this policy of tolerance and non-discrimination, in this class all of us (myself
included) should strive to listen and give careful consideration to all ideas expressed in class,
especially those that are different from our own, without attacking or demeaning the people
who have those views. We should also strive to avoid using insulting terms or telling
offensive jokes when talking to or about individuals or groups.
Approval Dates:
(Faculty: Do not include the following information on your individual syllabi created for class
distribution.)
Effective beginning term: Fall 2013
Ending term:
Syllabus prepared by: Laurence Knapp
Date: October 2010
Reviewed by Dept./Program Chair:
Date:
October 2010
Date:
June 2013
Approval by Dean:
Linda Korbel
Joo Lee