CINE4002: History of Film After 1950
Some Ideas for Research Topics
Movements/Periods:
Neorealism, American Postwar Cinema, The Blacklist, The French New Wave, Free
Cinema, Kitchen Sink Cinema, The British New Wave, British Cinema of the Swinging
Sixties, Japanese Monster Movies, Japanese New Wave, Post-Stalinist Cinema in the
USSR, Czech New Wave, Cinema Novo (Brazil), New Latin American Cinema, New
Hollywood, Blaxploitation, The Los Angeles School of Black Cinema, New German
Cinema, Bollywood, Parallel Cinema (India), The Cinema of the Look (French Films of
the 1980s), Chinese Fifth Generation Films, Chinese Sixth Generations Films, New
Iranian Cinema, New Queer Cinema (1990s-present)
Directors:
US: John Ford, Howard Hawks, Alfred Hitchcock, Orson Welles, Nicholas Ray, Samuel
Fuller, Elia Kazan, Billy Wilder, Jules Dassin, Vicent Minnelli, Anthony Mann, Douglas
Sirk, Kenneth Anger, Stanley Kubrick, Roger Corman, George Roy Hill, Richard
Leacock, Robert Drew, D.A. Pennebaker, Maysles Bros., Stan Brakhage, Andy Warhol,
Joe D’Allessandro, Jonas Mekas, Harry Smith, Michael Snow, Shirley Clarke, Sam
Peckinpah, Martin Scorsese, Paul Schrader, Francis Ford Coppola, Brian De Palma,
Dennis Hopper, Arthur Penn, Melvin Van Peebles, Julie Dash, Charles Burnett, Peter
Davis, Mike Nichols, Peter Bogdanovich, Robert Altman, John Cassavetes, Woody
Allen, Barbara Kopple, Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Erroll Morris, Godfrey Reggio,
Michael Moore, John Sayles, Darren Aronofsky, Don Herzfeld, Wachowski Bros. Coen
Bros., Spike Jonze, Alexander Payne, Gus van Sant, Quentin Tarrantino, Robert
Rodriguez, John Waters, Tim Burton, Jim Jarmusch, Spike Lee, Terrence Malick, Ted
Demme, Hal Hartley, Todd Haynes, David Lynch, Todd Solondz, Larry Clarke,
Harmony Korine, Oliver Stone, Kevin Smith, Paul Thomas Anderson, Wes Anderson,
David Fincher, Christopher Nolan, Steven Soderbergh, Sofia Coppola, David Jones
Britain: David Lean, Michael Powell, Lindsay Anderson, Karel Reisz, Tony Richardson,
David Attenborough, Ken Loach, Stanley Kubrick, Peter Brook, Nicholas Roeg, Blake
Edwards, Ken Russell, Merchant/Ivory, Ridley Scott, Stephen Frears, Mike Leigh, Isaac
Julien, Derek Jarman, Kenneth Branagh, Hanif Kureishi, Peter Greenaway, Neil Jordan,
Guy Ritchie, Danny Boyle, Pawel Pawelski, Steve McQueen
Ireland: Jim Sheridan, Peter Mullen
Canada: David Cronenberg, Atom Egoyan, Guy Maddin, François Girard
Japan and Korea: Inoshiro Honda, Akira Kurosawa, Yasujiro Ozu, Kenji Mizoguchi,
Nagisa Oshima, Shohei Imamura, Hani, Yoshida, Hiroshi Teshigahara, Kitano Takeshi,
Hayao Miyazaki, Chan Wook Park,
Australia/New Zealand: Jane Campion, Gillian Armstrong, Peter Weir
USSR: Mikhail Kalatakov., Andrei Tarkovsky, Larisa Shepitko, Serge Paradzhanov,
Sergei Bondarchuk, Kura Muratova, Andrei Konchalovsky
Spain: Luis Buñuel, Carlos Saura, Bigas Luna, Alejandro Amenabar, Pedro Almodovar,
Alex de la Iglesia,
France (and Belgium): Marcel Ophuls, Robert Bresson, Jean Pierre Melville, Jacques
Tati, Alain Resnais, Roger Vadim, Jean Luc Godard, François Truffaut, Claude Lelouch,
Erich Rohmer, Agnes Varda, Jacques Rivette, Claude Chabrol, Chris Marker, Jean
Rouch, Chantal Ackerman, Margueritte Duras, Luc Besson, Matthieu Kassowitz, Claire
Denis, Catherine Breillat, Olivier Assayas, Gaspar Noe
Germany/Austria: Fritz Lang, Alexander Kluge, Volker Schlondorf,, Werner Herzog,
Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Margaretta von Trotta, Barbet Schroeder, Wim Wenders, Tom
Twyker, Michael Haneke
Eastern Europe: Poman Polanski, Andrej Wadja, Milosz Forman, Jiri Menzel Jan
Svankmajer: Ivan Passer, Jerzy Skolimowski, Miklos Jancso, Emir Kusturica, Istvan
Szabo, Krzystof Zanussi, Krzystof Kieslowski
Scandanavia: Ingmar Bergman, Lars Von Trier, Thomas Vinterberg, Aki Kaurismaki,
Middle East/Muslim World: Abbas Kiarostami, Jafar Panahi, Mohsen Makhmalbaf,
Samira Makhmalbaf, Marjane Satrapi, Bahman Ghobadi, Amos Gitai, Elia Suleiman,
Hany Abu Assad
Italy: Roberto Rossellini, Federico Fellini, Gilles Pontecorvo, Dario Argenti, Franco
Zeferelli, Lina Wertmuller, Bernardo Bertolucci, Antonioni, Nanni Moretti, Lucchino
Visconti, Taviani Bros. Pier Pasolini, Sergio Leone
Latin America: Margot Benacerraf, El Indio Fernandez, Leopoldo Torre Nilsson,
Clemente de la Cerda, Ugo Ulive, Nelson Pereira Dos Santos, Ruy Guerra, Glauber
Rocha. Joaquim Pedro de Andrade, Carlos Diegues, Fernando Birri, Fernando Solanas,
Humberto Solás, Enrique Pineda, Tomás Gutierrez Alea, Jaime Humberto Hermosillo,
Orlando Leal, Miguel Littin, Jorge Sanjinés, Santiago Alvarez, Arturo Ripstein, Luis
Puenzo, Francisco Lombardi, Hector Babenco, Jose Estrada, Luis Estrada, Alejandro
Jodorowsky, Rene Fortunato, Adolfo Aristarain, Eliseo Subiela, Alejandro Gonzalez,
Iñarritu, Alfonso Cuaron, Guillermo del Toro, Fabian Bielinsky, Walter Salles, Lucia
Puenzo, Lucrecia Martell, Carlos Reygadas
India: Satyajit Ray, Mira Nair, Aparna Sen, Shekar Kapoor
China: Wu Tianming, Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige, The Shaw Bros., John Woo, Wong
Kar Wai, Ang Lee, Edward Yang
Africa: Osmane Sembebe, Jean Pierre Bekolo, Haile Gerima, Cheick Omar Sissoko
Actors/Stars:
US: James Dean, Marilyn Monroe, Marlon Brando, Dorothy Dandridge, Sidney Poitier,
Harry Belafonte, Janet Leigh, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Kirk
Douglas, Jane Fonda, Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Robert Redford, Dustin Hoffman,
Jack Nicholson, Karen Black, Cybil Shepherd, Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel,
Christopher Walken, Sissy Spacek, Martin Sheen, Lawrence Fishburne, George Clooney,
Brad Pitt
Scandanavia: Liv Ullman, Bibi Anderson, Max von Sydow,
Britain: Alec Guinness, Peter Sellers, Peter O’Toole, Julie Christie, Michael Caine,
Daniel Day Lewis
France: Brigitte Bardot, Alain Delon, Jean Paul Belmondo,
Genres/Types of Films:
Film Noir, Musicals, Comedies, Satires, Parodies, “The Woman’s Film”, Queer Films,
Science Fiction, Horror, Hammer Films (British Horror), Documentaries, Social Realist
Films, Heritage Films, Art Films, Pop Cinema, Film-Poems, Film-Essays, Third Cinema,
Animation, Disney, Pixar, Anime
Other: Film Music/Film Composers, Sound Design/Soundtracks,
Cinematography/Cinematographers, Special Effects, Art Direction, Costume Design,
Hair & Make Up in Films, Editing/Editors, Film Adaptations, Sequels and Series, Analog
vs. Digital, Transmedia, Issues of race, gender, sexuality, nation, culture, identity, etc.
Politics and film.