Course Details
Course offered Spring 2017
HONORS 212 D: Revolutionary Cinema: Eisenstein, Vertov, Pudovkin (A&H)
HONORS 212 D: Revolutionary Cinema: Eisenstein, Vertov, Pudovkin (A&H)
SLN 21549 (View UW registration info »)
Credits: 5
Honors students must register for HONORS 212 D, if they wish to receive Honors credit for the course. Students enrolled in the HONORS section will engage in course content by:
– writing a longer midterm paper
– attending office hours
– writing a longer, more extensive final paper
The 1917 Bolshevik Revolution in Russia led to an explosion of social and cultural experimentation, with no less a personage than Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin proclaiming cinema “the most important of the arts.” This course examines how three leading filmmakers both reflected and shaped the great changes that characterized the 1920s; how their theories, manifestoes and debates altered cinema forever; and how a recalcitrant Soviet state eventually shut them down, severely compromising their careers. All screenings and readings in English.