Authorship & Cinema

This course will be devoted to a study of four major international filmmakers with distinct and contrasting visual styles: Howard Hawks (USA), Robert Bresson (France), Michael Powell (England), and Yasujiro Ozu (Japan). We will screen several films by each director, giving careful attention to the ways that their distinctive stylistic approaches shape the thematic preoccupations that mark their films. Films screened will include: Only Angels Have Wings (1939) and His Girl Friday (1940) by Hawks; Diary of a Country Priest (1951) and A Man Escaped (1956) by Bresson; I Know Where I’m Going! (1945) and Black Narcissus (1947) by Powell; There Was a Father (1942) and Tokyo Story (1953) by Ozu. (FMMC 0101 or FMMC 0102)