Undergraduate Program
Unique No. 07400
Faculty: Siegenthaler
Class Time: MW 330-5P
Room: CMA 3.120
Screening Time: M 5-730P
Room: CMA 3.116
Writing Comp: Yes
Comm/Culture Req: No
Closing Limit: 35
Cross-listed: -
Prerequisites
Must be an RTF major with a UT GPA of at least a 2.25 and have upper division standing. The following coursework with a grade of at least C in each course: RTF 305, either 314 or 316, and 6 additional hours of lower-division coursework in RTF; for others, consent of instructor.
Consent requirements
This course does not require consent. Registration is open via the online registration system to all RTF majors.
First class day policy
Students must attend the first class day or make prior arrangements with the instructor.
Course description
From Oshima to Miike, Japanese filmmakers are known worldwide for their films' radical inventiveness. The leaders of the first New Wave carried that spirit of innovation through the 1960s and into the 1970s. Since the 1970s, successive generations of Japanese directors have continued to defy the visual and narrative conventions of cinema, bending genres, fracturing storylines, and bringing vivid new images to the screen.
This course explores the stylistic and ideological continuities that connect the filmmakers of Japan 's cinematic new waves. The first section begins with Oshima's films of the late 1950s and continues through the 1960s with works by Shinoda and Imamura. The remainder traces the movement's legacies and offshoots, including the yakuza films of Suzuki and Fukasaku, the social commentaries of Itami Juzô, and the "new new wave" films of Miike and "Beat" Takeshi.