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NPF 505

Independent Cinema I

The course explores cinema's origins in documentary practices and some of the major movements in documentary cinema, including the G.P.O. documentaries, the W.P.A. documentaries, the founding of Canada's National Film Board and the wartime documentaries of Great Britain, United States and Canada, the Free Cinema, cinéma-vérité, and the institutional documentary. Texts on all these movements, including declarations of important proponents of the various schools, will be examined. (Formerly first half of NPF35AB).
Weekly Contact: Lecture: 3 hrs.
GPA Weight: 1.00
Course Count: 1.00
Billing Units: 1

Prerequisites

None

Co-Requisites

None

Antirequisites

None

Custom Requisites

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