LEARNING OUTCOMES
Through courses with alternating themes every year, the student becomes acquainted with different areas of film history, such as film genres, major directors, special themes, or interplay between film and other arts.
Credits: 4
Schedule: 19.04.2022 - 22.04.2022
Teacher in charge (valid for whole curriculum period):
Teacher in charge (applies in this implementation): Satu Kyösola, Olaf Möller
Contact information for the course (applies in this implementation):
Olaf Möller: shosukester@googlemail.com
Satu Kyösola: 050 554 1655 / satu.kyosola@aalto.fi
CEFR level (valid for whole curriculum period):
Language of instruction and studies (applies in this implementation):
Teaching language: English. Languages of study attainment: English
CONTENT, ASSESSMENT AND WORKLOAD
Content
valid for whole curriculum period:
Course contents change every year. Specific course descriptions will be updated in MyCourses Syllabus at the latest three weeks before the beginning of the course.
applies in this implementation
In a Foreign Country: Early Cinema in Europe, 1895-1915
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there. The most famous line from Leslie Poles Hartley's 1953 novel The Go-Between perfectly describes the feeling one gets upon entering the realm of Early Cinema: That one has never seen anything like it. Looking more closely one starts to understand that there are different rituals and different rules at work and play, that there's a logic and beauty also to this mysterious and mystifying cosmos. And the deeper one travels into this foreign country one might find out that it is, unexpectedly enough, the most modern of world one could enter – that of an art which doesn't know its self too well yet and therefore experiments with different identities, where hybridization is the norm, and everything an experiment for cinema is young and finds something new to do every day. It's a world where women wielded serious power before and behind the camera, where the lower classes could unleash their furious capacities to shape or destroy, where movement and beauty were all as stories barely existed. In this course we'll travel through this foreign country – and maybe find a lost utopia of the arts!
Assessment Methods and Criteria
valid for whole curriculum period:
Evaluation on a scale of 0-5.
Workload
valid for whole curriculum period:
Contact teaching: Screenings, lectures, discussions (21-27 hours total)
Independent work: essay or lecture diary (27-33 hours)
DETAILS
Substitutes for Courses
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Prerequisites
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FURTHER INFORMATION
Further Information
valid for whole curriculum period:
It is recommended that individual assignments related to the course are delivered in English.
Teaching Period:
2020-2021
(2021, 2022) - No teaching
Course Homepage: https://mycourses.aalto.fi/course/search.php?search=ELO-E102604
Registration for Courses: Sisu replaces Oodi on 9 August, 2021. Priority order to courses is according to the order of priority decided by the Academic committee for School of Arts, Design and Architecture: https://www.aalto.fi/en/services/registering-to-courses-and-the-order-of-priority-in-aalto-arts
applies in this implementation
The course will take place in Odeion (Maarintie 8, 2nd floor) - everyday from 9 am to 4 pm (one hour lunch break around noon)
More information on the venue: https://studios.aalto.fi/odeion-screening-auditorium/
PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS COURSE IS A 2 ECTS IMPLEMENTATION.
- Teacher: Kyösola Satu
- Teacher: Möller Olaf