ClassInfo - Spring 2019 Asian Languages and Literature Classes

Spring 2019 | ALL 5358 Section 001: Realism, Revolution, and the Moving Image (66560)

Instructor(s): Alice Lovejoy
Jason McGrath
Class Component:: Lecture
Credits:: 3 Credits
Grading Basis:: Student Option
Instructor Consent:: No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:: In Person Term Based
Meets With:: MIMS 5910 Section 001
Times and Locations:: Regular Academic Session

01/22/2019 - 05/06/2019

Mon 01:00PM - 04:00PM

UMTC, East Bank

Nicholson Hall 335
Enrollment Status:: Open (9 of 11 seats filled)

Course Catalog Description:: Cinema associated with socialist realism as a global, transnational phenomenon at the heart of the aesthetics of the 20th-century's communist movement. The work of revolutionary filmmakers from China, Soviet Union, North Korea, Cuba, Eastern Europe, and Africa informs our exploration of socialist realism. Formalized by Maxim Gorky and other Soviet artists, theorists, and cultural officials in the early 1930s, socialist realism would become the official literary and artistic style of Communist revolutionary movements and resulting states throughout the world. Certain consistencies of style and theme spread to various sites across histories and geographies, yet much variation also was evident and will be explored in this class. Rejecting the dismissal of socialist realism as mere propaganda, we will take seriously its theorization and its aesthetic innovations, as well as its relationships with classical Hollywood narration, melodrama, and the psychoanalytic concept of sublimation. Through an examination of socialist realism's variations and limits, we will grapple with larger questions of modernity, authority, and the function of art in modern societies.
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