Courses
FILM3135 The Other Cinema: Cult, Exploitation, Experimental Films (3 units)
We usually divide films into "Art Films" and "Commercial Films". This bifurcated categorization largely limits our exposure and restricts our imagination and appreciation of movies. This course aims to broaden students' visions of film by studying three groups of films other than the "art" and "commercial" rubrics: Cult, Exploitation (especially pink movies), and Experimental/Avant-garde. All of them challenge established aesthetics and mores of watching films by posing such questions as what is good taste and good film, how the subculture-versus-dominant culture is set. By so doing, this course inspires students to explore the endless possibilities of film.