Film Studies 397CD - ST- Cinema of Dreams

How do dreams become incorporated into films? How are dreams like movies, or the film experience like dreaming? While Hollywood has long been called a "Dream Factory," the cinema of dreams extends around the world and from the earliest history of film. We will examine the ways that dreams have signified in cinema, and especially how films can serve purposes in our lives similar to the role of dreams. Ultimately, we will explore the oneiric as a way of understanding film and as an aesthetic and stylistic approach to filmmaking. Works by Andrei Tarkovsky, Akira Kurosawa, Kim Cho-hee, Michel Gondry, Agnes Varda, David Cronenberg, Maya Deren, Michael Haneke, Jane Campion, Richard Linklater, David Lynch, Federico Fellini, Buster Keaton, Satoshi Kon, Hayao Miyazaki, Charlie Kaufman, Alejandro Amenabar, Ran Slavin, Georges Melies, Alice Guy-Blache, Chloe Zhao, and others. Film Studies Major Through BDIC Category: D&G, E Undergraduate Film Studies Certificate categories: III, V