Modernist cinema shattered conventions, rejecting classical storytelling in favor of ambiguity, subjectivity, and stylistic innovation.
By pushing cinematic boundaries and challenging audience expectations, modernist filmmakers redefined what movies could be. Their innovations continue to influence contemporary cinema, ensuring that the spirit of modernism remains alive today.
This course explores how filmmakers across different movements and countries redefined cinematic language and reshaped the art form.
PRECEDED BY:
🎬 Silent Film: A Crash Course — From abstract editing to visual metaphor, the late silent era laid the experimental foundation modernist filmmakers would later radicalize.
🕯️ German Expressionism: A Crash Course — Its fractured psychology, stylized mise-en-scène, and anti-realist techniques deeply shaped modernism’s formal rebellion against narrative clarity.
PAVED THE WAY FOR:
🎞️ French New…
Modernist cinema shattered conventions, rejecting classical storytelling in favor of ambiguity, subjectivity, and stylistic innovation.
By pushing cinematic boundaries and challenging audience expectations, modernist filmmakers redefined what movies could be. Their innovations continue to influence contemporary cinema, ensuring that the spirit of modernism remains alive today.
This course explores how filmmakers across different movements and countries redefined cinematic language and reshaped the art form.
PRECEDED BY:
🎬 Silent Film: A Crash Course — From abstract editing to visual metaphor, the late silent era laid the experimental foundation modernist filmmakers would later radicalize.
🕯️ German Expressionism: A Crash Course — Its fractured psychology, stylized mise-en-scène, and anti-realist techniques deeply shaped modernism’s formal rebellion against narrative clarity.
PAVED THE WAY FOR:
🎞️ French New Wave: A Crash Course — Modernism’s rejection of classical form directly fed the New Wave’s obsession with self-reflexivity, time, and fractured identity.
🇯🇵 Japanese New Wave: A Crash Course — Its anti-establishment ethos and boundary-pushing style echoed modernism’s embrace of moral ambiguity, alienation, and formal disruption.
🌍 Third Cinema: A Crash Course — Modernism’s fractured narratives and visual radicalism empowered politically engaged filmmakers across the Global South to subvert colonial storytelling.
🍸 New Hollywood: A Crash Course — Its subjective camerawork, narrative looseness, and anti-heroes flowed straight into the American '70s filmmaking rebellion.
