Film Europe

Course Code 08 208

Booking will close on Monday 13th January 2025 at 12 noon

Due to limited resources we are UNABLE TO ACCEPT LATE BOOKINGS after this date.

Film Europe

Thursday evenings 6.30 - 9.00pm for 6 weeks 16th January - 27th February 2025 (NB - no class on 6 February).

This course will be held in Room 2S13, Dalhousie Building, Old Hawkhill, Dundee DD1 5EN

After the Great War, the motion picture industry became increasingly global as film-makers recognised the unique nature of silent cinema as an international artistic language with the possibility to unite people of all nations in shared understanding. For European studios, collaboration was also the best way to combat the growing dominance of Hollywood, which was rapidly sucking up talent both behind and in front of the cameras. This new course will explore a unique moment in cinema in the second half of the 1920s when film-makers across Europe developed a distinctive international style, sharing resources and creative talent. The Film Europe movement survived into the 1930s but was killed off by the language barriers of sound and the growing political extremism of the time. The course will be illustrated by complete feature films and numerous extracts.

Tutor: Matthew Jarron

Matthew is Curator of Museum Services at the University of Dundee, looking after a collection of over 30,000 objects, artworks and specimens and running the D’Arcy Thompson Zoology Museum, the Tayside Medical History Museum, and the exhibition programme in the Tower Foyer & Lamb Galleries. He also has a lifelong passion for cinema and has taught film history evening classes in Dundee since 2001.

Comments from Matthew's cinema courses 2023/24 :

"Good course, well organised and informative and presented extremely well once again. Really enjoyed this".

"Another excellent and fun course from Matthew Jarron".

"A fantastic course. Matthew is amazing, so much knowledge".

"Thoroughly enjoyed the course".

"Course was enjoyable due to Matthew Jarron's preparation and presentation".

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