FILM329B

In this online course, we will screen some of the most important films censored in different nations and cultures throughout the history of cinema. These films, censored, challenged, or banned on political, social, sexual, and religious grounds, will provide fascinating material to consider the relationship between culture and politics, morality and ideology. Films to be screened online may include A Clockwork Orange and Paths of Glory (Kubrick), Peeping Tom (Powell), Crash (Cronenberg) , Butterfly Kiss (Winterbottom), Farewell My Concubine (Chen Kaige), Kama Sutra : A Tale of Love (Nair), Fire (Mehta), Drunken Angel (Kurosawa), The Virgin Spring (Bergman), The Devils (Russell), Body of Evidence (Edel), The Moon is Blue (Preminger), A Streetcar Named Desire (Kazan), A Separation (Farhadi), All Quiet on the Western Front (Milestone), And God Created Women(Vadim).