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Class number:
3363
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Title: Cinephilia and Philosophy |
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Department: First Year Sem & Colloq |
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Career: Undergraduate |
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Component: Seminar |
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Session: Regular |
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Instructor's Permission Required: Yes |
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Grading Basis: Graded |
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Units: 1.00 |
| Enrollment limited to 15 |
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Current enrollment: 14 |
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Available seats: 1 |
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Start date: Tuesday, September 2, 2025 |
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End date: Wednesday, December 17, 2025 |
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Mode of Instruction: In Person |
Schedule:
MW: 11:30AM-12:45PM, HL - 121
W: 6:30PM-9:00PM, HHN - 105
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Instructor(s): Younger, James |
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Prerequisite(s): Only first-year students are eligible to enroll in this class. |
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Distribution Requirement: Meets FirstYr Seminar Requirement |
Course Description:
This course begins with an initiation into the mysteries of cinephilia via the films of the classic American auteur Howard Hawks and proceeds into a free-ranging exploration of philosophical texts and films designed to provoke creative thought, open-ended discussion, and elegant, poetic-critical writing. With philosophers like Simone Weil, Plato, Krishnamurti, Vyasa and Lao Tze to challenge us, powerful films by Hawks, Hitchcock, Mizoguchi, Bunuel, Cuaron, Bergman, Mallick and many others to ponder, we will use the dialogical methodology of experimental cinephilia to explore fundamental themes of human life. We will also collaborate to collectively-auteur a short, life-changing masterpiece, film. |