The purpose of the course includes:
- The students to become familiar with the language of the cinema, and to be able to analyze a film and its concept during the lesson.
- To study cinema as a cultural industry, as art and as a means of expression. In addition, to study the differences between the cinema culture of each European country, and the creation of different trends and movements as a result of the history and of socio-cultural circumstances. Students should become familiar with the uniqueness of each country's cinema in order to reveal the cultural heritage that every film contain.
- To analyse films which are hallmarks of each era such as neorealism, nouvelle vague, free cinema, as well as, important directors as Mario De Sica, Roberto Rossellini, FedericoFellini, Michelangelo Antonioni, Pier-Paolo Pasolini, Luchino Visconti, Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, Andre Bresson, Louis Mall, Ingmar Bergman, Karl Dreyer, Andrei Tarkovsky, Krzysztof Kieślowski, Mike Leigh. These directors and their movies will be the trigger to dialogue about different important issues and subjects and perform aesthetic analysis.
- The students to befamiliar with art in education and be able to develop critical ability by understanding the cinematic language, but also by understanding the background theory about the ways that the cinema entertains and mean while awakens the public.
- To perform analysis, including psychological and social factors, about the differences of viewing a movie in the cinema from viewing a movie on TV or the internet.
- To become familiar with the new technologies and the opportunities created in education. Cinema could be a global language that approaches other arts such as literature, music, theatre, visua larts. As an example of cinema being international, William Shakespeare inspires Russian cinema directors like Grigori Kozinzev, or Japanese cinema directors like Akira Kurosawa, hence directors are a sample of the cultural identity of each country, era, movement.
- To discuss the ideological consequences of movie distribution, as well as, the massive role of internet, as a mean of access in international filmography.