May 21, 2025  
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

WLC 310 - Japanese Film History


This course provides an analytical survey of Japanese film history. From its birth in actuality and benshi-narrated silent films, Hollywood-inspired “pure films,” interwar comedy, wartime propaganda, the post-war flourishing of melodrama, to a rise of New Wave auteurs within studios. All the reading and discussion will be in English. Letter grade. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits