This course examined the history and theory of global cinema since the Second World War, through the rise of the European art cinema movement of the 1960s and 1970s. It encompassed the role of film festivals, growth of Asian cinemas, shifts in global popular cinema, and concluded with the more recent transnational blockbusters of today. It surveyed major cinematic movements and their responses to the social, political, economic, technological, and cultural conditions and values that precipitated them.