Come and join us at the Cultureplex Ciné-Club, where once a week, for 10 weeks (and throughout the academic year), we will watch and discuss film. Taking its cue from the famous Parisian ciné-club set up by the celebrated critic and writer, André Bazin, ‘the single thinker most responsible for bestowing on cinema the prestige both of an artform and of an object of knowledge’, and the man who foresaw the emergence of
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André Bazin’s ciné-club was set up by him as an opportunity for the screening and discussion of films, and as a tool for education. In following Bazin, the Cultureplex Ciné-Club shares these same goals. This is a film studies course that foregrounds the importance and the value of the collective film viewing experience, but which also is concerned to ensure that the films screened are curated, introduced and discussed with the rigour associated with the study of film at City Lit.
The 10 films to be screened will come from the list below and might include:
Coeur fidèle/The Faithful Heart (Jean Epstein 1923 France, 87 mins)
Borom sarret (Ousmane Sembene 1963 Senegal, 20 mins) and La noire de…/Black Girl (Ousmane Sembene 1966 Senegal, 65 mins)
Onibaba (Kaneto Shindô 1964 Japan, 103 mins)
Deus e o Diabo na Terra do Sol/Black God, White Devil (Glauber Rocha 1964 Brazil, 120 mins)
Wild at Heart (David Lynch 1990 US, 125 mins)
The Crying Game (Neil Jordan 1992 UK, 112 mins)
The Pillow Book (Peter Greenaway 1996 UK, 126 mins)
Lola rennt/Run Lola Run (Tom Tykwer 1998 Germany, 80 mins)
La stanza del figlio/The Son’s Room (Nanni Moretti 2001 Italy, 99 mins)
L'heure d'été/Summer Hours (Olivier Assayas 2008 France, 103 mins)
Please note that films screened are subject to availability and may change.
What will we cover?
The history of film as expressed through individual, indicative films
The historical development of film form
The development of cinematic self-expression through the articulation of a distinct visual style
Film spectatorship, understood in both personal, historical and theoretical terms
What will I achieve? By the end of this course you should be able to...
By the end of this course, you should be able to:
Subject a film to detailed critical analysis
Demonstrate familiarity with the key technical terms necessary for critical film analysis
Have a broad awareness of important moments in film history as expressed through individual indicative films
Be familiar with a range of theoretical perspectives in film studies
Feel confident in discussing films in a group setting
What level is the course and do I need any particular skills?
The course is suitable for all levels and you do not require any particular skills - just an enthusiasm for film and discussing film. The course will provide an introduction to aspects of the film subject area, in part through the collective viewing of films, but it will also be useful for those wishing to build on existing film knowledge.
How will I be taught, and will there be any work outside the class?
An introduction by the tutor, the screening of entire films, and large group discussions after the films have been shown. You may wish to see what you can find out about a given film in advance of the class but this is not essential and some prefer to come to each film without any prior knowledge.
Are there any other costs? Is there anything I need to bring?
You will require a pen and paper (or laptop/device) but the tutor will provide all other materials such as handouts.
When I've finished, what course can I do next?
The Cultureplex Ciné-Club course HF328 follows on from this one in Term 3 and HF354 French Film Ciné-Club is available if you are interested specifically in French cinema, but look also for other Film Studies courses under History Culture and Writing/Film Studies at www.citylit.ac.uk.
Dr. Paul Sutton is an independent film scholar who has taught Film Studies in UK higher education for over 25 years. His research covers psychoanalytic and film theory as well as Italian and French cinema and critical theory. He has published articles in journals such as Screen, French Studies and the Journal for Cultural Research. He has developed a psychoanalytic theory of film spectatorship, Afterwardsness in Film, and published work on television as a form of palliative care, as well as an assessment of the films of the Italian experimental filmmaker Ugo Nespolo. In 2025 he published the ‘comprehensive and highly readable’ In the Scene: Agnès Varda, a book on the celebrated and much-loved French film director Agnès Varda. Paul is a Film Studies tutor and the co-ordinator for Film, TV and Media Studies at City Lit.
Please note: We reserve the right to change our tutors from those advertised. This happens rarely, but if it does, we are unable to refund fees due to this. Our tutors may have different teaching styles; however we guarantee a consistent quality of teaching in all our courses.
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Each film will be introduced, placed in both its cinematic, cultural and historic context. In sharing our viewing in City Lit’s premier screening room, the Cultureplex, we will approximate the experience of watching film in the cinema, one that is intense and fully focussed in a way that other modes of viewing often are not. 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After the screening we will devote the rest of the class to a collective exploration of the film, led by the tutor, but involving everyone in a participatory discussion that will allow all to express their responses, their views, their thoughts on the film screened.</p>0000-Available|2027-01-12 00:00:00<p>André Bazin’s ciné-club was set up by him as an opportunity for the screening and discussion of films, and as a tool for education. In following Bazin, the Cultureplex Ciné-Club shares these same goals. This is a film studies course that foregrounds the importance and the value of the collective film viewing experience, but which also is concerned to ensure that the films screened are curated, introduced and discussed with the rigour associated with the study of film at City Lit.</p><p>The 10 films to be screened will come from the list below and might include:</p><ul><li><em>Coeur fidèle</em>/<em>The Faithful Heart</em> (Jean Epstein 1923 France, 87 mins)</li><li><em>Borom sarret</em> (Ousmane Sembene 1963 Senegal, 20 mins) and <em>La noire de…</em>/<em>Black Girl</em> (Ousmane Sembene 1966 Senegal, 65 mins)</li><li><em>Onibaba</em> (Kaneto Shindô 1964 Japan, 103 mins)</li><li><em>Deus e o Diabo na Terra do Sol</em>/<em>Black God, White Devil</em> (Glauber Rocha 1964 Brazil, 120 mins)</li><li><em>Wild at Heart</em> (David Lynch 1990 US, 125 mins)</li><li><em>The Crying Game</em> (Neil Jordan 1992 UK, 112 mins)</li><li><em>The Pillow Book</em> (Peter Greenaway 1996 UK, 126 mins)</li><li><em>Lola rennt</em>/<em>Run Lola Run</em> (Tom Tykwer 1998 Germany, 80 mins)</li><li><em>La stanza del figlio</em>/<em>The Son’s Room</em> (Nanni Moretti 2001 Italy, 99 mins)</li><li><em>L'heure d'été</em>/<em>Summer Hours</em> (Olivier Assayas 2008 France, 103 mins)</li></ul><p>Please note that films screened are subject to availability and may change.</p><p>Come and join us at the Cultureplex Ciné-Club, where once a week, for 10 weeks (and throughout the academic year), we will watch and discuss film. Taking its cue from the famous Parisian ciné-club set up by the celebrated critic and writer, André Bazin, ‘the single thinker most responsible for bestowing on cinema the prestige both of an artform and of an object of knowledge’, and the man who foresaw the emergence of film studies as a legitimate discipline of academic study, our contemporary incarnation of the film club will offer a curated series of films for detailed study, discussion and debate. Each film will be introduced, placed in both its cinematic, cultural and historic context. In sharing our viewing in City Lit’s premier screening room, the Cultureplex, we will approximate the experience of watching film in the cinema, one that is intense and fully focussed in a way that other modes of viewing often are not. After the screening we will devote the rest of the class to a collective exploration of the film, led by the tutor, but involving everyone in a participatory discussion that will allow all to express their responses, their views, their thoughts on the film screened.</p><ul><li>The history of film as expressed through individual, indicative films</li><li>The historical development of film form</li><li>The development of cinematic self-expression through the articulation of a distinct visual style</li><li>Film spectatorship, understood in both personal, historical and theoretical terms<br> </li></ul><p>By the end of this course, you should be able to:</p><ul><li>Subject a film to detailed critical analysis</li><li>Demonstrate familiarity with the key technical terms necessary for critical film analysis</li><li>Have a broad awareness of important moments in film history as expressed through individual indicative films</li><li>Be familiar with a range of theoretical perspectives in film studies</li><li>Feel confident in discussing films in a group setting<br> </li></ul><p>The course is suitable for all levels and you do not require any particular skills - just an enthusiasm for film and discussing film. The course will provide an introduction to aspects of the film subject area, in part through the collective viewing of films, but it will also be useful for those wishing to build on existing film knowledge.</p><p>An introduction by the tutor, the screening of entire films, and large group discussions after the films have been shown. You may wish to see what you can find out about a given film in advance of the class but this is not essential and some prefer to come to each film without any prior knowledge.</p><p>You will require a pen and paper (or laptop/device) but the tutor will provide all other materials such as handouts.</p><p>The Cultureplex Ciné-Club course HF328 follows on from this one in Term 3 and HF354 French Film Ciné-Club is available if you are interested specifically in French cinema, but look also for other Film Studies courses under History Culture and Writing/Film Studies at www.citylit.ac.uk.</p>Film studiesCiné-clubvirtual223279181HF324NONETue12/01/27 - 23/03/2714:00 - 17:0014:0017:0010 sessions (over 11 weeks)105-10 weeksDaytimeWeekdayKSKeeley StreetPaul SuttonBeginners, Some experience, Advanced, Suitable for allAvailable courses2027-01-12T00:00:00+00:00Jan 2027Culture, history & humanities279279Cultureplex ciné-club (Spring)cultureplex-cine-club-spring/hf324-2627<p>Come and join us at the Cultureplex Ciné-Club, where once a week, for 10 weeks (and throughout the academic year), we will watch and discuss film. Taking its cue from the famous Parisian ciné-club set up by the celebrated critic and writer, André Bazin, ‘the single thinker most responsible for bestowing on cinema the prestige both of an artform and of an object of knowledge’, and the man who foresaw the emergence of film studies as a legitimate discipline of academic study, our contemporary incarnation of the film club will offer a curated series of films for detailed study, discussion and debate. Each film will be introduced, placed in both its cinematic, cultural and historic context. In sharing our viewing in City Lit’s premier screening room, the Cultureplex, we will approximate the experience of watching film in the cinema, one that is intense and fully focussed in a way that other modes of viewing often are not. After the screening we will devote the rest of the class to a collective exploration of the film, led by the tutor, but involving everyone in a participatory discussion that will allow all to express their responses, their views, their thoughts on the film screened.</p>0000-Available|2027-01-12 00:00:00<p>André Bazin’s ciné-club was set up by him as an opportunity for the screening and discussion of films, and as a tool for education. In following Bazin, the Cultureplex Ciné-Club shares these same goals. This is a film studies course that foregrounds the importance and the value of the collective film viewing experience, but which also is concerned to ensure that the films screened are curated, introduced and discussed with the rigour associated with the study of film at City Lit.</p><p>The 10 films to be screened will come from the list below and might include:</p><ul><li><em>Coeur fidèle</em>/<em>The Faithful Heart</em> (Jean Epstein 1923 France, 87 mins)</li><li><em>Borom sarret</em> (Ousmane Sembene 1963 Senegal, 20 mins) and <em>La noire de…</em>/<em>Black Girl</em> (Ousmane Sembene 1966 Senegal, 65 mins)</li><li><em>Onibaba</em> (Kaneto Shindô 1964 Japan, 103 mins)</li><li><em>Deus e o Diabo na Terra do Sol</em>/<em>Black God, White Devil</em> (Glauber Rocha 1964 Brazil, 120 mins)</li><li><em>Wild at Heart</em> (David Lynch 1990 US, 125 mins)</li><li><em>The Crying Game</em> (Neil Jordan 1992 UK, 112 mins)</li><li><em>The Pillow Book</em> (Peter Greenaway 1996 UK, 126 mins)</li><li><em>Lola rennt</em>/<em>Run Lola Run</em> (Tom Tykwer 1998 Germany, 80 mins)</li><li><em>La stanza del figlio</em>/<em>The Son’s Room</em> (Nanni Moretti 2001 Italy, 99 mins)</li><li><em>L'heure d'été</em>/<em>Summer Hours</em> (Olivier Assayas 2008 France, 103 mins)</li></ul><p>Please note that films screened are subject to availability and may change.</p><p>Come and join us at the Cultureplex Ciné-Club, where once a week, for 10 weeks (and throughout the academic year), we will watch and discuss film. Taking its cue from the famous Parisian ciné-club set up by the celebrated critic and writer, André Bazin, ‘the single thinker most responsible for bestowing on cinema the prestige both of an artform and of an object of knowledge’, and the man who foresaw the emergence of film studies as a legitimate discipline of academic study, our contemporary incarnation of the film club will offer a curated series of films for detailed study, discussion and debate. Each film will be introduced, placed in both its cinematic, cultural and historic context. In sharing our viewing in City Lit’s premier screening room, the Cultureplex, we will approximate the experience of watching film in the cinema, one that is intense and fully focussed in a way that other modes of viewing often are not. After the screening we will devote the rest of the class to a collective exploration of the film, led by the tutor, but involving everyone in a participatory discussion that will allow all to express their responses, their views, their thoughts on the film screened.</p><ul><li>The history of film as expressed through individual, indicative films</li><li>The historical development of film form</li><li>The development of cinematic self-expression through the articulation of a distinct visual style</li><li>Film spectatorship, understood in both personal, historical and theoretical terms<br> </li></ul><p>By the end of this course, you should be able to:</p><ul><li>Subject a film to detailed critical analysis</li><li>Demonstrate familiarity with the key technical terms necessary for critical film analysis</li><li>Have a broad awareness of important moments in film history as expressed through individual indicative films</li><li>Be familiar with a range of theoretical perspectives in film studies</li><li>Feel confident in discussing films in a group setting<br> </li></ul><p>The course is suitable for all levels and you do not require any particular skills - just an enthusiasm for film and discussing film. The course will provide an introduction to aspects of the film subject area, in part through the collective viewing of films, but it will also be useful for those wishing to build on existing film knowledge.</p><p>An introduction by the tutor, the screening of entire films, and large group discussions after the films have been shown. You may wish to see what you can find out about a given film in advance of the class but this is not essential and some prefer to come to each film without any prior knowledge.</p><p>You will require a pen and paper (or laptop/device) but the tutor will provide all other materials such as handouts.</p><p>The Cultureplex Ciné-Club course HF328 follows on from this one in Term 3 and HF354 French Film Ciné-Club is available if you are interested specifically in French cinema, but look also for other Film Studies courses under History Culture and Writing/Film Studies at www.citylit.ac.uk.</p>Film studiesCiné-clubconfigurable
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