Students explore the longstanding and ongoing interaction between global cinema and literatures by studying a variety of literary and cultural texts in relation to cinema. Global cinematic movements and genres such as Silent cinema, Classical Hollywood cinema, German Expressionism, Surrealism, Italian Neorealism, French New Wave, American/Spaghetti Western, Feminist Film, Postmodern, Postcolonial, Bollywood cinema will be analyzed alongside literary and theoretical texts to understand the dialogue between Film and Literature in an increasingly globalized world.