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Key to abbreviations for Quizs listed on this page: |
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| FAC | Film Analysis and Criticism, course anthology |
| SGWF | A Short Guide to Writing About Film, any edition, by Timothy Corrigan |
| FA | Film Art: An Introduction, any edition (FILM 2100 textbook on reserve in library) |
Please note: this syllabus is subject to change (with notice).
Monday, January 8
| Read: | 1. D2L: SGWF Chapters 1 & 2, skim Chapter 3 to review FILM 2100 terms |
| Quiz: | Take Quiz 0 via D2L; due before 11:59pm Monday night |
Wednesday, January 10
| Read: | 1. FAC*: Lúcia Nagib, "Talking Bullets: The Language of Violence in City of God" Third Text 68 (18:3), (May 2004): 239-250 (Okay to skim and/or skip "Murdered Words" section on pages 240-243) *Also available as a PDF on D2L for this first week |
| 2. D2L: Interview with Director Fernando Meirelles | |
| View: | Cidade de Deus / City of God (Fernando Meirelles & Kátia Lund, 2002, Brazil; 130 min.) (Study Guide) |
| Quiz: | on Wednesday at 12:45pm over film and readings |
Monday, January 15
| No Class Meeting in honor of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday |
Wednesday, January 17
| Read: | 1. D2L: Paul Gormley, “In the Mood for Love and the ‘Secret’ of Cinematic Affect,” The Cine-Files 10 (Spring 2016) (okay to skim first 2 paragraphs about affect; focus on the parts after that about melodrama) |
| 2. FAC: "Interview with Wong Kar-Wai at Cannes 2001" in Peter Brunette, Contemporary Film Directors: Wong Kar-wai (2005): 123-133 | |
| View: | Fa yeung nin wa / In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-Wai, 2000, Hong Kong; 98 min.) (Study Guide) |
| Quiz: | on Wednesday at 12:45pm over film and readings |
| Clips and recommended additional screenings this week: |
| Written on the Wind (Douglas Sirk, 1956, US) | |
| Sense and Sensibility (Ang Lee, 1995, US) | |
| The Virgin Suicides (Sofia Coppola, 1999, US) | |
| All About My Mother (Pedro Almodóvar, 1999, Spain) | |
| The Triplets of Belleville (Sylvain Chomet, 2003, France) | |
| 2046 (Wong Kar-Wai, 2004, Hong Kong) |
Monday, January 22
| Read: | 1. FAC: Nick Lacey, "Propp's Narrative Functions," in Narrative and Genre (2000): 46-53 |
| Quiz: | on Monday at 12:45pm over readings |
Wednesday, January 24
| Read: | 1. D2L: Interview with Director Boaz Yakin |
| View: | Fresh (Boaz Yakin, 1994, US; 114 min.) (Study Guide) |
| Quiz: | on Wednesday at 12:45pm over film and readings |
| Shot-by-Shot
Analysis Group Project assigned today Sign up for your top three choices via 1-minute Qualtrics survey before 9am tomorrow |
| Clips and recommended additional screenings this week: |
| Blade Runner (Ridley Scott, 1982, US) | |
| Adaptation (Spike Jonze, 2002, US) | |
| Fight Club (David Fincher, 1999, US) |
Monday, January 29
| Read: | 1. FAC: Vsevolod Pudovkin, "On Editing" (7-12) |
| 2. FAC: André Bazin, "The Evolution of the Language of Cinema" (47-52) | |
| Quiz: | on Monday at 12:45pm over readings |
Wednesday, January 31
| Read: | 1. D2L: Guillermo del Toro interview |
| View: | El Espinazo del diablo/The Devil's Backbone (Guillermo del Toro, 2001, Mexico; 106 min.) (Study Guide) |
| Quiz: | on Wednesday at 12:45pm over film and readings |
| Clips and recommended additional screenings this week: |
| Battleship Potemkin (Sergei Eisenstein, 1925, Russia) | |
| Sans soleil (Chris Marker, 1982, France) | |
| Chungking Express (Wong Kar-Wai, 1999, Hong Kong) | |
| 7 Boxes (Juan Carlos Maneglia, Tana Schembori, 2012, Paraguay) | |
| Nanook of the North (Robert Flaherty, 1922, US) | |
| The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir, 1939, France) | |
| Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941, US) | |
| Bicycle Thieves (Vittorio de Sica, 1948, Italy) | |
| The Little Foxes (William Wyler, 1941, US) | |
| Pan's Labyrinth (Guillermo del Toro, 2006, Mexico/Spain) |
Monday, February 5
| Read: | 1. FAC: Interview with Joe Bini (Editor for Grizzly Man), "Speaking Cinema" from First Cut 2 |
| View: | Grizzly Man (Werner Herzog, 2005, US/Germany; 104 min.) (Study Guide) |
| Quiz: | on Monday at 12:45pm over film and readings **via D2L** |
Wednesday, February 7
| Shot-by-Shot Workshop during class Wednesday--MANDATORY ATTENDANCE! |
| Clips and recommended additional screenings this week: |
| Burden of Dreams (Les Blank, 1982, US) |
Monday, February 12
| Read: | 1. FAC: Sergei Eisenstein, Vsevold Pudovkin, & Grigori Alexandrov, "Statement on Sound" (315-317) |
| 2. FAC: Mary Ann Doane, "The Voice in Cinema: The Articulation of Body and Space" (Subsections "Synchronization" and "Voice-Off and Voiceover" 319-bottom of 321 and bottom of 323-324 only) | |
| 3. D2L: Kathryn Kalinak, "What Does Film Music Do?" Chapter 1 in Film Music: A Very Short Introduction (1-8) | |
| Quiz: | on Monday at 12:45pm over readings |
Wednesday, February 14
| Read: | 1. D2L: Cinephilia and Beyond article on Punch Drunk Love |
| 2. D2L:Two Video Interviews with Jon Brion on music in Punch Drunk Love: Interview 1 (2:56) and Interview 2 (2:41) | |
| 3. D2L: Rolling Stone interview with Jon Brion | |
| View: | Punch Drunk Love (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2002, US) (Study Guide) |
| Quiz: | on Wednesday at 12:45pm over film and readings |
| Clips and recommended additional screenings this week: |
Monday, February 19
| Optional Read: | SGWF: Chapters 4-7 |
| Shot-by-Shot Presentation due on Monday (Videos due Sunday night or 8am Monday morning at the latest) Shot-by-Shot Evalutaion due after your presentation, ideally later on Monday or before Tuesday night |
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Wednesday, February 21
| Test 1 on Wednesday at 12:45pm (in 2 Parts on paper in class) Test format includes Part 1: SxS & Short Answer questions and Part 2: Multiple Choice/T-F questions that cover material from Section 1. |
Monday, February 26
| Reading: | 1. FAC: Bill Nichols, "What Types of Documentary Are There?" from Introduction to Documentary (2001): read for the definitions, characteristics, & drawbacks of each of the 6 modes (99-105, 109-110, 115-116, 125-127, 130-131, and especially the chart on 138) |
| Optional: | 2. D2L: Stan Brakhage, excerpt from Metaphors on Vision |
| View: | 1. The Body Beautiful on D2L (Ngozi Onwurah, 1991, UK; 30 min.) 2. Scorpio Rising on D2L (Kenneth Anger, 1964, US; 30 min.) |
| Quiz: | on Monday at 12:45pm over films and readings |
Wednesday, February 28
| Reading: | 1. FAC: Virginia Bonner, "The Gleaners and 'Us': Radical Modesty in Agnes Varda's Les Glaneurs et la glaneuse" in Documenting the Documentary 2nd Edition (494-506) |
| View: | Les Glaneurs et la glaneuse/The Gleaners and I via D2L or via Amazon rental (Agnès Varda, 2000, France; 81 min.) (Study Guide) |
| Quiz: | on Wednesday at 12:45pm over film and readings |
| Clips and recommended additional screenings this week: |
| Rain (Joris Ivens, 1929, France) | |
| The River (Pare Lorenz, 1938, US) | |
| Don't Look Back (D.A. Pennebaker, 1967, US) | |
| Primary (Robert Drew, 1960, US) | |
| Harlan County USA (Barbara Kopple, 1976, US) | |
| Le Joli Mai (Chris Marker, 1963, France) | |
| Roger & Me (Michael Moore, 1989, US) | |
| The Thin Blue Line (Errol Morris, 1988, US) | |
| Reassemblage (Trinh T. Minh-ha, 1982, US/Senegal) | |
| Tongues Untied (Marlon Riggs, 1990, US) | |
| Looking for Langston (Issac Julien, 1989. UK) | |
| The Body Beautiful (Ngozi Onwurah, 1991, UK) | |
| Sari Red (Pratibha Parmar, 1988, UK) | |
| Capturing the Friedmans (Andrew Jarecki, 2003, US) | |
| Miami Vice (Michael Mann, 2006, US) |
Monday, March 4 - Wednesday, March 6
| No Class Meetings during Spring Break |
Monday, March 11
| Read: | 1. FAC: David Bordwell, "Art Cinema as a Mode of Film Practice" (649-658) (Bordwell Study Guide) (Okay to skim so that you understand the terms in the headings) |
| 2. FAC: Peter Wollen, "Godard and Counter Cinema: Vent d'Est" (418-426) | |
| Quiz: | on Monday at 12:45pm over readings |
Wednesday, March 13
| Read: | 1. D2L: Interview with Alfonso Cuarón |
| 2. D2L: The Dissolve Review of Criterion DVD release of Y tu mamá también | |
| View: | Y tu mamá también (And Your Mother Too) (Alfonso Cuarón, 2001, Mexico; 105 min.) (Study Guide) |
| Quiz: | on Wednesday at 12:45pm over film and readings |
| Clips and recommended additional screenings this week: |
| Jules et Jim (François Truffaut, 1963, France) | |
| Persona (Ingmar Bergman, 1960, Sweden) | |
| Fanny and Alexander (Ingmar Bergman, 1982, Sweden) | |
| Vivre sa vie/My Life to Live (Jean-Luc Godard, 1961, France) | |
| A bout de souffle / Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard, 1959, France) | |
| Le Mépris / Contempt (Jean-Luc Godard, 1963, France) | |
| Pierrot le fou (Jean-Luc Godard, 1964, France) | |
| Bande a part/Band of Outsiders (Jean-Luc Godard, 1964, France) | |
| Deserto rosso / The Red Desert (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1964, Italy) | |
| Blow Up (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1966) | |
| Hiroshima, mon amour (Alain Resnais, 1959) | |
| L'Avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1960) | |
| Upstream Color (Shane Carruth, 2013, US; 96 min.) D2L: Interview with Shane Carruth excerpts and Upstream Color FAQ on D2L Video Interview with Shane Carruth |
| Reading: | 1. FAC: Gilles Deleuze, "Beyond the Movement-Image" (227-228 and bottom of 234-239) (Study Guide) |
| Online Video Lectures: | Optional Video Lectures on D2L **Optional for extra review before today's class and again before Exam 2 but strongly recommended!** |
| View: | Y tu mamá también (And Your Mother Too) (Alfonso Cuarón, 2001, Mexico; 105 min.) (Study Guide) |
| Quiz: | on Monday at 12:45pm over Y tu mamá también film and Deleuze readings |
Wednesday, March 20
Test 2 on paper and on D2L at 12:45pm (in 2 Parts) |
Monday, March 25
| Reading: | 1. FAC: Louis Althusser, excerpts from "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses": "The State" (137), "Ideological State Apparatuses" (141-158), and "Ideology Interpellates Individuals as Subjects" (170-176) |
| 2. FAC: Jean-Luc Comolli & Jean Narboni, "Cinema/Ideology/Criticism" (686-693) | |
| Quiz: | on Monday at 12:45pm over readings |
Wednesday, March 27
| View: | Sorry to Bother You (Boots Riley, 2017, 114 min.) (Study Guide) |
| Quiz: | Take-home Quiz due Wednesday at 12:45pm: - Bring & turn in on paper a bulleted list of the film's examples of ISAs and the RSA - Create bulleted lists of examples of ISAs and the RSA from Sorry to Bother You. No need for sentences or paragraphs, but do clearly signal what your examples are from the film in short phrases. To do this: 1) Identify the ISA/RSA **by the name Althusser gives them** (can include the one we modified in lecture) 2) Then list as many example(s) from Sorry to Bother You as you can that you found for each category. It's okay to transcribe your notes from the film (not a photograph, but written/typed/transcribed/pasted), but they must be your own notes, of course! |
| Clips and recommended additional screenings this week: |
| Blue Velvet (David Lynch, 1986, US) | |
| They Live! (John Carpenter, 1988, US) | |
| The Crying Game (Neil Jordan, 1992, UK) | |
| Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Terry Gilliam, 1975, UK) | |
| Office Space (Mike Judge, 1999, US) | |
| Wag the Dog (David Mamet/Barry Levinson, 1997, US) | |
| Dead Poet's Society (Peter Weir, 1989, US) | |
| Mona Lisa Smile (Mike Newell, 2003, US) | |
| The Virgin Suicides (Sofia Coppola, 1999, US) | |
| Bande des filles/Girlhood (Céline Sciamma, France, 2014) | |
| Ghost World (Terry Zwigoff, 2000, US) |
Monday, April 1
| Read: | 1. FAC: Laura Mulvey, "Visual Pleasure in Narrative Cinema" (711-722) and review your notes from Intro to Film on Mulvey & ideology (Mulvey study guide) |
| Quiz: | on Monday at 12:45pm over readings |
Wednesday, April 3
| Read: | 1. D2L: Interview with Director Jonathan Glazer on D2L |
| View: | Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer, 2013, UK; 108 min.) (Study Guide) |
| Quiz: | on Wednesday at 12:45pm over film and readings |
| Clips and recommended additional screenings this week: |
| Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Howard Hawks, 1953, US) | |
| The Lady from Shanghai (Orson Welles, 1947, US) | |
| American Beauty (Sam Mendes, 1999, US) | |
| Moulin Rouge (Baz Luhrmann, 2001, Australia) | |
| Eve of Destruction (Duncan Gibbins, 1991, US) | |
| Fatal Attraction (Adrian Lyne, 1987, US) | |
| The Scarlet Empress (Josef von Sternberg, 1934, US) | |
| Pretty Woman (Garry Marshall, 1990, US) | |
| Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960, US) | |
| Sans toit ni loi /Vagabonde (Agnès Varda, 1985, France) |
Monday, April 8
| Read: | 1. FAC: Robert Stam & Louise Spence, "Colonialism, Racism, and Representation: An Introduction" (751-766) |
| 2. FAC: Manthia Diawara, "Black Spectatorship: Problems of Identification and Resistance" (767-776) | |
| Quiz: | on Monday at 12:45pm over readings |
Wednesday, April 10
| View: | La Haine/Hate (Matthieu Kassovitz, 1995, France) |
| Quiz: | on Wednesday at 12:45pm over film and readings |
| Clips and recommended additional screenings this week: |
| The Birth of a Nation (D.W. Griffith, 1911, US) | |
| The Color Purple (Steven Spielberg, 1985, US) | |
| Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg, 1982, US) | |
| The Searchers (John Ford, 1956, US) | |
| Pépé le Moko (Julien Duvivier, 1937, France) | |
| La Noire / Black Girl (Ousmane Sembene, 1966, Senegal) | |
| Sankofa (Haile Gerima, 1994, US/Ethiopia) | |
| Nothing But a Man (Michael Roemer, 1964, US) | |
| Killer of Sheep (Charles Burnett, 1977, US) | |
| The Piano (Jane Campion, 1991, New Zealand) | |
| Cidade de Deus (City of God) (Fernando Meirelles & Kátia Lund, 2002, Brazil) | |
| Como Era Gostoso o Meu Francês/How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman (Nelson Pereira dos Santos, 1971, Brazil) | |
| The Battle of Algiers (Gilles Pontecorvo, 1960, Italy/Algeria) | |
| Soy Cuba/I am Cuba (Mikhail Kalatozov, 1964, Soviet Union/Cuba) | |
| Bande des filles/Girlhood (Céline Sciamma, France, 2014) |
Monday, April 15
| Reading: | 1. FAC: Adrienne Rich, "Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence" (pp. Foreward on 81-82, List on 85, Right column of 89-top of 90, Right column of 94-left column of 95) |
| 2. Essence review of Moonlight | |
| View: | Moonlight (Barry Jenkins, 2016, US; 111 min.) (Study Guide) |
| Quiz: | on Monday at 12:45pm over film and readings |
Wednesday, April 17
| Reading: | 1. FAC: Judith Butler, "Subversive Acts" and "From Parody to Politics," excerpts from Gender Trouble (pp. 134-141 and 145-149) |
| View: | XXY (Lucía Puenzo, 2007, Argentina; 88 min.) |
| Quiz: | on Wednesday at 12:45pm over film and readings |
| Clips and recommended additional screenings this week: |
| Fried Green Tomatoes (John Avnet, 1991, US) | |
| Sleep with Me (Rory Kelly, 1994, US) | |
| The Celluloid Closet (Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, 1995, US) | |
| Weekend (Andrew Haigh, 2011, UK) | |
| Heavenly Creatures (Peter Jackson, 1994, New Zealand) | |
| High Art (Lisa Cholodenko, 1998, US) | |
| Pariah (Dee Rees, 2011, US) | |
| Tongues Untied (Marlon Riggs, 1989, US) | |
| Tangerine (Sean Baker, 2015, US) | |
| The Danish Girl (Tom Hooper, 2015, UK/US/Denmark) | |
| XXY (Lucia Puenzo, 2007, 88 min., Argentina) | |
| Carol (Todd Haynes, 2015, 108 min., US) |
Monday, April 22
| Read: | 1. D2L: Rosemarie Garland Thomson, "Disability, Identity, and Representation: An Introduction" from Extraordinary Bodies (1997) 2. D2L: Roger Ebert's review of The Station Agent (Chicago Sun-Times) 3. D2L: Charles Taylor's review of The Station Agent (Salon Magazine) |
| View: | The Station Agent (Thomas McCarthy, 2003, US; 88 min.) (Study Guide) |
| Quiz: | on Monday at 12:45pm over film and readings
Closing Survey assigned Monday |
| Online course evaluations
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Wednesday, April 24
| Assignment: | Closing Survey due Wednesday Class party potluck: Bring food and review questions to share with class on Wednesday! :-) |
| Online course evaluations |
| Clips and recommended additional screenings this week: |
| The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Julian Schnabel, 2007, France) | |
| The Usual Suspects (Bryan Singer, 1995, US) | |
| Mad Love (Antonia Bird, 1995, US) | |
| Rain Man (Barry Levinson, 1988, US) | |
| Children of a Lesser God (Randa Haines, 1986, US) | |
| Tarnation (Jonathan Caouette, 2004, US) | |
| The Wizard of Oz (King Vidor, 1939, US) | |
| The Lion King (Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff, 1994, US) | |
| Richard III (Richard Loncraine, 1995, UK/US) | |
| The Exploding Girl (Bradley Rust Gray, 2009, US) | |
| The Saddest Music in the World (Guy Maddin, 2003, Canada) | |
| The Tribe (Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy, 2015, Ukraine) |
Monday, April 29
| Test 3 at 12:45pm (in 2 Parts on paper in class) Test format includes Short Answer (Part 1) and Multiple Choice, Matching, T-F questions (Part 2) on material from Section 3 |