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W 9/1 |
- Introduction and screening of M (1931, dir. Fritz Lang)
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Week
3: Modernity / Mise-en-Scene |
M 9/13 |
- Screening: Metropolis (1927, dir. Fritz Lang)
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W 9/15 |
- Bordwell / Thompson, "Chapter Six: Mise-en-Scene"
(175-228)
- Thomas Elsaesser, Metropolis
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Week
4: Mobilization / Editing |
M 9/20 |
- Screening: Berlin, Symphony of a City (1927, dir. Walter
Ruttmann)
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W 9/22 |
- Bordwell / Thompson, "Chapter Eight: Editing" (294-346)
- Siegfried Kracauer, "Montage." [ERES]
- Anton Kaes, "The Cold Gaze: Notes on Mobilization and Modernity."
[ERES]
- Ernst Jünger, "Total Mobilization." [ERES]
- Ernst Jünger, "Photography and the ‘Second Consciousness’"
[ERES]
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Week
5: Lustmord and the Pleasures of Looking |
M 9/27 |
- Screening: Der Totmacher (1995, dir. Romuald Karmakar)
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W 9/29 |
- Mara Tartar, Lustmord (3-64)
- Laura Mulvey, "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema"
(in Braudy / Cohen, 837-848)
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Week
6: Lustmord and the Power of Narrative |
M 10/4 |
- Screening: Se7en (1995, dir. David Fincher)
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W 10/6 |
- Maria Tartar, Lustmord (153-184)
- Bordwell / Thompson, Chapter Three: Narrative as a Formal System"
(68-106)
- Tom Gunning, "Narrative Discourse and the Narrator System"
(in Braudy / Cohen, 470-481)
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Week
7: Surveillance / Cinematography |
M 10/11 |
- Screening: Rear Window (1954, dir. Alfred Hitchcock)
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W 10/13 |
- Bordwell / Thompson, "Chapter Seven: Cinematography"
(229-293)
- Michel Foucault, "The Eye of Power." [ERES]
- Peter Weibel, "Pleasure and the Panoptic Principle."
[ERES]
- Lev Manovich, "Modern Surveillance Machines: Perspective,
Radar, 3-D Computer Graphics, and Computer Vision." [ERES]
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Week
8: Sound (and Silence) |
M 10/18 |
- Screening: M (1931, Fritz Lang)
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W 10/20 |
- Bordwell / Thompson, "Chapter Nine: Sound in the Cinema"
(347-388)
- Christian Metz, "Aural Objects" (in Braudy / Cohen,
366-369)
- Eisenstein, Pudovkin, and Alexandrov, "Statement on Sound"
(in Braudy / Cohen, 370-372)
- Mary Ann Doanne, "The Voice in the Cinema" (in Braudy
/ Cohen, 373-385)
- Claudia Gorbman, "Film Music." [ERES]
- ESSAY 1 due
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Week
9: Justice and the Politics of Exception |
M 10/25 |
- Screening: Judgment at Nuremberg (1961, dir. Stanley
Kramer)
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W 10/27 |
- Giorgio Agamben, "Der Ausnahmezustand als Paradigma des
Regierens." [ERES]
- Carl Schmitt, "Definitions of Sovereignty." [ERES]
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Week
10: Questions of Authorship |
M 11/1 |
- Screening: Fury (1936, dir. Fritz Lang)
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W 11/3 |
- Anton Kaes, "Lang’s Fury and the Cinema of Exile."
[ERES]
- Stephen Crofts, "Authorship and Hollywood." [ERES]
- Andrew Sarris, "Notes on the Auteur Theory in 1962"
(Braudy / Cohen, 561-564)
- Peter Wollen, "The Auteur Theory" (in Braudy / Cohen,
565-580)
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Week
11: Authorship, Art Cinema, and Genre Film |
M 11/8 |
- Screening: Scarlet Street (1945, dir. Fritz Lang)
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W 11/10 |
- Tom Gunning, The Films of Fritz Lang. 1-11 & 307-339.
[ERES]
- Thomas Schatz, "Film Genre and the Genre Film" (in
Braudy / Cohen, 691-702)
- Rick Altman, Film / Genre. 1-29. [ERES]
- David Bordwell, "The Art Cinema as a Mode of Film Practice"
(in Braudy / Cohen, 774-782)
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Week
12: Making Faces: Peter Lorre and the Accents of Exile |
M 11/15 |
- Screening: Mad Love (1935, dir. Karl Freund)
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W 11/17 |
- Gerd Gemünden, "From ‘Mr. M’ to ‘Mr.
Murder’: Peter Lorre and the Actor in Exile." [ERES]
- Hamid Naficy, An Accented Cinema. 10-39. [ERES]
- Leo Braudy, "Acting: Stage vs. Screen" (in Braudy
/ Cohen, 429-435)
- Paul McDonald, "Film Acting." [ERES]
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M 11/22 |
- Screening: Der Verlorene (1951, dir. Peter Lorre)
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W 11/24 |
- Thanksgiving Break: No class
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Week
14: Recalling (Weimar) Film History |
M 11/29 |
- Screening: Nachts, wenn der Teufel kam (1957, dir.
Robert Siodmak)
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W 12/1 |
- Siegfried Kracauer, "Introduction" & "Murderer
Among Us." (From Caligari to Hitler: A Psychological
History of German Film). [ERES]
- Thomas Elsaesser, "Weimar Cinema’s impersonations"
& "Expressionist film or Weimar cinema? With Siegfried
Kracauer and Lotte Eisner (once more) to the movies." [ERES]
- Tom Gunning, "Film History and Film Analysis: The Individual
Film in the Course of Time." [ERES]
- Dudley Andrew, "Film and History." [ERES]
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Week
15: Murderer Among Us? |
M 12/6 |
- Screening: M (1931, dir. Fritz Lang) & M (1951,
Joseph Losey)
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W 12/8 |
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