Course Schedule
Readings marked "ERES" in the course
schedule are availabe from the Electronic
Reserve System at Washington University. Login and password will be
announced in class. For complete bibliographical information about ERES
materials, please click here.
Week 1 | Week 2
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5 | Week 6 | Week
7 | Week 8 | Week 9 | Week
10 | Week 11| Week
12 | Week 13 | Week 14 | Week
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August 27
- Introduction
- In-class screening: Decalogue 6 (dir. Krzysztof Kieslowski,
1988)
September 1
September 3
- Insdorf, Double Lives, Second Chances. 1-68
- Stock, Kieslowski on Kieslowski. 143-159. [ERES]
- Zizek, The Fright of Real Tears. 118-119. [ERES]
- In-class Screening: Decalogue 9 (dir. Krzysztof Kieslowski,
1988)
September 8
- Insdorf, Double Lives, Second Chances. 69-124.
- Recommended: Haltof, Polish National Cinema. 146-175. [ERES]
September 8 / 4 pm
- Screening: The Double Life of Veronique (dir. Krzysztof Kieslowski,
1991)
September 10
- Insdorf, Double Lives, Second Chances. 125-138.
- Stock, Kieslowski on Kieslowski. 172-203. [ERES]
- Recommended: Haltof, Polish National Cinema. 176-206. [ERES]
September 15
- Crofts, "Authorship and Hollywood." [ERES]
- Sarris, "Notes on the Auteur Theory in 1962." [ERES]
September 15 / 4 pm
- Screening: Blue (dir. Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1993)
September 17
- Insdorf, Double Lives, Second Chances. 139-152.
- Powrie, "Heritage, History, and 'New Realism': French Cinema
in the 1990s." [ERES]
September 22
- Stock, Kieslowski on Kieslowski. 212-228. [ERES]
- Barthes, "The Death of the Author." [ERES]
- Foucault, "What is an Author?" [ERES]
September 22 / 4 pm
- Screening: White (dir. Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1993)
September 24
- Insdorf, Double Lives, Second Chances. 153-165.
- Zizek, "Happiness also has its tears." [ERES]
September 29
- Wollen, "The Auteur Theory." [ERES]
- Heath, "Comments on 'The Idea of Authorship'." [ERES]
- Buscombe, "Ideas of Authorship." [ERES]
September 29 / 4 pm
- Screening: Red (dir. Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1994)
October 1
- Insdorf, Double Lives, Second Chances. 166-182.
October 6
- Dobson, "Nationality, Authenticity, Reflexivity: Kieslowski's
Trois coleurs: Bleu (1993), Blanc (1993), and Rouge (1994)." [ERES]
October 6 / 4 pm
- Screening: Zentropa (dir. Lars von Trier, 1991)
October 8
- Stevenson, Lars von Trier. 1-32.
- Hjort and Bondebjerg, "Danish Cinema: A Small Nation in a Global
Culture." [ERES]
October 13
- Stevenson, Lars von Trier. 33-75.
- "Lars von Trier." The Danish Directors: Dialogues on
a Contemporary National Cinema. 208-223. [ERES]
- ESSAY 1 DUE (click
here for essay topics)
October 13 / 4 pm
- Screening: Breaking the Waves (dir. Lars von Trier, 1996)
October 15
- Stevenson, Lars von Trier. 76-101.
October 20
- Crofts, "Concepts of National Cinema." [ERES]
- Vincendeau, "Issues in European Cinema." [ERES]
- Mattelart, "European film policy and the response to Hollywood."
[ERES]
October 20 / 4pm
- Screening: The Idiots (dir. Lars von Trier, 1998)
October 22
- Stevenson, Lars von Trier. 102-137.
- "The Manifesto" & "The Vow of Chastity." [ERES]
October 27
- Wenders, "What the New Technologies Offer." [ERES]
- "10 Insider Tips to Dogme 95: Narrative, Dialogue, Logistics."
[ERES]
- "Deep Focus: At Cannes '98, Dogma 95 has its day." [ERES]
- "Straight to Film: Can video cut it on the big screen?"
[ERES]
October 27 / 4 pm
- Screening: Dancer in the Dark (dir. Lars von Trier, 2000)
October 29
- Stevenson, Lars von Trier. 148-163.
- "Cinema Purite." [ERES]
November 3
- Altman, The American Film Musical. 16-27 & 59-80. [ERES]
November 3 / 4 pm
- Screening: Winter Sleepers (dir. Tom Tykwer, 1997)
November 5
- Elsaesser, "German Cinema in the 1990s." [ERES]
- "Tom Tykwer." The BFI Companion to German Cinema.
[ERES]
November 10
- Kracauer, Theory of Film. 41-59. [ERES]
- Sontag, "In Plato's Cave." [ERES]
November 10 / 4pm
- Screening: Run Lola Run (dir. Tom Tykwer, 1998)
November 12
- Manovich, "The New Language of Cinema." [ERES]
November 17
- Bolter and Grusin, Remediation. 146-158. [ERES]
- A. L. Rees, A History of Experimental Film and Video. 1-14.
[ERES]
November 17
- Screening: The Princess and the Warrior (dir. Tom Tykwer, 2000)
November 19
- "Distribution," "Exhibition," "Export,"
"Production." The BFI Companion to German Cinema. [ERES]
- "Romy Schneider." The BFI Companion to German Cinema.
[ERES]
November 24
- Wollen, "Architecture and Film: Places and Non-Places."
[ERES]
November 24 / 4 pm
November 26
December 1
- Smith, "Modernism and the avant-gardes." [ERES]
- Hill, "Film and postmodernism." [ERES]
- Knipis, "Film and changing technologies." [ERES]
December 1 / 4 pm
- Screening: Heaven (dir. Tom Tykwer, 2002)
December 3
- Zizek, "Run, Witek, Run." [ERES]
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