• Introduction
• In-class screening: Episode from Beyond the Clouds (dir. Michelangelo Antonioni & Wim Wenders, 1995)

• In-class screening: Episode from Beyond the Clouds (dir. Michelangelo Antonioni & Wim Wenders, 1995)
• David Bordwell, "The Art Cinema as a Mode of Film Practice"
• Peter Brunette, "Introduction."The Films of Michelangelo Antonioni.
  

• Screening: L’Avventura (dir. Michelangelo Antonioni, 1960)

• Peter Brunette, "L’avventura."The Films of Michelangelo Antonioni.
• Pierre Sorlin, "Third generation: The most popular form of entertainment"
  

• Seymour Chatman, "The Great Tetralogy: Plots and Themes"
• Pierre Sorlin, "Fourth generation: The sweet life"
  

• Screening: La notte (dir. Michelangelo Antonioni, 1961)

• Peter Brunette, "La notte."The Films of Michelangelo Antonioni.

• Seymour Chatman, "The Great Tetralogy: Characters”
• Brian Henderson, "The Long Take"
  

• Screening: Eclipse (dir. Michelangelo Antonioni, 1962)

• Seymour Chatman, "The Great Tetralogy: Settings and Environments”
• Geoffrey Nowell-Smith, "Shape and a Black Point"
  

• Tom Gunning, "Narrative Discourse and the Narrator System"
• Seymour Chatman, "The Great Tetralogy: Cinematic Form"
  

• Screening: Blow up (dir. Michelangelo Antonioni, 1966)

• Susan Sontag, "In Plato’s Cave."
• Peter Brunette, "Blow-up."The Films of Michelangelo Antonioni.
  

• CONFERENCE I: THE FILMS OF ANTONIONI

• Screening: Breathless (dir. Jean-Luc Godard, 1960)

• David Sterritt, "Introduction."The Films of Jean-Luc Godard.

• Kristin Thompson and David Bordwell, "New Waves and Young Cinemas”
• Alan Williams, Republic of Images. 327-340.

• Screening: Contempt (dir. Jean-Luc Godard, 1963)

• Leo Bersani and Ulysse Dutoit, Forming Couples: Godard’s Contempt.
• Jean-Luc Godard. "Le Mepris." Godard on Godard.
• ESSAY # 1 DUE
  

• Peter Wollen, "Godard and Counter Cinema"
• Dana Polan, "A Brechtian Cinema? Towards a Politics of Self-Reflexive Film"
  

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• Screening: Alphaville (dir. Jean-Luc Godard, 1965)

• "Words Like Love."Speaking about Godard. By Kaja Silverman and Harun Farocki.

• Michael Ryan and Douglas Kellner, "Technophobia"
• David Desser, "Race, Space and Class: The Politics of Cityscapes in Science-Fiction Films"
  

• Screening: Pierrot le Fou (dir. Jean-Luc Godard, 1965)

• Laura Mulvey and Colin MacCabe, "Images of Woman, Images of Sexuality"
• Jean-Luc Godard. "Let’s talk about Pierrot."Godard on Godard.
  

• Colin MacCabe, "A Certain Tendency of French Film Production"

• Screening: Weekend (dir. Jean-Luc Godard, 1967)

• David Sterritt, "Weekend."The Films of Jean-Luc Godard.
• Brian Henderson, "Toward a Non-Bourgeois Camera Style"
• "Anal Capitalism."Speaking about Godard. By Kaja Silverman and Harun Farocki.
  

• CONFERENCE II: THE FILMS OF GODARD

• Screening: Alice in the Cities (dir. Wim Wenders, 1974)

• Wim Wenders, "Why do you make films?"
• Roger Cook and Gerd Gemünden, "Wim Wenders’s Cinema of Displacement"
• Thomas Elsaesser, "Spectators of Life: Time, Place, and Self in the Films of Wim Wenders"
  

• Alice Kuzniar, "Wenders’s Windshields”
• Wim Wenders, "Impossible Stories”
• Wim Wenders, "Reverse Angle: New York City, March 1982"
  

• Screeing: The American Friend (dir. Wim Wenders, 1977)

• Wim Wenders, "The American Dream"
• Wim Wenders, "The American Friend"
• Thomas Elsaesser, "The Old, the Young, and the New: Commerce, Art Cinema and Autorenfilm?"

• Stephen Crofts, "Concepts of National Cinema"
• Andrew Higson, "The Limiting Imagination of National Cinema"
  

• Screening: Paris, Texas (dir. Wim Wenders, 1984)
  

• Wim Wenders, "Like flying blind without instruments: On the turning point in Paris, Texas"
• Roger Cook, "Postmodern Culture and Film Narrative"
• Gerd Gemünden, "Odei-pal Travels: Gender in the Cinema of Wim Wenders"
• ESSAY #2 DUE

• CONFERENCE III: THE FILMS OF WENDERS

• Screening: Wings of Desire (dir. Wim Wenders, 1987)

• Wim Wenders, "Talk about Germany"
• Wim Wenders, "An attempted description of an indescribable film: From the first treatment for Wings of Desire"
• Final Discussion