SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

PLEASE NOTE THAT CLASS MEETS AT 1 p.m. in E-65 THIS WEEK ONLY!

Films:
On the Bowery (Rogosin 1956) Blu-Ray 244


 Little Fugitive (Engel 1953)  DVD 473

Readings -

Davis, Francis. 2003.  "Storming the Home Front.".

Agee, James. 1964. “What Hollywood Can Do,” in course reader.

Warshow, Robert. 1962. “The Anatomy of Falsehood,”  in course reader.
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SEPTEMBER 23, 2013


Films:
The Best Years of Our Lives (Wyler 1946) DVD 1319

Readings -

Bazin, Andre.  1971. “La Terra Trema,” in course reader.

Ayfe, Amédée. 1985. “Neo-Realism and Phenomenology,” in course reader.


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SEPTEMBER 16, 2013


Films:
La Terra Trema (Visconti 1948) DVD 526

Readings -

Tom Milne, "Toni." 

Cesare Zavattini, "Some Ideas on the Cinema."


OPTIONAL: 

Vivian Sobchack, "No Lies: Direct Cinema as Rape," in course reader.


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SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Films:
Toni (Renoir 1934)
No Lies (Block 1974) 
The "Florence" sequence from Paisan (Rossellini 1946)

All the  films are available on DVD in the Film Services Library on my reserve shelf: DVD 2627 (Toni). DVD 4270 (No Lies) and DVD 3701 (Paisan). The relevant sequence in Paisan is DVD Chapters 12 - 16, 00:59:23 through 1:21:16.

PLEASE NOTE THAT I WILL SPECIFY IN THESE NOTES EACH WEEK WHETHER YOU SHOULD READ INDIVIDUAL PIECES BEFORE OR AFTER THE CLASS MEETING. 

 For this week, please read Bazin before class on Monday, but DO NOT read Sobchack or Milne until after the first class session. 
Readings -

Tom Milne, "Toni." 

Andre Bazin, "Neo Realism: An Aesthetic of Reality," in course reader. 

Vivian Sobchack, "No Lies: Direct Cinema as Rape," in course reader.



 When you purchase the reader ($36.25 plus tax at www.universityreaders.com), the first few weeks' readings will be downloadable as PDF files.

 The short video piece below, produced by K. Ogonada for the British Film Institute, will be shown and discussed in the first class session. 


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