Week 13
Important -- Final Assignment Due Date pushed back to 5pm, Dec. 15th.
Reading: "From Workshop to Backlot: The Greater Philadelphia Film Office"
Viewing:
Week 12
Viewing (Creed):
Reading: "Watching narratives of travel as transformation in The Beach and The Motorcycle Diaries" (focus on bottom of pg.8 - pg.12)
Motorcycle Diaries:
Week 11
Reading: "The Annihilation of Time and Space" by Rebecca Solnit
Viewing: The Headless Woman (dir. Lucrecia Martel):
Week 10
Reading: "'It was the city killed the beast'" nature, technophobia, and the Cinema of the urban future
Final Assignment: "Philadelphia Plays... Somewhere Else"
Blade Runner:
Week 09
Reading: THE HYENA'S LAST LAUGH A conversation with Djibril Diop Mambety
Viewings:
White Material (2009):
District 9:
Week 07
Reading: Insidious Tempter: A History of Iranian Cinema
Viewing (for Thursday): A Brighter Summer Day
Week 06
Readings: David Thompson on Żuławski; Interview with the Director of "The Lizard"; Recounting the experience of seeing "The Lizard"
Viewing:
The Lizard (2004) -- due tuesday Oct. 11th
Crimson Gold -- due Thursday Oct. 13th
Week 05
Assignment: Group Presentation
Reading: Film Form (pay particular attention to pg.60-63); and "a helpful introductory essay on the role of form in different art media"
Viewing: Possession--
This Saturday at ihouse! CHECK OUT "Black Girl": Info here
There's also a screening of My Neighbors the Yamada's , a delightful Japanese animated series from Studio Ghibli. Info here.
Week 04
Assignment: Psychogeographic Exploration of Philadelphia
Reading: Excerpt from Psychogeographic Exploration Kit; Theory of the Derive
Films: Breathless, Medicine for Melancholy, News from Home.
Daybreak Express (dir. D.A. Pennebaker):
Week 03
Readings: Spike Lee on Do the Right Thing 25 Years Later; Ta-Nehisi Coates on the Riots in Baltimore
Assignment: Interpretative Essay on "Frances Ha"
Viewing: Frances Ha
Supplemental Viewing: Spike Lee Combines ‘Do the Right Thing’ With Eric Garner Tape For Unsettling Recut (This is disturbing content and not required viewing. Viewer discretion is advised!
Week 02
Reading Assignments: Bordwell on "Studying Cinema"; "An Approach to Film Analysis" from Film: A Critical Introduction
Viewing Assignment: "Do the Right Thing" (dir. Spike Lee, 1989) -- password provided via email:
