WEEK 4/MAY 12TH Lecture on Montage

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Required Readings:

Bordwell, David. “The Idea of Montage in Soviet Art and Film”, Cinema Journal, Vol. 11,No.2 Spring 1972, p9-17

[distributed in class]

Eisenstein, Sergei. “The Dramaturgy of Film Form”, Critical Visions In Film Theory: Classic And Contemporary Readings, eds. Timothy Corrigan, Patricia White with Meta Mazaj, Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2011, p262-279

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Reference Reading:

Eisenstein, Sergei. “Montage of Attractions: For ‘Enough Stupidity in Every Wiseman’”, trans. Daniel Gerould, the Drama Review: TDR, Vol. 18, No. 1, Popular Entertainments (Mar., 1974), p. 77-85

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Stam, Robert. “the Soviet Montage-Theorists” & “Russian Formalism and the Bakhtin School”, Film Theory: an Introduction, Blackwell Publishing, 2000, p37-55

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NOTES on Apr 28 lecture: Cinema of Attractions

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NOTE:
password for the download is the date of the lecture. for instance if the lecture takes place on January 01, 1900 then the password would be 19000101 (eight-digit:yyyymmdd)

WEEK 4/MAY 12TH two films for discussion

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Film 1) Battleship Potemkin, Dir. Sergei Eisenstein, 1925

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcUKH9hQKWw

Film 2) Man with a Movie Camera, Dir. Dziga Vertov, 1929 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdbU-4tPq5o

NOTE: NO in-class screenings (both available at YouTube with English subtitle)

WEEK 3/APRIL 28TH Lecture on the Cinema of Attraction

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Required Readings:

Gunning, Tom. “The Cinema of Attraction: Early Film, Its Spectator and the Avant-Garde”, Wide Angle, Vol.8, Issue 3-4, p 63-70

[click HERE to download]

“Attraction”, the Routeledge Encyclopedia of Film Theory, eds. Edward Branigan & Warren Buckland, Routledge, 2014, p 45-49

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Reference Reading[for graduate students]:

Musser, Charles. “Rethinking Early Cinema: Cinema of Attractions and Narrativity”, The Cinema of Attractions Reloaded, eds. Wanda Strauven, Amsterdam University Press, 2006, p389-416 

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Week 2 mise-en-scene NOTES

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 I think it's easier for you to download it HERE
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NOTE:
password for the download is the date of the lecture. for instance if the lecture takes place on January 01, 1900 then the password would be 19000101 (eight-digit:yyyymmdd)

WEEK 2/APRIL 21st: the Basics to Film Studies & Discussion Session

CHUNGKING EXPRESS, DIR BY WONG KARWAI

[you are supposed to read the references BEFORE the Apr 21 lecture]


NOTE: please do NOT circulate them outside of the classroom use; thank you!

Required Readings:

Bordwell, David & Thompson, Kristin, “the Shot: Mise-en-Scène” [click HERE to download] &“the Relation of Shot to Shot: Editing”[click HERE to download], Film Art: and Introduction (7^th Edition), University Of Wisconsin Press, 2003, p176-225, p294-344

Martin, Adrian. “What Was Mise-en-Scène”, Mise-en-Scène and Film Style: From Classical Hollywood to New Media Art, (Palgrave Close Readings in Film and Television), 2014, pp43-73

[click HERE to download]

“Introduction” [click HERE to download]& Astruc, Alexandre “What is Mise-en-Scène”[click HERE to download], Cahier du Cinema--the 1950s: Neorealism, Hollywood, New Wave. Eds. Jim Hiller. Harvard University Press, 1985. P5-14 & p266-269

Welcome!

Dear all,

Welcome to the new semester of CRITICAL FILM ANALYSIS!

Please find here the PDF of the course syllabus.

Here is one reference book we use for the WHOLE SEMESTER

Villarejo, Amy. Film Studies: the Basics, Routledge, 1st edition, 2007

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More to come.

Cheers

Ran