Thursday, June 23, 2016

NOTES on Kiyoshi Kurosawa lecture

Dear all,

Please download the notes
of Genre & Kurosawa Kiyoshi HERE
(please do not circulate beyond classroom use, thank you!)

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)

Wednesday, June 22, 2016

GENDER & SEXUALITY: a Case Study of Pedro Almodóvar and Camp

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readings for week 10&11

WEEK 11/JULY 7TH Lecture
Required Readings:
Babuscio, Jack (1978) “The Cinema of Camp, aka Camp and the Gay Sensibility”, In Fabio Cleto (Ed) (1999) Camp: Queer Aesthetics and the Performing Subject. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 117-135
[click HERE to download]


Maddison, Stephen. “All about Women: Pedro Almodóvar and the Heterosocial Dynamic,” Textual Practice, 14.2 (2000), 265–284
[click HERE to download]

Susan, Sontag. (1964) Notes on Camp. In Susan Sontag (1966/1994) Against Interpretation. New York: Vintage
[distribute in class; NOTE: the document we distribute in class contains several chapters; you should only read Sontag's; but the other articles would be fun to read for your interest too]


SECOND READING JOURNAL

Dear all,

Kind reminder:

a Second Reading Journal is due on   JULY 1 (Friday), 5pm

Monday, June 13, 2016

clarification of screening time



Dear all, I have fixed a mistake in the previously uploaded syllabus, and please refer to latest one for reference.

It mainly concerns the time for one EXTRA screening in July; thank you!

Special Screening
Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974/私的エロス恋歌1974
Dir. Hara Kazuo, 1974
                                               Time & Venue: July 14th, 4:30pm, Rm 131

readings for WEEK 9/JUNE 23RD Lecture

KUROSAWA KIYOSHI

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Required Readings:
Bordwell, David & Thompson, Kristin, “Film Genres”, Film Art: an Introduction , University of Wisconsin Press, 2010, p327-349
[download HERE]

note: it is the latest section from the 10th FILM ART edition; different from the syllabus' old 2003 version, and the page numbers changed too.


Posadas, Baryon Tensor. “Fantasies of the End of the World: The Politics of Repetition in the Films of Kurosawa Kiyoshi”, Positions: East Asia Cultures Critique, 2014, Vol. 22, No. 2, pp.429-460
[distributed in class]

Thursday, June 9, 2016

lecture notes

Dear all,

Please download the notes
of CITIZEN KANE HERE
of   Auteur    HERE
(please do not circulate beyond classroom use, thank you!)

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)

Monday, June 6, 2016

Special Screening

Dear all,

for those of you who haven't found chance of off-campus screenings---you could join us on June 9 (Thursday) for a special screening (for my seminar)


Special Screening
The Act of Killing, Dir. Joshua Oppenheimer, 2012
English subtitle
                         Time: June 9th, 4:30 pm; Venue: Rm 131


Wednesday, June 1, 2016

Is there class on June 2?

The answer is NO.

Please refer to the previous entry for the course syllabus.

All the dates remain UNCHANGED.


cheers
Ran