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Hilary Neroni, Associate Professor, Program Director Hilary.Neroni@uvm.edu 311 Old Mill 802-656-1356 |
FTS 121 Fall 2008
Tentative Schedule:
Week One: Realism
& Formalism
Sept 2 Intro
Sept 4 Karl Marx
and Freidrich Engels The Communist
Manifesto, “Bourgeois and
Proletarians” &
“Proletarians and Communists, ” (www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/index.htm)
Screening: Jean-Luc Godard’s La
Chinoise (France, 1968, 93 min, DVD 4466)
Week Two: Marxism
Sept 9 Karl Marx
and Freidrich Engels The Communist
Manifesto, “Socialist and
Communist Literature” & “Position
of the Communists…, ” (www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/index.htm);
Karl Marx’s “Preface to A Contribution to the Critique
of Political Economy” (www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1859/critique-pol-economy/preface.htm)
Sept 11 “Louis Althusser’s Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses” (www.marxists.org/reference/archive/althusser/1970/ideology.htm)
Screening: Michael Haneke’s Code Unknown (France, 2000, 113 min, DVD 4810)
Week Three: Semiotics
and Structuralism
Sept 16 Metz’s “Some point in the semiotics of the
cinema”
(pg 65-71, FTC, online reserve)
Sept 18 excerpts from Barthes’ Camera Lucida (online reserve)
Screening: Michael
Haneke’s The Piano Teacher (France,
2001, 125 min, DVD 3018)
Week Four: Narrative
Theory
Sept 23 Tom Gunning’s “Narrative Discourse and the
Narrator
System” (pg 470-481, FTC, online
reserve); Kristin Thompson “The Concept of Cinematic Excess” (pg
513-524, FTC, online reserve)
Sept 25 during class time we will have our screening: Louis Buñuel’s Un chien andalou (French, 1929, 17 min, DVD 4585); René Clair’s Entŕacte (French, 1924, 22 min, DVD 3731)
During Screening time: Guest Speaker: Professor Jean Wyatt
Week Five:
Psychoanalysis
Sept 30 Freud’s On
Dreams
Oct 2 Freud’s On Dreams
Screening: Scott McGehee and David Siegel’s Suture (USA, 1993, 96 min)
Week Six: Psychoanalysis,
Suture, and Screen Theory
Oct 7 Jean-Pierre Oudart’s “Cinema and Suture” (http://www.lacan.com/symptom8_articles/oudart8.html)
Oct 9 Stephen Heath’s “Notes on Suture” (http://www.lacan.com/symptom8_articles/heath8.html)
Screening: Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo (USA, 1959, 128 min, DVD 3047)
Week Seven: Midterm
& Feminist Film Theory
Oct 14 *Midterm exam
Oct 16 Laura Mulvey’s Visual Pleasure and
Narrative Cinema”
(pg 837-848, FTC, online reserve)
Screening: Cristian
Mungiu Four Months, Three Weeks, Two Days
(Romanian:
4 luni, 3 săptămâni
şi 2 zile, 2007, 113 min)
Week Eight: Second
and Third Wave Feminist Film Theory
Oct 21 Mary Ann Doane’s “The Voice in the Cinema” (http://www.jstor.org/stable/2930003); Jean Wyatt’s “Jouissance and Desire in Michael Haneke's The Piano Teacher” (http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/american_imago/v062/62.4wyatt.html
Oct 23 Joan Copjec’s “The Orthopsychic Subject” (http://www.jstor.org/stable/778733);
Todd McGowan’s
“Looking for the
Gaze” (http://www.jstor.org/stable/1225903)
Screening: Robert Wise’s The Haunting (USA, 1963, 112 min, DVD 2473)
Week Nine: Queer
Theory
Oct 28 Patricia White’s Uninvited
Oct 30 Patricia White’s Uninvited
Screening: Joseph Mankiewicz’s All About Eve (USA, 1950, 138 min, DVD 602)
Week Ten: Queer
Theory
Nov 4 Patricia White’s Uninvited
Nov 6 Patricia White’s Uninvited
Screening: Jim McKay Girls Town (USA, 1996, 90 min)
Week Eleven: Deleuze
Nov 11 Intro
to Deleuze
(reading TBA)
Nov 13 Guest: Lili Taylor
Screening: TBA
Week Twelve:
Deleuze
Nov 18 Deleuze’s Cinema
1
Nov 20 Deleuze’s Cinema
1
Screening: Jules
Dassin’s Du rififi chez les hommes
(France, 1955, 122 min, DVD 1408)
Week Thirteen:
Thanksgiving Recess (Nov 24- 28)
Week Fourteen:
Deleuze
Dec 2 Deleuze’s Cinema 1
Screening: Julie
Dash’s Illusions (USA, 1982, 34 min, VID
4543); Daughters of the Dust (USA,
1991, 112 min, DVD 1223)
Week Fifteen:
Deleuze
Dec 9 Deleuze’s Cinema 1
Final Exams:
FTS 121
A 91854: Exam Assignment: 08:00 AM - 11:00 AM, Monday
Dec, 15 2008; ROWELL 111