MARCH 19

Films:

Killer of Sheep (Burnett 1977) DVD 2425

Tongues Untied (Riggs 1989) DVD 4546

     

Reading (to be done by April 1):

Ntongela Masilela  “The Los Angeles School of Black

Filmmakers.” (in course reader) 

Ron Simmons. "Tongues Untied: An Interview with Marlon

Riggs." (in course reader) 

No new assignment: please use the break to catch up on short papers, begin research on your final, and spend time with your friends and family.

MARCH 12

Film:

Charulata (Ray 1964) Blu-Ray 286     

Excerpts:

Do Bigha Zamin (Roy 1953) 2:15 to 6:30 DVD 2604

The World of Apu (Ray 1959) 1:34:16 to 1:45:35 DVD 286

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Reading (to be done by March 18):

Sragrow, Michael. "An Art Wedded to Truth."

Paper topic (paper due March 19 - THIS IS A VERY FIRM DEADLINE. All papers to be sent via email to elkrugamigos@earthlink.net, attached as a .doc, .docx, .rtf or .odt file):

Proposal for final paper. See handout for instructions. Handout is in "Syllabus, etc" sidebar on right.

MARCH 5

Films:

Daisies (Chytilova 1966) DVD 5059     

Simon of the Desert (Buñuel 1965) DVD 3281  

Duck Amuck (Jones 1953) Blu-Ray 114 disc 1

Reading (to be done by March 11):

Małgorzata Radkiewicz. “Angry 
young girls: 
Gender representations in 
Věra Chytilová's Sedmikrásky and Pasti, pasti,  pastičky.”  

Paper topic (paper due March 12. All undergraduate papers to be printed and stapled and brought to class. All graduate papers to be sent via email to elkrugamigos@earthlink.net, attached as a .doc, .docx, .rtf or .odt file):

Discuss the final scenes of Daisies. How do you read them in relationship to the film’s first 70 minutes? Pay particular attention to the scene in the water that begins the sequence, the dialogue in the cleaning scene, the short montage that follows it, and the final text.