APRIL 1

Film:

Class Relations (Straub/Huillet 1984) DVD 2645       

Excerpts:

Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet at Work on Frank Kafka’s Amerika (Farocki 1983) DVD 2645 (21:04 to 29:31)

Where Does Your Hidden Smile Lie? (Costa 2001) DVD 4568 (17:49 to 30:15)

Reading (to be done by April 7): 

Daniel Fairfax. “Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet.” (online)

Alistair Cartwright. “One Frame Apart: On Straub and Huillet and Pedro Costa's Where Does Your Secret Smile Lie?” (online)

Papers due April 8 by 4 p.m. THIS IS AN ABSOLUTE DEADLINE. All students email paper to gmairs@calarts.edu:

2 pages of work towards final paper. This can be virtually anything – notes, an outline, an annotated bibliography, an introduction. It must amount to 2 pages of solid progress towards completion of the paper.

MARCH 18

Films:

Wanda (Loden 1970) DVD 2553       

Ulysse (Varda 1982) DVD 2979

Reading (to be done by March 31): 

Bérénice Reynaud. “For Wanda.” (online)

No written assignment. Catch up with any missed reading or writing and watch two films to begin preparation for your final paper.

MARCH 11

Film:

Days and Nights in the Forest (Ray 1970) personal DVD (on reserve shelf)      

Excerpts:

Hum Aapke Hain Koun…!  (Barjatya 1994)  

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

The World of Apu (Ray 1959) DVD 952 (1:34:16 to 1:45: 35)

Reading (to be done by March 17): 

Michael Sragrow. “An Art Wedded to Truth.” (online)

Papers due March 18 by 4 p.m. THIS IS AN ABSOLUTE DEADLINE. All students email paper to gmairs@calarts.edu:

PROPOSAL FOR FINAL PAPER. FULL INSTRUCTIONS LINKED HERE UNDER SIDEBAR “SYLLABUS, ETC.”

MARCH 4

Films:

Daisies (Chytilová 1966) DVD 571      

Simon of the Desert (Buñuel 1965) DVD 3281

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

Reading (to be done by March 10): 

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

Papers due March 11 by 4 p.m. Graduates email paper to gmairs@calarts.edu; undergraduates email paper to FilmHistoryTA@gmail.com:

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.