JANUARY 22
Film:
Umberto D (DeSica 1952) Blu-Ray 180
excerpts:
Open City (Rossellini 1945) DVD 2658 – 46:40 to 57:00
The Postman Always Rings Twice (Garnett 1946) DVD 4235 – 1:19 to 5:54
Ossesione (Visconti 1943) DVD 527 – 1:29 to 8:20
Reading (to be done by January 28):
Cesare Zavattini - "Some Ideas on the Cinema"
Amédée Ayfe, “Neo-Realism and Phenomonology,” both in course reader.
Please note that the Zavattini piece was unable to be included in the digital version of the reader. This includes the free material sent as you wait for the hard copy of the reader to arrive. If your hard copy of the reader has not yet arrived, you can find this essay - one of the most important we will read this semester - at: http://tinyurl.com/qh3xnlq
Assignment for the week. Graduates, please email essay to me at elkrugamigos@earthlink.net; undergraduates, please bring a printed copy to class:
Imagine one of your favorite narrative films as a neo-realist film. How does it change the look and the story, the texture and the editing of the film? Be specific, and root your discussion in just one short scene, which you describe in detail.
