JANUARY
21
Film:
Germany Year Zero (Rossellini, 1948) DVD 3702
Excerpts:
The Postman Always Rings Twice (Garnett, 1946) DVD 4235 (1:19 to 5:54)
Ossessione (Visconti, 1943) DVD 527
(1:29 to 8:20)
Open City (Rossellini, 1945) DVD 3700 (46:41 to 58:18)
Umberto D (DeSica, 1952) DVD 990
(31:40 to 36:41)
Reading
(to be done by January 27):
Cesare Zavattini. "Some Ideas on the Cinema." (in
course reader)
Amédée Ayfe. “Neo-Realism and Phenomonology.” (in course reader)
Roberto Rossellini, Roberto. “Rosselliniʼs Ten Commandments to his students at the
Centro Sperimentale.”
Paper topic (paper due January 28 by 4 p.m.
Graduates and new undergraduates email paper to gmairs@calarts.edu;
returning undergraduates email paper to FilmHistoryTA@gmail.com):
Imagine a favorite Hollywood style narrative
shot 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 it in discussing
just one short scene. Consider this a very firm deadline!
