FEBRUARY 18

Films:

Night and Fog (Resnais/Marker 1955) DVD 923

Antoine et Colette (Truffuat 1962) DVD 388 ­

La Jetée (Marker 1963) DVD 2577

The Bakery Girl of Monceau (Rohmer 1963) DVD 2028

Excerpt:

Band of Outsiders (Godard 1965) DVD 623 (45:07 to 51:50)

Reading (to be done by February 24): 

Colin MacCabe. “The Cinema is Not a Bad School.” (in course reader)

François Truffaut. “Evolution of the New Wave.” (in course reader)

Paper topic (paper due February 25 by 4 p.m. Graduates email paper to gmairs@calarts.edu; undergraduates email paper to FilmHistoryTA@gmail.com):

Discuss the use voiceover in two of today’s films.

This is the fifth paper assigned this semester. Please keep in mind that March 4 is the final date by which the first five papers of the semester must be turned in. Failure to do so will result in dismissal from the course with a grade of NC.