MEDIAWORKS: EXPERIMENTS WITH LIGHT AND SOUND Winter 2002
WEEK 1-
Monday, January 7, Noon in the Recital Hall:
Filmmakers Sally Cloninger and Laurie Meeker: Themes in Our Personal Work
Screen: Your Willing Power, Sally Cloninger, 2000, 16mm/digital, 30 min.
Remember the Witches, Laurie Meeker, 1985, 22 min., 16mm
The River People, Laurie Meeker, 2002, excerpts, 16mm/digital transfer.
Read: FILM THEORY: AN INTRODUCTION - Section 1) pp. viii-37 Pref.; Intro; The Antecedents of Film Theory; Film and Film Theory: The Beginnings; Early Silent Film Theory; The Essence of Cinema
Tuesday - Film and Video Skill Workshops 9:30 - 4 (see separate handouts)
Thursday - Film and Video Skill Workshops 9:30 - 2:30
Thursday - The Wrap in COM 308, 3:00-5:30 (Please Note Special Start Time!)
Pull Film Theory Sections; Peer Group Meetings
WEEK 2
Monday, January 14
Peer Group Meetings, 10:00 - 11:30 (each group determines meeting space)
Noon in the Recital Hall: Leni Riefemstahl: The Filmmaker’s Responsibility (LM)
Screen: Triumph of the Will, Leni Riefenstahl, Germany, 1934, 122 min. (excerpt)
Read: Reprints in Mediaworks Reader (Sontag and Rich on fascism and myth)
Read: FILM THEORY: AN INTRODUCTION - Section 2) pp. 37-83 The Soviet Montage-Theorists; Russian Formalism and the Bakhtin School; The Historical Avant-Gardes; The Debate After Sound; The Frankfurt School; The Phenomenology of Realism
Seminar Discussions: Com 320 and Com 323, 2:00-3:00 pm
Special Screening: Monday 3:30 - 6:30pm in COM 326:
The Wonderful Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl, Ray Muller, USA, 1995, 188 min
Tuesday - Film and Video Skill Workshops 9:30 - 4
Thursday - Film and Video Skill Workshops 9:30 - 2:30
Thursday - Liangong in CRC 116, 3:00-4:00 - Session 1
Thursday - The Wrap in COM 308, 4:00-5:30 (Please Note Regular Start Time!)
Film Theory Presentations on Sections 1 and 2
WEEK 3
Monday, January 21 - Camups Holiday - Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
Read: FILM THEORY: AN INTRODUCTION - Section 3) pp. 83-123 The Cult of the Auteur; The Americanization of Auteur Theory; Third World Film and Theory; The Advent of Structuralism; The Question of Film Language; Cinematic Specificity Revisited
READ ALSO: Section 4) pp. 123-169 Interrogating Authorship and Genre; 1968 and the Leftist Turn; The Classic Realist Text; The Presence of Brecht; The Search for Alternative Aesthetics; From Linguistics to Psychoanalysis
Tuesday - Film and Video Skill Workshops 9:30 — 4
Thursday - Film and Video Skill Workshops 9:30 - 2:30
Thursday - Liangong in CRC 116, 3:00-4:00 - Session 2
Thursday - The Wrap in COM 308, 4:00-5:30
Film Theory Presentations on Sections 3 and 4
MEDIAWORKS: EXPERIMENTS WITH LIGHT AND SOUND Winter 2002
WEEK 4
Monday, January 28
Peer Group Meetings, 10:00 - 11:30
Noon in the Recital Hall: Stan Brakhage: Visual Metaphors (SC)
Screen: Mothlight, 1963, 16mm, color/silent, 4 min.
23rd Psalm Branch: Part II, 1966/78, 16mm, color/silent, 30 min., 18fps
Visions in Meditation #3: Plato’s Cave, 1990, 16mm, color/so, 8 min.
Prelude: Dog Star Man, 1961, 16mm, color/silent, 25 min.
Read: Essential Brakhage (all)
Read: FILM THEORY: AN INTRODUCTION - Section 5) pp. 169-212 The Feminist Intervention; The Poststructuralist Mutation; Textual Analysis; Interpretation and its Discontents; From Text to Intertext
READ ALSO: Section 6) pp. 212-256 The Amplification of Sound; The Rise of Cultural Studies; The Birth of the Spectator; Cognitive and Analytic Theory; Semiotics Revisited
Seminar Discussions: Com 320 and Com 323, 2:00-3:00 pm
Tuesday - Film and Video Skill Workshops 9:30 - 4
Thursday - Film and Video Skill Workshops 9:30 - 2:30
Thursday - Liangong in CRC 116, 3:00-4:00 - Session 3
Thursday - The Wrap in COM 308, 4:00-5:30
Film Theory Presentations on Sections 5 and 6
* * * * * * WEEK 5- SPECIAL SCHEDULE - FIFTH WEEK INTENSIVES * * * * * *
Monday through Friday, 9:00 - 5:00
(please researve this time, specific workshop schedules TBA)
Read: FILM THEORY: AN INTRODUCTION - Section 7) pp. 256-298
Just in Time: The Impact of Deleuze; The Coming Out of Queer Theory; Multiculturalism, Race, and Representation; Third Cinema Revisited; Film and the Postcolonial
WEEK 6
Monday, February 11
Peer Group Meetings, 10:00 - 11:30
Noon in the Recital Hall: Marlon Riggs: Documentary/Race and Representation (LM)
Screen: Color Adjusment, Marlon Riggs, 1991, VHS, 87 min. (excerpts)
Tongues Untied, Marlon Riggs, 1989, VHS, 55 min.
Read: Reprints on Riggs in Mediaworks Reader
Read: FILM THEORY: AN INTRODUCTION - Section 8) pp. 298-330
The Poetics and Politics of Postmodernism; The Social Valence of Mass-Culture; Post-Cinema:
Digital Theory and the New Media; The Pluralization of Film Theory
Distribute Midterm Questions - The exam will be due on Tuesday, February 19th.
Seminar Discussions: Com 320 and Com 323, 2:00-3:00 pm
Tuesday - Film and Video Skill Workshops 9:30 — 4
Thursday - Film and Video Skill Workshops 9:30 - 2:30
Thursday - Liangong in CRC 116, 3:00-4:00 - Session 4
Thursday - The Wrap in COM 308, 4:00-5:30
Film Theory Presentations on Sections 7 and 8
MEDIAWORKS: EXPERIMENTS WITH LIGHT AND SOUND Winter 2002
WEEK 7
Monday, February 18 - Campus Holiday - Presidents’ Day
Read: Reprints on Friedrich in Mediaworks Reader
Tuesday, February 19, Midterm Due
Tuesday - Film and Video Skill Workshops 9:30 - 4
Thursday - Film and Video Skill Workshops 9:30 - 2:30
(Please Note: no Liangong this Thursday)
Thursday Feb. 21 3:00-5:30 in Com 326 (Please Note Special Time/Place)
Su Friedrich: Direct Autobiography (SC)
Screen: Sink or Swim, 1990, 16mm, b&w/sound, 48 min.
WEEK 8
Monday, February 25
Peer Group Meetings, 10:00 - 11:30
Noon in the Recital Hall: Emile de Antionio: Representing History (LM)
Screen: In the Year of the Pig, Emile De Antonio, 1968, 103 min. (VHS-995-01)
Read: Emile de Antonio, A Reader, pp. xi-226
Tuesday - Film and Video Skill Workshops 9:30 - 4
Thursday - Film and Video Skill Workshops 9:30 - 2:30
Thursday - Liangong in CRC 116, 3:00-4:00 - Session 5
Thursday, February 28, 4:00-5:30 in Com 326
Screen: Underground, Emile de Antonio, 1976, 88 min.
Read: Emile de Antonio, A Reader, pp. 277-297 and 387-406
WEEK 9
Monday, March 4
Peer Group Meetings, 10:00 - 11:30
Noon in the Recital Hall: Chick Strand: Experimental Ethnography (SC)
Screen: Elasticity, Chick Strand, 1976, 16mm, color/so, 25 min.
Soft Fiction, Chick Strand, 1979, 16mm, b&w/sound, 54 min.
Read: Reprints on Strand in Mediaworks Reader
Tuesday - Film and Video Skill Workshops 9:30 — 4
Thursday - Film and Video Skill Workshops 9:30 - 2:30
Thursday - Liangong in CRC 116, 3:00-4:00 - Session 6
Thursday - The Wrap in COM 308, 4:00-5:30 - Proposal Writing Workshop
WEEK 10
Monday, March 11
Peer Group Meetings, 10:00 - 11:30 - Peer Group Evaluations due for group review
Tuesday - Thursday: Individual Conferences and Evaluations
Budget/Spreadsheet Workshops TBA