History of International Cinema II 2008

Lectures Tues, Thurs 12:00–1:20        

Screenings Monday 3:30-6:30, Wed 7:00-10:00

Instructor: Tom Gunning, tgunning@uchicago.edu

Office hours: Wednesday 2:30–5pm, Thursday 3-4pm, CWAC 264

 

Assigned Texts:

Andre Bazin, What is Cinema? Vol. I and Vol. II

Kristin Thompson and David Bordwell, Film History

Available at Seminary Co-op

Other assigned reading available on Chalk site for the course

https://chalk.uchicago.edu/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp?tab=courses&url=/bin/common/course.pl?course_id=_11170_1

 

Week 1

Jan 7 Screening M (Fritz Lang, Germany, 1931) 110’

Jan 8 Lecture A Great Divide in Film History

Reading: Thompson, 191-212; Eisenstein

Jan 9 Screening L’Atalante (Jean Vigo, France, 1934) 89’

Jan 10 Lecture The Image of the Real: Poetic Realism

Reading: Bazin Vol. I, pp. 9-16; Walter Benjamin; Andrew 

Week 2

Jan 14 Screening It Happened One Night (Frank Capra, USA, 1934) 105’ The Mummy (Karl Freund, USA, 1932) 73’

Jan 15 Lecture The Classical Hollywood Cinema

Reading: Bazin, Vol. I pp. 23-40; Thompson, 213-238; Bordwell; Gomery

Jan 16 Screening Stagecoach (John Ford, USA, 1939) 96’ Our Daily Bread (King Vidor, USA, 1934) 80’

Jan 17 Lecture Invisible Editing and Classical Hollywood

Reading: Browne; Bordwell

 

Week 3

Jan 21 Martin Luther King Day No Screening

Jan 22 Lecture Bazin and the Ontology of Film

Reading: Bazin Vol. I pp. 41- 52; 76-124; Thompson, 283-302

Jan 23 Screening La Règle du jeu, [The Rules of the Game] (Jean Renoir, France, 1939)    Partie de Compagne [A Day in the Country] (Renoir, France, 1936) 36’

Jan 24 Lecture Renoir and the Logic of Mise en Scene

Reading: Bazin, “The French Renoir”

 

Week 4

Jan 28 Screening Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, USA, 1941) 119’ 

Jan 29 Lecture Depth of Field, Pan Focus and the Ambiguity of Reality

Reading: Ogle; Bazin, “The Technique of Citizen Kane”

Jan 30 Screening The Magnificent Ambersons (Orson Welles, USA, 1942) 88’

Jan 31 Lecture Post –Classical Hollywood? Welles and Beyond

Reading: Bazin, “The Grand Diptych”

 

Week  5

Feb 4 Screening Roma, città aperta [Open City] (Roberto Rossellini, Italy, 1945) 100’ 

Feb 5 Lecture Post War Cinema, a New Realism?

Reading: Bazin, Vol. II pp. 16- 40; Thompson, 261-282; 353- 390; Rossellini

Feb 6 Screening Ladri di biciclette [Bicycle Thief] (Vittorio De Sica, Italy, 1948) 93’

Feb 7 Lecture Neo-realism and the Everyday

Reading: Bazin Vol. II pp. 47-82; Sitney; Zavattini

 

Week 6

Feb 11 Screening Germania Anno Zero [Germany Year Zero] (Rossellini, Italy, 1948) 78’

Feb 12 Lecture A New Psychology and the Ruins of History

Reading: Bazin Vol. II, pp. 93-101; Merleau-Ponty; Steimatsky; Bazin, “Germany Year Zero”

Feb 13 Screening Viaggio in Italia [Voyage to Italy] (Rossellini, Italy, 1954) 90’

NOTE: Screening starts at 7:30pm

Feb 14 Lecture Voyages, Landscapes, Miracles

Reading: Mulvey, TBA 

 

Week 7

Feb 18 Screening La Terra Trema [The Earth Trembles] (Luchino Visconti, Italy, 1948) 154’

Feb 19 Lecture Landscape and Social Space in Mise en Scene

Reading: Bazin, Vol. II, pp 41-46; Thompson 303-322; Sitney; Steimatsky

Feb 20 Screening Un condamné à mort s'est échappé ou Le vent souffle où il veut [A Man Escaped] (Robert Bresson, France, 1956) 99’

Feb 21 Lecture Realism and Abstraction

Reading: Bazin Vol. I pp. 125-143; Sitney; Bresson, Notes on Cinematography

 

Week 8

Feb 25 Screening Ugetsu Monogatari [Tales of the Pale and Silvery Moon after the Rain] (Mizoguchi Kenji, Japan, 1954) 96’

Feb 26 Lecture Mise en Scene and Japanese Cinema

Reading: Thompson, 246- 260; Bordwell

Feb 27 Screening An Anatomy of a Murder (Otto Preminger, USA, 1959) 160’

Feb 28 Lecture Hollywood, Politics, Realism and Auteurs

Reading: Thompson pp. 323- 352; Rivette

 

Week 9

March 3 Screening Il grido [The Cry] (Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy, 1957) 116’

March 4 Lecture Wandering Narratives

Reading: Thompson, pp. 415- 438; Antonioni

March 5 Screening Ohayo [Good Morning] (Ozu Yasujiro, Japan, 1959) 94’

March 6 Lecture Formalism and Realism

Reading: Thompson 393- 397; Richie; Bordwell

 

Week 10

March 10 Screening A bout de soufflé [Breathless] (Jean Luc Godard, France, 1960) 90’

March 11 Lecture New Wave and Montage

Reading: Thompson, 439-476; Godard

March 12 Screening Les Bonnes femmes (Claude Chabrol, France, 1960) 100’

March 13 Lecture New Narrative

Reading: Truffaut; Chabrol