Revised Film 7000 Outline
Week 8 – 5 FEB – National and Transnational Cinema – Mobility, Circulation and the New Political Economies of Images
Presenter: Julia Aoki
Required reading:
Judith Butler and Gayathri Spivak. Who Sings the Nation-State?
Toby Miller, Nitin Govil, John McMurria, Ting Wang, Richard Maxwell. Global Hollywood No 2. London: BFI, 2008. Ch. 1-4.
John Urry “Connectivity and Imagining” in Mobilities. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2007. 156-184
Suggested Reading:
Philip Crang, Claire Dwyer and Peter Jackson. “Transnationalism and the Spaces of Commodity Culture.” Progress in Human Geography 27: 4 (2003): 438-456.
Week 9 – 12 FEB – Cinema and Technologies of the Image II – Technology and Borders, New Media, the Avant-garde and Documentary
Presenter: Jane Kim
Required reading:
Rey Chow. “A Phantom Discipline.” PMLA 116.5 (2001): 1386-1395.
Michael Warner. “Publics and Counterpublics.” Public Culture 14.1 (2002): 49-90.
Ien Ang. “In the Realm of Uncertainty: The Global Village and Capitalist Postmodernity.” Living Room Wars. NY: Routledge, 1996.
Hollis Frampton. “A Pentagram for Conjuring the Narrative.” Circles of Confusion. Rochester: Visual Studies Workshop Press, 1983. pp. 59-68.
Hollis Frampton. “Incisions in History/Segments of Eternity.” Circles. pp. 87-106.
Hollis Frampton. “For a Metahistory of Film: Commonplace Notes and Hypotheses.” Circles. pp. 107-116.
Week 10 – 19 FEB – Cinema and Technologies of the Image III – Affect and Subjectivity
Presenter: Erika Biddle
Required reading:
Jacques Rancière. The Future of the Image. Chapters 1 and 2.
Jacques Rancière. The Politics of Aesthetics pages 12-45.
Tom Conley. “Cinema and its Discontents: Jacques Rancière and Film Theory.”
Kaja Silverman. World Spectators. Stanford: Stanford UP, 2000. 1-50.
Brian Massumi. Parables of the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation. Durham: Duke UP, 2002. 46-67.
Vivian Sobchack, The Address of the Eye; A Phenomenology of Film Experience. New Jersey: Princeton UP, 1991. 3-50.
Week 11 DATE and LOCATION TBA New Directions in Cinema and Media Studies
FINAL MEETING
