Film History and Criticism Week 8 March 2 nd The Post-War Avant-garde and Independent Cinema.

Slides:

Advertisements

Similar presentations

Discussion Questions for Enron

Advertisements

NMED 3850 Experimental Film Production. NMED 3850 Todays Class… The Surrealists Artist Statements Due.

Visual Pleasure and the Narrative Cinema Article by: Laura Mulvey Presentation by: Evelyn Walker.

POP ART. “Pop”: Robert Indiana, “Love” slang for popular. “Pop Culture”: refers to commercially available, trendy, hot things in capitalist culture:

Week 8 The Post-War Avant-garde The Post-War Avant-garde and Independent Cinema. Readings: Thompson & Bordwell Chapter 21 Documentary and Experimental.

The Cinematic 60s and 70s Gary Handman

From documentary/ethnographic film to creative transformation: Some examples Dr. Linda C.H. LAI SM4134 Berlin, a symphony of a big city (1927) Night Mail.

MIGRATING MIGRATING FROM HOVELS IN EL PASO TO THE EAST LOS ANGELES IS A MILESTONE IN HIS LIFE. 3 HOLLYWOOD DİLEKÇİ.

Introduction to Media Studies SoSe 2011 Mag. Klaus Heissenberger North American Literary and Cultural Studies Universität des Saarlandes.

Chapter 13 Early 20th-Century Novels

Feminism and film theory To understand and critique gender hierarchies and patriarchal ideologies in commercial narrative cinema. To define the terms of.

ANDY WARHOL. WHAT WAS ANDY WARHOL KNOWN FOR? Influential in the 1960’s Pop Art movement Wide variety of art forms including: Drawing Painting Printmaking.

The Auteur Theory. Film Director Pedro Amodovar.

By Ivana Pavlovičová. Andy Warhol Andy Warhol is best known for his exploration of Pop Art, mass producing images of mass produced objects. Warhol became.

COM 329 Contemporary Film Dr. Kim Neuendorf SELECTED UNDERGROUND AND AVANT GARDE FILMMAKERS PART II.

Agenda Film History: – Alternatives to Hollywood Storytelling – Soviet Cinema in the 1920s – Intro to Man with a Movie Camera 4:40: Man with a Movie Camera.

Hollywood and Cinema By: Megan, Michelle, and Celin.

Experimental Half-Hour is a television show that started in August of 2010 in Portland, Oregon as a platform to broadcasts local and international musicians.

Gardner’s Art Through the Ages, 13e

Feminism and film theory 1972: the first two women's film festivals organized in New York and Edinburgh; – W omen and Film begins publishing in California.

Intro to Film Terms & Vocabulary Chapter 1-2. Criteria of a Classic Film Technological Achievement/ Innovation Marked Influence on the craft of filmmaking.

Lewis Hine’s Amanda Yoquelet J210 Visual Communication.

Year 12 Media Studies Institution and Audiences

International Baccalaureate Film Studies “Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.” – Jean-Luc Godard.

Digital Cinema 101 Kay Beck and William Evans Digital Arts and Entertainment Laboratory Georgia State University W. Edward Price Interactive Media Technology.

Andy Warhol. Andy Warhol, was an American painter, printmaker, and filmmaker who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. After.

Andy Warhol. Movement, Style, School or Type of Art Pop Date and Place of Birth (disputed) August 6, 1928, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

NMED 3850 Experimental Film Production. NMED 3850 Today’s Class… Maya Deren Lisa Steele Technical Questions.

Please have a look at the Box Office figures – what do you notice? Review any films you have seen this week.

Bell Ringer Tuesday, February 21 st  No Bell Ringer Stamp if you don’t have an ID on and/or you are talking!  Takeout your homework!  How do you think.

Andy Warhol Andy Warhol BornAugust 6, 1928) Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania U.S. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania DiedFebruary 22, 1987 (aged 58) New York City, United.

Andy Warhol. Andy Warhol, was an American painter, printmaker, and filmmaker who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. After.

NMED 3850 Experimental Film Production. NMED 3850 Today’s Class… How to Write An Artist Statement Brakhage.

© Diocese of Guildford 2011 Encountering Passover Session 2 Encountering Passover.

Additional notes on ethnography: experimental ethnography SM4134 Visual Ethnography & Creative Intervention September 28, 2007 Linda Lai.

Personal Fashion Blogs: Screens and Mirrors in Digital Self-portraits by Agnes Rocamora Fashion Theory: the Journal of Dress, Body and Culture, Vol. 15,

Michael Snow ( )  visual artist, film maker and musician  born December 10, 1929, in Toronto, Ontario.

Incredibly Brief History of Film HUM 110: JC Clapp North Seattle Community College Information included here largely compiled from Film History by Bordwell.

PSYCHOANALYSIS & GENDER By: CARMEN ESSA Edited By: Dr. Picart Associate Professor of English Courtesy Associate Professor of Law.

Week 8 March 3rd The Post-War Avant-garde The Post-War Avant-garde and Independent Cinema. Readings: Thompson & Bordwell Chapter 21 Documentary and Experimental.

Don’t Be Afraid Of The Dark Studying the Horror Film as an Academic Subject.

History of cinema We learn more about cinema. The founders The Lumiere brothers The inventors of cinema, motion- picture camera and the directors of the.

ASIAN AMERICANS IN MEDIA Week 10: Contemporary Topics I Punk & Underground Films.

Human Rights in an Imperfect World  Understand how the international community addresses human rights violations, especially in the case of women’s rights.

Andy Warhol In the future everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.

By:Derek Althiser. History Founded by Martin Goodman in 1933 First comic released in Oct of 1939.

Advanced Production LO: To apply Marxist theory and feminist theory to practical media work.

Pop art is an artistic movement which comes from the Great Britain in 1950.

About… Laura Mulvey was born on the 15 th August 1941 and is known today as a British feminist film theorist. Mulvey was educated at St Hilda’s College,

The CIVIL WAR as Seen in POLITICAL CARTOONS. No event in the history of the United States has resonated more in the hearts and minds of the American people.

Chris Brown James Wan Stephen Curry Paul Walker Brian White Stephen King Vincent Van Gogh Gordon Ramsey Leonardo Da Vinci Tom Colicchio August Alsina Russell.

Feminism Key Film Theories (Taken from Cinema Studies: the Key Concepts (2 nd Ed.) by Susan Hayward.

The Golden Age of Hollywood Independent Cinema. Golden Age of Hollywood  Late 1920s (The Jazz Singer) to early 1960s  Unwritten set of rules dictate.

What is a Pacing Guide? Definition of Pacing Guides How are Pacing Guides utilized? Use of Pacing Guides What is the process of writing a Pacing Guide?

Understanding Movies Ch. 1 pp Realism, formalism, avante garde.

What is Cinema? Lecture 4: Dialectical montage. Lecture outline 1 Early editing (a gloss) 2 Eisenstein and Soviet aesthetics 3 Cinematographic principle.

Week 3 Lecture Directing. What is the role of the director? Director Actors Director of Photography Gaffer Camera Department Grip Department Production.

Jenny Chamarette Anat Pick

Don’t Be Afraid Of The Dark

FILM LINGO (terms to describe movies)

5. UTOPIAN FICTION AVANT-GARDE POETRY & PROSE

Pop Art: capturing the cultural zeitgeist

French New Wave Cinema ~

By: Ezrah Guerrero Semester 2

AMERICAN NEW DOCUMENTARY MOVEMENT

French new wave Eda Aganoglu.

Go here for updated film events: facebook

Introduction to Film Studies 1: Hollywood Cinema

Presentation transcript:

Film History and Criticism Week 8 March 2 nd The Post-War Avant-garde and Independent Cinema.

Week 8 February 28 th The Post-War Avant-garde The Post-War Avant-garde and Independent Cinema. Readings: Thompson & Bordwell Chapter 21 Documentary and Experimental Cinema in the Postwar Era 1945-Mid 1960’s pp Maya Deren p 490 Hayward, Key Concepts Feminist film theory pp97-116; Supplementary Reading: Laura Mulvey “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema”, (Braudy and

Counter culture Independent film makers c.w. more commercial interests of Hollywood producers. Documentary film making Avant-garde personal expression aided by the introduction of cheaper portable 8mm 16mm cameras and projection equipment.

NYC Avant-Garde Important figure impresario of the NYC Avant- garde (or neo-avant-garde) Jonas Mekas (Film makers Cooperative founder and cofounder of anthology film archives) Film Culture magazine and writing for the Village Voice. Bruce Connor (A Movie 1958) Jack Smith (Flaming Creatures (1963)

Fireworks (1947) Scorpio Rising (1964) Kenneth Anger

Last Year at Marienbad (1961); Alain Renais Alain Robbe-Grillet Le nouveau roman

Stan Brakhage “Brahkage is one of the four or five most authentic film artists working in cinema anywhere, and perhaps the most original film maker in America today” (Mekas, J 1961 Village Voice column) qu. Wexman p341 Dog Star Man ( ) Mothlight (1963)

“OF NECESSITY I BECOME INSTRUMENT FOR THE PASSAGE OF INNER VISION, THRU ALL MY SENSIBILITIES, INTO ITS EXTERNAL FORM. My most active part in this process is to increase all my sensibilities (so that all films arise out of some total area of being or full life) AND, at the given moment of possible creation to act only out of necessity. In other words, I am principally concerned with revelation.” -letter to P Adams Sitney, (1963)

“Endgames”

Agnes Varda Cleo from 5-7 (1961)

Andy Warhol Sleep (1963) 6h Empire (1964) 8h The Factory productions with Paul Morrissey Chelsea Girls (1966) Lonesome Cowboys (1968)

Chelsea Girls (1966) “I love to be bored” “In the future everyone will be world famous for 15 minutes”

Wavelength (1967) Michael Snow 45 minute slow zoom to a photograph of waves attached To the wall of his loft apartment/studio in NYC

Structuralist film (P. Adams Sitney “The film insists on its shape and what content it has is minimal and subsidiary to its outline” Other early Structuralist Films: Hollis Frampton (Zorns Lemma 1970) Ernie Gehr (Serene Velocity 1970) George Landow Remedial Reading Comprehension (1970)

Hollis Frampton’s 1970 Zorns lemma Zorns Lemma

Performance (1970) Nicholas Roeg

Yvonne Rainer. Lives of Performers (1971) Film about a woman who… (1974) The man who envied women (1985) Privilege (1990) Ref. NSCAD Press Book 1974

1970’s Feminism Women’s Political films Geri Ashur Janies Janie (1971) Jim Klein and Jukia Reichart Union Maids (1976)

Connie Field The life and times of Rosie the Riveter (1976)

The Personal is political” (Confessional films) Carolee Schneeman Fuses (1964) Joyce Wieland Reason over Passion (1969) Michelle Citron (Daughter Rite 1978) Sue Freidrich The ties that Bind (1984) Trin te Min ha Surname Viet, Given Name Nam 1989)

Carolee Schneeman Fuses (1964)

Week 9, March 9 th Contemporary Cinema Since the 1960’s; Crime, Horror and Suspense. The Hollywood ‘B’ movie. Readings: Thompson & Bordwell Chapter 22 Hollywood’s Fall and Rise pp ; Hayward, Key Concepts Horror pp Screening: Bucket of Blood (1960) Roger Corman, Night of the Living Dead (1968) George Romero; Breathless (1960) Jean Luc Godard.