課程概述 |
Aesthetics and Politics of Documentary and Experimental Film
記錄及實驗片的美學與政治
Prof. Shen Shiao-Ying Fridays
Fall 2007 AV Center Rm 305
Introduction
Early Film
Documentary Film
Nanook of the North (Robert Flaherty, 1922)
The Filmmaker as Hunter (Rothman)
Spanish Earth (Joris Ivens, 1939)
“Men Cannot Act before the Camera in the Presence of Death” (Waugh)
Triumph of the Will (Leni Riefenstahl, 1934)
The Mass Psychology of Fascist Cinema (Tomasulo)
Fascinating Fascism (Sontag)
Night and Fog (Alain Resnais, 1955)
Documenting the Ineffable: Terror and Memory in Alain Resnais’s Night and Fog (Flitterman-Lewis)
Don’t Look Back (D.A. Pennebaker, 1967)
“Don’t You Ever Just Watch?”: American Cinema Verite and Don’t Look Back (Hall)
Salesman (Albert Maysles & Charlotte Zwerin, 1969)
An Interview with Albert Maysles (Dixon)
When We Were Kings (Leon Gast, 1997)
When We Were Kings (Ryan)
看《曾經是拳王》- 看迷人的拳王、拳擊 (沈)
The Gleaners and I (Agnes Varda, 2001)
The Gleaners and I (Callenbach)
From Feminine Masquerade to Flaneuse: Agnes Varda’s Cleo in the City (Mouton)
Homesick Eyes (徐小明, 1997)
Homesick Eyes: The Haunting Charm of Globalized Labor (Shen)
Shift
Experimental Film
A Medley of shorts
Rythmus 21 (Richter, 1921)
Symphonie Diagonale (Eggeling, 1924)
Ballet Mecanique (Leger, 1924)
Regen (Rain) (Ivens, 1929)
H2O (Steiner, 1929)
Manhatta (Strand & Sheeler, 1921)
Man with the Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov, 1929)
“Peace between Man and Machine” (Feldman)
Russian Ark (Aleksandr Sokurov, 2003)
Russian Ark (Johnson)
Floating on the Borders of Europe: Sokurov’s Russian Ark (Ravetto-Biagioli)
Meshes of the Afternoon (Maya Deren, 1959)
Cinema as an Art Form (Deren)
Stan Brakhage
Metaphors on Vision (Brakhage)
The Filmmaker as Visionary: Excerpts from an Interview with Stan Brakhage (MacDonald)
Night Cries: A Rural Tragedy (Tracey Moffatt, 1989)
“Love me tender, love me true, never let me go”: A Sri Lankan Reading of Tracey Moffatt’s Night Cries: A Rural Tragedy (Jayamanne)
The Skywalk is Gone (蔡明亮, 2002)
*There will be a midterm and a final exam. When appropriate, writing assignments will be considered
*Erik Barnouw’s Documentary: A History of the Non-Fiction Film is on reserve at the General Library
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