課程編號:102 43910 紀錄及實驗片的美學與政治
教師: 沈曉茵

Aesthetics and Politics of Documentary and Experimental Film
記錄及實驗片的美學與政治

Prof. Shen Shiao-Ying

Introduction
Early Film (Lumiere, Melies)
Writing assignment

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
Berlin: Symphony of a Great City (Walther Ruttman, 1927)
Montage (Kracauer)

Man With the Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov, 1929)
“Peace between Man and Machine” (Feldman)

The Fall of the House of Usher (Jean Epstein, 1928)

Meshes of the Afternoon (Maya Deren, 1959)
Cinema as an Art Form (Deren)

Stan Brakhage
Metaphors on Vision (Brakhage)

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)

Russian Ark (Aleksandr Sokurov, 2003)
Russian Ark (Johnson)

天橋不見了 (蔡明亮, 2002)
Writing assignment