CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF VISUAL CULTURE (CAVC)

Deadline: December 20th, Wed, 5pm, via email to Ran. Unless emergency happens, no late submission is allowed. There are 2 options for the THP, and please choose  ONE  from 1.Participate a film screening + Skype Q&A event at NU on December 4 th (Monday), 4:30pm @ Rm 131 . We would show a Chinese independent documentary “Self-Portrait: Born in 47 KM” (selection in the Asian New Currents, Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival 2017). See more from the flyers. Your task : write a 300-word film review for this documentary, format free. Wu Wenguang is a foundational figure of Chinese independent documentary film and co-founder of the Caochangdi Workstation in Beijing. In 2010, Wu launched the multidisciplinary and collaborative Folk Memory Project to document the gathering of oral histories from the rural survivors of China’s Great Famine (1958-1961). In the past six years, the project participants have interviewed 1,220 villagers in 246 villages...

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Monday, Nov. 6th, 4:30pm, Rm131.

Bazin with cat WEEK 6 / November 10 th     Required Readings: Bazin, André . 1967. “ The  Ontology  of the  Photographic Image ” & “the Evolution of the Language of Cinema” in What is Cinema Vol. 1 , translated by Hugh Gray. 9-16, 23-40. University of California Press. NOTE: 2 articles in the same book. [click HERE ] Elsaesser, Thomas & Buckland, Warren. 2002. “Realism and Photographic and Digital Image”, Studying Contemporary American Films: a Guide to Movie Analysis, Bloomsbury Academic, 195-219. [click HERE ]

Dear all, In order to help you to prepare for the reading journal, here I am sharing you the Mise-en-Scene lecture notes. Please do not circulate it beyond the classroom use.  CLICK HERE [same password; link will expire by the end of October!]

Reference Film 1) Battleship Potemkin , Dir. Sergei Eisenstein, 1925 [ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TgWoSHUn8c ] Film 2) Man with a Movie Camera , Dir. Dziga Vertov, 1929 [ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGYZ5847FiI ] NOTE: NO in-class screenings (both available at YouTube with English  subtitle) Required Readings: Bordwell, David. “The Idea of Montage in Soviet Art and Film”, Cinema Journal , Vol. 11,No.2 Spring 1972, p9-17 【click HERE 】 Bordwell, David & Thompson, Kristin . 2010. “the Relation of Shot to Shot: Editing”, Film Art: an Introduction (10th Edition), University Of Wisconsin Press, 218-265 [click HERE ] Stam, Robert. 2000. “the Soviet Montage-Theorists” & “Russian Formalism and the Bakhtin School”, Film Theory: an Introduction , Blackwell Publishing, 37-55 [click HERE ] Reference Reading: Eisenstein, Sergei. 2011. “The Dramaturgy of Film Form.” In Critical Visions In Film Theory: Classic And Contemporary ...

Reading Journal Assignment : Due dates October 23rd/Nov 27th/Jan 15 th . Students are expected to submit 3 reading journals . Preferred style is CMS . Please submit the Journal to the lecturer’s email address maran@lit.nagoya-u.ac.jp with the subject “CFA reading journal I/II/III”. I’d send out confirmation email once your assignment is received. Late submission is not accepted unless emergency happens. Format Include the following information at the top of each assignment: Your Name Course Title Submission Date Reading Journal Essay # [you should write either 1 or 2 here; not just #!!!]             Title of article  (CMS format) In a reading journal, you do NOT have to review all the topics covered in the previous weeks. Try to focus on ONE specific topic/argument (could be any one of these: cinema of attractions/spectacle/mi...