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notes on Documentary

  click HERE to download I would appreciate it if you do not circulate it for other uses.

Final Paper: Due on Feb 5 (Mon), 5pm.

Write a 1500 word essay (typed, double-spaced, 12-point font, and 1” margins all around; refer to Chicago Manual of Style (http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/home.html) SUBMISSION : Please submit the essay to the lecturer’s email address maran@lit.nagoya-u.ac.jp with the subject “Final Paper CFA”, and format your FILE NAME as ‘Final Paper CFA+YOUR NAME’. Do give your paper a title! 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 Final Paper Title of article AIM & CONTENT: You are expected to 1)           Analyze ONE film listed below, to demonstrate your understanding of certain analytical frameworks and methods in film studies introduced in this semester (refer to each session’s the...

MULVEY+notes on feminist film theory

for the Laura Mulvey article click HERE please click HERE to download the NOTES. I would really appreciate if you only use it for your own reference; please do not circulate outside of the classroom.

January 26th Documentary

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Required Readings: Roe, Annabelle Honess. 2014. “The Evolution of Animated Documentary”, New Documentary Ecologies: Emerging Platforms, Practices And Discourses , 174-191 . edited by Kate Nash, Craig Hight & Catherine Summerhayes, Palgrave Macmillan .[CLICK HERE ] Winston, Brian. 2015. ‘Introduction: the Documentary Film’, The documentary film book . Palgrave Macmillan. [distributed in class; if you haven't got it, please contact our TA] Reference Readings: Steward, G. (2010). “Screen Memory in Waltz with Bashir ”. Film Quarterly , 63 (3), 58–62. http://doi.org/10.1525/FQ.2010.63.3.58 [click HERE ] Landesman, O., & Bendor, R. (2011). “Animated Recollection and Spectatorial Experience in Waltz with Bashir ”. Animation , 6 (3), 353–370.  [click HERE ]

change of plan

DOCUMENTARY January 22nd, Monday 4:30@ Room 131 Screening: Waltz with Bashir , 2008, Dir. Ali Folman WEEK 15/January 26 th Required Readings: Roe, Annabelle Honess. 2014. “The Evolution of Animated Documentary”, New Documentary Ecologies: Emerging Platforms, Practices And Discourses , 174-191. edited by Kate Nash, Craig Hight & Catherine Summerhayes, Palgrave Macmillan. Winston, Brian. Vanstone, Gail. & Wang Chi. 2017. “An Agenda”. In the Act of Documenting: Documentary Film in the 21st Century . New York: Bloomsbury Publishing. Reference Readings: Steward, G. (2010). “Screen Memory in Waltz with Bashir ”. Film Quarterly , 63 (3), 58–62. http://doi.org/10.1525/FQ.2010.63.3.58 Landesman, O., & Bendor, R. (2011). “Animated Recollection and Spectatorial Experience in Waltz with Bashir ”. Animation , 6 (3), 353–370. WEEK 16/February 2 nd  Thesis Workshop (COMPULSORY; would end earlier) ...

FEMINIST FILM THEORY WEEK 14/Jan 19th

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Required Readings: Pozo, Diana. 2015. “Feminist Film Theory, Core Concepts.” In The Routledge Encyclopedia of Film Theory , edited by Branigan Edward, Buckland Warren, 187-194. Routeledge.[click HERE] Stam, Robert. 2000. “The Feminist Intervention” [click HERE ] & “the Rise of Cultural Studies”[click HERE ]. Film Theory: an Introduction , Blackwell Publishing, 169-179 & 223-229  White, Patricia. 1998. "Feminism And Film".  Oxford Guide To Film Studies . 117- 131.  [click HERE ] Reference Readings: [HIGHLY RECOMMENDED, since it analyzes the film. You could skip the Deleuze part--would be useful for Reading Journal] Elsaesser, Thomas & Buckland, Warren. 2002.“Feminism, Foucault, and Deleuze (the Silence of the Lambs).” Studying Contemporary American Films: a Guide to Movie Analysis, Bloomsbury Academic . [click HERE ]