DETAILED SCHEDULE OF READINGS & FILMS

Note: films and readings are indicative and may be revised.

1 Introduction

No screening. No reading.

2 The cinematic experience now—2gather-a-part co-vid exquisite corpse series (https://vimeo.com/showcase/7024910)

Gaudreault, André, and Philippe Marion. “Chapter One: Cinema Is Not What It Used to Be.” The End of Cinema?: A Medium in Crisis in the Digital Age. The End of Cinema? Columbia University Press, 2015.

Thain, Alanna, and Dayna McLeod. “Cinema’s Missing Bodies.” Framework 62, no. 2 (2021): 223–41. Click on the QR codes in the essay to access all audio files.

SUPPLEMENTARY

Hansen, M. “Early Cinema, Late Cinema: Permutations of the Public Sphere.” Screen 34, no. 3 (1993): 197–210.

Casetti, Francesco. The Lumière Galaxy: Seven Key Words for the Cinema to Come. New York: Columbia University Press, 2015.

3 Excavating cinema’s mobile virtual gaze—Piccadilly (E. A. Dupont, UK, 1929)

Friedberg, Anne. Chapter One “The mobilized and virtual gaze in modernity: Flâneur/flaneuse,” 15-38, in Window Shopping: Cinema and the Postmodern. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.

Friedberg, Anne. Chapter Two “The passage from arcade to cinema,” 47-94, in Window Shopping: Cinema and the Postmodern. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.

SUPPLEMENTARY

Shohat, Ella and Robert Stam. “The Imperial Imaginary.” In Unthinking Eurocentrism: Multiculturalism and the Media (London: Routledge, 1994).

“Victorian Popular Culture - Adam Matthew Digital.” Accessed July 13, 2021. https://www-victorianpopularculture-amdigital-co-uk.ezproxy.library.sydney.edu.au/. See the Quick Link on the home page to the “Optical Entertainments” digital exhibition.

4 Cinematic assemblages—Faces Places (Agnès Varda and JR, France, 2017)

Casetti, Francesco. “Assemblage.” In The Lumière Galaxy: Seven Key Words for the Cinema to Come. New York: Columbia University Press, 2015.

Martin, Adrian. “Turn the Page: From Mise En Scène to Dispositif.” Screening the Past (2011) https://www.screeningthepast.com/2011/07/turn-the-page-from-mise-en-scene-to-dispositif/

SUPPLEMENTARY

Agamben, Giorgio. “What Is an Apparatus?” In What Is an Apparatus? And Other Essays, 1–24. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2009.

5 World cinema and the festival—The World (Jia Zhangke, China, 2004)

Andrew, Dudley. 2009. “Time Zones and Jet Lag: The Flows and Phases of World Cinema.” In World Cinemas, Transnational Perspectives, edited by Nataša Durovicová and Kathleen E. Newman. Taylor & Francis.

de Valck, Marijke. “Cannes and the Alternative Cinema Network: Bridging the Gap between Cultural Criteria and Business Demands,” 85-121. In Film Festivals: From European Geopolitics to Global Cinephilia. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2007. 36pp eBook

SUPPLEMENTARY

Appadurai, Arjun. “Chapter 2: Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy,” 27-47. In Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1996.

La Dolce Vita (Federico Fellini, Italy, 1960)

6 Queer cinema in the world—Circumstance (Maryam Keshavarz, France/US/Iran, 2011)

Schoonover, Karl, and Rosalind Galt. “Introduction.” In Queer Cinema in the World. Durham: Duke University Press, 2016.

Schoonover, Karl, and Rosalind Galt. Chapter 2 “A Worldly Affair: Queer Film Festivals and Global Space.” In Queer Cinema in the World. Durham: Duke University Press, 2016.

SUPPLEMENTARY

Robertson, Roland. “Glocalization: Time-Space and Homogeneity-Heterogeneity.” In Global Modernities, 25–44. Edited by Mike Featherstone, Scott Lash & Roland Robertson. London: SAGE Publications, 1995.

Juhasz, Alexandra, and Ming-Yuen S. Ma. “Queer Media Manifestos.” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 19, no. 4 (2013): 559–74. [e-journal]

7 Portable cinema—test reels, smartphone media, the Internet

Wasson, Haidee. “Introduction: Portability and Projectability” and Chapter 4 “Portable Projects and the Electronic Age.” Everyday Movies: Portable Film Projectors and the Transformation of American Culture. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2020.

Knörer, Ekkehard. “Movable Images on Portable Devices.” In Screen Dynamics: Mapping the Borders of Cinema, edited by Gertrud Koch, Volker Pantenburg, and Simon Rothöhler, 169–78. New York: Columbia University Press, 2012.

SUPPLEMENTARY

Pilcher, Lauren. “Queer Theory and Nontheatrical Films: Perversion in the Public Domain.” In The Oxford Handbook of Queer Cinema, edited by Ronald Gregg and Amy Villarejo. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021.

8 Microcinema—Hale County This Morning, This Evening (RaMell Ross, US, 2018)

Shambu, Girish. “Making a Home for Film, Making Film a Home: The Nomadic Cinephilia of Ruun Nuur.” Framework 62, no. 2 (2021): 199–209.

De Ville, Donna. “The Persistent Transience of Microcinema (in the United States and Canada).” Film History: An International Journal 27, no. 3 (2015): 104–36.

SUPPLEMENTARY

Koyaanisqatsi (Godfrey Reggio, US, 1982).

Shohat, Ella and Robert Stam. “The Politics of Multiculturalism in the Postmodern Age.” In Unthinking Eurocentrism: Multiculturalism and the Media (London: Routledge, 1994).

MID-SEMESTER BREAK

9 Cinematic milieu—Domitilla I (DAAR Communication, Nigeria, 1996) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQZSr92n2Hw

Canguilhem, Georges. (1952) 2001. “The Living and Its Milieu,” translated by John Savage. Grey Room, no. 3: 7–31.

Larkin, Brian. “The Cinematic Milieu.” Public Culture 33, no. 3 (2021): 313–48.

SUPPLEMENTARY

Okome, Onookome. 2007. “Nollywood: Spectatorship, Audience, and the Sites of Consumption.” Postcolonial Text 3, no. 2. https://www.postcolonial.org/index.php/pct/article/viewFile/763/425

Steyerl, Hito. 2009. “In Defense of the Poor Image.” In The Wretched of the Screen, 31–45. Berlin: Sternberg.

10 Reading week—theses due end of the week

11 Cinematic milieu—site visit tba

12 Room for play—Toni Erdmann (Maren Ade, Germany, 2016)

Hansen, Miriam Bratu. “Room-for-Play: Benjamin’s Gamble with Cinema.” Canadian Journal of Film Studies/Revue Canadienne d’études Cinematographiques 13, no. 1 (2004): 2–27.

Benjamin, Walter. “The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility [Second Version].” In The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media, edited by Michael W. Jennings, Brigid Doherty, and Thomas Y. Levin, translated by Edmund Jephcott, 19–55. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2008.

13 Research essay workshop