History of International Cinema II 2008
Lectures Tues, Thurs 12:00–1:20 Screenings Monday 3:30-6:30, Wed 7:00-10:00
Instructor: Tom Gunning, tgunning@uchicago.edu
Office hours: Wednesday 2:30–5pm, Thursday 3-4pm, CWAC 264
Assigned Texts:
Andre Bazin, What is Cinema? Vol. I and Vol. II
Kristin Thompson and David Bordwell, Film History
Available at Seminary Co-op
Other assigned reading available on Chalk site for the course
https://chalk.uchicago.edu/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp?tab=courses&url=/bin/common/course.pl?course_id=_11170_1
Week 1
Jan 7 Screening M (Fritz Lang, Germany, 1931) 110’
Jan 8 Lecture A Great Divide in Film History
Reading: Thompson, 191-212; Eisenstein
Jan 9 Screening L’Atalante (Jean Vigo, France, 1934) 89’
Jan 10 Lecture The Image of the Real: Poetic Realism
Reading: Bazin Vol. I, pp. 9-16; Walter Benjamin; Andrew
Week 2
Jan 14 Screening It Happened One Night (Frank Capra, USA, 1934) 105’ The Mummy (Karl Freund, USA, 1932) 73’
Jan 15 Lecture The Classical Hollywood Cinema
Reading: Bazin, Vol. I pp. 23-40; Thompson, 213-238; Bordwell; Gomery
Jan 16 Screening Stagecoach (John Ford, USA, 1939) 96’ Our Daily Bread (King Vidor, USA, 1934) 80’
Jan 17 Lecture Invisible Editing and Classical Hollywood
Reading: Browne; Bordwell
Week 3
Jan 21 Martin Luther King Day No Screening
Jan 22 Lecture Bazin and the Ontology of Film
Reading: Bazin Vol. I pp. 41- 52; 76-124; Thompson, 283-302
Jan 23 Screening La Règle du jeu, [The Rules of the Game] (Jean Renoir, France, 1939) Partie de Compagne [A Day in the Country] (Renoir, France, 1936) 36’
Jan 24 Lecture Renoir and the Logic of Mise en Scene
Reading: Bazin, “The French Renoir”
Week 4
Jan 28 Screening Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, USA, 1941) 119’
Jan 29 Lecture Depth of Field, Pan Focus and the Ambiguity of Reality
Reading: Ogle; Bazin, “The Technique of Citizen Kane”
Jan 30 Screening The Magnificent Ambersons (Orson Welles, USA, 1942) 88’
Jan 31 Lecture Post –Classical Hollywood? Welles and Beyond
Reading: Bazin, “The Grand Diptych”
Week 5
Feb 4 Screening Roma, città aperta [Open City] (Roberto Rossellini, Italy, 1945) 100’
Feb 5 Lecture Post War Cinema, a New Realism?
Reading: Bazin, Vol. II pp. 16- 40; Thompson, 261-282; 353- 390; Rossellini
Feb 6 Screening Ladri di biciclette [Bicycle Thief] (Vittorio De Sica, Italy, 1948) 93’
Feb 7 Lecture Neo-realism and the Everyday
Reading: Bazin Vol. II pp. 47-82; Sitney; Zavattini
Week 6
Feb 11 Screening Germania Anno Zero [Germany Year Zero] (Rossellini, Italy, 1948) 78’
Feb 12 Lecture A New Psychology and the Ruins of History
Reading: Bazin Vol. II, pp. 93-101; Merleau-Ponty; Steimatsky; Bazin, “Germany Year Zero”
Feb 13 Screening Viaggio in Italia [Voyage to Italy] (Rossellini, Italy, 1954) 90’
NOTE: Screening starts at 7:30pm
Feb 14 Lecture Voyages, Landscapes, Miracles
Reading: Mulvey, TBA
Week 7
Feb 18 Screening La Terra Trema [The Earth Trembles] (Luchino Visconti, Italy, 1948) 154’
Feb 19 Lecture Landscape and Social Space in Mise en Scene
Reading: Bazin, Vol. II, pp 41-46; Thompson 303-322; Sitney; Steimatsky
Feb 20 Screening Un condamné à mort s'est échappé ou Le vent souffle où il veut [A Man Escaped] (Robert Bresson, France, 1956) 99’
Feb 21 Lecture Realism and Abstraction
Reading: Bazin Vol. I pp. 125-143; Sitney; Bresson, Notes on Cinematography
Week 8
Feb 25 Screening Ugetsu Monogatari [Tales of the Pale and Silvery Moon after the Rain] (Mizoguchi Kenji, Japan, 1954) 96’
Feb 26 Lecture Mise en Scene and Japanese Cinema
Reading: Thompson, 246- 260; Bordwell
Feb 27 Screening An Anatomy of a Murder (Otto Preminger, USA, 1959) 160’
Feb 28 Lecture Hollywood, Politics, Realism and Auteurs
Reading: Thompson pp. 323- 352; Rivette
Week 9
March 3 Screening Il grido [The Cry] (Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy, 1957) 116’
March 4 Lecture Wandering Narratives
Reading: Thompson, pp. 415- 438; Antonioni
March 5 Screening Ohayo [Good Morning] (Ozu Yasujiro, Japan, 1959) 94’
March 6 Lecture Formalism and Realism
Reading: Thompson 393- 397; Richie; Bordwell
Week 10
March 10 Screening A bout de soufflé [Breathless] (Jean Luc Godard, France, 1960) 90’
March 11 Lecture New Wave and Montage
Reading: Thompson, 439-476; Godard
March 12 Screening Les Bonnes femmes (Claude Chabrol, France, 1960) 100’
March 13 Lecture New Narrative
Reading: Truffaut; Chabrol
