Introduction to Film History & Global Science Fiction Cinema
SYLLABUS: FILM 279 EAST 389 2018.pdf
PAPER 1 GUIDELINES: Paper 1 279-389 2018.pdf
Presentation 1: Film 279 EAST 389 Lecture 1 Summary.pdf
Presentation 2: Film 279 EAST 389 Lecture 2 Summary.pdf
Presentation 3: Film 279 EAST 389 Lecture 3 Summary.pdf
SCHEDULE:
FEBRUARY 2
Films:Karel Zemen, Vynález zkázy (The Fabulous World of Jules Verne, 1958; Czech)
Jan Svankmajer, Punch and Judy (1966; Czechoslovakia)
Readings:
Istvan Csicery-Ronay, “What is Estranged in Science Fiction Animation,” in Simultaneous Worlds: Global Science Fiction Cinema, ed. Jennifer L. Feeley and Sarah Ann Wells (University of Minnesota Press, 2015), pp. 29-46.
John C. Tibbetts, “Fulminations and Fulgurators: Jules Verne, Karel Zemen and Steampunk Culture,” in Steaming into a Victorian Future: A Steampunk Anthology, ed. Julie Anne Taddeo and Cynthia J. Miller (The Scarecrow Press, 2013)
Susan Sontag, “The Imagination of Disaster,” Commentary 40:4 (1965): 42-48.
Sontag Imagination of Disaster.pdf
Worksheet: FILM 279 EAST 389 Worksheet 4.pdf
Presentation: FILM 279 EAST 389 Lecture 4 Summary.pdf
FEBRUARY 9
Film: Kurt Maetzig, Der Schweigende Stern (Silent Star, 1962; East Germany, Poland)
Readings:
—Raphaëlle Moine, “What is the Purpose of Genres?” from Cinema Genre (London: Blackwell Publishing, 2008), 63-95.
—Evan Torner, “Casting for a Socialist Earth: Multicultural Whiteness in the East German/Polish Science Fiction Film, Silent Star,” in The Liverpool Companion to World Science Fiction Cinema, ed. Sonja Fritzche (2014): 119-137.
Casting for a Socialist Earth.pdf
— Philip Hayward and Natalie Lewandowski, “Sounds of The Silent Star: The Context, Score and Thematics of the 1960 Film Adaptation of Stanisław Lem's novel Astronauci,” Science Fiction Film and Television 3:2 (Autumn 2010): 183-200.
Hayward & LewandowskiSounds of the Silent Star.pdf
Worksheet: FILM 279 EAST 389 Worksheet 5.pdf
Presentation: FILM 279 EAST 389 Lecture 5 SUMMARY.pdf
FEBRUARY 16
Film: Andrei Tarkovsky, Solyaris (Solaris, 1972; Soviet Union)
Readings:
—Andrei Tarkovsky, “The Film Image,” in Sculpting in Time: Reflections on the Image (London: Faber and Faber, 1989) 104-163.
—Gilles Deleuze, “Beyond the Movement-Image,” trans. Hugh Tomlinson and Robert Galeta, Cinema 2: The Time-Image (London: Athlone Press, 2000), 1-24.
Deleuze Beyond the movementimage.PDF
— Roumiana Deltcheva and Eduard Vlasov, “Back to the House II: On the Chronotopic and Ideological Reinterpretation of Lem's Solaris in Tarkovsky's Film,” The Russian Review 56:4 (October 1997): 532-549.
Worksheet: FILM 279 EAST 389 Worksheet 6.pdf
Presentation: FILM 279 EAST 389 Lecture 6 Summary.pdf
FEBRUARY 23
Film: Tsui Hark, Do ma daan (Pekin Opera Blues, 1986)
Readings:
—Abbas, Ackbar, “The New Hong Kong Cinema and the Déjà Disparu,” Discourse (1994): 65-77.
Abbas New Hong Kong Cinema.pdf
—Bliss Cua Lim, Introduction: Clocks for Seeing,” from Translating Time: Cinema, the Fantastic, Temporal Critique (Duke University Press, 2009), 1-41.
—Slavoj Žižek, “Lenin Shot at Finland Station,” Review of What Might Have Been: Imaginary History from 12 Leading Historians, edited by Andrew Roberts. London Review of Books 27:16 (2005): 23
https://www.lrb.co.uk/v27/n16/slavoj-zizek/lenin-shot-at-finland-station.
Slavoj Žižek reviews ‘What Might Have Been’.pdf
Worksheet: FILM 279 EAST 389 Worksheet 7.pdf
Presentation: FILM 279 EAST 389 Lecture 7 Summary.pdf
MARCH 2 MID-TERM PAPER DUE
Film: Oshii Mamoru, Kōkaku kidōtai (The Ghost in the Shell, 1995; Japan)
Readings:
—Thomas Lamarre, “The Multiplanar Image,” in Mechademia: Emerging Worlds of Manga and Anime (University of Minnesota Press, 2006), 120-143.
—Wong Kin Yuen, “On the Edge of Spaces: Blade Runner, Ghost in the Shell, and Hong Kong's Cityscape,” Science Fiction Studies (2000): 1-21.
—LeiLani Nishime, “The Mulatto Cyborg: Imagining a Multiracial Future,” Cinema Journal 44.2 (2005): 34-49.
Worksheet: FILM 279 EAST 389 Worksheet 8.pdf
Presentation: FILM 279 & EAST 389 Lecture 8 Summary.pdf
MARCH 9 Reading Week
MARCH 16
Film: Gustavo Mosquera, Moebius (1996; Argentina)
Readings:
—Friedrich Kittler, “The City is a Medium,” New Literary History 27.4 (1996): 717-729.
The-City-Is-a-Medium-Kittler.pdf
—Nathaniel Moss, “Ribbon of Cinema: Moebius,” Film Comment 33:6 (1997): 79-80.
—Everett Hamner, “Remembering the Disappeared: Science Fiction Film in Postdictatorship Argentina,” Science Fiction Studies 39.1 (2012): 60-80.
Hamner Remembering the Disappeared.pdf
—Thomas Elsaesser, “The Mind-Game Film,” in Puzzle Films: Complex Storytelling in Contemporary Cinema, ed. Warren Buckland (Oxford: Blackwell, 2010), 13-41.
Worksheet: FILM 279 EAST 389 Worksheet 9.pdf
Presentation: FILM 279 EAST 389 Lecture 9 Summary.pdf
MARCH 23
Film: Joon Ho Bong, Gwoemul (The Host, 2006; Korea)
Readings:
—Joseph Jonghyun Jeon, “Neoliberal Forms: CGI, Algorithm, and Hegemony in Korea’s IMF,” Representation 126:1 (Spring 2014): 85-111.
—Julie Turnock, “The ILM Version: Recent Digital Effects and the Aesthetics of 1970s Cinematography,” Film History: An International Journal 24:2 (2012): 158-168
Worksheet: FILM 279 EAST 389 Worksheet 10.pdf
Presentation: FILM 279 EAST 389 Lecture 10 Summary.pdf
MARCH 30Good Friday
APRIL 6 QUIZ 2
Film: S. Shankar, Enthiran (Robot, 2010; India)
Readings:
—Jessica Langer and Dominic Alesso, “Indian Science Fiction Film: An Overview,” in The Liverpool Companion to World Science Fiction Cinema, ed. Sonja Fritzche (2014): 56-68
Langer & Alessio Indian Science Fiction Cinema.pdf
—Amit Rai, “On the Media Assemblage of Bollywood: Time and Sensation in Globalizing India,” in The Bollywood Reader, ed. Dudrah and Desai (2008): 264-75.
Rai_Media_Assemblage_of_Bollywood.PDF
— Ashish Rajadhyaksha, “The ‘Bollywoodization’ of the Indian cinema: Cultural Nationalism in a Global Arena,” Inter-Asia Cultural Studies 4.1 (2003): 25-39.
Rajadhyaksha_Bollywoodization.pdf
APRIL 13
Films: Janelle Monae & Wondaland, “Many Moons,” “Queen,” & “Dance Apocalyptic”
Wanuri Kahiu, Pumzi (2009; Kenya)
Readings:
—Thomas Elsaesser, “Early Film History and Multi-Media: An Archaeology of Possible Futures?” in New Media, Old Media: A History and Theory Reader, eds. Chun, Wendy Hui Kyong and Thomas Keenan (New York: Routledge, 2006), 13-25.
—Kodwo Eshun, “Further Considerations of Afrofuturism,” The New Centennial Review, 3:2 (Summer 2003): 287-302.
—Daylanne K. English and Alvin Kim, “Now We Want Our Funk Cut: Janelle Monáe’s Neo-Afrofuturism,” American Studies 52:4 (2013): 217-230.
Clips: John Coney, Space is the Place (1972)
John Akomfrah, The Last Angel of History (1996)
APRIL 18 FINAL PAPER DUE
