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1. ENGL 6750/7750 Film Studies National Cinemas
2. Film Studies: National Cinemas Always problematic The example of East Germany The example of South Africa (under Apartheid) Decolonization Third Cinema Imported filmmakers—Chaplin, Hitchcock, Ang Lee And the Transnational: Bollywood, Kung Fu Films, American films The Hollywood/World Cinema dichotomy American film’s borrowing (Kill Bill) National status through setting, story (setting ≠ on location): the examples of Scotland and Africa Multi-nation partnership: Advance Party Not identifying with the nation: Québécois National cinemas and awards, film festivals
3. Film Studies: National Cinemas Australian Cinema Rabbit Proof Fence (Philip Noyce, 2002) Walkabout (1971) Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) Crocodile Dundee (Peter Faiman, 1986) Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (Stephan Elliott, 1994) Muriel’s Wedding (P. J. Hogan, 1994) Wolf Creek (Greg McLean, 2005)
4. Film Studies: National Cinemas--Australia Gillian Armstrong (1950- ) My Brilliant Career Starstruck Mrs. Soffel High Tide Fires Within Oscar and Lucinda
5. Film Studies: National Cinemas--Australia Bruce Beresford (1940- ) The Getting of Wisdom Breaker Morant Tender Mercies Crimes of the Heart The Fringe Dwellers Driving Miss Daisy
6. Film Studies: National Cinemas--Australia BazLuhrman (1962- ) Strictly Ballroom Romeo + Juliet Moulin Rouge! Australia The Great Gatsby
7. Film Studies: National Cinemas--Australia Jane Campion (1954- ) Sweetie The Piano Portrait of a Lady In the Cut Top of the Lake (TV)
8. Film Studies: National Cinemas--Australia George Miller (1945- ) Mad Max The Road Warrior Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome The Witches of Eastwick Lorenzo’s Oil Babe Babe: Pig in the City Happy Feet Happy Feet 2
9. Film Studies: National Cinemas--Australia Philip Noyce (1950- ) Dead Calm Patriot Games Clear and Present Danger The Saint The Bone Collector Rabbit-Proof Fence The Quiet American Salt
10. Film Studies: National Cinemas--Australia Alex Proyas (1963- ) The Crow Dark City I, Robot Knowing Dracula-Year Zero
11. Film Studies: National Cinemas--Australia Fred Schepisi (1939- ) The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith Barbarosa Plenty Roxanne A Cry in the Dark Six Degrees of Separation Fierce Creatures
12. Film Studies: National Cinemas--Australia Peter Weir (1944- ) Picnic at Hanging Rock The Last Wave Gallipoli The Year of Living Dangerously Witness The Mosquito Coast Dead Poets Society The Truman Show Master and Commander
13. Film Studies: National Cinemas British Cinema The problem of the US Protectionism Ealing Studios Comedy (compare to Capra) Hammer Horror Social Realism: Angry Young Men, Kitchen Sink, Free Cinema Lean, Merchant/Ivory, James Bond
14. Film Studies: National Cinemas—England Lindsay Anderson (1923-1994) This Sporting Life If O Lucky Man!
15. Lindsay Anderson with my British Film Class, London, 1992 Film History
16. Film Studies: National Cinemas—England Danny Boyle (1956- ) Trainspotting 28 Days Later The Beach Sunshine SlumdogMillionaire 127 Hours Trance
17. Film Studies: National Cinemas—England John Boorman (1933- ) Point Blank Deliverance Zardoz Exorcist II Excalibur Hope and Glory Beyond Rangoon The General The Tailor of Panama The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
18. Film Studies: National Cinemas—England Terence Davies (1945- ) Distant Voices, Still Lives The Long Day Closes House of Mirth Of Time and the City
19. Film Studies: National Cinemas—England Derek Jarman (1942-1994) Sebastiane Jubilee The Tempest Caraveggio The Last of England War Requiem Edward II Wittgenstein
20. Film Studies: National Cinemas—Scotland Bill Forsyth (1946- ) That Sinking Feeling Gregory’s Girl Local Hero Comfort and Joy Housekeeping Being Human
21. Film Studies: National Cinemas—England David Lean (1908-1991) Lawrence of Arabia Doctor Zhivago Bridge Over the River Kwai A Passage to India
22. Film Studies: National Cinemas—England Mike Leigh (1943- ) High Hopes Life is Sweet Naked Secrets and Lies Career Girls Topsy-Turvy Vera Drake Happy-Go-Lucky
23. Film Studies: National Cinemas—England Ken Loach (1936- ) Cathy Come Home Kes Hidden Agenda Bread and Roses My Name is Joe The Wind That Shakes the Barley
24. Film Studies: National Cinemas—England Merchant/Ivory Ismail Merchant (1936-2005) James Ivory (1928-) Shakespeare Wallah The Europeans The Bostonians A Room with a View Howards End The Remains of the Day The Golden Bowl
25. Film Studies: National Cinemas—England Sally Potter (1949- ) Thriller London Story Orlando The Tango Lesson The Men Who Cried Yes Rage
26. Film Studies: National Cinemas—England Carol Reed (1906-1976) The Third Man Our Man in Havana The Agony and the Ecstasy Oliver!
27. Film Studies: National Cinemas—England Tony Richardson (1928-1991) Look Back in Anger A Taste of Honey The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner Tom Jones Ned Kelly The Hotel New Hampshire
28. Film Studies: National Cinemas—England Guy Ritchie (1968- ) Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels Snatch Swept Away RocknRolla Sherlock Holmes Franchise
29. Film Studies: National Cinemas—England Nicholas Roeg (1928- ) Walkabout Performance The Man Who Fell to Earth Don’t Look Now Track 29 Witches
30. Film Studies: National Cinemas—England Ken Russell (1928- ) Women in Love Liztomania Tommy Altered States Savage Messiah The Music Lovers The Devils Mahler Valentino Gothic Rainbow
31. Film Studies: National Cinemas Chinese Cinema China, Film, and the West—In the new cities: Hong Kong, Shanghai (see next slide) Banning Kung Fu to Hong Kong Social Realism (before 1949)/The Operatic/Chinese Folklore Maoist Realism: Shanghai Steel Factory Increases Productivity by 25% A Movie Date in Shanghai in 1980 (see next slide) New Waves everywhere The Cultural Revolution Fifth and Sixth Generations Opening Up to the West Judging a Documentary Competition: http://thelaverytory.blogspot.com/2006/11/remarks-in-china.html
32. Film Studies: National Cinemas My Students, East China Normal University Shanghai, 1981
33. Film Studies: National Cinemas Shanghai Then and Now (1990, 2010)
34. Film Studies: National Cinemas—China/Hong Kong/Taiwan Zhang Yimou (1950- ) Red Sorghum Ju Dou Raise the Red Lantern Shanghai Triad Hero House of Flying Daggers A Woman, a Gun, and a Noodle Shop
35. ENGL 6750/7750 Film Studies Hollywood Cinema and Beyond
36. ENGL 6750/7750 Film Studies
37. Film Studies: National Cinemas Hong Kong Cinema Hong Kong’s status in relation to China and Chinese cinema Main genres: gangster, martial arts, comedy Exportable Stars: Jet Li., Michelle Yeoh, Jackie Chan Bowfinger(Frank Oz, 1999) Kung-Fu Hustle (Stephen Chow, 2004).
38. Film Studies: National Cinemas—China/Hong Kong/Taiwan Ang Lee (1954- ) The Wedding Bouquet Eat Drink Man Woman Sense and Sensibility The Ice Storm Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Hulk Brokeback Mountain Taking Woodstock Life of Pi
39. Film Studies: National Cinemas—China/Hong Kong/Taiwan Wong Kar-Wai (1958- ) As Tears Go By Chungking express In the Mood for Love 2046 Eros
40. Film Studies: National Cinemas—China/Hong Kong/Taiwan John Woo (1946- ) The Killer Bullet in the Head Hard Target Face/Off Mission Impossible 2 Windtalkers Paycheck
41. Film Studies: National Cinemas French Cinema
42. Film Studies: National Cinemas—France Alice Guy (1873-1968)
43. Film Studies: National Cinemas—France Luc Besson (1959- ) Nikita Leon (The Professional) The Fifth Element The Messenger District B13 Arthur and the Invisibles
44. Film Studies: National Cinemas—France Marcel Carne (1906-1996) Les Enfants du paradis
45. Film Studies: National Cinemas—France René Clair (1906-1996) Entr’acte Un chapeau de paille d’Italie A nous la liberte
46. Film Studies: National Cinemas—France Jacques Tati (1907-1982) Monsieur Hulot on Holiday Mon Oncle Playtime Trafic Parade
47. Film Studies: National Cinemas German Cinema F. W. Murnau Cabinet of Dr. Caligari(Robert Wiene, 1919) German Expressionism From Caligari to Hitler (Siegfried Kracauer) New German Cinema The Burden of History
48. Film Studies: National Cinemas—Germany Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1945-1982) The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant The Marriage of Maria Braun Ali: Fear Eats the Soul Effi Briest Despair Berlin Alexanderplatz
49. Film Studies: National Cinemas—Germany, Tom Tykwer (1965- ) Run, Lola, Run Perfume The International Cloud Atlas
50. Film Studies: National Cinemas—Germany Wim Wenders (1945- ) Alice in the Cities The American Friend Tokyo-Ga The State of Things Paris, Texas Wings of Desire Until the End of the World Buena Vista Social Club
51. Film Studies: National Cinemas Irish Cinema Ireland in relation to England National cinema: long-time coming Freedom (1920) and then censorship The Quiet Man (John Ford, 1952) Turn from art film to realism: Sheridan, Jordan
52. Film Studies: National Cinemas—Ireland Neil Jordan (1950- ) The Company of Wolves Mona Lisa The Crying Game Interview with a Vampire Michael Collins In Dreams The Good Thief The Butcher Boy The Brave One
53. Film Studies: National Cinemas—Ireland Jim Sheridan (1949- ) My Left Foot The Field In the Name of the Father The Boxer In America “David Lavery, “The Strange Text of My Left Foot.” Literature/Film Quarterly 21.3 (1993): 194-99.
54. Film Studies: National Cinemas Italian Cinema Early flair for the epic—influence on Griffith Stars: divi/dive—gods and goddesses Sophia Loren (on the right in 1962, 2009) Neo-Realism Spaghetti Westerns Muscular Mythology
55. Film Studies: National Cinemas--Italy Michelangelo Antonioni (1912-2007) L’Notte L’Ecclise L’Avventura Blow-Up Zabriskie Point The Passenger Chung Kuo, Cina
56. Film Studies: National Cinemas--Italy
57. Film Studies: National Cinemas--Italy Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975) Accatone The Decameron The Canterbury Tales The Thousand One Nights The Hundred and Twenty Days ofSodom
58. Film Studies: National Cinemas--Italy Sergio Leone (1929-1989) The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly High Plains Drifter A Fistful of Dollars For a Few Dollars More Once Upon a Time in the West Once Upon a Time in America
59. Film Studies: National Cinemas--Italy Luchino Visconti (1906-1976) The Leopard Death in Venice
60. Film Studies: National Cinemas Japanese Cinema Electric Shadows—first paragraph on 238 Is Asian cinema different—as Asian art is different Japan vs. China Watching the projector—surmounting illusionism The highly stylized Early narrators (intentionally vague—to allow the narrator freedom) Love of the long-take, infatuation with mise-en-scene Home Drama Seasoning (Cook 239) Modernist or Buddhist? The 2nd World War Japanese New Wave
61. Film Studies: National Cinemas One Corner Style/Mu: “the empty space in traditional painting [which] carries deeper Taoist and Buddhist connotations of ‘void’ or infinity” [Cook, 238].
62. Film Studies: National Cinemas--Japan Akira Kurosowa (1910-1998) Scandal Rashomon Ikiru Seven Samurai Throne of Blood The Hidden Fortress Yojimbo Red Beard Kagemusha' Ran Dreams
63. Film Studies: National Cinemas--Japan Yasujiro Ozu (1930-1963) Tokyo Story Ozu “privileges space over narration in ways that include conssitently using a 360 degree shooting space instead of the 180 degree space of classical cinema, foregrounding objects that are not correspondingly important in the narrative, and cutting away to shot ands hot dequences that, while related to narrative, are not motivated by it.”—Bordwell and Thompson
64. Film Studies: National Cinemas--Japan Jūzō Itami (1933-1996) Ososhiki (The Funeral) Tampopo Marusa no Onna (A Taxing Woman) Minbo no Onna (Minbo—or the Gentle Art of Japanese Extortion) Daibyonin (The Last Dance) (1993)
65. Film Studies: National Cinemas Mexican Cinema
66. Film Studies: National Cinemas--Mexico Alfonso Cuarón (1961- ) A Little Princess Great Expectations Y tumamátambién Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Children of Men Gravity
67. Film Studies: National Cinemas--Mexico Guillermo Del Toro (1964- ) Cronos Mimic The Devil's Backbone Hellboy Blade II Pan's Labyrinth The Orphanage Hellboy II: The Golden Army Pacific Rim
68. Film Studies: National Cinemas Russian Cinema Early supremacy: Eisenstein, Pudovkin, Vertov Working under the dictatorship of the proletariat Post-WWII Soviet Cinema: Propaganda vs. Art The Russian Ark (Alexander Sokurov, 2002) “An unnamed narrator, unseen by the audience and voiced by the director, wanders through the Winter Palace (now the main building of Russian State Hermitage Museum) in Saint Petersburg. The narrator implies that he has died in some horrible accident and is a ghost drifting through the palace. In each room, he encounters various real and fictional people from various time periods in the city's three-hundred-year history. He is accompanied by "the European" (played by Sergei Dreiden), who represents the nineteenth-century French traveller the Marquis de Custine, and who is visible to the audience. The fourth wall is repeatedly broken and re-erected; at times the narrator-director and the companion interact freely with the other performers, and at other times, they go completely unnoticed.” [Wikipedia]
69. Film Studies: National Cinemas—Soviet Union Andrei Tarkovsky (1932-1986) Andrei Rublev Solaris Stalker Voyage in Time Mirror Nostalghia The Sacrifice
70. Film Studies: National Cinemas Spanish Cinema The Spanish Civil War and its aftermath
71. Film Studies: National Cinemas—Spain Pedro Almodóvar (1951- ) Pepi, Luci, Bom Matador Law of Desire Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! The Flower of My Secret Live Flesh All About My Mother Talk to Her Bad Education Volver Broken Embraces The Skin I Live In I’m So Excited