FMST 2420 - CINEMA AND COUNTER-HISTORY

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This graduate course focuses on visual media's connection to historicizing. It is concerned with theoretical writings that can be understood as offering versions of the past that run counter to received perceptions about historical forms through visual media. The readings and the films pay specific attention to various, often conflicting, theories, forms, and styles to identify the philosophic, aesthetic, and political stakes in activating the past. Among the texts to be studied that are related to philosophies of history are those of Walter Benjamin, Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Rancire, Hayden White, Carlo Ginzburg, and Fredric Jameson as well texts on Andr Bazin, Jean-Luc Godard. Philip Rosen, Mary Ann Doane, Robert Rosenstone, and Vivian Sobchack. The films proposed for screening are Cabiria, Abel Gance's Napoleon, Scipione Africanus, Roberto Rossellini's the Rise to Power of Louis XIV, Pasolini's Mamma Roma, Kubrick's Paths of Glory, Carry on up the Khyber, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, The Camp at Thiaroye, Hyenas, Morfia, a History of Violence, the White Ribbon, and Il Divo.
Academic Career: Graduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: Grad LG/SNC Basis

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