This assignment will take the place of Wednesday’s class and counts as this week’s 5-point in-class participation exercise, akin to a “Three-Minute Theory” (see syllabus). Read through the photo essays “Alfred Hitchcock: A Hank of Hair and a Piece of Bone” and “The Parlor Scene in Psycho: Images of Duality,” with these two questions in [...]
Next week we (finally) move into the modern period of cinema (1960-1995ish)! As your syllabus states, our first lesson, accompanied by a screening of Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho, will be on sex and violence in Hollywood. To get us ready for that class, let’s discuss some of the sexiest movies we’ve seen and why they’re so [...]
Below are two quotes from Akira Kurosawa’s memoir, Something Like An Autobiography (1982). Before Friday, consider either or both of them on Twitter. And and always, please discuss anything else about Rashomon (the eyebrows! the psychic! the overacting!) and/or the lecture on Japanese cinema, if you’d like. Quote 1: Before shooting, Kurosawa’s three assistant directors [...]
Here are a few questions regarding De Sica’s The Bicycle Thieves and our discussion of Italian Neorealism. Please respond no later than Thursday, and as always, feel free to discuss elements of the film and/or lecture that most interest you. Whose image is Antonio hanging? What message(s) are being suggested here, and how do they [...]
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