| Screenings | Mondays 4:00-6:00 pm, Innis College Rm 222 |
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| Lectures | Tuesdays 4:00-6:00 pm, Innis College Rm 312 |
| Office Hours | Wednesdays 4:00-6:00 pm, Room 224, Innis College |
| Mon. Sept. 11 | Lumiere
Programme. Lumiere Bros., France, 1895 (7 min. sil.) A Trip to the Moon. Georges Melies, France, 1902 (12 min. sil.) Animals in Motion. John Straiton. Canada, 1968 (7 min.) Lumiere Package. Lumiere Bros., France |
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| Tues. Sept 12 | Information & Course Mechanics |
| Mon. Sept. 18 | Nanook
of the North. Robert Flaherty, USA, 1922 (67 min) |
| Tues. Sept. 19 | William Rothman,
"Robert Flaherty's Nanook of the North," Documenting
the Documentary: Close Readings of Documentary Film and Video,
ed. B.K. Grant & Jeannette Sloniowski (Detroit: Wayne State University
Press, 1998), 23-39. Sherrill Grace, "Exploration as Construction: Robert Flaherty and Nanook of the North,"Essays on Canadian Writing, no. 59 (Fall 1996), 123-146. |
| Mon. Sept. 25 | In
the land of war canoes: Kwakiutl Indian life on the Northwest coast
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| Tues. Sept. 26 | Carl R. Plantinga, "What is a Nonfiction Film?" Rhetoric and Representation in Nonfiction Film (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997), 7-25. |
| Mon. Oct. 2 | Compilation Documentary Fall of the Romanov Dynasty. Esther Shub, USSR, 1927 (90 min) |
| Tues. Oct. 3 | Vlada Petric, "Esther Shub: Film as a Historical Discourse," Show Us Life, ed. Tom Waugh (Metuchen: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1984), 21-46. |
| Mon. Oct. 9 | Thanksgiving - no class |
| Tues. Oct. 10 |
Bill Nichols, "Documentary
Theory and Practice," Screen (Winter 76/77), 34-48. |
| Mon. Oct. 16 | Poetic Documentary Berlin, Symphony of
a City. Walter Ruttman, Germany, 1927 (60 min) |
| Tues. Oct. 17 | Michael Renov,
"Towards a Poetics of Documentary," Theorizing Documentary,
(New York: Routledge, 1993) 12-36. Carl R. Plantinga, "The Poetic Voice," Rhetoric and Representation in Nonfiction Film (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997), 171-190. |
| Mon. Oct. 23 | Man With a Movie Camera. Dziga Vertov, USSR, 1929 (67 min). |
| Tues. Oct. 24 | Stephen Crofts
& Olivia Rose, "An Essay Towards Man With a Movie Camera," Screen
vol. 18 no.1, Spring 1977. Seth Feldman, "Peace between Man and Machine: Dziga Vertov's The Man With a Movie Camera," Documenting the Documentary, 40-54. |
| Mon. Oct. 30 | Introducing John Grierson Rien que les heures.
Alberto Cavalcanti, 1926. (40 min) |
| Tues. Oct. 31 | John Grierson,
"Drifters," The Documentary Film Movement: An
Anthology, ed. Ian Aitken (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press,
1998), 77-81. BIBLIOGRAPHY ASSIGNMENTS DUE TODAY |
| Mon. Nov. 6 | Grierson and Realism Industrial Britain.
John Grierson/Robert Flaherty, GB, 1931-33 (22 min.) |
| Tues. Nov. 7 | The Name Grierson, The Word Documentary. James Willson/BBC, 1973 (50 min) Ian Aitken, "Grierson's
Theory of Documentary Film," The Documentary Film Movement:
An Anthology, ed. Ian Aitken (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University
Press, 1998), 35-68. |
| Mon. Nov. 13 | Robert Flaherty Man of Aran. Robert
Flaherty, GB, 1934 (73 min) |
| Tues. Nov. 14 | Bill Nichols, "The Domain of Documentary,"Representing Reality (Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1991), 3-31. |
| Mon. Nov. 20 | Spectacle Triumph of the Will. Leni Riefenstahl, Germany, 1935 (100min). |
| Tues. Nov. 21 | Frank P. Tomasulo,
"The Mass Psychology of Fascist Cinema: Leni Reifenstahl's Triumph
of the Will," Documenting the Documentary, 99-118. Steve Neale, "Triumph of the Will: Notes on Documentary Spectacle," Screen vol. 20, no. 1, 1979, 63-86. |
| Mon. Nov. 27 | Committed Documentary Land Without Bread.
Luis Bunuel, Spain, 1932 (26 min) |
| Tues. Nov. 28 | Vivan Sobchack,
"Synthetic Vision: The Dialectical Imperative of Luis Bunuel's
Las Hurdes," Documenting the Documentary, 70-82. Tom Waugh, "Men Cannot Act before the Camera in the Presence of Death: Joris Ivens' The Spanish Earth," Documenting the Documentary, 136-153. |
| Mon. Dec. 4 | "Diving
Sequence" and "Marathon Sequence" Olympiad. Leni Reifenstahl,
Germany, 1936 (5 min. & 14 min) Charlie Keil, "American Documentary Finds its Voice: Persuasion and Expression in The Plow that Broke the Plains and The City," Documenting the Documentary, 119-135. |
| Tues. Dec. 5 | TERM TEST - Happy Holidays! |
| Mon. Jan. 8 | Post WWII La Sang des Betes
(Blood of the Beasts). Georges Franju, France, 1949 (22 min)
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| Tues. Jan. 9 | Sandy Flitterman-Lewis,
"Documenting the Ineffable: Terror and Memory in Alain Resnais's
Night and Fog," Documenting the Documentary, 204-222. Jeffrey Youdelman, "Narration, Invention and History,"New Challenges for Documentary, ed. Alan Rosenthal (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988), 454-464. |
| Mon. Jan. 15 | NFB and the Beginnings of Contemporary Documentary City of Gold.
Colin Low/Roman Kroitor, Canada, 1957 (22 min) |
| Tues. Jan. 16 | D.B. Jones,
"The Canadian Film Board Unit B,"New Challenges for Documentary,
133-147. Bruce Elder, "On the Candid-Eye Movement," in S. Feldman & J. Nelson eds. Canadian Film Reader (Toronto: Peter MArin, 1977), 86-93. Barry Keith Grant, "From Obscurity in Ottawa to Fame in Freedomland: Lonely Boy and the Cultural Meaning of Paul Anka," in J. Leach & J. Sloniowski, eds., Candid Eyes: Essays on Canadian Documentaries, (Toronto: UTP, 2003), 48-60. |
| Mon. Jan. 22 | Cinema Verite Don’t Look Back. D.A. Pennebaker/Richard Leacock, USA, 1966 (90 min) |
| Tues. Jan. 23 | Stephen Mamber,
"Direct Cinema and the Crisis Structure," Cinema Verite in America
(Cambridge: MIT Press, 1974), 115-140. Jeanne Hall, "Don't You ever Just Watch? American Cinema Verite and Don't Look Back," Documenting the Documentary, 223-237. |
| Mon. Jan. 29 | Reality Fiction Titicut Follies. Fred Wiseman, USA, 1967 (90 min). |
| Tues. Jan. 30 | Bill Nichols,
"Frederick Wiseman’s Documentaries: Theory and Structure," Ideology
and the Image (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1981), 208-236. Barry Keith Grant, "Ethnography in the First Person: Frederick Wiseman's Titicut Follies," Documenting the Documentary, 238-253. |
| Mon. Feb. 5 | Actuality Drama The Married Couple. Allan King, Canada, 1970 (90 min) |
| Tues. Feb. 6 | Bill Nichols, "The Fact of Realism and the Fiction of Objectivity," Representing Reality, 165-200. |
| Mon. Feb. 12 | Beyond Observational Cinema Harlan County, U.S.A. Barbara Kopple, USA, 1976 (90 min). |
| Tues. Feb. 13 | David McDougall,
"Beyond Observational Cinema," Movies and Methods vol. II,
ed. Bill Nichols, (Berkeley: U of California Press, 1985), 274-287. Vivian C. Sobchack, "No Lies: Direct Cinema as Rape," New Challenges for Documentary, 332-344. |
| Mon. Feb. 19 | Reading Week - No Class |
| Tues. Feb. 20 | Reading Week - No Class |
| Mon. Feb. 26 | Post-Verite Daughter-Rite.
Michelle Citron, USA, 1978 (50 min) |
| Tues. Feb. 27 | Eileen McGarry,
"Documentary, Realism and Women’s Cinema,"Women and Film vol.
2 no. 7, Summer 1975. Linda Williams & B. Ruby Rich, "The Right of Re-Vision: Michelle Citron’s Daughter Rite," Movies and Methods vol. II, 359-368. Kass Banning, "The Canadian Feminist Hybrid Documentary," CineAction 26/27 (Winter 92), 108-113. |
| Mon. Mar. 5 | The Cinematic Essay Sans Soleil. Chris Marker, France, 1982 (100 min.) |
| Tues. Mar. 6 | Trinh, T. Min-ha, "The Totalizing Quest of Meaning," Theorizing Documentary, 90-107. |
| Mon. Mar. 12 | Cultural Encounters Incident at Restigouche.
Alanis Obomsawin, Canada, 1984 (46 min) |
| Tues. Mar. 13 | Bill Nichols,
"Documentary, Criticism and the Ethnographic Film," Ideology
and the Image (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1981),
237-84. |
| Mon. Mar. 19 | Cultural Identity and Cinematic Representation Nice Coloured Girls.
Tracey Moffat, Australia, 1987 (26 min) |
| Tues. Mar. 20 | Stuart Hall,
"Cultural Identity and Cinematic Representation." Ex-Iles: Essays
on Caribbean Cinema, ed. Mbye Cham (Trenton, NJ: Africa World
Press, 1992), 220-236. TERM PAPERS DUE TODAY. |
| Mon. Mar. 26 | The Burden of Representation Looking for Langston.
Isaac Julien, GB, 1988 (45 min) |
| Tues. Mar. 27 | Isaac Julien
& Kobena Mercer, "Introduction: De Margin and De Centre," Screen
vol.29 no.4 (1988), 2-10. Kobena Mercer, "Diaspora Culture and the Dialogic Imagination: The Aesthetics of Black Independent Film in Britain," Blackframes (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1989), 50-61. Sheila Petty, "Silence and Its Opposite: Expression of Race in Tongues Untied," Documenting the Documentary, 416-428. |
| Mon. Apr. 2 | Personal Documentary The Gleaners and I. Agnes Varda, France, 2000 (82 min.) |
| Tues. Apr. 3 | |
| Mon. Apr. 9 | I, Curmudgeon. Alan Zweig, Canada, 2004 |
| Tues. Apr. 10 | Last Class: Term Test |