FILM 327 - Cinematic Time

Institution:

Bard College

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STS This course brings together critical and theoretical views regarding the cinematic representation of time. Topics of discussion include the aesthetics of time ("long-take style," ellipsis,realism, flashback); the narrative poetics of time (history and memory, the everyday); the relationship of cinema and photography; and how the ideas of duration, ephemerality, chance, stasis, and repetition are articulated through the technology of cinema. The screening program emphasizes work by East Asian filmmakers, including Akira Kurosawa, Hou Hsiao-hsien, KenjiMizoguchi, TsaiMing-liang, ShinjiAoyama, and Jia Zhangke. Readings consist of theoretical writings by Barthes, Bazin, Benjamin, Deleuze, Doane, Kracauer, and Pasolini, among others.

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4.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.bard.edu

Phone Number:

(845) 758-6822

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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