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NS/THR 695/495 Special Topics. VISIONS OF THE NORTHERN MIND

The class "VISIONS OF THE NORTHERN MIND" is based on cinema of Russia, Scandinavia and North America. Are there unique trends which bring such different film directors as Bergman and Tarkovsky together? What is the difference in Northern European mentality and sensitivity? Style and film genres discussed.

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The themes, concepts and topics:
Parallel realities -- inside/outside. Dualism (Dialectics), Binary Principle (constructivism and deconstruction theory), Folding and Doubling (Deleuze). Film Applications: the antagonism, clash, conflict, cut -- montage. "Pictures in motion" phenomena (Bergson).
Era of Expressionism. The birth of the (modern) visual Northern culture in Europe. German silent films and Russian/Soviet propaganda techniques: The Caligari and Metropolis legacy and Revolutionary Ideologues.
Metaphysics of geography and psychology of the North. Visual, cultural, philosophical tradition. Kierkegaard and existentialism. Protestant aesthetics and Self (pre-history of film in art, sculpture and architectural style). Rational and mystical. Waiting for moving image of the Real.
Hollywood v. Alternative American Cinema. South and North.
The US directors are "northerners" in global context. American alternative film-makers and popular culture.

Part One. Theories and Methods (four weeks)

Part Two. BERGMAN (three weeks)

Part Three. TARKOVSKY (three weeks)

Part Four. FILMS AND MOVIES OF NORTH AMERICA (3 weeks)

READINGS:
Bergman, _Four Screen Plays_ (_Strawberry Fields_, screen play and film).
_Cinema Borealis_ by Vernon Young. 1971 Tarkovsky, _Sculpturing in Time_ (on Tarkovsky's films from Part II in _Films of Andrey Tarkovsky_ by Vidat Johnson, Indiana U. Also, Part One and Part Three).
Eisenstein _Film Sense_ (or/and _Film Form_)

FILMS:
WILD STRAWBERRIES, SEVENTH SEAL (Bergman), MIRROR, NOSTALGIA, SACRIFICE (Tarkovsky), LOST HIGHWAY (Lynch), DEAD MAN

GRADING:
Final Paper (15 pp) 30%
Midterm paper (5-7 pp.) 20%
Two tests 10% + 10%
Written responses to films (200 words) 20%
Class participation 10%

COURSE REQUIREMENT:
* CLASS PARTICIPATION IN DISCUSSION, DEBATE, AND CLASS ACTIVITY
* PERSONAL CONFERENCES
* COMPLETION OF READING ASSIGNMENTS PRIOR TO CLASS
* REQUIRED ATTENDANCE AT ALL CLASS FILM SCREENING
* COMPLETION OF ALL PAPERS
* TWO TESTS

Recommended classes: NORS 620 IMAGES OF THE NORTH (ENGL 620), NORS 625 VISUAL IMAGES OF THE NORTH, THR 380 FILM AND DRAMA, (Also, INTRO TO FILM ENGL. and FILM HISTORY JB)

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