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HU Credits:
2
Degree/Cycle:
2nd degree (Master)
Responsible Department:
Communication & Journalism
Semester:
1st Semester
Teaching Languages:
Hebrew
Campus:
Mt. Scopus
Course/Module Coordinator:
Prof Raya Morag
Coordinator Office Hours:
Tuesday, 1600-1700
Teaching Staff:
Prof Raya Morag
Course/Module description:
The course addresses fundamental issues in contemporary world cinema – changing definitions of national cinema in the age of globalization; nationalism and trans-nationalism; identity and identification; homeland, diaspora, and immigration. Discussion will be based on textual analysis of narrative films from a number of countries and regions: The Milk of Sorrow (Claudia Llosa, Peru, 2009), Caché (Austria, Michael Haneke, 2005), The Missing Picture (Rithy Pahn, Cambodia, 2013), and others.
Course/Module aims:
Introduction to world cinema and issues of nationalism and globalization and their aesthetic and ethic representation, including subversive models.
Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
By the end of this course the students will be familiar with non-mainstream world cinema and will have developed tools for interpreting it. In addition, they will be introduced to major approaches to issues of nationalism/globalism in cinema.
Attendance requirements(%):
100%
Teaching arrangement and method of instruction:
Lectures, discussions, film analysis.
Course/Module Content:
Lesson no. Date Topic
1. 15.10.18 Introduction: Memory and nationalism - The Milk of Sorrow - Claudia Llosa
2. 22.10.18 Continued
3. 29.10.18 Iranian Cinema: A Separation - Asghar Farhadi
4. 5.11.18 Continued
5. 12.11.18 Return of the repressed: Caché - Michael Haneke
6. 19.11.18 Continued
7. 26.11.18 Chinese Cinema and the Cultural Revolution: Coming Home - Zhang Yimou
8. 3.12.18 Continued
9. 10.12.18 Contemporary European Cinema and the Holocaust: Ida - Paweł Pawlikowski
10. 17.12.18 Continued
11. 24.12.18 Post Khmer Rouge Cambodian Cinema: The Missing Picture - Rithy Panh
12. 31.12.18 Continued
13. 7.1.19 The Refugees Question: Le Havre - Aki Kaurismäki
14. 14.1.19 Summation
Required Reading:
1. 2. 1. Andrew, Dudley (2010) "Time Zones and Jetlag The Flows and Phases of World Cinema" World Cinemas, Transnational Perspectives eds. Nataša Ďurovičová and Kathleen Newman NY and London Routledge: 59-89.
3. 4. בנדיקט, אנדרסון (2000) "מבוא", קהילות מדומיינות האוניברסיטה הפתוחה תל אביב: 31-38.2.
5. 6. 3. Jarvie, Ian (2000) "National Cinema A Theoretical Assessment" Cinema & Nation eds. Mette Hjort and Scott MacKenzie London Routledge: 75-87.
7. 4. Hirsch, Marianne (2001) "Surviving Images: Holocaust Photographs and the Work of Postmemory", Yale Journal of Criticism, 14.1: 5-37.
5. Rugo, Daniele (2016) "Asghar Farhadi Acknowledging Hybrid Traditions: Iran, Hollywood and Transnational Cinema, Third Text, 30.3-4: 173-187. – לדיון ב"פרידה"
8. 6. Caché Dossier (2007) Screen 48.2: 211-249. –
9. 7. Elsaeeser, Thomas (2009) "Mind Game film" Puzzle Films: Complex Storytelling in Contemporary Cinema ed. Warren Buckland Wiley-Blackwell: 13-41. – לדיון ב"מחבואים"
8. Fredric Jameson (1986) "Third-World Literature in the Era of Multinational Capitalism" Social Text 15: 65-88. – לדיון ב"הביתה"
9. Aijaz, Ahmad (1987) "Jameson's Rhetoric of Otherness and the National Allegory" Social Text 17: 3-25. –
10. Ratner, Megan (2014) "Displaced Persons IDA’s Window on Vanished Lives" Film Quarterly 67.3 (Spring): 30-34.
11. Shohat, Ella (2006) "Post-Third-Worldist Culture: Gender, Nation, and the Cinema" Transnational Cinema The Film Reader eds. Elizabeth Ezra and Terry Rowden London Routledge: 39-56.
12. Landsberg, Alison (2003) "Prosthetic Memory: The Ethics and Politics of Memory in an Age of Mass Culture" In Memory and Popular Film, ed. Paul Grainge, Manchester New York: Manchester University Press: 144–161.
13. Boyle, Deirdre (2014) "Confronting Images of Ideology: an Interview with Rithy Panh" Cineaste 39.3: 33-39.
14. Panh, Rithy and Bataille, Christophe (2014) The Missing Picture, Film Script. Publisher Editions Grasset.
Additional Reading Material:
Course/Module evaluation:
End of year written/oral examination 0 %
Presentation 0 %
Participation in Tutorials 0 %
Project work 90 %
Assignments 10 %
Reports 0 %
Research project 0 %
Quizzes 0 %
Other 0 %
Additional information:
• Required reading – one journal article for each class meeting.
• Submission of paper 1 - An analysis of a scene in Asghar Farhadi's A Separation (2011). Length of paper: 1 page, 12 point font, double spaced. Support your argument. (10% of the final grade) Submission date: 4.12.17 by the beginning of class,. Do not submit by email. No extensions will be granted.
• Required viewing of all films independently:
• Final Paper integrating lecture materials, the films, and the bibliography (90%). Worksheet will be passed out during the final class. Submission date: 22.2.18 Before 13:00 on to the Communication Department office. Do not submit by email. No extensions will be granted.
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