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LIBRARY RESOURCES for EUROPEAN 200 and EUROPEAN 300
Screening Europe
Sokurov’s Russian Ark (2002) Course Coordinator:
Dr Deborah Walker-Morrison
Ext 88311
d.walker@auckland.ac.nz

Course Lecturers :

Prof José Colmeiro: j.colmeiro@auckland.ac.nz
AP Bernadette Luciano b.luciano@auckland.ac.nz
AP Roberto Gonzalez-Casanovas : r.gonzalez@auckland.ac.nz
Dr Stephan Resch: s.resch@auckland.ac.nz
AP Susan Ingram: s.ingram@auckland.ac.nz

Contact: Mark Hangartner, Level 1, General Library, email Mark

Course description

Europe’s rich and distinctive film tradition provides an opportunity to examine issues of contemporary Europe and European styles of filmmaking. This course examines the sources, complexities and resonances of a number of European films and the ways in which they refer to historical, social and political issues as well as cinematic conventions.

1) Screening (out) the Past: The Representation of History in European Cinema

Week I:  Introduction (DW)
Week II:   Self-Made Hero (Jacques Audiard) (DW)
Week III:    Girl of Your Dreams (Fernando Trueba) (JC)
Week IV:     Life is Beautiful (Roberto Benigni) (BL)  

2) Issues of Migration and Displacement

       
Week V:   Ali - Fear Eats the Soul (Fassbinder) (SR)
Week VI: Code Unknown (Haneke) (DW)

3) Rethinking Gender, Genre, Class and Identity

Week VII:  Viridiana, (Bunuel) (RGC)
Week VIII:  Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Almodovar) (RGC)
Week IX:   Run, Lola Run, Tom Tykwer 1998 (SI)
Week X:   Morvern Callar (Ramsay) (DW)

4) Trans-European Travel and New Identities


Week XI:  Tickets (Olmi, Loach, Kiarostami) (BL)
Week XII: The Spanish Apartment (Cedric Klapisch) (DW)

Course readings

  • Bordwell, David, and Kristin Thompson. Film Art : An Introduction. 7th ed. New York ; London: McGraw-Hill, 2004. Print. SHORT LOAN(2 Hour) - Kate Edger Information Commons(Level 1) 791.4301; B72f; 2004
  • Dyer, Richard, and Ginette Vincendeau. Popular European Cinema. London ; New York: Routledge, 1992. Print. SHORT LOAN(2 Hour) - Kate Edger Information Commons(Level 1) 791.43094; P83
  • Evans, Peter William, and British Film Institute. Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown = Mujeres Al Borde De Un Ataque De Nervios. Bfi Modern Classics. London: British Film Institute, 1996. Print. SHORT LOAN(2 Hour) - Kate Edger Information Commons(Level 1) 791.430946; E92
  • Everett, Wendy E. European Identity in Cinema. Exeter, UK: Intellect, 1996. Print. SHORT LOAN(2 Hour) - Kate Edger Information Commons(Level 1) 302.2343094; E93
  • Finney, Angus. The State of European Cinema : A New Dose of Reality. London: Cassell, 1996. Print. SHORT LOAN(2 Hour) - Kate Edger Information Commons(Level 1) 791.43094; F51
  • Hank, Heifetz. "Film Reviews : Europa Europa." Cineaste 18 4 (1991 ): 51-52.
  • Hill, John, and Pamela Church Gibson. The Oxford Guide to Film Studies. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. Print. SHORT LOAN(2 Hour) - Kate Edger Information Commons(Level 1) 791.43015; H64
  • Linville, Susan E. "Europa, Europa : A Test Case for German National Cinema." Wide angle 16 3 (1994): 38-51.
  • Taubin, Amy. "Out of the Ruins." Sight and sound 3 10 (1993 ): 26-28.
  • Thompson, Kristin, and David Bordwell. Film History : An Introduction. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1994. Print. SHORT LOAN(2 Hour) - Kate Edger Information Commons(Level 1) 791.4309; T47
  • Vincendeau, Ginette. Encyclopedia of European Cinema. New York, NY: Facts on File, 1995. Print. SHORT LOAN(2 Hour) - Kate Edger Information Commons(Level 1) 791.43094; V76
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    Reference Collection

    Diccionario Espasa cine español. Augusto M. Torres; prólogo de Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón. 3 ed. Madrid : Espasa, c1999.
    GENERAL LIBRARY Arts Reference Level 1, 791.43094603 T69

    The encyclopedia of British film. Brian McFarlane. Rev. and updated ed. London : Methuen, 2005.
    GENERAL LIBRARY Arts Reference Level 1, 791.430941 M14e 2005

    Encyclopedia of European cinema. Edited by Ginette Vincendeau. New York, NY : Facts on File, c1995.
    GENERAL LIBRARY Arts Reference Level 1, 791.43094

    Encyclopedia of film themes, settings and series. Richard B. Armstrong, Mary Willems Armstrong. Jefferson, N.C. ; London : McFarland, c2001.
    GENERAL LIBRARY Arts Reference Level 1, 791.437503 A73

    The encyclopedia of filmmakers. John C. Tibbetts and James M. Welsh. New York : Facts on File, 2002.
    GENERAL LIBRARY Arts Reference Level 1, 791.4302330922 T55 vols 1-2

    The film studies dictionary. Edited by Steve Blandford et al. London : Arnold, 2001.
    GENERAL LIBRARY Arts Reference Level 1, 791.4303 B64

    International dictionary of films and filmmakers. Edited by Tom Pendergast and Sara Pendergast. 4th ed. Detroit : St. James Press, 2000.
    GENERAL LIBRARY Arts Reference Level 1, 791.4303 M16 2000 vols 1-2
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