Dissolving
& Reconstituting Narrative Cinema
1. THE MAN WHO LIES - The New Novel & Truth
2. SILENCE AND CRY - Melodic linearity & narrational
flow
3. NOT RECONCILED - Historical Deconstruction
4. NATHALIE GRANGER - Non-Eventfullness
5. THE PITSBURG TRILOGY - Abstraction
6. QUERELLE - Theatre
7. AN INDEPENDENT LIFE - Nomadic narrative & decentralization
8. D'EST (FROM THE EAST) - Statsis and temporality
9. WITCHRAFT THROUGH THE AGES - Documentary Narrative
10. THE PRIVATE LIVES OF ADAM & EVE - Theatrical Rupture
11. GLEN OR GLENDA? - Personal & Independent Cinema
12. SATAN'S BED - Experimentalism & radicalism
13. DEMON SEED - Rape/revenge subtexts
14. FLASHDANCE - Video clip textuality
15. MIXED BLOOD - Performance
16. PEE WEE'S BIG ADVENTURE - Icons & Cliches
Historical
Markers of the Modern Soundtrack
1. CITIZEN KANE - Layers, levels & mixing
2. THE BIRDS - Volume, perspective & density
3. PLAYTIME - Architecture & sonic space
4. THE INNOCENTS - Silence & breath
5. WAY OF THE DRAGON - Post-dubbing & the body
6. CALIFORNIA SPLIT - Voice, performance & live space
7. LAST YEAR IN MARIENBAD - Textuality & vocal narration
8. THE CONVERSATION - Distortion & misperception
9. PSYCHO - Psychological states & atonality
10. ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST - Opera, genre & theatre
11. WEST SIDE STORY - Opera & lyric drama
12. UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG - Operetta & sung narrative
13. SUSPIRIA - Rock & synthesizer scores
14. METROPOLIS - Silent cinema & sound/image relations
15. KWAIDAN - Synchronism & mysticism
Contemporary
Traces of the Modern Soundtrack
1. TALK RADIO - Voice & ether
2. GOOD FELLAS - Dialogue & editing
3. BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS - Sound effects &
editing
4. HAIL MARY - Symbolism & collage
5. COLORS - Spatiality & frequency
6. CONTACT - Transcendence & diffusion
7. THE STRAIGHT STORY - Aging & psychoacoustics
8. TAXI DRIVER - Interiority & psychosis
9. STAND BY ME - Voice & memory
10. SOME KIND OF WONDERFUL - Teen energy & rhythmic
propulsion
11. OEDIPUS REX - Myth & realism
12. BLACK RIVER - Landscape & contemporary opera
13. ONE FROM THE HEART - Artificialism & modern opera
14. HEAT - Ambience & musical vaporization
15. MAGNOLIA - Song form & vocal multiplicity
Folk,
Rock & Pop within the Cinema
1.
DAYS OF WINE & ROSES 1967 – Blake Edwards (USA)
Composer Henry Mancini
2. DO THE RIGHT THING 1987 –
Spike Lee (USA) Composer Bill Lee
3. O BROTHER WHERE ARE THOU? 2000 – Joel & Ethan
Coen (USA) - Various traditonal songs & recordings
4. THE PAWNBROKER 1965 – Sidney Lumet (USA) Composer
Quincy Jones
5. SHAFT 1971 – Gordon Parks Jr (USA) - Composer Issac
Hayes
6 . WILD ANGELS 1966 – Roger Corman (USA) Composer
Mike Curb / Davie Allen & the Arrows
7. DEAD MAN 1995 – Jim Jarmusch (USA) - Composer Neil
Young
8. RUMBLE FISH 1982 – Francis Ford Copolla (USA) Composer
Stewart Copeland
9. RESIDENT EVIL 2002 – Paul Anderson (Germany) Composer
Marco Baltrami
10. PATLABOR 3 2002 - Fumihiko Takayama (Japan) Composer
Kenji Kawai
20th
Century Music within the Cinema
1. FORBIDDEN PLANET 1954 – Fred Macleod Wilcox (USA)
Score by Louis & Bebbe Barron
2. THE SHINING 1980 – Stanley Kubrick (UK) Source
score by Bela Bartok / Kryzysztof Penderecki / Gyorgy Ligeti
3. MOSES & ARON 1976 – Jean-Marie Straub &
Danielle Huillet (Germany) Opera by Arnold Schoenberg
4. THE CONVENT 1998 – Manoel De Oliveira (Portugal)
Source score by Igor Stravinsky / Sofia Gubajdulina / Toshir
Mayazumi
5. ARASHI GA OKA 1985 – Yoshihige Yoshida (Japan)
Composer Toru Takemitsu
6. LIFE ON A STRING 1991 – Kaige Chen (China) Composer
Ziao-Song Qu
7. A CLOCKWORK ORANGE 1971 – Stanley Kubrick (UK)
Composer Walter Carlos; source score by Ludwig Beethoven
/ Gioacchino Rossini / Edward Elgar
8. TRON 1982 – Steve Lisberger (USA) Composer Wendy
Carlos
9. KOYANISQAATSI 1983 – Godfrey Reggio (USA) Composer
Philip Glass
10. VAGABONDE 1985 - Agnes Varda (France) Composer Joanna
Bruzdowicz
An
Unsavoury History of Exploitation
Details forthcoming
Preliminary
Concepts of Japanese Animation
1. Western perspectives - Formal distinctions; cartoon &
comic history; the Japanese context; from manga to anime
2. Contemporary Manifestations - American
independents & east-west connections; the otaku phenomenon;
apocalyptic scenarios
3. Gender Collisions - Teen girl manga; sexual energies;
doll culture
4. Profiles - Osamu Tezuka; Hayao Miyazaki; Mamoru Oshii
