Alexander J. Cohen

Film 140 Special Topics
CC#  34884
Spring 2001--Fridays: 4:00-7:00pm 
email: xcohen@cinemaspace.berkeley.edu

http://cinemaspace.berkeley.edu/

142 Dwinelle

Cinema & Beyond II, Syllabus Part 2

 

 
 
 

March 30 : ** Spring Break **

April 6 : Repetition, Industrialization, Technization of Perception and the Machine Age

Reading:  Walter Benjamin: "Some Motifs on Baudelaire"
Film:        portions of Modern Times / Chaplin, and Eraser Head / Lynch

April 13 : Critical Theory of Technology

Reading:   Jürgen Habermas:  Technology and Society as "Ideology"
                 Andrew Feenberg:  From Critical Theory of Technology
TV:          Star Trek:  A taste of Armageddon

April 20 : Postmodernism

Reading:   Fredric Jameson:  from The Postmodern Condition and from The Geopolitical Aesthetic (on Videodrome)
Film:         Videodrome / Cronenberg

April 27: Post-Fordism

Reading:   Simon Clark: ÒThe Crisis of Fordism or the Crisis in Social-Democracy,Ó
                 and essays from Socialist Review on Post-Fordism (All essays in reader).
Film:         Brazil, Terry Gilliam

May 4 :    Simulacra

Reading:   BaudrillardÑSimulations and selected portions from Baudrillard excerpts (in reader).
Film:         The Matrix