"My task which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel--it is, above all, to make you see." -- Joseph Conrad (1897)
Wednesday, July 23, 2014
Embodied Films
Sensory Scenes:
Opening of Apocalypse Now
Opening of Gangs of New York/sound effects of Jaws and Friday the 13th and The Exorcist
Blue -- musical sensory moments
Opening of Blue Velvet
Tracking shot in Code Unknown
Tracking shot of high school entrance in Donnie Darko
Opening scene of Goodfellas, the tracking shot of the first date, the paranoia at the end
The Matrix -- the removal of the jack, the training, and the interrogation of morpheus
Illness:
A Beautiful Mind
Contagion
Sexuality:
Before Sunrise
Blue is the Warmest Color
A Dangerous Method
Harold and Maude
The Night Porter
Nymphomaniac
Rust and Bone
Shortbus
Criminality:
A Clockwork Orange
Gomorrah
Truth/Authenticity:
Fog of War
The Thin Blue Line
Identity/Memory:
2001: A Space Odyssey
Adaptation
Bladerunner
Being John Malkovich
Dogtooth
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Even the Rain
Grizzly Man
Her
Human Nature
Hunger
La' Commune
Let the Right One In (Ideological Becoming)
Body:
4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days
Bamboozled (guide in gmail)
Boys Don't Cry (guide in gmail)
Gattica (Eugenics lecture in Gmail)
Human Nature
Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
Violence:
The Act of Killing
The Addiction (Presentation in Gmail)
The Battle of Algiers
Cache
City of God
City of Life and Death
Demonlover (Global flows of capitalism)
Do the Right Thing (Discursive violence as a prelude to physical violence)
Funny Games
Hostel
Jarhead
Night and Fog
The Passion of the Christ
Salo
Saw
Standard Operating Procedure (emphasis on the mediated representation)
Tarantino films
Zero Dark Thirty
Environment:
Exit Through the Gift Shop
Slam
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