Topics in the Avant-Garde in Literature and Cinema

Jünger, Ernst. The Storm of Steel . New York: Penguin USA, 2004.

Breton, André. Nadja . New York: Grove Press, 1988.

Ernst, Max. Une semaine de bonté, a Surrealistic Novel in Collage. New York: Dover Publications, 1976.

Bataille, Georges. Story of the Eye. San Fransisco: City Lights Books, 1987.

Brecht, Bertolt. Measures Taken and Other Lehrstucke. New York: Arcade Books, 2001.

Beckett, Samuel. Endgame and Act Without Words. New York: Grove Press, 1970.

For background on the principles of literature and cinema studies, please consult Frank Lentricchia, Critical Terms for Literary Study and James Monaco, How to Read a Film , as well as Robert Nelson, Critical Terms for Art History:

Thomas McLaughlin and Frank Lentricchia. Critical Terms for Literary Study . Chicago: Chicago Press, 1995.

James Monaco. How to Read a Film . Oxford: Oxford Press, 2000.

Robert S. Nelson and Richard Shiff. Critical Terms for Art History . Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003.

3 · Umberto Boccioni, Selected Works, In-class Viewing. Giacomo Balla, Selected Works, In-class Viewing. Ernst Jünger, The Storm of Steel .

4 · Sergei Eisenstein, Battleship Potemkin . Sergei Eisenstein, “A Dialectic Approach to Film Form.” David Bordwell, The Cinema of Eisenstein , Selections.

7 · Fritz Lang, Metropolis . Andrew Hewitt, “Avantgarde and Technology.” Andreas Huyssen, “Mass Culture as Woman: Modernism’s Other.”

9 · Andrew Hewitt, “Avantgarde and Technology.” Andreas Huyssen, “Mass Culture as Woman: Modernism’s Other.” André Breton, Nadja . Hannah Höch, Selected Works, In-class Viewing.

10 · Max Ernst, Une Semaine De Bonté . Paul Wood, “The Revolutionary Avant-Gardes: Dada, Constructivism, and Surrealism.” Marcel Duchamp, Selected Works, In-class Viewing. John Heartfield, Selected Works, In-class Viewing.

11 · Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye . Luis Buñuel, Un Chien Andalou .

13 · André Breton, The Surrealist Manifesto . Tristan Tzara, “Dada Manifesto.” Antonin Artaud, “The Theater of Cruelty: First Manifesto.” FT Marinetti, “The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism.” Mary Ann Caws, “The Poetics of the Manifesto: Nowness and Newness.”

15 · Peter Bürger, “Theory of the Avant-Garde and Critical Literary Science.” Bertolt Brecht, The Measures Taken.

16 · Clement Greenberg, “Avant-Garde and Kitsch.” Samuel Beckett, Endgame.