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Advanced Projects in the Visual Arts: Personal Narrative
Spring 2004
Topics
- The Roots of Narrative: Lumiere vs. Melies
- Video Narrative vs. Film Narrative
- Documentary vs. Narrative
- Diaristic Narrative
- Presentations: Assignment #1: Variations on a Scene
- Production In-class / Lighting and Re-staging
- Beyond the Rules
- Alternative Scriptwriting
- Individual Meetings
- In-class Production
- Presentations: Rough Cuts and Assemblies, Dailies, for Final Project
- Presentations
- Narrative Critique
- Voice-over Narration
- Presentations: Assignment #5: Final Project Presentations
Readings
- Bordwell, David. Narration in the Fiction Film . University of Wisconsin Press, 1989. ISBN: 0415018773.
- Bordwell, David. On the History of Film Style . University of Wisconsin Press, 1992. ISBN: 0674634292.
- Katz, Steven. Film Directing Shot by Shot Michael Weise Productions, 1992. ISBN: 0941188108.
- Rieser, Martin, ed. New Screen Media: Cinema / Art / Narrative British Film Institute, 1999. ISBN: 0851708641.
- Rush, Michael. New Media in Late 20th Century Art. Thames and Hudson, 2001. ISBN: 0500203296.
- Van Abbemuseum, Stedelijk. Cinema Cinema: Contemporary Art and the Cinematic Experience . NAi Pubilshers, 1999. ISBN: 9070149710.
- Rush, Michael. Introduction in New Media in Late 20th Century Art . Thames and Hudson, 2001. ISBN: 0500203296.
- Cooper, Pat, and Ken Dancyger. “The Experimental Drama.” In Writing the Short Film. Focal Press, 1999. ISBN: 0240803698.
- Russell, Catherine. “Autoethnography from Journeys of the Self.” Chapter 10 in Experimental Ethnography . Duke University Press, 1999. ISBN: 0822323192.
- Rabiger. “Developing Story Ideas.” In Directing – Film Techniques and Aesthetics. Focal Press, 2003. ISBN: 0240805178.
- SES #: 5 · TOPICS: Presentations: Assignment #1: Variations on a Scene · READINGS: Bordwell, David. “Art-Cinema Narration.” In Narration in the Fiction Film. University of Wisconsin Press, 1989. ISBN: 0415018773.
- SES #: 10 · TOPICS: Alternative Scriptwriting · READINGS: Dancyger, Ken and Jeff Rush. “Beyond the Rules.” In Alternative Scriptwriting. Focal Press, 2001. ISBN: 0240804775.
- Mulvey, Laura. “Visual Pleasure and the Narrative Cinema.” In Issues in Feminist Film Criticism. Edited by Patricia Erens. Indiana University Press, 1991. ISBN: 0253206103.
- Wees, William. “Carrying On: Leslie Thornton, Su Friedrich, Abigail Child and American Avant-Garde Film in the Eighties.” Canadian Journal of Film Studies , Volume 10, no. 1 (2002).
- SES #: 23 · TOPICS: Voice-over Narration · READINGS: Kar-Wai, Wong. Excerpt from Chunking Express , DVD. Miramax Home Entertainment, 1994.
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗Historical OpenCourseWare
- MIT OCW readings ↗
- MIT OCW calendar ↗
- MIT OCW syllabus ↗
- Historical MIT OpenCourseWare offering. Named reading entries and schedule topics are automatically extracted from the linked source pages.