Architecture, Photography, and Film

3 units

This seminar examines the relationships between the image of architecture in photography and film, with an emphasis on film and architecture. Films studied include documentaries and dramas. Themes of the frame (camera -- window -- painting), space (actual and virtual, inhabited and narrative) and point of view, montage, composition, color, light and shadow will all be studied through critical readings and discussion, viewing of films, and formal analysis of the spatial and formal structure of filmmakers who portray of depict architecture as a primary narrative element in their work. Films studied include examples starting with the early experiments of Russian filmmakers, the Weimar era, Hitchcock, Godard and the New Wave, Tati, Kubrick, Wenders, and more recent directors.