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Friday, January 29, 2010
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Muybridge
Here's a link to the Corcoran page on:
Helios: Eadweard Muybridge in a Time of Change
April 10 – July 18, 2010
Philip Brookman, curator of the upcoming Corcoran exhibition on Eadeweard Muybridge, will be filling us in on his plans for the exhibition at the begining of our class session on Thursday, January 28.
For Thursday, January 28
The original Lumiere Bros. film, "Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat," can be found down further down this page (as a link to a video on YouTube). Above that are links to several of the short films by celebrated directors that make up the film Lumiere & Company, a celebration of one hundred years of cinema, released in 1995.
I'm hoping some more folks sign up for the Yahoo group soon, so that we can use that as a simple and efficient means of distributing information and getting feedback quickly. Meanwhile:
-Please try to complete assigned readings for Thursday, within limits of reasonable effort. (If there are readings you just can't get at, that are not yet available on reserve in the library, we will manage to catch up.)
The Oxford History of World Cinema will provide the general outline of cinema history to ground our discussion; the books by Grievson and Cohen will focus our attention on particular issues; and the occasional readings available online will mostly be on specific films.
Please note that the first of these, Karen Littau's essay on "Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat," is available in the READINGS links on this blog as well as in a READINGS folder in the LINKS section of our Yahoo group.
-Please post your comments on our topics of discussion from last week, the films we viewed, and/or our plans for the course at this blog. (You can hit the "Comments" button of this post or create a new post.) If there's anything you'd like to make sure gets heard loud and clear before the syllabus is finalized, send a note to the Yahoo group.
Which you need to join if you haven't already.
I will be adding more links to films available online this week, including a number of the short films we'll view in class. If you happen on anything you think is relevant to the topic of early cinema, please post it here.
Auguste and Louis Lumiere - Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat
There are many versions of this celebrated early film available online. This one adds some rather nice music.
PLEASE NOTE that Karen Littau's essay on "Arrival of a Train" is available in the LINKS section of our Yahoo group. There's a direct link to it from this blog, in the column of readings on the right side of this page.
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