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PAY NO ATTENTION TO THE PERCENTAGE OF YOUR GRADE ON CANVAS. IT HAS NO RELATION TO YOUR FINAL GRADE.

Make sure sure you order copies of one of the critical editions below, or buy an e-book, or rent a copy, etc. To follow the schedule, just find the dates below in red and blue. Like this: January 13

UF gives you access to a large streaming collection here:

Swank Digital Campus – Swank provides access to feature films and documentaries.

"Happiness has no story." 

--Jules Barbey

Literature may not make you a better person. But it may make you a better reader.  And it may inspire you to become a scholar, to learn how to learn. Critical thinking, imo, is often a misnomer. It often means: think the way I do; arrive at the same conclusions the same way. Thinking critically, for our purposes, means posing questions, learning what a good question is.

This will be a discussion class, not a lecture, and I encourage you to befriend each other by meeting on group on and by continuing discussion independently after class.

If you have a question or a problem in urgent need of resolution, please contact me in class or at [email protected].

There will be no film screenings. You must watch the films on disc or streaming on your own.

I WILL GIVE A SHORT QUIZ at the beginning of every class. If you miss the quiz, I count you absent.

YOUR FIRST ASSIGNMENT is due Tuesday, January 14 by 5:00 p.m.

Due 5:00 p.m: After you watch Orson Welles's Citizen Kane on UF's free Swank Digital Campus, write two Discussion Questions (DQ) on the film (200 words max) and describe any three shots of your choice with three film analysis terms (100 words max).

Post your DQs and shots BOTH on Canvas AND this Google doc . Do not post your DQs in the comments box on Canvas. I will see this message across my scrreen: "This student does not have a submission for this assignment" and in the upper right corner "No submission time." The comments box is in the lower right and I won't be looking there. So I will end up giving you a zero.

The Google doc gives examples of the format for discussion questions and three shots. Assignments are always due Mondays and Wednesdays by 5:00 p.m.

Discussion Questions etc. are due every Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday by 5:00 p.m.

One Discussion Question (DQ) and descriptions of any three shots of your choice with film analysis terms (or definitions of any Three Big Words if we're reading an essay) are due every Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday by 5:00 p.m. unless otherwise noted.

Computers are not allowed to be used in class.  

Please turn off your cell phones and computers before class.

Take notes with paper and pen or pencil.

There is a treasure trove of resources on close reading here:

https://www.closereadingarchive.org/teaching

UF gives you access to a large streaming collection here:

Swank Digital Campus – Swank provides access to feature films and documentaries.

Tentative Schedule: (Please expect minor adjustments to be made in the schedule from time to time; all changes will be announced both in class and on the class email listserv

 

January 13 Can You Make a Fake Film? What is in the frame and not in the frame? The Film Frame; the Painting Frame; the Window Frame; the Door Frame / Spatial metaphors: The Threshold; Temporal Prepositions: through, around

When Citizen Kane met Bambi: The Lost Paintings of Tyrus Wong [CONTAINS SPOILERS]

Reommended Resources:

Artist Tyrus Wong and Disney's 'Bambi'

1. "This Film Does Not Exist" NY TIMES JANUARY 13, 2023 On Jodorwoski's plans for Tron and A.I. imaging of film.

2. A.I. Made These Movies Sharper. Critics Say It Ruined Them.

Machine-learning technologies are being used in film restoration for new home video releases. But some viewers strongly dislike the results.

By Calum Marsh Published April 13, 2024

It’s already powering remarkable visual innovations, like in the new movie “Here.” But boosters think that’s just the beginning.

By Devin Gordon Published Nov. 1, 2024 Updated Nov. 6, 2024

24 Frames (Abbas Kiarostami, 2021)

24 FRAMES Abbas Kiarostami (1 Frame)

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, "Hunters in the Snow," 1565

January 15 FAKE NEWS

Required Viewing:

Citizen Kane (dir. Orson Welles, 1941)

UF gives you access to a large streaming collection here:

Swank Digital Campus Swank provides access to feature films and documentaries.

News on the March is a parody of the March of Time film series.

RECOMMENDED:

LARRY GREENEMEIER, "Could AI be the future of fake news and product reviews?" OCTOBER 16, 2017

January 17 (Write one DQ on each viewing and choose two shots from one and one shot from the other.)

REQUIRED VIEWING:

1. Paintings In Movies: From 2001: A Space Odyssey to Portrait of a Lady on Fire

2. What is fake, what is real? - VPRO documentary

Recommended Reading:

GREGORY ZINMAN, THE REPLACEMENTS: AI IN THE MOVIES FEATURES AUG 10, 2023

"A Crisis of Fakes," New York Times, March 18, 2001, 36-41; 52; 55; 66; 78

"The Fake-News Fallacy" New Yorker 2017

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/03/technology/how-the-internet-is-loosening-our-grip-on-the-truth.html

Ce livre a été écrit par une IA (et ça pose plein de questions)

January 20

MLK, Jr. Holiday

January 22 The Film Frame and the Painting Frame

REQUIRED VIEWING:

F for Fake (dir. Orson Welles, 1973)

Recommended Reading and Viewing:

Le Mystère Picasso (dir. Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1956) Sometimes the process of Picasso painting is shown through animation (without anyone painting). Fake painting?

Made You Look: A True Story About Fake Art | Teaser Clip (dir. Barry Avrich, 2021)

Today in Art #28 - Surging Market in Fake Prints

"Fake?" NY Times

"Restoring and Reproducing Art"

To sign up to co-lead class beginning January 27, go to this google doc. Do not co-lead with the same person twice and co-lead at least four weeks after the first time you co-lead.

Once you have a partner to co-lead class discussion, create a google doc for your notes and share it with me by 5:00 p.m. the day before you are co-leading so I can add my thoughts.  Make sure you allow me access so I can edit the document.

January 24

REQUIRED VIEWING:

F for Fake trailer (1976)

Recommended Viewing and Reading:

The French Trailer (1973, 2minutes, 34 seconds) begins at 00:08 (02:40 in the film). "This is a film about trickery, about fraud) and cuts to Oja and Welle sat the train station: Up to your old tricks again" 00:16 (03:18 in the film), the trailer cuts to the opening titles starting with the sci-fi space ship blowing up a building and a question mark Welles draws on the movieola (2:18-23) up the opening titles ("About Fakes" and "by Orson Welles") (00:34); (04:66-5:15 in the film). We then cut (00:37-montage of shots of) to focus on Elmyr (03:12:00-34 in the film) and later Irving. The trailer ends (21:58--63) the same way the film does: Welles wishes "everyone a very pleasant evening followed by a clanging sound (1:28:03-1:28:09).

F for Fake introduction / trailer

F for Fake - Movie Trailer (1974) Janus Films

Every Frame a Painting

F for Fake (1973) - How to Structure a Video Essay 

Le roman d'un tricheur (The Story of a Cheat, dir. Sacha Guitry, 1936)

CRITERION CHANNEL

January 27 (From black and white to color reveal)

REQUIRED VIEWING:

The French Dispatch (dir. Wes Anderson, 2021) Streaming on Amazon and AppleTV

Recommended Resources:

Painters Painting: The New York Art Scene 1940-1970 (dir. Emile de Antonio, 1972)

Rosamond Bernier Live at the Met - French Impressionism, the Cast of Characters

The French Dispatch (2021) | modern art

THE FRENCH DISPATCH | The Concrete Masterpiece by J.K.L. BERENSEN

Sandro Kopp's French Dispatch Paintings

French Dispatch Searchlight Pictures

Printed Film: THE FRENCH DISPATCH and the Art of Imitation

The New Yorker Writers and Editors Who Inspired “The French Dispatch”

'The French Dispatch' is pretty and playful but with little genuine curiosity

Was The French Dispatch Real?

Is Any Of The French Dispatch Based On A True Story?

The Grand Budapest (dir. Wes Andersen, 2014)

"Boy with Apple"

David Grann, "The Mark of a Masterpiece: The man who keeps finding famous fingerprints on uncelebrated works of art" New Yorker, July 12, 2010

Painter charged with making fake Jackson Pollock paintings (July 2014)

The auction scene in North by Northwest (dir. Alfred Hitchcock, 1959) 

January 29 Filming the Fantastic (Genre)

REQUIRED VIEWING: The introductory frame by the host of the film and the first story, "In the Picture" in Three Cases of Murder (dir. David Eady, Wendy Toye George More O'Ferrall 1955). You don't need to watch the other two stories. Available for free on youtube and on the Criterion Channel) Trailer

Recommended Reading:

"The Horror Gem That Kicks Off Three Cases of Murder" Laura Kern OCT 1, 2021

FIRST PAPER DUE Saturday, FEBRUARY 1, by 11:59 p.m.:

 Film Clip Analysis Assignment 1,000 words max

Email the link to your google doc to me at [email protected].

Live GRADING in 4314 Turlington. We will meet at my office in person to discuss your assignment. I will send out an email with a link to a google with a schedule of times we can meet. You'll just need to sign up.

January 31

REQUIRED READINGS:

Read the four works linked below. They are all about a 1997 art exhibition about a discovered painting). WRITE ONE QUESTION ABOUT 1 AND 2, AND WRITE A SECOND QUESTION ABOUT 3 AND 4:

1. Caravaggio's Musicians  "Recovering Lost Fictions; Caravaggio's Musicians, Kathleen Gilje in collaboration with Joseph Grigely) Oct.-Dec. 1999 catalogue (OUP)

2. "Recovering Lost Fictions: Caravaggio's Musicians" (exhibition) 1997, MIT List Visual Arts Center

4.  Kathleen Gilje, Musicians, Restored 1993

Recommended Resources:

Kathleen Gilje C.V.

Kathleen Gilje / "Revised and Restored"

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. The Lute-Player. Marking
the end of the restoration

Cindy Sherman, History Portraits (1991)

The Musicians or Concert of Youths (c. 1595) restored in 1983

Installation view, Recovering Lost Fictions: Caravaggio's Musicians, MIT List Visual Arts Center, 1997

Pablo Picasso, 1921, Three Musicians, oil on canvas

Fake Caravaggio X ray

Rijksmuseum’s Vermeer Show to Include Recently Disputed Work - The New York Times

"Unlocking Leonardo"
15 years after discovering a hidden drawing beneath Leonardo’s Virgin of the Rocks, we uncover more of the mystery

Leonardo's masterpiece: a 30 second introduction | National Gallery

February 3 "The Mezzotint" (two adaptations of the same ghost story by M. R. James)

REQUIRED VIEWINGS: Write one DQ on each version and write one of the three shots from one viewing and two shots from the other.

1. The Mezzotint (2021)

Definition of "Mezzotint"

2. Classic Ghost Stories with Robert Powell (BBC, 1986) Omnibus from 00:00-14:12 (Abridged)

 

Recommended: Dramatized reading of the story.

M.R. James - The Mezzotint (a dramatic reading by Michael Bryant)

THE MEZZOTINT By M. R. JAMES (The source text)

M.R. James - The Mezzotint read by Michael Hordern

February 5

REQUIRED VIEWING:

La Main du Diable / The Devil's Hand (dir. Maurice Tourneur, 1943) with English subtitles

On archive.org in French without English subtitles.

Saturn Devouring His Son Goya

February 7

REQUIRED VIEWING:

La Main du Diable (dir. Maurice Tourneur, 1943)

Recommended Reading:

Film Review by James Travers, 2012

“Does Damnation Mean Anything To You?” – La Main Du Diable (1943) Published by Orrin Grey on December 2, 2024

La Main enchantée: histoire macaronique de Gérard de Nerval (1832)

February 10

REQUIRED VIEWING:

Scarlet Street (dir. Fritz Lang, 1945)

Recommended Viewing:

La Chienne (dir. Jean Renoir, 1931) On archive.org for free here. On the Criterion Channel here.

February 12 Painter, Embezzler, Victim of a woman and man, Guilty of Murder but gets away with it

REQUIRED VIEWING:

Scarlet Street (dir. Fritz Lang, 1945)

February 14 The Flip-Side of the Portrait

REQUIRED VIEWING:

The Woman in the Window (dir. Fritz Lang, 1944)

February 17

REQUIRED VIEWING:

The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting (dir. Raúl Ruiz, 1979)

RECOMMENDED:

THE STOLEN PAINTING ( Le Tableau volé) Official Trailer 2024

February 19

REQUIRED VIEWING:

The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting (dir. Raúl Ruiz, 1979)

February 21

REQUIRED READNG:

Sheridan Le Fanu's 1839 gothic tale "Strange Event in the Life of Schalken the Painter" (online here)

"Sheridan Le Fanu’s 1839 ‘Strange Event in the Life of Schalcken the Painter’, a short story in which the real-life genre painter and portraitist Godfried Schalcken (1647-1706), a student of Gerrit Dou (1613-75), receives a visitation from the spectre of the woman he once loved but forsook."

Recommended:

Paintings by Godfried Schalcken 1643–1706

The Painted (dir. Sasha Sibley, 2024) Trailer

The Temptation of St Anthony 1502

February 24

REQUIRED VIEWING:

Schalcken the Painter (dir. Leslie Megahey, 1979)

Recommended Resources:

https://www.bfi.org.uk/features/why-i-love-schalcken-painter.

http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/1154981/

CLOSE READ Jason Farago, "Seeing Our Own Reflection in the Birth of the Self-Portrait" Sept. 25, 2020

February 26

REQUIRED VIEWING:

Mr. Klein (dir. Joseph Losey, 1976)

Adriaen Van Ostade, "The Analysis" in Mr.Klein

The Reverse Framed Painting Trompe L'oeil Cornelis Norbertus Gijsbrechts

Alexander Alberro, "Spectres of Provenance" /

https://www.petitpalais.paris.fr/en/oeuvre/analysis

adriaen-van-ostade-1666-the-analysis

February 28

REQUIRED VIEWING:

March 3 Religion and Art: "Le Fant-Ame" ("Fantôme" and "Ame")

The Apparition (dir. Xavier Giannoli, 2018)

Recommended Resources:

L'Apparition trailer in English

Jesus as Ghost in Fresco

The Great Masters—Fra Angelico: God, Nature and Art 32:49

Restaurada-la-anunciacion-de-fra-angelico

The restoration of “The Annunciation” by Fra Angelico

fra-angelico/scenes-from-the-life-of-christ-1452-1

Fra Angelico: Scenes de la vie de Jesus (2000) Alain Nave 

March 5

REQUIRED VIEWING:

The Apparition (dir. Xavier Giannoli, 2018)

Recommended:

Bande-annonce de “L’Apparition”, le nouveau film de Xavier Giannoli

March 7

REQUIRED VIEWING:

Purple Noon (dir. René Clément, 1960)

Recommended:

PLEIN SOLEIL - Official UK Trailer - Rediscover The Classic "Plein Soleil" means "Broad daylight."

March 10

 REQUIRED VIEWING:

Vertigo (dir. Alfred Hitchcock, 1957) Pay attention to the flowers, the jewelry, and the portraits.

Recommended Viewing:

Part 1 VERTIGO investigating a HITCHCOCK masterpiece

Re-editing the museum sequence in Vertigo:

Paintings In Movies: From 2001: A Space Odyssey to Portrait of a Lady on Fire

March 12

REQUIRED VIEWING:

Vertigo (dir. Alfred Hitchcock, 1957)

"Portrait of Comtesse d'Haussonville," Ingres, 1845

March 14

REQUIRED READING:

1. VERTIGO, THE LEGION OF HONOR & LAVINIA FONTANA

2. REQUIRED VIEWING: Watch these three trailers and rank them from the best to the worst.

1. Vertigo Original Theatrical Trailer

2. Vertigo (1958) Restored Trailer - Alfred Hitchcock Movie

3. Vertigo - official 60th anniversary trailer

RECOMMENDED VIEWING / READING:

When Citizen Kane met Bambi: The Lost Paintings of Tyrus Wong [CONTAINS SPOILERS]

A portrait was hung in the Legion of Honor for 'Vertigo.' No one's seen it since.  Katie Dowd, Managing editorUpdated Sep 13, 2019 5:41 p.m.

Vertigo (1958) Trailer - Inception Style / Inception (2010) Official Trailer #1 - Christopher Nolan Movie HD

Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo 4K UHD and blu-rays compared and reviewed

The Dark Galleries

SECOND PAPER DUE Sunday, March 16 by 11:59 p.m.

 Film Clip Analysis Assignment 

or

Film Trailer Excercise

March 17

Spring Break

March 19

Spring Break

March 21

Spring Break

March 24 In class quiz

REQUIRED VIEWING:

Personal Shopper (2016), portable screens, headphones, Hilma Af Klint, the faux Victor Hugo documentary https://www.criterion.com/films/29252-personal-shopper

Recommended Viewing and Reading:

Hilma af Klint Abstrakt Pionjar

Kultuurimeeter - Hilma af Klint ja must ruut

BEYOND THE VISIBLE: HILMA AF KLINT - official US trailer

Iris Muller-westermann, HILMA AF KLINT: A PIONEER OF ABSTRACTION

https://zeitgeistfilms.com/film/beyondthevisiblehilmaafklint

‘Victor Hugo’s Conversations with the Spirit World: Literary Genius’s Hidden Life’ by John Chambers. Rochester, VT: Destiny Books, 1998.

, 2019 "On Victor Hugo’s Posthumous Career as a Religious Prophet: How The Author of Les Misérables Became a Fixture of Cao Dai"

The Spiritual in Art: Abstract Painting 1890-1985, 1986

March 26

REQUIRED VIEWING:

Personal Shopper (dir. Olivier Assayas, 2016)

1. Watch the trailer for Personal Shopper and briefly compare the coherence of its narrative in relation to the coherence of the film's narrative.

2. Watch timestamps: 9:49-11:04 from Personal Shopper and briefly compare the editing and soundtrack of this sequence to its source, a 22 minute documentary on Hilma al Klint entitled "Hilma af Klint: Abstrakt pionjär | Introduktion."

Pay attention to the Klint catalog Maureen (the shopper) opens (15:20-49; 51-59) and all the faux Victor Hugo documentary (16:09-55) cut to shopper drawing pen and ink and male narrator is now off screen). We see the shopper watching on multiple screens (iphone, ipad, flatscreen tv) wearing earphones of Personal Shopper. 1:04:50-1:06:15; 1:06:28-1:08:16 on iphone; intercut on ipad with trying on Kyra's silver dress and black boots 1:08:17-1:09:03 . . . ; etc) Why doesn't she take the FT call from her boyfriend in Muscat the first time? Consider the iphone footage of the seaside he shows her.

March 28 Reading by Chance: Sortes Bibli

REQUIRED VIEWING:

M. R. James, "The Ash Tree" BBC 1986, with Robert Powell

Recommended Reading and Viewing:

M. R. James, "THE ASH-TREE"

Christopher Lee's Ghost Stories for Christmas - The Ash Tree

March 31 In class quiz

REQUIRED VIEWING:

Close-Up (Abbas Kiarostami,1990) On archive.org.

Bicycleran [The Bicylist] (dir. Mohsen Makhmalbaf, 1987)

Marriage of the Blessed Arousi ye Khouban Mohsen Makhmalbaf, 1989

Over and Over and Over AgainReenactment Strategies in Contemporary Arts and Theory, ed. by Cristina Baldacci, Clio Nicastro, and Arianna Sforzini, Cultural Inquiry, 21 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2022)

April 2

Close-Up (Abbas Kiarostami,1990) On archive.org.

April 4

REQUIRED VIEWING:

The Picture of Dorian Gray (dir. Albert Lewin, 1945)

Portrait reveal

RECOMMENDED READING:

How Cindy Sherman Brought Hollywood Lore to the Swiss Institute

The Fall of the House of Usher 

April 7 In class quiz

REQUIRED VIEWING:

Laura (dir. Otto Preminger, 1944)

Laura (Masters of Cinema) New & Exclusive HD Trailer

April 9

REQUIRED VIEWING:

Laura (dir. Otto Preminger, 1944)

April 11

REQUIRED VIEWING:

Portrait of Jennie (dir. William Dieterle, 1948)

April 14 In class quiz The Do-over Defacement and More Defacement (Remember Midge)

REQUIRED VIEWING:

Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (dir. Alberrt Lewin, 1951)

1. 28:33-38:49 Hendrick van der Zee (the Flying Dutchman) finishes his painting of the Greek character Pandora. Though she looks excactly like Pandora Reynolds (Ava Gardner) without his ever having Reynolds. Van der Zee then defaces the painting at her request, and then repaints the face in an abstract manner.

2. 43:41-1:01:50 Translation of an ancient Greek manuscript and the backstory of the Flying Dutchman; and the restored film trailer. (and the original trailer)

Hendrik van der Zee's painting.

Le Muse inquietanti (1917) Giorgio de Chirico as van der Zee's source.

April 16 The Do-over: Defacement and Replacement

REQUIRED VIEWING:

Portrait of a Lady on Fire (dir. Céline Sciamma, 2019)

April 18

THIRD PAPER DUE April 20 by 11:59 p.m. What was this course about?

Two Directed DQs:

Portrait of a Lady on Fire (dir. Céline Sciamma, 2019)

1. Helene Delmaire "Eyeless" series

2. Benjamin Mercer, "The Brush Behind the Film: How Painter Hélène Delmaire Created Our Portrait of a Lady on Fire Cover" (Sept 2, 2020)

Recommended Viewing:

1er Portrait d'Héloïse

2e Portrait d'Héloïse

April 21: Sacred for Sale

In class quiz (Remember the Apparition)

REQUIRED VIEWING:

The Lost Leonardo (dir. Antoine Vitkine, 2021)

Recommended Viewing:

THE LOST LEONARDO | Film Clip

April 23

Student evaluations

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NOTHING BELOW IS REQUIRED FOR THIS CLASS. YOU NEED LOOK NO FURTHER:

The Picture of Dorian Gray- Ivan Albright

Meta stole many of my publications for AI. Meta did not ask my permission, nor did it offer financial compensation.

Paintings-in-Pierrot le Fou

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI

UF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AI Services

Bruno Latour and Adam Lowe, "The Migration of the Aura: or How to Explore the Original through its Facsimiles"

Robert S. Nelson, "The Slide Lecture, or the Work of Art "History" in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,"Critical Inquiry, Vol. 26, No. 3, (Spring, 2000), 414-434

Walter Benjamin, "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction."

The question of scale when reproducing films, photographs of a work of art, a book, a manuscript, etc., on slides or on slide

https://www.francetvinfo.fr/culture/bd/l-enfer-l-extraordinaire-adaptation-en-bd-du-film-inacheve-d-henri-georges-clouzot_7143594.html

Le Vert au cinéma - Blow Up - ARTE

Le Rouge au cinéma - Blow Up - ARTE

2012: When I Knew My Job Was Over (Time Stamp 01:50)

Portrait de femme, dit à tort La Belle Ferronnière

1490 / 1497 (4e quart du XVe siècle)

"I want to pay tribute to his memory here and to recall all that I owe to the trust and encouragement he gave me, even when, as he one day told me, he did not see at all where I was going. That was in 1966 during a colloquium in the United States in which we were both taking part.  After a few friendly remarks on the paper I had just given, Jean Hippolyte added, “That said, I really don’t see where you are going.” I think I replied to him more or less as follows: “If I clearly saw ahead of time where I was going, I don’t really believe that I would take another step to get there.”  Perhaps I then thought that knowing where one is going may no doubt help in orienting one’s thinking, but that it has never made anyone take a single step, quite the opposite in fact.  What is the good of going where one knows oneself to be going and where one knows that one is destined to arrive?  Recalling this reply today, I am not sure that I really understand it very well, but it surely did not mean that I never see or never know where I am going and that to this this extent, to the extent that I do not know, it I not certain that I ever taken any step or said anything at all."

--Jacques Derrida,

"Punctuations: The Time of a Thesis," in The Eyes of the Univerversity, 115

Recommended Reading and Viewing

Comparing the First and Second Portrait of a Lady on Fire

Part 2 VERTIGO investigating a HITCHCOCK masterpiece (NEW ANALYSIS)

Part 3 VERTIGO investigating a HITCHCOCK masterpiece (NEW ANALYSIS)

Ela Bittencourt, "Portrait of a Lady on Fire: Daring to See," JUNE 23, 2020

Helene Delmaire "Eyeless" series

The works of the talented Hélène Delmaire

This talented young woman was inspired by the artistic works of famous painters. Indeed, Fragonard and Joshua Reynolds inspired the portraits of the Girl on Fire. For a realistic rendering, the canvases were drawn with charcoal then with wash and finally in color. Having followed a training in painting of the nineteenth century, Hélène Delmaire left a small artistic touch reminiscent of the creations of that era. In order to have tables and sketches for each sequence, the artist painted 7 to 8 versions of each portrait.

Artemisia (dir. Agnes Merlet,1997 )

Frida Kahlo (dir. Julie Taymor, 199?)

La Belle Noiseuse (dir. Jacques Rivette, 1991)

Our Lady of Fátima

Our Lady of Guadalupe

Vermeer's Masterpiece The Milkmaid: Discreet Object of Desire 2009

"Art, Dispossession, and Imaginations of Historical Justice: Thinking with the Works of Maria Eichhorn and Dilek Winchester

Banu Karaca, Critical Times (2020) 3 (2): 224–248.
The Outstanding Soundtrack of The Apparition
Here are links to some of the music:


Delerue also wrote the soundtrack for Jean-Luc Godard's Contempt (Le Mépris)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUs4awmb3-o
1963 Directed by Jean-Luc Godard Music by Georges Delerue

Fra Angelico," The Annunciation"

D. Freedberg, "The Fear of Art: How Censorship Becomes Iconoclasm"

Social Research 15 June 2016

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v44/n02/erin-thompson/foulest-vilest-obscenest

Mr Turner and the Summer Exhibition

Mr Turner and his Queen Anne Street Gallery

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/06/movies/the-visitor-review.html

The Visitor - Exclusive Trailer (2022) Finn Jones, Jessica McNamee

Solaris (A. Tarkovski), Brueghel, Bach, Weightlessness, Scene (1972)

24 FRAMES Abbas Kiarostami (1 Frame)

All the pictures in Lars von Trier’s Melancholia

Art Restorations Gone Wrong

"The Editorial Battles That Made The New Yorker"

The magazine has three golden rules: never write about writers, editors, or the magazine. On the occasion of our hundredth anniversary, we’re breaking them all.

February 10, 2025

Digital Forensics Reconstructs Seven Lost Masterpieces

Artwork by Van Gogh, Klimt, Monet and more have been painstakingly remade by Factum Arte for a new television series 

Mystery of the Lost Paintings - Se1 - Ep01 - Mystery of the Lost Churchill 

Mystery of the Lost Paintings - Se1 - Ep02 - Mystery of the Lost Monet 

Mystery of the Lost Paintings - Se1 - Ep03 - Mystery of the Lost Van Gogh 

Mystery of the Lost Paintings - Se1 - Ep04 - Mystery of the Lost Vermeer 

Mystery of the Lost Paintings - Se1 - Ep05 - Mystery of the Lost Lempicka 

Mystery of the Lost Paintings - Se1 - Ep06 - Mystery of the Lost Klimt 

Mystery of the Lost Paintings - Se1 - Ep07 - Mystery of the Lost Marc 

Mystery of the Lost Paintings - Se1 - Ep08 - Mystery of the Lost Caravaggio HD

Leonardo Da Vinci : the Mystery of the Lost Portrait - Part 1 | SLICE WHO

The Last Caravaggio 18 April – 21 July 2024

The Lost Caravaggio: the Ecce Homo Unveiled (2025)

The Cardsharps, c. 1595

Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi), Italian

Whose side are you on? Caravaggio cast shadows of doubt over everything. 2022

The Taking of Christ by Caravaggio

The Museo Nacional del Prado presents “The lost Caravaggio” a masterpiece Ecce Homo by the Italian painterMonday, May 27, 2024

How did a masterpiece by Caravaggio end up in a Dublin dining room?

The Taken of Christ by Caravaggio, the authorship of the one in Dublin seems increasingly challenging to support

Nov 27, 2023 | Art-Test NewsAuthentications & attributionsDiscoveriesExhibitionsPublicationsRestoration

X-Ray Imaging (Digital or Analog)

Infrared Reflectography

Renaissance bad boy Caravaggio's Dublin exhibition 14 April 2017

'The Lost Painting': The Caravaggio Trail 2005

Ghosts of Paintings Past: Pentimenti in Art History

Pentimenti / Pentimento Salvator Mundi

https://www.artfervour.com/discovering-a-pentimento-a-secret-under-paintings/

A French Dispatch

Vermeer’s Secrets 2023

FAKE OR FORTUNE SE1EO4 VAN MEEGEREN

THE LAST VERMEER - Official Trailer (HD) - In Theaters November 20 · Comments206.
This brand new film invites audiences to a private view of the largest Vermeer exhibition in the world, accompanied by the director of the ...
YouTube · Exhibition On Screen · Feb 17, 2023
Le 17 mai 1945, à peine neuf jours après la capitulation de l'Allemagne, un régiment allié prend possession d'un objectif prioritaire, ...
YouTube · Notre Histoire · Mar 3, 2024
... film LE DERNIER VERMEER (version française de The Last Vermeer) ... Vermeer's forger: Han van Meegeren - Looting works of art - History Documentary ...
YouTube · metropolefilms · Apr 22, 2021

 

Alex Greenberger, "Why Did a Nazi Buy a Fake Vermeer? New Film Dramatizes History’s Greatest Forgery" November 18, 2020 

The Last Vermeer - Wikipedia is a 2019 American drama film directed by Dan Friedkin from a screenplay by John Orloff (under the pen name James McGee), Mark Fergus, and Hawk Ostby.

THE TRUE HISTORY OF EUSTACE TILLEY

A Woman Who Belongs To No One - "Little Sleep" | Hitchcock Presents

Post-post-production (extraits)

The Uninvited (dir. Lewis Allen, 1944)

Corridor of Mirrors (dir. Terence Young, 1948) timestamp 1:05:00

"Corridor of Mirrors: The Eternal Return"

In Bruges (dir. Martin Mcdonagh, 2008)

Museum Sequence

https://www.sartle.com/blog/post/the-hidden-meaning-of-art-in-in-bruges

‘The Brutalist’ | Anatomy of a Scene

By Mekado Murphy•February 12, 2025

The Two Mrs. Carrolls (dir. Peter Godfrey, 1947)

Original Theatrical Trailer | The Two Mrs. Carrolls | Warner Archive

THE OTHERS (dir. Alejandro Amenábar, 2001, Trailer)- Newly restored in chilling 4K - Starring Nicole Kidman

Sequence in which Kidman discovers old photographs of dead people dressed to look they were sleeping; the photos of the dead servants will later prove that the main characters are themselves ghosts.

Original Trailer

Original songs on trailer soundtrack gradually slowed down and distorted on trailers for films made for different studios. Trailers made by the same people?

ANORA Trailer | TIFF 2024 Blondie, "Dreaming" (1979)

Final Destination Bloodlines | Official Teaser (2025) Trailer Air Supply, "Without You" (Cover of Badfinger's 1970 original)

From the World of John Wick: Ballerina (2025) Official Trailer Elton John "Tiny Dancer" (1972)

The Secret of the Whistler 1946 Film

The Mystery of Picasso (dir. Henri-Georges Cluzot, 1956) Criterion Channel stop motion animation of the paintings being painted

Color Grading:

Understanding the Cinematography of Bruno Delbonnel

 

Ghosts as Fakes:

Liz Pelly, The Ghosts in the Machine Spotify’s plot against musicians (Harper's, 2024)

Grindhouse fake trailers

Every Fake Movie Trailer In Grindhouse

Tropic Thunder (2008) Opening trailers

Fake films in Film:

Fake film "Nation's Pride" in Inglourious Basterds (dir. Quentin Tarantino, 2009)

The Big Picture on the Mini-Movie in ‘Sinister 2’ and Others By Nicolas Rapold Aug. 19, 2015

BigPictureMini-MovieOthers.pdf

Sinister Official Trailer #1 (2012)

Sinister "Lawnmower" Clip + Trailer (2012)

Sinister 2 Official Trailer #1 (2015) 

Made You Look: A True Story About Fake Ar(dir. Barry Avrich, 2021 Netflix)

"Satires, Hoaxes, and Art Forgery"

BY  | TUE, DEC 4, 2018

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8la2BzA0Qk timestamp 8:06 words upside down

Anamorphosis / Convex mirror self-portrait


Monsieur_Klein

mr-klein

Mr. Klein script

"The Analysis"

Adriaen Van Ostade Haarlem, 1610 - Haarlem, 1685

Date: 1666

Materials and technics: Oil on wooden panel

Dimensions: H. 28,2 x w. 22,5 cm

Inscriptions : Signed and dated middle left: "A van/Ostade[...] /1666"

 

 

or

Make a Trailer Assignment 2025

DUE Saturday, March 15, by 11:59 p.m

I want to focus on editing for the remainder of the semester.  Instead of choosing three single shots, chose three edits—two to three contiguous shots.
Describe the edit and then analyze it.

1. Description: Give the two to three shots and the kind of cut or cuts between them, with timestamps.

Your second paper is due on Saturday by 11:59 p.m.


 Analyse the edit.

 

 

The Dark Galleries: A Museum Guide to Painted Portraits in Film Noir Gothic Melodramas and Ghost Stories of the 1940s and 1950s

https://issuu.com/merpaperkunsthalle/docs/i

Woman On The Run (1950)

Michael (dir. Carl Dreyer, 1924)

Carl Th. Dreyer's MICHAEL (Masters of Cinema) New & Exclusive Trailer

L'Argent (dir. Robert Bresson, 1983)

Adjunct work is messed up

"Fake?" NY Times

Restoring and reproducing art

Candyman (2021) ; and Lotte Rottinger—silhouette puppet cut-outs animation

Candyman (2021) - Opening Titles

SE7EN & How 35mm Scans Lie to You

Hollywood’s Forgotten Format

BEN HECHT, "JOHN DECKER'S HOLLYWOOD" Esquire

DECEMBER 1945 

https://classic.esquire.com/article/1945/12/1/john-deckers-hollywood

John Decker 1930's Hollywood Portrait Artist. Fields, Barrymore, Flynn, Gable, Powell and many more!

Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: John Decker – Painter to the Stars

John (1895) Decker Sold at Auction Prices

Fritz Lang Scarlert Street captures.zip

All the Vermeers in New York – trailer

Errol Morris "Vermeer Forgery" NY Times (article)on "Vermeer Forgery" NY Times (Images); (CLICK BOTH MORRIS LINKS, article and images);

Optional Reading: DAN BILEFSKY, "After 400 Years, Still Hot on the Trail," NY Times, November 19, 2010 (on the exhumation of 16th-century Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe's remains to determine the cause of his death); Peter Landesmann, "A Crisis of Fakes," New York Times, March 18, 2001, 36-41; 52; 55; 66; 78; Anne Eisenberg, Holograms as motion pictures"New York Times, December 4, 2010; Mark Segoff, "Restoring and Reproducing Art"; Dutch Still Lives (17th Ct.) with x-rays of layers of paintStill Lives with online annotation popups;

 All the Vermeers in New York – trailer

Sheridan Lefanu, (online here) "Schalcken the Painter"

 A fictional tale woven round the lives of actual historic figures,[1][3] the television film is a 70-minute-long adaptation of Le Fanu's 1839 gothic tale "Strange Event in the Life of Schalken [sic] the Painter", directed and adapted by Leslie Megahey.[4] When Megahey was offered the opportunity to oversee Omnibus, the BBC’s long-running arts documentary series, he accepted on condition that he could make Schalcken the Painter. He shot the film in the style of a docudrama, using a minimum of dialogue. Megahey has stated that he was influenced in the making of the film by the Polish director Walerian Borowczyk, whose 1971 film Blanche also shows the fate of a young woman being decided by rich men, without consideration of her feelings or opinions.[2]
Leslie Megahey’s Schalcken the Painter is a celebration of the art of the Dutch Golden Age and a condemnation of the era’s bourgeois materialism and dehumanisation of women as chattels for trade. It’s also one of the eeriest ghost stories ever filmed.
Megahey adapted the film, a visual tour de force with scant dialogue, from Sheridan Le Fanu’s 1839 ‘Strange Event in the Life of Schalcken the Painter’, a short story in which the real-life genre painter and portraitist Godfried Schalcken (1647-1706), a student of Gerrit Dou (1613-75), receives a visitation from the spectre of the woman he once loved but forsook.

https://www.bfi.org.uk/features/why-i-love-schalcken-painter
Schalcken the Painter may have influenced Peter Greenaway’s deconstruction of Rembrandt’s ‘The Night Watch’ in Nightwatching (2007); there are trace elements of the film in Greenaway’s The Draughtsman’s Contract (1982) too.

Expert shows how to spot a deepfake created with AI timestamp: 0:33

D.A. Greetham, "Textual Forensics";

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, "A Case of Identity" (1899) and "The Adventure of the Cardboard Box" (1893);

Sigmund Freud, "The Moses of Michelangelo" (1914) Standard Edition, 13: 209-238. Digital "Exploded Manuscript" of Freud's essay.

DAVID GRANN, "The Mark of a Masterpiece: The man who keeps finding famous fingerprints on uncelebrated works of art" New YorkerJuly 12, 2010

Painter charged with making fake Jackson Pollock paintings (July 2014)

Martin Bailey October 11, 2022

Are You There?

The occult artist / medium Hilma af Klimt / book in print versus the academy ratio fake film about Victor Hugo's seances seen on a different size screens including iPhone, iPad, and TV in a number of different locations (bar, train, house). Fake documentary as an allegory of what can't be seen on film, of the film's own (fake) special effects and possible viewing experiences?

Morse code and the sound of the dead knocking once for "yes," twice for "no" in the fake film "documentary" and the film

https://www.modernamuseet.se/stockholm/en/exhibitions/hilma-af-klint-2013/about-the-artist/

Hilma af Klint: A Pioneer of Abstraction (2013), edited by Jo Widoff and Iris Müller-Westermann exhibition catalogue https://www.modernamuseet.se/stockholm/en/exhibitions/hilma-af-klint-2013/

The Klimt book in the upper left corner of the frame.

Questions of scale: exhibited paintings versus their portable reproductions; theater screen versus smaller screens on portable devices.

Personal Shopper as Artist

Boyfriend on Skype

What are Hilma af Klint and Victor Hugo doing in a ghost story about a ghost busting personal shopper, artist (pen and ink 31:00), and medium (28:25) that shows us ghosts (vomiting ectoplasm, 36:51-37:54; Lewis with glass in two window frames walking right to left, then just the glass in two window frames, soft focus behind Maureen sitting outside; 1:33:18-20; floating glass of water in the same window frame, soft focus same shot, drops and shatters on the floor and startles Maureen (1:33:27-44); cut at 1:33: 51 reverse shot from inside the kitchen of Maureen walking toward it and reveal of shattered glass at 1:33:54; 1:37:41 floating glass of water; floating glass of water shattering in Gary's hotel room in Africa 1:37:47-50)) and manifestations of ghosts (mysterious sounds like running water without being turned on and doors slamming (around 33:00-34:46; 35:54); the double X (Maureen calls it an "X") on the wall and the matching double X scratched over the shopper's drawings; perhaps the text messages begining with "I know you" at around 39:30). What does the shopper's story about her waiting for her dead twin brother Lewis with a malformed heart (and staying in his house he wanted to turn into a studio and practice carpentry) to give her a sign have to with the romance plot (the shopper's boyfriend), the Ingo and Kyra murder mystery plot, the selling of Lewis's home plot, the Hotel Concorde plot; and Gary, the boyfriend plot (1:20:00; his note to Maureen and voice-over starting at 1:35:32)? And Maureen almost never seeing her employer Kyra, with whom she communicates by messages? (timestamp 17:37) And Maureen not being allowed to try on the clothes she is buying for Kyra but trying them on anyway? (the boots first; later the black harness at 47:00)

Restoring The Faceless Painting Part 1

Restoring The Faceless Painting Part 2

Restoring The Faceless Painting - Part 3


The Well painting restoration (dir. Lauren LaVera Sitges, 2024) Official Trailer Horror

Wine Forgery

A 1997 collaboration at the MIT List Visual Arts Center between Gilje and Jospeh Grigely, word artist, that involved a “newly discovered” version of Caravaggio’s Musicians. In the catalogue essay, Grigely-as-art-historian convincingly supports the existence of another, quite different image beneath the surface of the painting, one that is disclosed in Gilje’s x-ray. In the subsurface image, a mirror reveals that the foreground boy is not singing but masturbating. “Instead of grasping a love madrigal: his erect penis,” declares the scholarly text. Combining art-historical fact and a deconstructive fiction, the collaboration works its magic.

Pierre Klossowski, The Baphomet Translated by Sophie Hawkes and
Stephen Sartarelli.

Dressed to Kill 

Danielle Gerhard, PhD, Detection or Deception: The Double-Edged Sword of AI in Research Misconduct

New artificial intelligence tools help scientists fight back against a rising tide of research misconduct, but is it enough?

Emily Eakin, The Plagiarism Plot Is Having a Moment. Copy That.

You could assemble an entire library of contemporary work fixated on literary imitation, appropriation and theft.

Published Jan. 2, 2025

Are you in pictures??

BARTON FINK
J’accuse. Nightwatching Rembrandt

Erroll Morris on Vermeer Forger

The Train 

French film about woman reporter librarian archivist. Detective. Who. Gets fired from her job.  

Real American archive of Nazi paintings and Indiana Jones

the Floss

Catwoman

The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant

La Belle Noiseuse

The  Green Knight

https://www.criterion.com/films/30469-portrait-of-a-lady-on-fire

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vfqkvwW2fs&t=611s

AI FORGERY COPYING PLAGIARISM

Pierre Menard

Bartleby

Kenny Goldsmith

https://www.nytimes.com/20

Ce livre a été écrit par une IA (et ça pose plein de questions)

16/11/03/technology/how-the-internet-is-loosening-our-grip-on-the-truth.html

Internationally revered Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami has created some of the most inventive and transcendent cinema of the past thirty years, and Close-up is his most radical, brilliant work. This fiction-documentary hybrid uses a sensational real-life event—the arrest of a young man on charges that he fraudulently impersonated the well-known filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf—as the basis for a stunning, multilayered investigation into movies, identity, artistic creation, and existence, in which the real people from the case play themselves. With its universal themes and fascinating narrative knots, Close-up has resonated with viewers around the world.

https://richardburtphd.com/indexanamorph.html

Freedberg - Power of Images ch 1

Iconoclash

Jorge Luis Borges, "Funes el memorioso." English trans.

VAN GOGH Repetitions Exhibition

Van Gogh Repetitions, ed. Eliza Rathbone, William H. Robinson, Steele Elizabeth and Marcia Steele

Titian Remade: Repetition and the Transformation of Early Modern Italian Art 

 

BBC M R James Ghost Story Number 13

Close Readings Plus course.

Recommended Reading and Viewing: 

Restoration of the painting "Lute-Player" by Caravaggio

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. The Lute-Player. Marking the end of the restoration

On 10 December 2017, the exhibition Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. The Lute-Player. In Russian On YouTube

‘The Inventor’ Review: Leonardo da Vinci in the Limelight

This playful movie uses stop-motion and hand-drawn animation to pay homage to Leonardo as a thinker and tinkerer.

Morelli on art collecting; David Grann, "The Mark of a Masterpiece: The man who keeps finding famous fingerprints on uncelebrated works of art"; Painter charged with making fake Jackson Pollock paintings (July 2014); Mark Segoff, "Restoring and Reproducing Art"; Dutch Still Lives (17th Ct.) with x-rays of layers of paintStill Lives with online annotation popups

https://richardburtphd.com/indexanamorph.html

 

 

 

 

Email all papers for the course to me at [email protected]

Post Your DQs etc BOTH on canvas AND on this google document here.

The views expressed by Richard Burt in interviews and commentaries on the

 

The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)
"I’m possibly cheating to include this film on the list, but The Picture of Dorian Gray is one of the first to showcase black-and-white as an aesthetic choice rather than a filmmaking necessity; four-color inserts of three-strip Technicolor were used for Dorian’s portrait, utilized as a special effect in a black-and-white world. Having that isolated moment of Technicolor heightens the horror of seeing Dorian’s painting age while he himself remains youthful. The film is a triumph in deep-focus cinematography, and earned Angela Lansbury her second Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress (not to mention her first Golden Globe win in the same category)."

https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/features/art-through-eyes-horror-film-fan

https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/gothic-nightmares-fuseli-blake-and-romantic-imagination

Monochrome: Painting in Black and White

Issued August 2017
30 October 2017 – 18 February 2018
Sainsbury Wing
Admission charge
See differently.
At the National Gallery this autumn, journey through a world of shadow and light. With more than fifty painted objects created over 700 years, Monochrome: Painting in Black and White is a radical new look at what happens when artists cast aside the colour spectrum and focus on the visual power of black, white, and everything in between.
https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/about-us/press-and-media/press-releases/monochrome-painting-in-black-and-white

Hannah Arendt, "TRUTH AND POLITICS"
Originally published in The New Yorker, February 25, 1967

Hannah Arendt, "Lying in Politics: Reflections on The Pentagon Papers"
NOVEMBER 18, 1971 ISSUE

Alexander Koyré, “The Political Function of the Modern Lie” (Contemporary Jewish Record). 1945.

ANEMONA HART OCOLLIS, "Colleges Spending Millions to Deal With Sexual Misconduct Complaint" MARCH 29, 2016 

Penn State fully supports the fundamental right of free speech – even speech that tests the limits of tolerance. Free speech and expression of ideas are essential to higher education’s academic and civic missions. 

An open letter written in March by Jenny Martinez, dean of Stanford University Law School, in which she affirmed her decision to apologize to Stuart Kyle Duncan, a Donald Trump-appointed federal appeals judge, after hecklers interrupted his speech.

Jeannie Suk Gersen, "What if Trigger Warnings Don’t Work?" September 28, 2021

MSNBC host against free speech ("subjected to") Jimmy Dore Show May 16, 2023

DIKW pyramid

"The splat is out of the bag: a first-ever look at the making of the Rorschach test" May 17, 2023

W. H. Davenport, Wrecked Lives ; Or, Men who Have Failed (1880)

Cabinet Magazine 

Go, Dog. Go! (1961)

William Wordsworth, "Yew-Trees"

There is a Yew-tree, pride of Lorton Vale,
Which to this day stands single, in the midst
Of its own darkness, as it stood of yore:
Not loathe to furnish weapons for the Bands
Of Umfraville or Percy ere they marched
To Scotland's heaths; or those that crossed the sea
And drew their sounding bows at Azincour,
Perhaps at earlier Crecy, or Poictiers.
Of vast circumference and gloom profound
This solitary Tree! -a living thing
Produced too slowly ever to decay;
Of form and aspect too magnificent
To be destroyed. But worthier still of note
Are those fraternal Four of Borrowdale,
Joined in one solemn and capacious grove;
Huge trunks! -and each particular trunk a growth
Of intertwisted fibres serpentine
Up-coiling, and inveteratley convolved, -
Nor uninformed with Fantasy, and looks
That threaten the profane; -a pillared shade,
Upon whose grassless floor of red-brown hue,
By sheddings from the pining umbrage tinged
Perennially -beneath whose sable roof
Of boughs, as if for festal purpose decked
With unrejoicing berries -ghostly Shapes
May meet at noontide: Fear and trembling Hope,
Silence and Foresight, Death the Skeleton
And Time the Shadow; there to celebrate,
As in a natural temple scattered o'er
With altars undisturbed of mossy stone,
United worship; or in mute repose
To lie, and listen to the mountain flood
Murmuring from Glaramara's inmost caves.

World War III #1: 1952 War Comic

Atomic War Issue #1 (Ace Comics) 1952 

UNE VIE, UNE ŒUVRE (FRANCE CULTURE)

Blow Up, l'actualité du cinéma (ou presque) - ARTE

Ingmar Bergman en musiques - Blow Up - ARTE

The-history-of-literature/

The Holberg Lecture 2016: Stephen Greenblatt: "Shakespeare's Life-making"

How They RIGGED It All: A Corporate Law Professor Explains (w/ Jon Hanson) 2023

Jeffery Sachs | We WILL NEVER KNOW PEACE AGAIN (2023)

Popular Instagram A I Fraud (2023)

Cabinet Magazine 

"This Film Does Not Exist" NY TIMES JANUARY 13, 2023 On Jodorowski's plans for Tron and A.I. imaging of film.

Go, Dog. Go! (1961)

Russell Jacoby "A Climate of Fear The free speech skeptics abandon Salman Rushdie" Harper's (March, 2023)

She Showed a Prophet’s Image, and Divided a College Campus” (front page, Jan. 8, 2023) And she got fired.

Why you should absolutely be for free speech. Srsly. 

'Mighty Ira' Documentary Trailer

Ira Glasser, Free Speech and the ACLU

Jonathan Rauch, "Words Aren't Violence" NYT 1993

UF Protest Sign:

Peter Hall - Pauses are as important as the lines (28/40)

Vienna and Schubert: 'Death and the Maiden' String Quartet - Professor Chris Hogwood CBE

"The greatest pieces of music are called classics simply because at a first hearing--that is terribly...very complicated to work out what's going on or even more complicated to explain to yourself why it's going on--even to hear it has to be heard several times. Probably after first hearing, immediately go back and hear it again, and on repeated hearings repeated things come to light."

--Christopher Hogwood

Repetition is key to learning.

To learn how to understand a piece of music, a philosopher said, you have to hear it twice.

A conductor of baroque music said you have to listen to repeated hearings before you understand it.

"How full of meaning and significance the language of music is we see from the repetition of signs, as well as from the Da capo which would be intolerable in the case of works composed in the language of words. In music, however, they are very appropriate and beneficial; for to comprehend it fully, we must hear it twice."

--Arthur Schopenhauer, "On the Metaphysics of Music"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTziL0Xwa-s

timestamp 29:00

Remember. Don't make a faux pas.

All recommended readings are optional.

"We can’t imagine what’s next, except that it will surely involve more make-work for more administrators, whose proliferation has driven much of the rise in college tuition and student debt. For 16,937 students, Stanford lists 2,288 faculty and 15,750 administrative staff."

--"The Stanford Guide to Acceptable Words
Behold the school’s Elimination of Harmful Language Initiative."
By The Editorial Board
Dec. 19, 2022 

Félix Fénéon, Petit Bottin des lettres et des arts (1886)

THE PERSON VS. THE ARTIST

Jordan Wolfson / JORDAN WOLFSON / Artist Talk: Jordan Wolfson & Simon Denny

Telephone #1: Phoned-In #13 by Paul Legault & Sharmila Cohen

Storyville - The Trials Of Oppenheimer - BBC Documentary

'Mighty Ira' Documentary Trailer

Ira Glasser, Free Speech and the ACLU

Jonathan Rauch, "Words Aren't Violence" NYT 1993

Guy J. Williams, "Harkness Learning: Principles of a Radical American Pedagogy"

Harkness table

Apps and Oranges: Behind Apple’s ‘Bullying’ on Trademarks

The Cubies’ ABC (1913)

"Don't join the book burners. Don't think you are going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book, as long as that document does not offend our own ideas of decency. That should be the only censorship.

How will we defeat communism unless we know what it is, and what it teaches, and why does it have such an appeal for men, why are so many people swearing allegiance to it? It is almost a religion, albeit one of the nether regions.

And we have got to fight it with something better, not try to conceal the thinking of our own people. They are part of America. And even if they think ideas that are contrary to ours, their right to say them, their right to record them, and their right to have them at places where they are accessible to others is unquestioned, or it isn't America."

Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th President of the United States: 1953 - 1961 "Remarks at the Dartmouth College Commencement Exercises, Hanover, New Hampshire." June 14, 1953

"I am sorry for the boy or girl, or man or woman, who has never been touched by the spell of this mysterious sensorial life, with its irrationality, if so you like to call it, but its vigilance and its supreme felicity. The holidays of life are its most vitally significant portions, because they are, or at least should be, covered with just this kind of magically irresponsible spell.

And now what is the result of all these considerations and quotations? It is negative in one sense, but positive in another. It absolutely forbids us to be forward in pronouncing on the meaninglessness of forms of existence other than our own; and it commands us to tolerate, respect, and indulge those whom we see harmlessly interested and happy in their own ways, however unintelligible these may be to us. Hands off: neither the whole of truth nor the whole of good is revealed to any single observer, although each observer gains a partial superiority of insight from the peculiar position in which he stands. Even prisons and sick-rooms have their special revelations. It is enough to ask of each of us that he should be faithful to his own opportunities and make the most of his own blessings, without presuming to regulate the rest of the vast field."

On a Certain Blindness in Human Beings

--William James 

Gould Gould: Mozart in one minute

--V. F. Perkins

"One should never bear grudges against people, never judge them by the memory of one unkind act, for we can never know all the good resolves and effective actions of which their souls may have been capable at another time. And so, even from the simple point of view of foresight, we make mistakes. For no doubt the bad pattern we observed on that one occasion will recur. But the soul is richer than that, has many other patterns which will also recur in the same man, yet we refuse to take pleasure in them because of one piece of bad behavior in the past."

The Prisoner, trans. Carol Cook, p. 311

Nothing Below is Required for this Course. You Are Free to Stop Reading Here and Now:

Inside the Academic-Freedom Crisis That Roiled Florida’s Flagship

A ‘Chronicle’ investigation tracks how a decision to silence professors emerged from the depths of bureaucracy.

Sept 7 2022

Nothing Below is Required for this Course. You Are Free to Stop Reading Here and Now:

La leçon de Marcel Proust selon Roland Barthes

Retrouvez bien d'autres archives sur Marcel Proust ici : http://bit.ly/2EeojUr

The Kuleshov Effect / Effetto Kuleshov

Gov. DeSantis wants retired cops as teachers

Judge Issues Stinging Free Speech Ruling Against University of Florida  The New York Times January 21, 2022

Judge Walker's Motion for Preliminary Injunction Ruling 01212022

If to read a book as it should be read calls for the rarest qualities of imagination, insight, and judgment, you may perhaps conclude that literature is a very complex art and that it is unlikely that we shall be able, even after a lifetime of reading, to make any valuable contribution to its criticism. We must remain readers.

Virginia Woolf, “How Should One Read a Book?” 1926 (read for pleasure and for profit)

How the HR Monster Destroyed the Workplace: The Woke Mission Creep of Human Resources Departments

Rescuing the Left From Its Obsession With Culture — Vivek Chibber

Chris Hedges on Cancel Culture, Empathy And Grace

Peter Hall - Pauses are as important as the lines (28/40)

I.A. Richards, How to read a page : a course in efficient reading, with an introduction to a hundred great words

"What a stupid f***ing way to have a really important conversation": Reflections On A Yearlong White Fragility Training

The Bellows in Conversation with Adolph Reed and Walter Benn Michaels

The Sex Bureaucracy Jacob Gersen & Jeannie Suk*

Politics After Trump: A Conversation with Chris Hedges

Slavoj Zizek — Why white liberals like to humiliate themselves

Slavoj Zizek — Why white liberals love identity politics

Laura Kipnis Academe Is a Hotbed of Craven Snitches: How did scholars become such tattletales? March 17, 2022

, "What’s So Great About Great-Books Courses? The humanities are in danger, but humanists can’t agree on how—or why—they should be saved." New YorkerDecember 13, 2021

Critical judgment

suspension of moral judgment

John Keats, "negative capability"

Sigmund Freud,The Psychopathology of Everyday Life, Chapter Nine, "Symptomatic and Chance Actions" and Chapter Ten, "Errors."

Required Reading: Sigmund Freud, Beyond the Pleasure Principle, Sections 1-IV (1 though IV, including IV). Bring a copy of the book in print or a print out on paper to class (Kindles, iphones, lap top computers, etc., will not be allowed.

Required Reading: Edgar Allen Poe, "The Purloined Letter"

Required Reading: Sigmund Freud, Beyond the Pleasure Principle, Sections V-VI (the rest of the book). Bring a copy of the book in print or a print out on paper to class (Kindles, iphones, lap top computers, etc will not be allowed). Recommended: Sigmund Freud, "A Note upon the Mystic Writing Pad" 

Required Reading: Jacques Derrida, "To Speculate--On 'Freud'" in The Post Card, 257-291 ("1. Notices (Warnings"). Bring a copy of the book in print or a print out a copy on paper and bring it with you to class (Kindles, iphones, lap top computers, etc., will not be allowed). 

Recommended: Jacques Derrida, "Differance"Jacques Derrida, "The Parergon"

Required Reading: Jacques Lacan, "Seminar on the Purloined Letter" (click on link to left for pdf) 

Sigmund Freud, "The Uncanny"

Recommended Readings: (T.B.R.S.,P.) Wilhelm Jentsch, "The Uncanny" ; E.T.A. Hoffmann, The Sandman; Ernst Mach, Analyse der Empfindungen (The Analysis of Sensationsand the Relation of the Physical to the Psychical), cited

The author and the work of art--Cancellation; Ad Hominem

Self-cancellation:

Gerard Manley Hopkins burned his poems when he entered a seminary. See William Empson, Seven Types of Ambiguity

Vladimir Nabokov, Lectures on Literature--no relation between an author and text (Yet . . . )

Erich Auerbach, Mimesis--an author is always in history

Martin Heidegger on the German poet Georg Trakl in  On the Way to Language and Poetry, Language, Thought--ignore the author.

"No matter how  scandalous and unsavory the Derrida-Heidegger-Trakl encounter may seem, therefore, it may well be that the encounter has - as Merleau-Ponty said of the artwork - most of its life still ahead of it. 

Certainly, there seems to be no great interest in the Anglo-American world in either Heidegger's Trakl interpretation or Derrida' s reading of it. 

While many philosophers continue to brave Heidegger's Hölderlin interpretations, very few take the risk of engaging with Trakl. Why? I am not sure. Perhaps because of the unsavory atmosphere that suffuses the Trakl world: cocaine, incest, war, suicide - conservative Heideggerians have to wonder why Heidegger was drawn to any of this, and why Derrida would want to make Heidegger's reading of Trakl one of the principal foyers of his reading of Heidegger. 

It may be that the new waves of scandal lapping against the shores of Heidegger's life make it less likely than ever that students will want to take up Heidegger's and Derrida's readings of Trakl, especially in the United States, where Puritanism continues to reign in the academy, in our political life, and in our military detention." 

--David Farrell Krell, "Marginalia to "Geschlecht III": Derrida on Heidegger on Trakl" 

The New Centennial Review, Fall 2007, Vol. 7, No. 2, Remainders: Of Jacques Derrida (Fall 2007), pp. 175-199 

To counter widely circulated allegations, let it be stated here explicitly that the dedication of Being and Time mentioned on page 16 of the Dialogue remained in Being and Time until its fourth edition of 1935. In 1941, when my publishers felt that the fifth edition might be endangered and that, indeed, the book might be suppressed, it was finally agreed, on the suggestion and at the desire of Niemeyer, that the dedication be omitted from the edition, on the condition imposed by me that the note to page 38 be retained— a note which in fact states the reason for that dedication, and which runs: "If the following investigation has taken any steps forward in disclosing the 'things themselves', the  author must first of all thank E. Husserl, who, by providing his own incisive personal guidance and by freely turning over his unpublished investigations, familiarized the author with the most diverse areas of phenomenological research during his student years in Freiburg" (Being and Time, Harper & Row, 1962, 489). 

--On the Way to Language, pp. 199-200

Textual unconscious

irony

incomprehension

Booth on unmade puns

Fireworks are apparitions par excellence.  They are an empirical appearance free of the burden of empirical being in general which is that it has duration; they are a sign of heaven and yet artefactual; they are both a writing on the wall, rising and fading away in short order, and yet not a writing that has any meaning we can make sense of.

--Theodor Adorno, Aesthetic Theory, 120

Woke Dictionary

'All-American Nativism' with Dan Denvir, Part I

Tulsi Gabbard Introduces Bill To Completely Repeal The Patriot Act.

“A good reader, a major reader, an active and creative reader is a rereader.” 

--Vladimir Nabokov

Cultural Stagnation

Kenneth Goldsmith, It’s Not Plagiarism. In the Digital Age, It’s ‘Repurposing.’SEPTEMBER 11, 2011

Mark Fisher : The Slow Cancellation Of The Future (2014)

2014 CineNOma?

Small adjustments to the same versus something different, new, or renewed

Can you hear it? An ear for music history and the end of medium specificity

Sampling 80s synth pop this century

Modern Fears (Pilotpriest Come True Version) (Original Motion Picture Sound) 2021

sounds like 

the CHROMATICS PLAYING "SATURDAY" at the end of an episode of David Lynch's Twin Peaks, the Return (2018).

See also the

 CHROMATICS' "SHADOW" (Official Video)

80s synth pop

Angelo Badalamenti and David Lynch and "Laura's Theme" in "Twin Peaks"

Pet Shop Boys
Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark

Drive (dir. Nicolas Winding Refn, 2011) —with 80s Miami Vice pink opening titles

Chromatics - Tick Of The Clock

Electric Youth - A Real Hero

1980s --"postmodernism" stockpiling of images; last decade of high fashion. "Pastiche" versus "parody" Frederic Jameson

haute couture

recycling Art Decco by Madonna (VogueHorst P. Horst / Horst corset

Express Yourself

Metropolis (1927) - (1984) Giorgio Moroder

30's fashions Bryan Ferry (Slave to Love). 

Periodization of fashion history

Roxy Music - Avalon (Official Video)

The Gong Show (1978)

Survival Kit For the Anguished: A series of podcasts by Avital Ronell

One of the most important books on a chapter of American History you never ever knew about:

Eric Foner Reconstruction-Americas-Unfinished-Revolution

Eric Foner, "Why Is There No Socialism in the United States?" 

History Workshop, Spring, 1984, No. 17 pp. 57-80 

Guy J. Williams, "Harkness Learning: Principles of a Radical American Pedagogy"

Harkness table

Barbara Johnson, "The Frame of Reference: Poe, Lacan, Derrida," Yale French Studies, 1977, No. 55/56, Literature and Psychoanalysis. The Question of Reading: Otherwise (1977), pp. 457-505

Various first words

 

Who is supposed to find this video funny? JOE BIDEN: ACCEPTABLE UNDER THE CIRCUMSTANCES Steve Buscemi narrates this short film 8/20/2020

Joe Biden

"Don't Be a Sucker" (1943 / 1947)

Shant Mesrobian gives an illuminating account of the authoritarian Biden voter's contempt for progressives starting at 54:02 and ending at 56:32. The entire interview is worth a listen.

"In Amazon’s Bookstore, No Second Chances for the Third Reich. The retailer once said it would sell “the good, the bad and the ugly.” Now it has banished objectionable volumes — and agreed to erasing the swastikas from a photo book about a Nazi takeover." New York Times Feb. 9, 2020

Holbein's extraordinary 'Ambassadors' | National Gallery

Nonsite.org

WATCHING FILMS TO THE END

DARK WATERS | Official Trailer

All the President's Men - Original Theatrical Trailer

The Candidate - Original Theatrical Trailer

Medium Cool (1969) ORIGINAL TRAILER

The Mothman Prophecies - Trailer.

 Secrecy and the Press. Remarks by. Katharine Graham

Megan Zahneis, This Tenured Professor Said His College’s Reopening Plans Risked Deaths. That’s Now in His Personnel File.

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Widescreen vs. Pan & Scan

Shockproof (dir. Douglas Sirk,1949) Opening Sequence and the reveal; see also the reveal at the end of the first five minutes of Hitchcock's Marnie

The Bellows in Conversation with Adolph Reed and Walter Benn Michaels

Exercise and Depression "When you exercise, your body releases chemicals called endorphins. These endorphins interact with the receptors in your brain that reduce your perception of pain."

Edward Snowden: How Your Cell Phone Spies on You

'All-American Nativism' with Dan Denvir, Part I

"We had expected the great world-dominating nations of white race upon whom the leadership of the human species has fallen, who were known to have world-wide interests as their concern, to whose creative powers were due not only our technical advances towards the control of nature but the artistic and scientific standards of civilization - we had expected these people to succeed in discovering another way of settling misunderstandings and conflicts of interest. Within each of these nations there prevailed high norms of moral conduct for the individual, to which his manner of life was bound to conform if he desired to take part in a civilized community. . . .

A human being is seldom altogether good or bad; he is usually 'good' in one relation and 'bad' in another, or 'good' in certain external circumstances and in others decidedly 'bad'. It is interesting to find that the pre-existence of strong 'bad' impulses in infancy is often the actual condition for an unmistakable inclination towards 'good' in the adult. Those who as children have been the most pronounced egoists may well become the most helpful and self-sacrificing members of the community; most of our sentimentalists, friends of humanity and protectors of animals have been evolved from little sadists and animal-tormentors.

Sigmund Freud "Thoughts for the Times on War and Death" (1915)

Now that the TV show COPS has been cancelled, it should be replaced by a show called STOPPED. Each episode of STOPPED would show iphone videos of black people who have been murdered by police or who have talked their way out of an illegal stop with guns drawn by cops. Payment for videos that haven't gone viral but can be posted after the show airs. Copyright belongs to the original video recorder.

1 youtube.com/watch

2 .youtube.com/watch

3. Youtube.com/watch

These Scholars Denounced the Police

"What a stupid f***ing way to have a really important conversation": Reflections On A Yearlong White Fragility Training

Trump Tells Agencies To End Trainings On 'White Privilege ...

The 1619 Project - The New York Times

The Truth About the Confederacy in the United States (the 1619 part is wrong.)

I Helped Fact-Check the 1619 Project. The Times Ignored Me.

Scholars are eviscerating The New York Times' 1619 Project

Seven months later, 1619 Project leader admits she got it wrong

Conservatives rail against New York Times 1619 Project on ...

Trump warns schools teaching 1619 Project 'will not be funded'

So much for "representation":

Melania Trump touts husband's record on women

 Jed Rubenfeld, "Mishandling Rape," Nov. 15, 2014

Yale Law Professor [Jed Rubenfeld] Is Suspended After Sexual Harassment Inquiry

The Never-ending Story of Men and Women Laura Kipnis 2016 

 

from Thomas Mann, Doktor Faustus, trans. John Wood, p. 63

A Black Marxist Scholar Wanted to Talk About Race. It Ignited a Fury.

Algorithms rule us all - VPRO documentary - 2018

Cybertopia - Dreams of Silicon Valley - Docu - 2015

The financial brain of the London City - Docu - 2013

HyperNormalisation: A new film by Adam Curtis 

The Humanities After Covid-19

 

--Martin Heidegger, "The Thing"

"Happiness has no story." 

--Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly

U.S. Propaganda in one minute

Why Should You Be for Free Speech? 

Mighty Ira: Ira Glasser, Free Speech and the ACLU Tmestamp31:00 on 

Mighty Ira Documentary Trailer

Essential Viewing: Russell Brand On Trump and Free Speech

If you’re mildly conservative on Twitter, you’re Hitler | Ricky Gervais 

The Free Speech Movement

Wall Street is diversity-inclusion-belonging

https://www.nasdaq.com

NASDAQ

2020-12-16/fifty-years-of-tax-cuts-for-rich-didn-t-trickle-down-study-says

"Music is the space between the notes." 

--Claude Debussy or Miles Davis

Guy J. Williams, "Harkness Learning: Principles of a Radical American Pedagogy"

Harkness table

Nonsite.org

The Second Civil War (dir. Joe Dante, 1997)

2001 A Space Odyssey 4K 

Conventions and Creativity

Montage 

Mindhunter Season 1 (dir. David Fincher, 2017)

Shot Reverse Shot

Long take framed by standard shot reverse shot intro and exits:

Amazon Prime Patriot 1, Season 8 Episode

Synthesis and Sound Design

Cross cutting editing

and Opening Title Sequences

Mindhunter (2017; 2019)

Terrence Malick’s “Introduction” and “Critical Notes” for his translation of Heidegger’s The Essence Of Reasons

NOMAD: IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF BRUCE CHATWIN

A Conversation with Werner Herzog - Doc/Fest 2019

The Never-ending Story of Men and Women Laura Kipnis 2016

Scholars Denounced the Police

The Humanities After Covid-19

EXPOSED! Mainstream Media Caught Using Fake Sources

"Unity"

Cancel culture 

Slavoj Žižek on "They Live" 

They Live (1988) - Seeing the Truth Scene

Shockproof (dir. Douglas Sirk,1949) Opening Sequence The Reveal

The Truth About the Confederacy in the United States (the 1619 part is wrong. The United States was founded in 1776.)

BIBER PASSACAGLIA 

Koyaanisqatsi part 1/9

You already know how: Mr Robot ending S4E10: 410

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/08/arts/television/mr-robot-episode-10-recap.html

Happy ending or sad ending:  Dom and Darlene are going to go to
Budapest, then Dom changes her mind, then Darlene does not use her
ticket and does not board the plane.  Cross cutting as Dom runs back to the boarding gate.  Music Carly Rae Jepsen "Run Away
with Me" on E.Mo.Tion album   Darlene is in the
bathroom having a panic attack.  So you think it's going to be a happy
ending.  But last shot reveals the empty seat next to Dom.  Music
still playing.

So students.  You already know how to read by genre.  Happy ending--or
shock from happy ending withheld.  Only upbeat is Darlene calming down
and saying to herself in the mirror "I can take care of myself."

http://watch-mr-robot-season-4-episode-10-tvshow.over-blog.com/hompilya6a


Climate Change: what do you want me to say?

Adam Ruins Everything - Why Billionaire Philanthropy is Not So Selfless | truTV

Sandy Hook Promise 'Back-to-School' PSA

Sandy Hook Promise: Gun violence warning signs

Wagner au cinéma - Blow Up - ARTE

Mozart au cinéma - Blow Up - ARTE

Beethoven au cinéma - Blow Up - ARTE

Bach au cinéma - Blow Up - ARTE

Schubert au cinéma - Blow Up - ARTE

Tchaïkovsky au cinéma - Blow Up - ARTE

It's so hard to be a billionaire.
https://www.ft.com/content/1e477dda-070e-11ea-9afa-d9e2401fa7ca

https://www.ft.com/content/0bab153a-026b-11ea-b7bc-f3fa4e77dd47

https://www.ft.com/content/1997bc42-0609-11ea-9afa-d9e2401fa7ca

https://www.ft.com/content/752ffc50-079d-11ea-a984-fbbacad9e7dd

Michael Kiwanuka - Cold Little Heart

Big Little Lies: Season 1 Opening Credits | HBO

Twitter Thread on U.S. Slavery

IF AMERICANS KNEW - TRAILER

"First of all, they're all psychopaths."

Mindhunter Season 1, Episode 3 (2017)

Long take framed by standard shot reverse shot intro and exits:

Amazon Prime Patriot 1, Season 8 Episode

Please don't be hard on your grad student teachers:

Why adjunct professors are struggling to make ends meet

Btw, don't even think of going to graduate school to get a Ph.D in English--or any other kind of--literature. 

ANDREW KAY," Academe's Extinction Event: Failure, Whiskey, 
and Professional Collapse at the MLA," May 10, 2019

Back in the MLA

Stephen Marche, a survivor of academia, returns to a troubled field

Dan Cohen, "The Books of College Libraries Are Turning Into Wallpaper: University libraries around the world are seeing precipitous declines in the use of the books on their shelves" The Atlantic May 2019

Rudy Giuliani Loves Fascism "God Bless America!"

The Purge: Election Year 

ROBOCOP Original Trailer - 1987

Why did police have military-grade equipment in the first place?

365 Days and 605 Armored Military Vehicles Later: Police Militarization a Year After Ferguson

Military veterans see deeply flawed police response in Ferguson

Ferguson, Mo., police routinely violated blacks’ rights, federal inquiry finds

STANLEY FISH  The Trouble With Tolerance NOVEMBER 10, 2006

b

Cardi B: I Became a Stripper to Escape Domestic Violence

William Wordsworth, THE PRELUDE 

BOOK TWELFTH

IMAGINATION AND TASTE, HOW IMPAIRED AND RESTORED

  There are in our existence spots of time,
          That with distinct pre-eminence retain
          A renovating virtue, whence--depressed                     210
          By false opinion and contentious thought,
          Or aught of heavier or more deadly weight,
          In trivial occupations, and the round
          Of ordinary intercourse--our minds
          Are nourished and invisibly repaired;
          A virtue, by which pleasure is enhanced,
          That penetrates, enables us to mount,
          When high, more high, and lifts us up when fallen.

I remember well,

          That once, while yet my inexperienced hand

          Could scarcely hold a bridle, with proud hopes

          I mounted, and we journeyed towards the hills:

          An ancient servant of my father's house

          Was with me, my encourager and guide:                      230

          We had not travelled long, ere some mischance

          Disjoined me from my comrade; and, through fear

          Dismounting, down the rough and stony moor

          I led my horse, and, stumbling on, at length

          Came to a bottom, where in former times

          A murderer had been hung in iron chains.

          The gibbet-mast had mouldered down, the bones

          And iron case were gone; but on the turf,

          Hard by, soon after that fell deed was wrought,

          Some unknown hand had carved the murderer's name.          240

          The monumental letters were inscribed

          In times long past; but still, from year to year

          By superstition of the neighbourhood,

          The grass is cleared away, and to this hour

          The characters are fresh and visible:

          A casual glance had shown them, and I fled,

          Faltering and faint, and ignorant of the road:

          Then, reascending the bare common, saw

          A naked pool that lay beneath the hills,

          The beacon on the summit, and, more near,                  250

          A girl, who bore a pitcher on her head,

          And seemed with difficult steps to force her way

          Against the blowing wind.

Heirich von Kleist, "On the Gradual Production of Thoughts Whilst Speaking"

 

The current version of this website is the binding one, if you are taking this course.

 

STEAM, not STEM (The "A" stands for "Arts," as in Liberal Arts.)


If Students Are Smart, They’ll Major in What They Love

How to Think Like Shakespeare

Free Movies Streaming Online at UF Kanopy

Criterion Films on Hulu Plus

Missing UF Faculty (mostly from English)

Thinking of Going to Law School?

 

Claudio Arrau Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 32 

Mitsuko Uchida Masterclass  Comparing Beethoven N.4 in G Major and Mozart’s K. 503

Satie Vexations Complete non-stop performance ( 9.41 hours ) by Nicolas Horvath

Erik Satie - Tapisserie en fer forgé

Did Led Zeppelin steal Stairway to Heaven's opening notes?

What is a "strong woman?" Who is a "strong woman?" A corporate oligarch funded by Wall Street and former prosecutor? Or a combat veteran funded by individual donors?

Check these out:

Former DNC vice chair: Democratic primary was 'rigged' for Clinton

Tulsi Gabbard Calls Assange’s Arrest A Blow To Transparency And Free Press 

Morning Joe Attacks Tulsi For Opposing War (Time Stamp 3:30)

Tulsi Gabbard challenges Kamala Harris record as a prosecutor | full exchange

Harris dismisses Gabbard attack: I'm a top-tier candidate, she's at 0 or 1 percent

Watch Tulsi Gabbard's interview with Anderson Cooper

Tulsi Gabbard: Kamala Harris 'didn't give any answers'

Gabbard to MSNBC Host: These Are Talking Points Kamala Harris And Her Campaign Are Feeding You

Some "strong women" = mean girls? Tulsi Gabbard Takes On Kamala | The View

Tulsi Gabbard Says Kamala Harris' Jab Was 'Pathetic' and 'Cheap Smear' | TMZ

Mueller Testimony

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EbrfiAxjY0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6CYXdspaBY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfFtq8C_1_4

LP - Lost On You [Official Video]

my-ears-could-hear-the-war-but-the-censors-wouldnt-let-me-read-it/

LP - Lost On You [Official Video]

Judith Herman, Healing the Incest Wound

Rene Descartes, Part Three of Discourse on the Method

Student Co-Leaders:

When you prepare to co-lead, send the final draft of your notes to me via google docs at least twenty-hours before class begins.

Fables of School Reform

HamletIn Our Time Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the inspiration for Shakespeare's Hamlet, the play's context and meaning, and why it has fascinated audiences from its first performance.

The Best Years Of Our Lives 1946 music and image

domed bookshelf

 , "Writing About Jews" (DEC, 1963)

TIMOTHY SNYDER, It Can Happen Here

"The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s decision to speak out against Holocaust analogies is a moral threat" JULY 12, 2019

U.S. Banks Are Terrified of Chinese Payment Apps

To understand how I have designed and planned this course, please be sure to look at

PK Feyerabend, Against MethodOutline of an Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge (1975) 

Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, "Scrips and Scribbles," MLN, Vol. 118, No. 3, German Issue (Apr., 2003), pp. 622-636.

John Law, After Method: Mess in Social Science Research Routledge, 2004

Consider everything I say as parts of the contents of a time capsule from long ago that has yet to be opened, much kess indexed and archived.

Katha Pollitt, "Roe Isn’t Going Down Without a Fight," May 2019

Commencement Speeches From Out Of Touch Celebrities 2019

Dr Van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

Judith Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence--from Domestic Abuse to Political Terror

Academic Time circa 2000: Dr. Judith Lewis Herman, Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Harvard ... joins UC Berkeley's Harry Kreisler 

Not a very good take:

The Americanization of Popular Culture Should Terrify Us All

A very good take:

Why Netflix and Amazon Algorithms Are Destroying the Movies

Gadaj?ce g?owy/Talking Heads (1980)

Alain Badiou, The True Life

SENIORS FOR STUDENTS, Richard Burt, President

Nietzsche, Friedrich. 1872 Anti-Education Harper's Magazine

Alexandre Kojeve, "Chapter 2 Summary of the First Six Chapters of the Phenomenology of Spirit" in Introduction to the Reading of Hegel 

At Berkeley (dir. Frederick Wiseman, 2013)

Philosopher Ray Monk: why I went vegan

‘If we cut out meat and dairy, we would all live longer, healthier, happier lives’

Left Behind America 9/11/2018 

Jeff Bezos’s “Montessori, Inc.” Sets Up the Ed-Tech Takeover of Pre-K

Exercise and Depression

"When you exercise, your body releases chemicals called endorphins. These endorphins interact with the receptors in your brain that reduce your perception of pain."

This Is What It’s Like to Be a Teacher in America (2018)

Close Listening 

5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Classical Music

"Teach us to care and not to care"

Ash-Wednesday
by T S Eliot

Stewart Lee on UKIP

Larry David Curb Your Enthusiasm (2017) | HBO

“Won’t You Be My Neighbor” (2018)

Look for the Helpers. --Fred Rogers

Songs which begin before they begin

The snare drum. The Letter Boxtops

Avalon Roxy Music

Peter Gabriel In Your Eyes

John McGlaughlin in Bitches Brew 

The Who - The Kids Are Alright

austerity fails.mp4

Werner Herzog talks books

Former CIA Director Admits to US Foreign Meddling, Laughs About It (2018)

ANTICIPATORY LEARNING

 

Hillary Clinton Says the ‘Future is Female’

vs.

Sorry to Bother You (dir. Boots Riley, 2018)

"The Future is Female Ejaculation" (It is against the law in Australia.)

This segment below is really worth watching in its entirety: One brave anti-war candidate gets through the gauntlet of four furious, total establishment enemy combatants. Gabbard is incredibly poised and strong, calling out the smearing of her and other leftists as it happens in real time, face to face. Bizarrely, it now appears that a woman from the military who actully thinks rationally about foreign interventions and regime changes would make a better leader than the militarized chickenhawk civilians now running the country. 

US Rep. Tulsi Gabbard on MSNBC's Morning Joe -- Feb. 6, 2019

New Episode - Episode 4: New York - Tulsi TV On the Road

 

Theodor Adorno, " Behind the Mirror" in Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life

 

Citizen Kane met Bambi : The Lost Paintings of Tyrus Wong [CONTAINS SPOILERS]

January 24

 

 

 

 

 

 

SECOND PAPER DUE by 11:59 p.m. READ THROUGH THIS WEBPAGE. READ ALL OF IT. CLOSELY. VERY CLOSELY. PLEASE NOTE: Now that you have learned from your mistakes in our discussion of your first paper, and now that you have practiced writing twice a week through your DQs, I fully expect you to be able to make an argument in your essay, write grammatical sentences, use words properly, and punctuate properly. Papers that have ungrammatical sentences, mispunctuate, or misuse words will get "D" grades. Be sure to give yourself time to revise and to proofread your paper carefully before you send it to me at[email protected]. I recommend reading your work aloud. It's a good way to see what you need to revise. You can also get help at the Writing Program. See also the Plain Style: A Guide to Written English. READ THROUGH THIS WEBPAGE. READ ALL OF IT. CLOSELY. VERY CLOSELY.

 

 

my, and irony, among others; it means being alert to allusions a work of literature makes to other works of literature.

See Cleanth Brooks, "The Heresy of Paraphrase," in The Well-Wrought Urn.

Close reading is a practice designed for literature, for texts that are extremely well-written. Literature is universal. Literature is often difficult to write. And it is often difficult to read. Not just anyone can write it. And not just anyone can read it closely. (If you do not know how to write a grammatical sentence or how to punctuate or how to use words correctly, you cannot learn how to read closely.) All writers of literature are excellent close readers.  They know humongous amounts of (big) words.

Do not ask about the author or the historical context. Do not ask speculative questions. They cannot be answered and so are not productive for discussion. Do not ask what the work tells us about some general issue today. Ask about what the work says.

Predatory Reading vs. Literary Criticism

How to Read a Book 1940 edition

How to Read a Book 1966 edition

How To Read A Book 1972 Edition

Guy J. Williams, "Harkness Learning: Principles of a Radical American Pedagogy"

Harkness table

"What we must not forget, however, is that it is in the completion of the text by the reader that these adjustments are made; and each reader will make them differently. Plurality is here not a prescription but a fact. There is so much that is blurred and tentative, incapable of decisive explanation; however we set about our reading, with a sociological or a pneumatological, a cultural or a narrative code uppermost in our minds, we must fall into division and discrepancy; the doors of communication are sometimes locked, sometimes open, and Heathcliff may be astride the threshold, opening, closing, breaking. And it is surely evident that the possibilities of interpretation increase as time goes on. The constraints of a period culture dissolve, generic presumptions which concealed gaps disappear, and we now see that the book, as James thought novels should, truly "glories in a gap," a hermeneutic gap in which the reader's imagination must operate, so that he speaks continuously in the text.

Barthes denies the charge that on his view of the reading process one can say absolutely anything one likes about the work in question; but he is actually much less interested in defining contraints that in asserting liberties.

When we see that the writer speaks more than he knows what we mean is that the text is under the absolute control of no thinking subject, or that it is not a message from one mind to another."

--Frank Kermode, "A Modern Way with the Classic"
New Literary History Vol. 5, No. 3 (Spring, 1974), pp. 415-434
; pp. 425; 432; 433

The reason literature, film, and philosophy are so great, so deeply admired yet often controversial, even despised, is that writers are free to say anything they wish they way they want to say it, fillmakers get to show images of anything they wish, they way they want to show them, and philosophers can ask philosophical questions about anything they wish whenever they want. It's called FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION. As anyone who understands anything about language knows, intention and context do matter. I find attempts to get people fired from their jobs because of something they said repellent and unseemly.

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE (Please expect adjustments to be made in the schedule from time to time; all changes will be announced both in class and on the class email listserv.)

In order to include all students in class discussion, and in order to make it easier for you to read closely and thereby improve your own writing, We will close read, read slowly the assigned text sentence by sentence or the assigned film shot by shot. Discussion co-leaders and I will call on a student at random and ask that student to read a specific sentence out loud and then to close read it. If the student is unable to read the sentence closely, the co-leaders will call on another student and ask that student to read a specific sentence out loud and then to close read it. We will continue to discuss the same sentence until a student reads it closely. We will then proceed in the same fashion with the next sentence. And so on. Due to time constraints and because close reading is slow reading, we will skip parts of the assigned text, but we will always be talking and only be talking about words, syntax, punctuation, paragraphing, and narration in the text. As we move through the text, we will be able to make more general comments about parts of it. If students have comments to add on the sentence under discussion, they may raise their hands and make them once they have been called on by the co-leaders or me.

In order to learn the names of all the students in the class, I will take roll on canvas at the beginning of class. As I state on the requirements webpage, if you are late to class, I consider you absent. If you are absent more than twice, your final grade may suffer. If you are absent four times, you fail the class.

Here is what I have written on the requirements webpage:

"Attendance means not only being in class, but includes completing the assigned work for each class by the time it is due and arriving to class on time. (If you arrive late to class or if you don't do the discussion questions, you are counted as absent.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nothing below is required for this course: