Many thanks to all of you, both on-list and off, who were 
kind enough to send me suggestions for the course I'm 
writing on photography and cinema. Even though this is my 
own favourite subject, it's still very hard to programme 
for. I've put a fairly final selection below, for the eight 
week screening/reading programme, if anyone's interested. 
It's just a taster of the course outline, there's a whole 
bunch of secondary reading that will make it into the 
recommended reading list, including the recent Garrett 
Stewart book. (And never fear, I'm going to try to get 
some Deleuze in there too) Some suggested films and 
readings I already had in mind, but otherwise, you'll know 
which ones you suggested. 

If anyone's still got any ideas for reading and/or films, 
keep 'em comin'.

Also, if this subject interests anyone, you might like to 
know about an email list for interdisciplinary discussion 
of cinema and photography, that I moderate. You can 
find details at:

http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists/cinephoto

I'll stop plugging it now, lest this moderator takes 
offence.

Thanks again.

Damian




Photography in/and Cinema course.

Week One

Screening: BlowUp 
Reading: Peter Wollen, 'Fire and Ice', in Other than 
itself: writing photography, ed. by John X. Berger, & 
Olivier Richon, (Manchester: Cornerhouse, 1989).

Week Two
Screening: Smoke 
Reading: André Bazin, 'The Ontology of Photographic Image', 
in What is Cinema, (California: University of California 
Press, 1967). Rpt. in Classic Essays on Photography, 3rd 
edn. ed. by Alan Trachtenberg, (Connetticut: Leete's 
Island, 1980), pp. 237-244.

Week Three

Screening: A Zed and Two Noughts  
Reading: Christian Metz, 'Photography and Fetish', in 
October 34, (Fall 1985), pp. 81-91. Secondary Reading:
Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida (La Chambre Claire) Part II, 
trans. by Richard Howard, (London: Vintage, 1982), pp. 
63-119.


Week Four
Screening: Proof
Reading: E. H. Gombrich, "Standards of Truth: The Arrested 
Image and the Moving Eye", Critical Inquiry, (Winter, 
1980), pp. 237-273.


Week Five
Screening: In The Street 
           kids 
Reading: Max Kozloff, 'A Way of Seeing and the Act of 
Touching: Helen Levitt's Photographs of the Forties', in 
The Privileged Eye: Essays on Photography, (Alberquerque: 
University of New Mexico Press, 1987), 2nd edn. (1988), pp. 
29-42. and Amy Taubin, "Chilling and Very Hot", Sight and 
Sound, Vol. 5, No. 11, (November 1996), pp. 16-19.


Week Six
Screening: Funny Face 
Reading: Peter Krämer, "'A Cutie With More Than Beauty': 
Audrey Hepburn, the Hollywood Musical and Funny Face", in 
Musicals: Hollywood and Beyond, ed. by Bill Marshall & 
Robynn Stilwell, (London: Intellect, 2000), pp. 62-69.


Week Seven
Screening: Office Killer
Reading: Judith Williamson, "A Piece of the Action", in 
Consuming Passions, (London: Marion Boyars, 1986).


Week Eight
Screening: La Jetée, (Fr. d. ChrisMarker, 1964, 30 mins.) 
Reading: Raymond Bellour, 'The Film Stilled', Camera 
Obscura 24, (1991), pp. 98-123.


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