Hi,
I would try with "Cinema Paradiso". It touches many
global topics, such as nostalgia, modernisation, love,
adulthood, ....
Have a look at "Blade Runner" as well. Story and
especially style refer to globalisation and
modernisation.
Best of luck,
Catalin
--- Robert Keser <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Angelica Fenner wrote:
>
> > I am trying to map out possibilities for an
> undergraduate film course with
> > the tentative title: "Global Vision: The World in
> the Cinema" which would
> > explore a number of films that purport to somehow
> be 'about the world' in a
> > synthesizing sort of way. To some extent, these
> are films that seek to cast
> > a sort of omniscient eye upon global events,
> hereby producing
> > generalizations or seeking commonalities between
> cultures in relation to
> > modernization and (ultimately) globalization. My
> ambition would be to
> > problematize this type of global vision and
> situate it in relationshp to
> > discourses of ethnography, cosompolitanism, and
> globalization. A few
> > examples would be Jim Jarmusch "Night on Earth,"
> various films by Godfrey
> > Reggio, Wim Wenders, "Until the End of the World,"
> and Chris Marker's Sans
> > Soleil. Through my departmental affiliation I am
> particularly tasked to give
> > attention to European cinemas, especially
> German/French/Italian. Does anyone
> > have suggestions for other films that would fall
> under this specialized
> > category of Global Vision??
> >
> > Thank you in advance for any random epiphanies!
> Angelica Fenner
>
> I can't promise any epiphanies, random or otherwise,
> but it seems
> to me that Angelopoulos's 'Ulysses' Gaze'and
> Amelio's 'Lamerica'
> and perhaps Peter Greenway's 'The Pillow Book' might
> fit your bill.
> Of course, 'Hiroshima mon Amour' does in a sense
> triangulate France,
> Japan, and the U.S.
>
> --Robert Keser
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