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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