Film 42M: Punk Cinema
UCSC, Spring Quarter 2008.
Class Number: 64612
A Student Directed Seminar, Taught by Lewis Ingham
Film Dept. Box #149. Office hours by Appt.
Mondays and Wednesdays 6pm-8pm.
If you want to get in touch with me, please email me at lewisingham@mac.com.
To further contact me and people in the class, you can go to the class Facebook.com group.
Here is a word file of the class syllabus.
Class Description:
Focuses on recent avant-garde film movements and
their relation to punk philosophy and aesthetics. Also discusses punk
cinema's influences from Soviet montage to punksploitation.
Workload:
Your average amount of reading, although about super
interesting stuff. As far as essays go, there will be two 1 page
reflections, a 3-5 page essay (analyzing the influences of punk cinema)
and a 6-8 page essay on a topic of your choice that relates to the
class (and is approved by me).
News:
4/4/08
- Class has begun! Everyone who should be in is in. The reader is
available in its entirety on WebCT. I've posted links to the Joan of
Arc article and the review of Desparate Teenage Lovedolls. I've also posted a copy of the first essay assignment.
3/10/08 - Added Vivenne Westwood's open t-shirt to Derek Jarman. Sent the reader in to the bookstore to get printed.
3/9/08 - Updated the syllabus, add a links to the Situationist Manifesto and the Dogma 95 Vow of chastity.
2/16/08 - The website is up and running, I added a bunch of stuff to the Facebook group. The syllabus is online now too!
Texts and Images:
In
this section I will post links to PDFs of some of the texts for the
class and images as well. I'm not going to post everything from the reader or textbooks on
here, but I will post some extra recommended reading and some
interesting images. Also if there is any stuff you think I may have
missed, please talk to me and I can uploaded it here.
Links:
In this section I will post links to stuff related to the course.
