Hi Bryan, Autopia: Cars and Culture, eds. Peter Wollen and Joe Kerr is a good place to look. There are at least one or two essays specifically and on cars and cinema. -Amy
On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 10:47 AM, Bryan Konefsky <bkonef...@gmail.com>wrote: > Thanks everyone for your input... still hoping to get a few more film > ideas AND suggestions on readings. > best, > bryan konefsky > > > On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 2:49 PM, David Dvorchak <da...@as220.org> wrote: > >> Laurel and Hardy is "Two Tars" >> >> >> On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 4:47 PM, Chuck Kleinhans < >> chuck...@northwestern.edu> wrote: >> >>> The about to open, On The Road, and an almost endless stream of road >>> movies in Hollywood. >>> >>> There's a famous Laurel and Hardy film (whose name I forget at the >>> moment) which includes tearing a car apart in a dispute. >>> >>> Not about film, per se, but in the 1920s the expansion of relatively >>> inexpensive autos created a certain moral panic around cars as mobile >>> bedrooms for young people who could escape being chaperoned. >>> >>> Chuck Kleinhans >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Dec 14, 2012, at 11:57 AM, Bryan Konefsky wrote: >>> >>> > >>> > Hello Frameworkers - I am in the early moments of developing a >>> critical studies course that looks at different ways the automobile has >>> been imagined in cinema. To this end I'd love to hear from ya'll with >>> titles of films that you think might be useful to explore/expand this idea >>> and readings that might also dovetail themes that might be explored. >>> > >>> > Do know that my pal Antoni Pinent recently turned me on to a great >>> text titled Car Fetish. >>> > >>> > OK, let's hear what ya got! >>> > best, >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> FrameWorks mailing list >>> FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com >>> https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Dave Dvorchak >> AS220 Communications Director >> da...@as220.org >> (401) 831-9327 x121 >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> FrameWorks mailing list >> FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com >> https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks >> >> > > > -- > Bryan Konefsky > director, Experiments in Cinema > presidente, Basement Films > lecturer, Dept of Cinematic Arts UNM > visiting lecturer, UCSC > board of advisors, Ann Arbor Film Festival > > _______________________________________________ > FrameWorks mailing list > FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com > https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks > >
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