Re: [Frameworks] new critical studies film course in car culture
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
Re: [Frameworks] just to clarify and new question about traveltrailers...
I'm drawing a blank on a Hollywood film made in the last decade that has a harrowing scene centered on a trailer in semi-rural Arizona (or Texas?), where a guy has a shotgun and someone (a woman, I think) has been buried alive in a coffin, trying to scratch her way out. Maybe I'm conflating two different films, but I remember being struck by the comparison of trailer and coffin. -Original Message- From: Robert Harris Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2012 9:45 AM To: Experimental Film Discussion List Subject: Re: [Frameworks] just to clarify and new question about traveltrailers... re: Mobil Homes, * Freaks and, since it's hard call back the dogs once you've loosed 'em ….around cars * the backseat long takes in Gun Crazy * Repo Man * and my own Suite of Summer Evenings On Dec 15, 2012, at 11:22 AM, Bryan Konefsky wrote: Hi all, just to clarify - I was kidding when I suggested that I needed more film titles related to the representation of the auto in cinema... your ongoing list if fantastic and quite inspiring - thanks everyone... I was serious about suggestions for readings though... Also, second question - and this is related to the auto question but slightly different - I am putting together a lecture (not a course) about the representation of travel trailers in cinema - Here, I am thinking specifically of the moral panic of mobility as expressed explicitly by the FBI around the popularity of motor courts and trailer parks (one of you described moral panic in my last auto question as related to mobile bedrooms - thanks for that). Some films/TV shows that I currently have include - well - the obvious Lucille Ball vehicle The Long, Long Trailer, the first TV episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents (where a couple living in a trailer park is driven to murder), and an educational film titled We Live In A Trailer. Any memorable scenes from films or films themselves that deal with mobile homes and/or travel trailers? Know that I have some great texts on the subject including: The Making of American Resorts On Hobos and Homelessness Gypsying After 40 Galloping Bungalows Wheel Estate Americans on the Road Travels With Charlie OK, thanks EVERYONE for your last input about autos... let's see what happens with this inquiry! best, bk 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 ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks - No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2012.0.2221 / Virus Database: 2634/5462 - Release Date: 12/15/12 ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
Re: [Frameworks] new critical studies film course in car culture
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.comwrote: 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 ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
Re: [Frameworks] new critical studies film course in car culture
Good morning all. Here is a few that might qualify (sorry for any repeats): Crash (1996 - David Cronenberg)Christine (1983 - John Carpenter)Gone in Sixty Seconds (1974 - H. B. Halicki)Gone in Sixty Seconds (2000 - Remake - Dominic Sena)Trucks (1997 - TV Movie - Chris Thomson)Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986 - John Hughes)Grease (1978 - Randal Kleiser)Viper (1993-1994 and 1996-1999 - TV Series - Creators: Danny Bilson,and Paul De Meo)Knight Rider (1982-1986 - TV Series - Creator: Glen A. Larson) Virtually any James Bond film These might qualify, but they border more on car chase/action films/road films: Ronin (1998 - Jon Frankenheimer)Bullitt (1968 - Peter Yates)The Italian Job (1969 - Peter Collinson)Death Race 2000 (1975 - Paul Bartel)Two-Lane Blacktop (1971 - Monte Hellman)Duel (1971 - Steven Spielberg) Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981 - George Miller) Any of the Fast and the Furious films. All supplementary info was confirmed with IMDB so it should be accurate. As for reading, there is one title I can confirm is solid from what I have read of it: The Automobile in American History and Culture: A Reference Guide (Michael Berger) You can find it here: http://www.amazon.com/Automobile-American-History-Culture-Reference/dp/0313245584/ref=sr_1_1?s=booksie=UTF8qid=1355595109sr=1-1keywords=michael+l.+berger Brian, an interesting segment of of your overview might be to explore the objectification of women in cinema when compared with nearly every car commercial ever made. There is an interesting episode of AMC's Mad Men in which there is a pitch for the Jaguar advertising campaign that explores the birth of this concept in television commercial advertising. The scene actually jumps back and forth between the pitch and one of the main characters Joan played masterfully by Christina Hendricks. She actually has agreed to get her firm the advertising contract by sleeping with a Jaguar executive. The scene is quite tragic because the partners in her firm have actually considered letting her go through with it. The only one who actually comes to tell her not to, comes too late. A small moment, but it covers quite a bit with regards to the automobile, sex, sexism, and greed. You can find it here:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yWzlUGQWWM Hope this helps! Have a great holiday.Rory BrosiusDate: Sat, 15 Dec 2012 08:47:04 -0700 From: bkonef...@gmail.com To: frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com Subject: Re: [Frameworks] new critical studies film course in car culture 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 DvorchakAS220 Communications directorda...@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 ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
Re: [Frameworks] new critical studies film course in car culture
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Re: [Frameworks] new critical studies film course in car culture
My all-time favorite car movie is Fellini's Toby Dammit http://youtu.be/loLRanmHTEY?t=4m34s (at the Hammer Museum someone had paired it brilliantly with Carl Dreyer's They Caught the Ferry—a motorcycle movie [does that count?]) Tony Lowe and Akiva Saunders' Arabian Drift is a compilation of Middle Eastern/Saudi car culture, which maybe unexpectedly is closely tied to homoerotic desire (this is not made explicit here but could be supplemented with readings) http://astral-projects.com/arabiandrift.html Moonshine movies dig into the ideology of car culture: Thunder Road Moonrunners http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frYqIfzhKfc The Last American Hero There are some great car commercials: Alexandre Alexeieff's Renault commercial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHWsiyKfeZs (the quality here is poor, but there's a good PAL dvd) This 1963 German VW commercial is like a quirky little structural film: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5AVnrRcXqM There's not only Cronenberg's Crash, but Ballard made his own semi-adaptation of it for the BBC in 1971: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HT2eECKvdTc W.C. Fields' Road Hogs from If I Had a Million is pretty stellar http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDSW-ybm0mg And what about Drive? Ryan Gosling is a dreamboat. The Transporter movies would make an interesting contribution, particularly because they are a commercial feature film franchise that emerged out of a BMW sponsored short film series. Good luck! Jon On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 1:01 PM, frameworks-requ...@jonasmekasfilms.comwrote: -- Forwarded message -- From: Bryan Konefsky bkonef...@gmail.com To: frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com Cc: Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2012 12:57:24 -0700 Subject: [Frameworks] new critical studies film course in car culture 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, -- Bryan Konefsky director, Experiments in Cinema el presidente, Basement Films lecturer, Dept of Cinematic Arts UNM visiting lecturer, UCSC board of advisors, Ann Arbor Film Festival -- *SCREEN SLATE http://www.screenslate.com/ / PUBLISHER/EDITOR / INDEPENDENT, REPERTORY GALLERY SCREENING LISTINGS* *330.265.3875 / jon.dierin...@gmail.com / follow screen slate on facebookhttp://www.facebook.com/screenslate twitter http://twitter.com/#!/screenslate* ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
[Frameworks] This week [December 15 - 23, 2012] in avant garde cinema
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Re: [Frameworks] just to clarify and new question about travel trailers...
There's a new feature in the UK called Sightseers, by Paul Wheatly, that would fit on the travel trailers list. One for the auto list (albeit a bit subtle), would be Sofia Coppola's film, Somewhere. Herb Bryan Konefsky bkonef...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, just to clarify - I was kidding when I suggested that I needed more film titles related to the representation of the auto in cinema... your ongoing list if fantastic and quite inspiring - thanks everyone... I was serious about suggestions for readings though... Also, second question - and this is related to the auto question but slightly different - I am putting together a lecture (not a course) about the representation of travel trailers in cinema - Here, I am thinking specifically of the moral panic of mobility as expressed explicitly by the FBI around the popularity of motor courts and trailer parks (one of you described moral panic in my last auto question as related to mobile bedrooms - thanks for that). Some films/TV shows that I currently have include - well - the obvious Lucille Ball vehicle The Long, Long Trailer, the first TV episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents (where a couple living in a trailer park is driven to murder), and an educational film titled We Live In A Trailer. Any memorable scenes from films or films themselves that deal with mobile homes and/or travel trailers? Know that I have some great texts on the subject including: The Making of American Resorts On Hobos and Homelessness Gypsying After 40 Galloping Bungalows Wheel Estate Americans on the Road Travels With Charlie OK, thanks EVERYONE for your last input about autos... let's see what happens with this inquiry! best, bk 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 ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
Re: [Frameworks] new critical studies film course in car culture
One of the best animation movie about car by Bruno Bozzetto Il signor Rossi compra l'automobile Mr Rossi buy a car 1966 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQksyniUqPo 2012/12/15 Jack j...@jacktext.net The book lost highways: the illustrated history of the road movie that I co-edited has some essays that may be of interest. Jack Sent from my iPhone On 16/12/2012, at 2:47 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 ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
Re: [Frameworks] new critical studies film course in car culture
for Mobile Homes: Albert Brooks, LOST IN AMERICA, 1985 if we're going to do motorcycles too: wow, that would be a lot. How about riding lawnmowers? But the car film really is a variant on the journey motif, right? So we'd we have to start, narratively, with the OT book of Exodus, The Odyssey, the Crusades, etc. sea voyages, and wagon trains west, etc. etc. through space travel. For the US, at least, the car, the open road, and such are part of a myth of westward expansion, the Turner Thesis, etc. Might be good to figure out what is the master trope here, and then what the car specifically contributes to it. Chuck Kleinhans ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
Re: [Frameworks] new critical studies film course in car culture
Most of the suggestions are. But I think what is interesting about those very early car films, including the Hepworth film also mentioned, is that the films are confronting the social anxieties over this new technology, as it happens. As such, it's a visual representation of one element of the industrial revolution, and the general suspicion of it, its dangers, and so forth. Contrast that with the industrial films of cars coming of the Ford factory line in the late teens and 1920s. Or, another suggestion for a film (or two): A Trip Down Market Street (1905 and 1906 versions). Just see how there is still no universal socialization for the separation of cars, horse-drawn carriages, and people. On 12/15/12 6:13 PM, Chuck Kleinhans chuck...@northwestern.edu wrote: for Mobile Homes: Albert Brooks, LOST IN AMERICA, 1985 if we're going to do motorcycles too: wow, that would be a lot. How about riding lawnmowers? But the car film really is a variant on the journey motif, right? So we'd we have to start, narratively, with the OT book of Exodus, The Odyssey, the Crusades, etc. sea voyages, and wagon trains west, etc. etc. through space travel. For the US, at least, the car, the open road, and such are part of a myth of westward expansion, the Turner Thesis, etc. Might be good to figure out what is the master trope here, and then what the car specifically contributes to it. Chuck Kleinhans ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listi nfo/frameworks ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
