Re: [Frameworks] new critical studies film course in car culture
For Hollywood cinema at its worst, it might be interesting to look at recent blockbusters such as the Transformers series or recent James Bond 007 films that have inked product placement sponsorship deals with car companies, essentially turning the films into 2 hour long car commercials. There was also the short-lived BMW Films series that tabbed some respected directors to make short films that, you guessed it, somehow prominently feature a BMW. And of course the Pixar film Cars. I don't suggest these as good films, but rather interesting examples of how car culture, society, and cinema have recently interacted. -Matt On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 2:57 PM, Bryan Konefsky bkonef...@gmail.com 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, -- 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 ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks -- --- www.rodeofilmco.com --- ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
Re: [Frameworks] new critical studies film course in car culture
Some titles you probably already know: Len Lye made 'Rhythm', about the construction of a car 'Christine' (based on Stephen Kings novel) There's of course the fast and furious series, the Blues Brothers movies which seem to focus especially on police-car crashes, the gone in 60 seconds movies (old and new), Bullit, Days of Thunder,... On 14 Jan 2013, at 19:38, matt's frameworks address wrote: For Hollywood cinema at its worst, it might be interesting to look at recent blockbusters such as the Transformers series or recent James Bond 007 films that have inked product placement sponsorship deals with car companies, essentially turning the films into 2 hour long car commercials. There was also the short-lived BMW Films series that tabbed some respected directors to make short films that, you guessed it, somehow prominently feature a BMW. And of course the Pixar film Cars. I don't suggest these as good films, but rather interesting examples of how car culture, society, and cinema have recently interacted. -Matt On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 2:57 PM, Bryan Konefsky bkonef...@gmail.com 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, -- 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 ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks -- --- www.rodeofilmco.com --- ___ 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
And 'Crash' naturally, by Cronenberg, based on G.J. Ballard's novel. On 14 Jan 2013, at 19:53, Brecht Debackere wrote: Some titles you probably already know: Len Lye made 'Rhythm', about the construction of a car 'Christine' (based on Stephen Kings novel) There's of course the fast and furious series, the Blues Brothers movies which seem to focus especially on police-car crashes, the gone in 60 seconds movies (old and new), Bullit, Days of Thunder,... On 14 Jan 2013, at 19:38, matt's frameworks address wrote: For Hollywood cinema at its worst, it might be interesting to look at recent blockbusters such as the Transformers series or recent James Bond 007 films that have inked product placement sponsorship deals with car companies, essentially turning the films into 2 hour long car commercials. There was also the short-lived BMW Films series that tabbed some respected directors to make short films that, you guessed it, somehow prominently feature a BMW. And of course the Pixar film Cars. I don't suggest these as good films, but rather interesting examples of how car culture, society, and cinema have recently interacted. -Matt On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 2:57 PM, Bryan Konefsky bkonef...@gmail.com 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, -- 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 ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks -- --- www.rodeofilmco.com --- ___ 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
'Vanishing Point': http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067927/ 'Point Blank' has some good crunching scenes: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062138/ Loath to mention it, but Cremaster 3 by Matthew Barney. Nicky. On 14 Jan 2013, at 18:55, Brecht Debackere wrote: And 'Crash' naturally, by Cronenberg, based on G.J. Ballard's novel. On 14 Jan 2013, at 19:53, Brecht Debackere wrote: Some titles you probably already know: Len Lye made 'Rhythm', about the construction of a car 'Christine' (based on Stephen Kings novel) There's of course the fast and furious series, the Blues Brothers movies which seem to focus especially on police-car crashes, the gone in 60 seconds movies (old and new), Bullit, Days of Thunder,... On 14 Jan 2013, at 19:38, matt's frameworks address wrote: For Hollywood cinema at its worst, it might be interesting to look at recent blockbusters such as the Transformers series or recent James Bond 007 films that have inked product placement sponsorship deals with car companies, essentially turning the films into 2 hour long car commercials. There was also the short-lived BMW Films series that tabbed some respected directors to make short films that, you guessed it, somehow prominently feature a BMW. And of course the Pixar film Cars. I don't suggest these as good films, but rather interesting examples of how car culture, society, and cinema have recently interacted. -Matt On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 2:57 PM, Bryan Konefsky bkonef...@gmail.com 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, -- 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 ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks -- --- www.rodeofilmco.com --- ___ 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 ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
Re: [Frameworks] new critical studies film course in car culture
More: Kenneth Anger: Kustom Kar Kommandos. Ernie Gehr: Shift. The French Connection. Steven Spielberg: Duel. Nicky. On 14 Jan 2013, at 20:16, Nicholas Hamlyn wrote: 'Vanishing Point': http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067927/ 'Point Blank' has some good crunching scenes: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062138/ Loath to mention it, but Cremaster 3 by Matthew Barney. Nicky. On 14 Jan 2013, at 18:55, Brecht Debackere wrote: And 'Crash' naturally, by Cronenberg, based on G.J. Ballard's novel. On 14 Jan 2013, at 19:53, Brecht Debackere wrote: Some titles you probably already know: Len Lye made 'Rhythm', about the construction of a car 'Christine' (based on Stephen Kings novel) There's of course the fast and furious series, the Blues Brothers movies which seem to focus especially on police-car crashes, the gone in 60 seconds movies (old and new), Bullit, Days of Thunder,... On 14 Jan 2013, at 19:38, matt's frameworks address wrote: For Hollywood cinema at its worst, it might be interesting to look at recent blockbusters such as the Transformers series or recent James Bond 007 films that have inked product placement sponsorship deals with car companies, essentially turning the films into 2 hour long car commercials. There was also the short-lived BMW Films series that tabbed some respected directors to make short films that, you guessed it, somehow prominently feature a BMW. And of course the Pixar film Cars. I don't suggest these as good films, but rather interesting examples of how car culture, society, and cinema have recently interacted. -Matt On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 2:57 PM, Bryan Konefsky bkonef...@gmail.com 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, -- 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 ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks -- --- www.rodeofilmco.com --- ___ 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 ___ 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
Chevelle, and Century, by Kevin Jerome Everson also his film Cinnamon, about a young female drag racer... On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 4:27 PM, Nicholas Hamlyn nicky.ham...@talktalk.netwrote: More: Kenneth Anger: Kustom Kar Kommandos. Ernie Gehr: Shift. The French Connection. Steven Spielberg: Duel. Nicky. On 14 Jan 2013, at 20:16, Nicholas Hamlyn wrote: 'Vanishing Point': http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067927/ 'Point Blank' has some good crunching scenes: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062138/ Loath to mention it, but Cremaster 3 by Matthew Barney. Nicky. On 14 Jan 2013, at 18:55, Brecht Debackere wrote: And 'Crash' naturally, by Cronenberg, based on G.J. Ballard's novel. On 14 Jan 2013, at 19:53, Brecht Debackere wrote: Some titles you probably already know: Len Lye made 'Rhythm', about the construction of a car 'Christine' (based on Stephen Kings novel) There's of course the fast and furious series, the Blues Brothers movies which seem to focus especially on police-car crashes, the gone in 60 seconds movies (old and new), Bullit, Days of Thunder,... On 14 Jan 2013, at 19:38, matt's frameworks address wrote: For Hollywood cinema at its worst, it might be interesting to look at recent blockbusters such as the Transformers series or recent James Bond 007 films that have inked product placement sponsorship deals with car companies, essentially turning the films into 2 hour long car commercials. There was also the short-lived BMW Films series that tabbed some respected directors to make short films that, you guessed it, somehow prominently feature a BMW. And of course the Pixar film Cars. I don't suggest these as good films, but rather interesting examples of how car culture, society, and cinema have recently interacted. -Matt On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 2:57 PM, Bryan Konefsky bkonef...@gmail.comwrote: 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 ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks -- --- www.rodeofilmco.com --- ___ 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 ___ 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
And his 'The Pritchard'. On 14 Jan 2013, at 21:46, Kathryn MacKay wrote: Chevelle, and Century, by Kevin Jerome Everson also his film Cinnamon, about a young female drag racer... On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 4:27 PM, Nicholas Hamlyn nicky.ham...@talktalk.net wrote: More: Kenneth Anger: Kustom Kar Kommandos. Ernie Gehr: Shift. The French Connection. Steven Spielberg: Duel. Nicky. On 14 Jan 2013, at 20:16, Nicholas Hamlyn wrote: 'Vanishing Point': http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067927/ 'Point Blank' has some good crunching scenes: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062138/ Loath to mention it, but Cremaster 3 by Matthew Barney. Nicky. On 14 Jan 2013, at 18:55, Brecht Debackere wrote: And 'Crash' naturally, by Cronenberg, based on G.J. Ballard's novel. On 14 Jan 2013, at 19:53, Brecht Debackere wrote: Some titles you probably already know: Len Lye made 'Rhythm', about the construction of a car 'Christine' (based on Stephen Kings novel) There's of course the fast and furious series, the Blues Brothers movies which seem to focus especially on police-car crashes, the gone in 60 seconds movies (old and new), Bullit, Days of Thunder,... On 14 Jan 2013, at 19:38, matt's frameworks address wrote: For Hollywood cinema at its worst, it might be interesting to look at recent blockbusters such as the Transformers series or recent James Bond 007 films that have inked product placement sponsorship deals with car companies, essentially turning the films into 2 hour long car commercials. There was also the short-lived BMW Films series that tabbed some respected directors to make short films that, you guessed it, somehow prominently feature a BMW. And of course the Pixar film Cars. I don't suggest these as good films, but rather interesting examples of how car culture, society, and cinema have recently interacted. -Matt On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 2:57 PM, Bryan Konefsky bkonef...@gmail.com 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, -- 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 ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks -- --- www.rodeofilmco.com --- ___ 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 ___ 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 ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
Re: [Frameworks] new critical studies film course in car culture
Those are the films I was thinking of: Explosion of a Motor Car also 1900 How It Feels To Be Run Over (1900) On 12/19/12 10:10 AM, Gawthrop, Rob rob.gawth...@falmouth.ac.uk wrote: And his Explosion of a Motor Car also 1900 Rob On 15/12/2012 05:18, Ryder White ryder.wh...@gmail.com wrote: How about How It Feels To Be Run Over (1900) by the Hepworth Manufacturing Co? Potentially the earliest film to feature an automobile (but I'm not putting that on the record). RW ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
Re: [Frameworks] new critical studies film course in car culture
An Interesting Story 1905 George Albert Smith On 19/12/2012 18:19, Adam Hyman a...@lafilmforum.org wrote: Those are the films I was thinking of: Explosion of a Motor Car also 1900 How It Feels To Be Run Over (1900) On 12/19/12 10:10 AM, Gawthrop, Rob rob.gawth...@falmouth.ac.uk wrote: And his Explosion of a Motor Car also 1900 Rob On 15/12/2012 05:18, Ryder White ryder.wh...@gmail.com wrote: How about How It Feels To Be Run Over (1900) by the Hepworth Manufacturing Co? Potentially the earliest film to feature an automobile (but I'm not putting that on the record). RW ___ 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
Re: [Frameworks] new critical studies film course in car culture
As if you wanted any more: I believe Adam may have been talking about Buster Keaton's Three Ages where a car falls apart while he's driving it. Robert Morris - Gas Station: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASXqAFBWFgw and http://lux.org.uk/collection/works/gas-station The first hour or so of Matthew Barney's Cremaster 3 (widely pirated online) features several Ford Mustangs destroying a Model-T for an extended period of time. Also worthy of mention is a lesser known artist book by Ed Ruscha called Royal Road Test involving a forensic photographic construction of the effects of throwing a type writer out of a fast moving car. On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 8:21 PM, Bryan Konefsky bkonef...@gmail.com wrote: Holy Canoli - I can't believe the response to my auto-inquiry! Thanks everyone for the suggestions - can't wait to dive into this new course! best to everyone. bryan konefsky On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 8:03 PM, Chuck Kleinhans chuck...@northwestern.edu wrote: Late additions: the new cult mumblecore film BELLFLOWER Paul Schrader's 1978 film about auto workers: BLUE COLLAR Chuck Kleinhans ___ 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 -- Eli Horwatt York University, Toronto Ph.D. Student - Cinema Media Studies ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
Re: [Frameworks] new critical studies film course in car culture
Anyone mention Len Lye's RHYTHM yet? -a On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 5:21 PM, Bryan Konefsky bkonef...@gmail.com wrote: Holy Canoli - I can't believe the response to my auto-inquiry! Thanks everyone for the suggestions - can't wait to dive into this new course! best to everyone. bryan konefsky On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 8:03 PM, Chuck Kleinhans chuck...@northwestern.edu wrote: Late additions: the new cult mumblecore film BELLFLOWER Paul Schrader's 1978 film about auto workers: BLUE COLLAR Chuck Kleinhans ___ 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 -- Amy Basen California Institute of the Arts Film Services Manager 24700 McBean Parkway Valencia, CA 91355 661-253-7886 ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
Re: [Frameworks] new critical studies film course in car culture
To all of these great suggestions for Bryan, I'd like to add *The Conformist *, which uses a car trip as a central trope. Best, CC On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 5:32 PM, franco base frenk.ca...@gmail.com wrote: 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 -- Caryn Cline Filmmaker and Teacher New York City and Seattle, WA vimeo.com/carynyc ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
Re: [Frameworks] new critical studies film course in car culture
Much of the first half of Psycho takes place in Janet Leigh's car. She also buys a used car in this film, in an agitated state. The opening nightmare sequence of Fellini's 8 1/2 features Mastroianni trapped in his car, in a traffic jam. This reminds me of REM's video for Everybody Hurts, also featuring a traffic jam. Buster Keaton's driverless car in Sherlock Jr. Len Lye's Rhythm shows a car being constructed in one minute. Matthew Barney's Cremaster series: #2 = Gary Gilmore murder sequence at a gas station - the interior space of the car is extended as a portal #3 = extended demolition derby in lobby of Chrysler building #4 consists of a long car race around the perimeter of the Isle of Man Barney's De Lama Lamina features a moving installation on a trio eletrico float during Carnaval in Rio. The mechanics of the truck carrying the float are heavily involved in the installation. Charlemagne Palestine has a video piece where he rides a motorcycle around an island (Island Song?) over and over, singing to himself. Best, Andy Ditzler On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 2:57 PM, Bryan Konefsky bkonef...@gmail.com 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, -- 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 ___ 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
Chen - I was going to suggest these two precisely - we have similar taste I guess! On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 7:54 PM, חן שינברג chen...@netvision.net.il wrote: Kustom Kar Kommandos by Kenneth Anger .1965 Weekend by Jean Luc Godard. 1967 Chen S נשלח מה-iPhone שלי ב-14 בדצמ 2012, בשעה 19:57, Bryan Konefsky bkonef...@gmail.com כתב/ה: 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 ___ 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
I guess so :-) two great films! Chen _ From: frameworks-boun...@jonasmekasfilms.com [mailto:frameworks-boun...@jonasmekasfilms.com] On Behalf Of r e Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2012 12:00 AM To: Experimental Film Discussion List Subject: Re: [Frameworks] new critical studies film course in car culture Chen - I was going to suggest these two precisely - we have similar taste I guess! On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 7:54 PM, חן שינברג chen...@netvision.net.il wrote: Kustom Kar Kommandos by Kenneth Anger .1965 Weekend by Jean Luc Godard. 1967 Chen S נשלח מה-iPhone שלי ב-14 בדצמ 2012, בשעה 19:57, Bryan Konefsky bkonef...@gmail.com כתב/ה: 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 ___ 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
Kiarostami flicks? Like, a whole bunch of them, with a good chunk of scenes taking place while driving. Taste of Cherry, etc... Not an imagining perhaps, but a social / cinematic space. On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 4:21 PM, Chen Sheinberg chen...@netvision.net.ilwrote: I guess so J two great films! Chen ** ** -- *From:* frameworks-boun...@jonasmekasfilms.com [mailto: frameworks-boun...@jonasmekasfilms.com] *On Behalf Of *r e *Sent:* Tuesday, December 18, 2012 12:00 AM *To:* Experimental Film Discussion List *Subject:* Re: [Frameworks] new critical studies film course in car culture ** ** Chen - I was going to suggest these two precisely - we have similar taste I guess! ** ** On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 7:54 PM, חן שינברג chen...@netvision.net.il wrote: Kustom Kar Kommandos by Kenneth Anger .1965 ** ** Weekend by Jean Luc Godard. 1967 ** ** ** ** Chen S ** ** נשלח מה-iPhone שלי ב-14 בדצמ 2012, בשעה 19:57, Bryan Konefsky bkonef...@gmail.com כתב/ה:*** * 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 ___ 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 -- ekremserdar.info austin, tx ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
Re: [Frameworks] new critical studies film course in car culture
How about La Grande Bouffe, in which Marcello Mastroianni freezes to death in his sports car, maybe a Bugatti?, Nicky. On 17 Dec 2012, at 21:57, Caryn Cline wrote: To all of these great suggestions for Bryan, I'd like to add The Conformist, which uses a car trip as a central trope. Best, CC On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 5:32 PM, franco base frenk.ca...@gmail.com wrote: 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 -- Caryn Cline Filmmaker and Teacher New York City and Seattle, WA vimeo.com/carynyc ___ 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
Two for the road. Sent from my iPod On Dec 15, 2012, at 3:58 PM, Jack j...@jacktext.net wrote: 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
How about the french mainstream comedy “Le Corniaud”, from Gérard Oury with Bourvil and Louis de Funès, in which a cadillac is transformed to hide gold an diamants. Best. A.C. From: Nicholas Hamlyn Sent: Monday, December 17, 2012 11:36 PM To: Experimental Film Discussion List Subject: Re: [Frameworks] new critical studies film course in car culture How about La Grande Bouffe, in which Marcello Mastroianni freezes to death in his sports car, maybe a Bugatti?, Nicky. On 17 Dec 2012, at 21:57, Caryn Cline wrote: To all of these great suggestions for Bryan, I'd like to add The Conformist, which uses a car trip as a central trope. Best, CC On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 5:32 PM, franco base frenk.ca...@gmail.com wrote: 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 -- Caryn Cline Filmmaker and Teacher New York City and Seattle, WA vimeo.com/carynyc ___ 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
Holy Canoli - I can't believe the response to my auto-inquiry! Thanks everyone for the suggestions - can't wait to dive into this new course! best to everyone. bryan konefsky On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 8:03 PM, Chuck Kleinhans chuck...@northwestern.eduwrote: Late additions: the new cult mumblecore film BELLFLOWER Paul Schrader's 1978 film about auto workers: BLUE COLLAR Chuck Kleinhans ___ 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] new critical studies film course in car culture
There is an auto-inquisition of sorts in John Carpenter's original 1976 Assault On Precinct 13 with a murderous episode at an ice cream truck as catalyst. Terrific moments of terror are triggered when cars are simply pushed from behind across a deserted parking lot. Otherwise there is Lemmy Caution's Ford Galaxie 500 (Mustang) standing in as a spaceship in Godard's Alphaville and then too the Syd Mead designed Spinners marvelous futuristic extrapolations of the automobile in Blade Runner. I love the unique atmosphere established in scenes with stolen cars, Louis Malle's Ascenseur pour l'echafaud (1958) and of course with the car thief Belmondo plays in Breathless. Now I am thinking too about the 1949 Buick Roadmaster Convertible driven in Rain Man, and the yellow and white VW T2 Microbus in Little Miss Sunshine. -DB On Dec 17, 2012, at 8:21 PM, Bryan Konefsky wrote: Holy Canoli - I can't believe the response to my auto-inquiry! Thanks everyone for the suggestions - can't wait to dive into this new course! best to everyone. bryan konefsky On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 8:03 PM, Chuck Kleinhans chuck...@northwestern.edu wrote: Late additions: the new cult mumblecore film BELLFLOWER Paul Schrader's 1978 film about auto workers: BLUE COLLAR Chuck Kleinhans ___ 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
Pit stop - jack hill Sex garage - fred halstead There's a performance video of Dawn Kasper crashing her truck. I don't know if there's movie documentation of this but Chris Burden's Trans-fixed could be interesting to look at... Matthew Barney's cremaster 3 is about cars, I'm sorry to say... Last scene in community action center by a.l. Steiner and a.k. Burns also, i haven't seen it yet but Holy Motors which just came out is about a guy who drives around in a limo and every time he gets out he's a different character. I've heard its weird and good. have these been mentioned? mad max christine lost highway On Dec 14, 2012, at 3:48 PM, Abigail Severance bellec...@mac.com wrote: a experimental short from late '90s called Pass (woman director, can't remember name) - played at MadCat Festival... Wanda Weekend Betzy Bromberg's A Darkness Swallowed, framed/instigated by single photo of car Killer of Sheep - country drive/flat tire sequence/mobility; picking up car engine dropping it out of back of truck A Band Apart (reading Odile while driving) Faster Pussycat Kill Kill Divingbell the Butterfly Two Lane Blacktop Drive Vagabond Bonnie Clyde Landscape Suicide - long driving shots of approaching sites of murders, with local radio playing the drive home in Fat Girl Cathy Crane's On the Line and The Girl From Marseilles La Strada Thom Andersen's Get Out of the Car Grease (!) The Rain People The Graduate Footloose *Abigail Severance * Faculty, CalArts Film Directing Program asev...@calarts.edu || 310-508-0352 On Dec 14, 2012, at 1:49 PM, David Dvorchak wrote: Laurel and Hardy is Two Tars On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 4:47 PM, Chuck Kleinhans chuck...@northwestern.eduwrote: 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 ___ 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
Late additions: the new cult mumblecore film BELLFLOWER Paul Schrader's 1978 film about auto workers: BLUE COLLAR 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
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] 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
The most essential film- Anger's Kustom Kar Kommandos. ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
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
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
Re: [Frameworks] new critical studies film course in car culture
Harrod Blank's films about car art. Su Friedrich's Rules of the Road. Some of the Jam Handy industrial films made for Chevrolet in the 1950's have been called Corporate Surrealism, the ones I know that best fit this description are Hall of Wonders and You're Ahead, Mr. X. Also the Jam Handy Chevrolet endurance test films - a pickup truck climbs Pikes Peak off-road in Meeting the Challenge (1949), and in Daring the Darien three red Corvairs cross the dense rain forest of the Darien Gap, again off road simply because there is no road. They cut their way through the jungle with machetes to prove the durability of the Corvair, absolutely ridiculous. There was a rather fascinating doc from the Middle East a few years back, The Beetle. And the O. Winston Link photograph from the back of the drive-in with plane on the screen and train passing by. The plane on screen was a trick, but as usual the train was the real deal, that was his specialty. The guy used to set up something like a quarter mile of flashes to get a shot. - Tom Durham Cinematheque From: frameworks-boun...@jonasmekasfilms.com [mailto:frameworks-boun...@jonasmekasfilms.com] On Behalf Of Bryan Konefsky Sent: Friday, December 14, 2012 2:57 PM To: frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com 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 ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
Re: [Frameworks] new critical studies film course in car culture
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
Re: [Frameworks] new critical studies film course in car culture
The LH in question is Big Business. Deconstruction indeed. -Original Message- From: frameworks-boun...@jonasmekasfilms.com [mailto:frameworks-boun...@jonasmekasfilms.com] On Behalf Of Chuck Kleinhans Sent: Friday, December 14, 2012 4:47 PM To: Experimental Film Discussion List Subject: Re: [Frameworks] new critical studies film course in car culture 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 ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
Re: [Frameworks] new critical studies film course in car culture
Laurel and Hardy is Two Tars On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 4:47 PM, Chuck Kleinhans chuck...@northwestern.eduwrote: 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
Re: [Frameworks] new critical studies film course in car culture
The two reeler where LH destroy Jim Finlayson's automobile (because he won't buy a Christmas tree) is Big Business. From: frameworks-boun...@jonasmekasfilms.com [mailto:frameworks-boun...@jonasmekasfilms.com] On Behalf Of David Dvorchak Sent: Friday, December 14, 2012 4:49 PM To: Experimental Film Discussion List Subject: Re: [Frameworks] new critical studies film course in car culture Laurel and Hardy is Two Tars On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 4:47 PM, Chuck Kleinhans chuck...@northwestern.edumailto: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.commailto:FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks -- Dave Dvorchak AS220 Communications Director da...@as220.orgmailto:da...@as220.org (401) 831-9327 x121 ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
Re: [Frameworks] new critical studies film course in car culture
There¹s very early silent, totally blanking on it right now but one of you will know, which a man and car blowing up, and the man is in pieces and gets reassembled something like that. Pretty vague, but at the same time, I¹m sure someone will know of what I speak. On 12/14/12 1:49 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 ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
Re: [Frameworks] new critical studies film course in car culture
Two Lane Blacktop is essential. On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 4:56 PM, Adam Hyman a...@lafilmforum.org wrote: There’s very early silent, totally blanking on it right now but one of you will know, which a man and car blowing up, and the man is in pieces and gets reassembled – something like that. Pretty vague, but at the same time, I’m sure someone will know of what I speak. On 12/14/12 1:49 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 ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks -- www.ryanmarino.com www.imminentfrequencies.com ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
Re: [Frameworks] new critical studies film course in car culture
Quoting Bryan Konefsky bkonef...@gmail.com: 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. Transparency (Ernie Gehr) Kustom Kar Kommandos (Kenneth Anger) Rebel Without a Cause (Nicholas Ray) Kiss Me Deadly (Robert Aldrich) Two Lane Blacktop (Monte Hellman) Fred Camper Chicago ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
Re: [Frameworks] new critical studies film course in car culture
And Death Race 2000. On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 5:36 PM, Fred Camper f...@fredcamper.com wrote: Quoting Bryan Konefsky bkonef...@gmail.com: 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. Transparency (Ernie Gehr) Kustom Kar Kommandos (Kenneth Anger) Rebel Without a Cause (Nicholas Ray) Kiss Me Deadly (Robert Aldrich) Two Lane Blacktop (Monte Hellman) Fred Camper Chicago ___ 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
David Cronenberg's CRASH. On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 5:37 PM, Ronald Gregg ronald.gr...@yale.edu wrote: And Death Race 2000. On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 5:36 PM, Fred Camper f...@fredcamper.com wrote: Quoting Bryan Konefsky bkonef...@gmail.com: 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. Transparency (Ernie Gehr) Kustom Kar Kommandos (Kenneth Anger) Rebel Without a Cause (Nicholas Ray) Kiss Me Deadly (Robert Aldrich) Two Lane Blacktop (Monte Hellman) Fred Camper Chicago ___ 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 -- Jennifer Proctor Assistant Professor, Journalism and Screen Studies Department of Language, Culture, and Communication University of Michigan-Dearborn http://www.casl.umd.umich.edu/index.php?id=685157 http://jenniferproctor.com http://lostinlight.org ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
Re: [Frameworks] new critical studies film course in car culture
Gone in 60 Seconds (1974) and Vanishing Point cannot be overlooked here. Also, The Car of Your Dreams is a wonderfully crazy compilation of car commercials, it's probably on Youtube and was fairly common to find 16mm prints of also - had a few pass through my hands. On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 5:38 PM, Jen Proctor proctor.jenni...@gmail.comwrote: David Cronenberg's CRASH. On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 5:37 PM, Ronald Gregg ronald.gr...@yale.eduwrote: And Death Race 2000. On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 5:36 PM, Fred Camper f...@fredcamper.com wrote: Quoting Bryan Konefsky bkonef...@gmail.com: 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. Transparency (Ernie Gehr) Kustom Kar Kommandos (Kenneth Anger) Rebel Without a Cause (Nicholas Ray) Kiss Me Deadly (Robert Aldrich) Two Lane Blacktop (Monte Hellman) Fred Camper Chicago ___ 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 -- Jennifer Proctor Assistant Professor, Journalism and Screen Studies Department of Language, Culture, and Communication University of Michigan-Dearborn http://www.casl.umd.umich.edu/index.php?id=685157 http://jenniferproctor.com http://lostinlight.org ___ 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
Re: [Frameworks] new critical studies film course in car culture
Fergus Walking (part 2 in the 3 part Autumn Scenes) – William Raban, UK (not US), 1978. P And Death Race 2000. On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 5:36 PM, Fred Camper f...@fredcamper.commailto:f...@fredcamper.com wrote: Quoting Bryan Konefsky bkonef...@gmail.commailto:bkonef...@gmail.com: 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. Transparency (Ernie Gehr) Kustom Kar Kommandos (Kenneth Anger) Rebel Without a Cause (Nicholas Ray) Kiss Me Deadly (Robert Aldrich) Two Lane Blacktop (Monte Hellman) Fred Camper Chicago ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.commailto: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
Seated Figures – Michael Snow, Cdn., 1988. P Fergus Walking (part 2 in the 3 part Autumn Scenes) – William Raban, UK (not US), 1978. P And Death Race 2000. On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 5:36 PM, Fred Camper f...@fredcamper.commailto:f...@fredcamper.com wrote: Quoting Bryan Konefsky bkonef...@gmail.commailto:bkonef...@gmail.com: 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. Transparency (Ernie Gehr) Kustom Kar Kommandos (Kenneth Anger) Rebel Without a Cause (Nicholas Ray) Kiss Me Deadly (Robert Aldrich) Two Lane Blacktop (Monte Hellman) Fred Camper Chicago ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.commailto: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
Another one on which I¹m forgetting the title. French, short, 1970s, about 10 minutes. Man gets in sports car, races at seemingly high speeds through Paris city streets, much POV through car window, ending at a meeting with a a woman ah, yes, ³Rendezvous² by Claude Lelouch, 1976 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%27%C3%A9tait_un_rendez-vous Watch it: http://www.boreme.com/posting.php?id=14353 On 12/14/12 2:44 PM, Daniela Bajar filmc...@pragda.com wrote: Traffic, by Jacques Tati from 1971 -- Daniela Bajar Pragda 302 Bedford Ave., # 136 Brooklyn, NY 11249 Pragda: www.pragda.com http://www.pragda.com Spanish Film Club: www.spanishfilmclub.com http://www.spanishfilmclub.com On Dec 14, 2012, at 4:38 PM, Jen Proctor proctor.jenni...@gmail.com wrote: David Cronenberg's CRASH. On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 5:37 PM, Ronald Gregg ronald.gr...@yale.edu wrote: And Death Race 2000. On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 5:36 PM, Fred Camper f...@fredcamper.com wrote: Quoting Bryan Konefsky bkonef...@gmail.com: 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. Transparency (Ernie Gehr) Kustom Kar Kommandos (Kenneth Anger) Rebel Without a Cause (Nicholas Ray) Kiss Me Deadly (Robert Aldrich) Two Lane Blacktop (Monte Hellman) Fred Camper Chicago ___ 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
Maybe Weekend? Cars That Ate Paris, radio on, kustom kar komandos, crash.. Jack Sent from my iPhone On 15/12/2012, at 9:49 AM, Peter Mudie peter.mu...@uwa.edu.au wrote: Hollywood commercial stuff: Vanishing Point, 1971 (great car) Seated Figures – Michael Snow, Cdn., 1988. P Fergus Walking (part 2 in the 3 part Autumn Scenes) – William Raban, UK (not US), 1978. P And Death Race 2000. On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 5:36 PM, Fred Camper f...@fredcamper.com wrote: Quoting Bryan Konefsky bkonef...@gmail.com: 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. Transparency (Ernie Gehr) Kustom Kar Kommandos (Kenneth Anger) Rebel Without a Cause (Nicholas Ray) Kiss Me Deadly (Robert Aldrich) Two Lane Blacktop (Monte Hellman) Fred Camper Chicago ___ 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
And a thread with various cars accidents in silent films: http://www.nitrateville.com/viewtopic.php?f=3t=12134 One pair describes the film I mentioned earlier: ³One of the earliest British trick films (EXTRAORDINARY CAB ACCIDENT, 1903) concerns an auto. A car drives into the picture and stops, and after a moment suddenly explodes. Pieces of machinery and body parts fall from the top of the frame and a policeman walks over and begins in a laconic manner to make an inventory in his notebook.² ³I have a copy of that short, though I believe my copy is titled AN AUTOMOBILE EXPLOSION. It's nice to see a Pythonesque sight gag near the start of filmdom, as well as the patented British art of Understatement at it's best...well done.² No re-assembly in this though; that must be something else. On 12/14/12 2:44 PM, Daniela Bajar filmc...@pragda.com wrote: Traffic, by Jacques Tati from 1971 -- Daniela Bajar Pragda 302 Bedford Ave., # 136 Brooklyn, NY 11249 Pragda: www.pragda.com http://www.pragda.com Spanish Film Club: www.spanishfilmclub.com http://www.spanishfilmclub.com On Dec 14, 2012, at 4:38 PM, Jen Proctor proctor.jenni...@gmail.com wrote: David Cronenberg's CRASH. On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 5:37 PM, Ronald Gregg ronald.gr...@yale.edu wrote: And Death Race 2000. On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 5:36 PM, Fred Camper f...@fredcamper.com wrote: Quoting Bryan Konefsky bkonef...@gmail.com: 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. Transparency (Ernie Gehr) Kustom Kar Kommandos (Kenneth Anger) Rebel Without a Cause (Nicholas Ray) Kiss Me Deadly (Robert Aldrich) Two Lane Blacktop (Monte Hellman) Fred Camper Chicago ___ 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
I already mentioned this to Bryan but thought I’d share it with the list, regarding luxury and fantasy cars from the 1930s. Cocteau put several in Orpheus, and there’s a neat one in Topper. And in another world, the custom racer in Pandora and the Flying Dutchman. Then there’s the James Bond cars, and one could link the drag race in Rebel Without a Cause, with the re-enactment of James Dean’s fatal crash in “Crash.” In fact, Crash is just as iconic as Two Lane Blacktop as a Car Imaginary, and a thousand times more interesting. The opening sequence of “Written on the Wind” is another indelible auto wet dream. From: Bryan Konefsky Sent: Friday, December 14, 2012 12:57 PM To: frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com 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 ___ 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: 2634/5459 - Release Date: 12/14/12 ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
Re: [Frameworks] new critical studies film course in car culture
Some others Cosmopolis (Cronenberg), also how about kids movies like Herbie Chitty Chitty Bang Bang? Jack Sent from my iPhone On 15/12/2012, at 10:02 AM, Peter Mudie peter.mu...@uwa.edu.au wrote: Talking about great cars, very hard to forget the Citroën DS21: Le Samouraï, Jean-Pierre Melville, Fr., 1967. P Hollywood commercial stuff: Vanishing Point, 1971 (great car) Seated Figures – Michael Snow, Cdn., 1988. P Fergus Walking (part 2 in the 3 part Autumn Scenes) – William Raban, UK (not US), 1978. P And Death Race 2000. On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 5:36 PM, Fred Camper f...@fredcamper.com wrote: Quoting Bryan Konefsky bkonef...@gmail.com: 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. Transparency (Ernie Gehr) Kustom Kar Kommandos (Kenneth Anger) Rebel Without a Cause (Nicholas Ray) Kiss Me Deadly (Robert Aldrich) Two Lane Blacktop (Monte Hellman) Fred Camper Chicago ___ 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
Oops, forgot: Taxi Driver, Scorcese 1976. From an institutional point of view, I would imagine a course on cars in film would be very popular – almost every exchange based product out of Hollywood features a car in the obligatory chase sequence. But if it's a critical course I would imagine that you would be looking at the breadth of analogies/metaphors/faculties that a 'vehicle' represented (not imagined) can function as/perform in relation to a time formed construct. The other stuff is just a series of laughs and sips of nostalgic tea in a dark room – no one will learn much from that. Good luck with it. P Talking about great cars, very hard to forget the Citroën DS21: Le Samouraï, Jean-Pierre Melville, Fr., 1967. P Hollywood commercial stuff: Vanishing Point, 1971 (great car) Seated Figures – Michael Snow, Cdn., 1988. P Fergus Walking (part 2 in the 3 part Autumn Scenes) – William Raban, UK (not US), 1978. P And Death Race 2000. On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 5:36 PM, Fred Camper f...@fredcamper.commailto:f...@fredcamper.com wrote: Quoting Bryan Konefsky bkonef...@gmail.commailto:bkonef...@gmail.com: 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. Transparency (Ernie Gehr) Kustom Kar Kommandos (Kenneth Anger) Rebel Without a Cause (Nicholas Ray) Kiss Me Deadly (Robert Aldrich) Two Lane Blacktop (Monte Hellman) Fred Camper Chicago ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.commailto: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
Powerful automobile related imaginings occurred in the early sixties beginning with Disney's flying car flubber apotheosis in The Absent Minded Professor (1961) followed by the anthropomorphic VW Herbie films beginning in 1963 including The Love Bug (1968). If you will allow television episodes, the 1965 single season sitcom My Mother The Car in which a man's mother is reincarnated as a 1928 Porter Touring Car might be considered. The seriality in Andy Warhol's Car Crash Paintings of 1963 might be thought of filmically. The first appearance of the Munster's Koach in the television sitcom The Munsters (1964-66) was a marvel merging hot rod hybridity and familial functionality, Grandpa Munster's vehicle called the Drag-u-la, from the episode called Hot Rod Herman was essentially a super charged coffin on wheels,it also appeared in the 1966 film Munster Go Home. A precursor to the Munster Koach might be found in an uproarious 1934 episode of The Little Rascals called Hi' Neighbor in which Spanky and his gang build a mad ad hoc fire truck to meet the challenge of an affluent newcomer's girlfriend wooing toy car. Not of the imagination but still interesting is a short film document on Youtube and elsewhere of the first Indy 500 race, May 30,1911 complete with a spectacular accident. The ecstatic (neon-lit?) cruising footage from Floyd Mutrux's Dusty and Sweets McGee (1971) photographed by William A. Fraker which is said to have influenced George Lucas's American Graffiti is a personal favorite. I can't fail to mention Kathryn Bigelow's The Loveless and the unforgettable RV roving vampires in her Near Dark. The car race in Rebel Without A Cause comes to mind. I recollect a video Fred Worden exhibited at Anthology several years ago bound entirely by travel in a moving automobile on a Thruway (the title escapes me). Ernie Gehr's Auto-collider series. (Additionally Ernie's digital interlaced masterpiece Crystal Palace (2002) was shot from the open window of a moving car.) Then there is Michael Bay's Transformers (2007) which I have not seen but understand involves four wheeled transformational entities. -DB On Dec 14, 2012, at 2:57 PM, 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, -- 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 ___ 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
Obvious, but two films made right before their directors ruined Hollywood filmmaking: Sugarland Express American Graffiti Of course Kustom Kar Kommandos, too. Jeff Kreines Kinetta kinetta.com j...@kinetta.com ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
Re: [Frameworks] new critical studies film course in car culture
You've quite a list forming here: industrial, underground, experimental, commercial, etc. Here's 2 contemporary commercial films that probably should be in the mix for better or worse. Tarantino's DEATH PROOF (2007) and Nicolas Refn's DRIVE (2011). Art/experimental... Phil Solomon's LAST DAY IN A LONELY PLACE (2007) utilizes the auto-fetishistic Grand Theft Auto video game series. But, it may be a car-less piece if memory serves Warren On Dec 14, 2012, at 2:57 PM, Bryan Konefsky bkonef...@gmail.com 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, -- 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 ___ 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
_Repo Man_ is always intense. Also, _Signal 30_ / _Red Asphalt_ etc. Might be worth dipping into related media of the early 60s -- Beach Boys' car-oriented records, Pete Millar's CARtoons, Ed Big Daddy Roth. Tex Avery's _Car of Tomorrow_ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bBpDNRP5qQ -- Jim Flannery j...@newgrangemedia.com ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
