Re: [Frameworks] new critical studies film course in car culture

2012-12-15 Thread Bryan Konefsky
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

Re: [Frameworks] just to clarify and new question about traveltrailers...

2012-12-15 Thread Gene Youngblood
I'm drawing a blank on a Hollywood film made in the last decade that has a harrowing scene centered on a trailer in semi-rural Arizona (or Texas?), where a guy has a shotgun and someone (a woman, I think) has been buried alive in a coffin, trying to scratch her way out. Maybe I'm conflating two

Re: [Frameworks] new critical studies film course in car culture

2012-12-15 Thread Amy Sloper
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

Re: [Frameworks] new critical studies film course in car culture

2012-12-15 Thread Rory Brosius
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

Re: [Frameworks] new critical studies film course in car culture

2012-12-15 Thread Francisco Torres
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

2012-12-15 Thread Jon Dieringer
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

[Frameworks] This week [December 15 - 23, 2012] in avant garde cinema

2012-12-15 Thread Weekly Listing
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Re: [Frameworks] just to clarify and new question about travel trailers...

2012-12-15 Thread Herb Theriault
There's a new feature in the UK called Sightseers, by Paul Wheatly, that would fit on the travel trailers list. One for the auto list (albeit a bit subtle), would be Sofia Coppola's film, Somewhere. Herb Bryan Konefsky bkonef...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, just to clarify - I was kidding when

Re: [Frameworks] new critical studies film course in car culture

2012-12-15 Thread franco base
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

Re: [Frameworks] new critical studies film course in car culture

2012-12-15 Thread Chuck Kleinhans
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

Re: [Frameworks] new critical studies film course in car culture

2012-12-15 Thread Adam Hyman
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