Cinema in the Wild Fall 2009 • Thursdays, 9-12:50 Norris Cinema Theater Professor René Bruckner [email protected]
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SCREENING SCHEDULE CTCS 469: Film and Television Style Analysis Cinema in the Wild Fall 2009 • Thursdays, 9-12:50 Norris Cinema Theater Professor René Bruckner [email protected] WEEK 1 • 8/27 Introductions: WHERE ARE THE WILD THINGS? SCREENINGS: Acera, or, The Witchʼs Dance (Jean Painlevé, 1972) Sky Blue Water Light Sign (J.J. Murphy, 1972) Harry and the Hendersons (William Dear, 1987) WEEK 2 • 9/03 WILD IMAGES SCREENINGS: “Battle at Kruger” (David Budzinski, 2004) Starlings (Karl Kels, 1991) Encounters at the End of the World (Werner Herzog, 2007) Outside viewing: Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Werner Herzog, 1972) WEEK 3 • 9/10 MAN, BEAST SCREENING: Tarzan the Ape Man (W.S. Van Dyke, 1932) WEEK 4 • 9/17 THE COLONIZED WILD SCREENINGS: Unsere Afrikareise (Peter Kubelka, 1966) Elephant Boy (Robert J. Flaherty, 1937) Outside viewing: Nanook of the North (Flaherty, 1922) WEEK 5 • 9/24 NATURE BY DISNEY SCREENINGS: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (David Hand, 1937) Disneyʼs True-Life Adventures: Seal Island (James Algar, 1948) Outside viewing: Bambi (David Hand, 1942) WEEK 6 • 10/01 FOR THE BIRDS SCREENINGS: Bird-cams (Sam Easterson, 2006) The Private Life of the Gannets (Julian Huxley/John Grierson, 1934) Winged Migration (Jacques Perrin, 2001) WEEK 7 • 10/08 NATURE TECH: TV GONE WILD SCREENINGS: Untitled (Pam Larson, 2007) Bear Island (National Geographic, 2007) Outside viewing: Nature: Deep Jungle (PBS, 2004) WEEK 8 • 10/15 WILD “LIFE” AND THE “UNTAMED LENS” SCREENINGS: Selected films by Jean Painlevé The Jacques Cousteau Odyssey (1977-81) Killer Whales: Wolves of the Sea (National Geographic, 1993) Outside viewing: Where the Wild Things Are (Spike Jonze, 2009) *Stay tuned for news about tentative on-campus preview screening! WEEK 9 • 10/22 THE WILD AQUATIC SCREENING: The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (Wes Anderson, 2004) WEEK 10 • 10/29 WILD HORROR (HALLOWEEN SEASON) SCREENING: Ginger Snaps (John Fawcett, 2001) Outside viewing: Ginger Snaps Back (Grant Harvey, 2004) WEEK 11 • 11/05 “SURVIVORMAN” vs. “MAN vs. WILD” SCREENINGS: Excerpts from Survivorman (Les Stroud, 2004-08) and Man vs. Wild (Discovery Channel, 2006-present) WEEK 12 • 11/12 GETTING INTO THE OUTDOORS SCREENINGS: Into the Wild (Sean Penn, 2007) WEEK 13 • 11/19 INTO THE (IMMERSIVE) WILD CLASS OUTING: Field trip to the California Science Centerʼs IMAX Theater and the L.A. Museum of Natural History WEEK 14 • 11/26 NO CLASS—Thanksgiving Holiday SCREENING: Outside viewing: Dead Man (Jim Jarmusch, 1995) WEEK 15 • 12/03 Conclusions: WILD STYLE SCREENING: The Wild Man of the Navidad (Duane Graves/Justin Meeks, 2008) .