From: Anna Biller (email suppressed)
Date: Tue Jan 20 2009 - 18:16:35 PST
Le Dernier Combat, Luc Besson (1983)
On Jan 20, 2009, at 5:32 PM, jo dery wrote:
> Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind - Hayao Miyazaki (1984)
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> Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 02:09:56 +0100
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> Subject: Re: Apocalypse films
> To: email suppressed
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> I agree with Jonathan. I have a couple of suggestions of films on
> the atomic bomb, maybe some have already been mentioned on this
> thread, can't remember: “Black Rain” an early Imamura film, and
> “Crossroads” by Bruce Conner. you might want to have a look on an
> interesting biopic by the Dubini brothers “Das Verschwinden des
> Ettore Majorana”, a documentary on the italian physicist who
> disappeared out of a refusal (so goes their thesis) to participate
> with Fermi et.al. to the production of the american nuclear bombs. i
> also did a couple of short experimental films about Majorana. Best,
> Marco
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jonathan M Hall
> Sent: Jan 20, 2009 6:00 PM
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> Subject: Re: Apocalypse films
>
> Dear Margaret,
>
> I think a discussion of apocalypse could easily and helpfully
> include material that comments on and reflects the atomic bomb
> experience. There's an endless amount of material on the subject,
> much of it, not surprisingly, from the US and Japan. Experimental
> Japanese work includes The Navel and A-Bomb [Heso to genbaku] (Hosoe
> Eiko) 1960 and the animation piece Shadow [Kage] (Hayashi Seiichi)
> 1968. On the American side, I think Leslie Thornton's recent Let
> Me Count the Ways, 10...9...8...7... , which was recently part of a
> program at the SF Cinematheque, would be of great interest. For
> historical reasons it's not surprising, but Americans have seemed
> much more hesitant to engage their own atomic bomb/apocalypse in its
> most recent and concrete manifestation, so provoking your students
> to do so would be valuable and intellectually rewarding for them, I
> bet.
>
> You might also consider Steven Okazaki's White Light/Black Rain
> (2006) or a chapter in Mark Nornes' book on Japanese documentary.
> US-Japan Film Warsand Hibakusha Cinema are also helpful books. I
> use all these materials with a good deal of success in the classroom.
>
> Yours sincerely,
> Jonathan M Hall
> University of California Irvine
>
> On 20 Jan 2009, at 03:35, Margaret Jamieson wrote:
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> Hi List:
>
> I'm teaching a class on apocalypse films and would welcome any
> suggestions, especially: shorter films, experimental films, non-
> fiction, international films, and other platforms, like games or
> installations. The premise of the course is to follow the anxieties
> of culture through apocalypse films, and the readings go from
> Boccaccio to Wheeler Winston Dixon, and the films from Birth of a
> Nation to Bruce Connor (with, rest assured, lots of aliens in
> between), so I'm very open to ideas.
>
> Thank you for your generosity, as always--MJ
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