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Day: October 7, 2014

“Direct Tenderness” Haynes on Fassbinder and Sirk

Todd Haynes From Fassbinder to Sirk and backWatch this video on YouTube

A Scandal in Suburbia: Interview with Todd Haynes and Edward Lachman

A Scandal In Suburbia Interview with Todd Haynes and Edward Lachman by Jon Silberg on Far From Heaven from American Cinematographer (December, 2002)​ Read the Interview

“Something That Is Dangerous and Arousing and Transgressive” An Interview with Todd Haynes

Todd Haynes in Conversation with Julia Leyda This is a pretty great interview with Todd Haynes. It’s fairly expansive, digging into his recent work on Mildred Pierce, and spanning his entire career. It was included in Leyda’s edited anthology of Haynes’ interviews. Read the Interview

Douglas Sirk, “You Are Making a Bad Film”

Here is a great snippet of a much longer interview with Sirk. Douglas Sirk – "You Are Making a Bad Movie"Watch this video on YouTube

A Powerful Political Potential: Haynes on Sirk and Fassbinder

A Powerful Political Potential This is s short excerpt from Factory Films’ documentary of Haynes talking about Sirk and Fassbinder. WATCH THE CLIP

Beyond Melodrama: Kathryn Bigelow on Douglas Sirk

Beyond Melodrama This is an excerpt from a longer documentary short by Factory Films on Kathryn Bigelow discussing the work of Douglas Sirk. Watch the Clip Here

HUM 425

Initially focused on the concept of paradigms in the work of Benjamin, Foucault, and Agamben, subsequent semesters of Dr. Thomas’ Thought and Image  featured a variety of texts, concepts, and works of expression. The course remains anchored by the work of Todd Haynes, Ranier Werner Fassbinder, and Douglas Sirk. Conceptualized as a course about “The Power of the Image” (which includes power as potentiality), Haynes’ alternate title for Far From Heaven, “The Surface of Things,” has served as an apt descriptor for the class. 

Image: Sega Pengo (1982)

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