Here is the link to Adam Curtis’ interesting essay film/documentary, “Hypernormalization.” https://thoughtmaybe.com/hypernormalisation/ See Adam Curtis’ blog here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis See, also, The Guardian’s take on the
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVDaSgyi3xE I strongly recommend that students check out the 8-Bit Philosophy website, http://www.wisecrack.co/8-bit-philosophy/, and Facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/8bitphilosophy/. For a taste of just how smart and fun this
This is my analysis of some key scenes in Fassbinder’s Ali:Fear Eats the Soul. It uses the 10/40/70 method of film interpretation (following the one
n 1973 Guy Debord released a film version of the Society of the Spectacle. This is the newer film transfer (higher quality) with voiceover by Dore
PLAYING AGAINST GAME SPACE This is Jordon Wood’s discussion of game space. READ HIS THOUGHTS
ECSTASY OF THE ANEGLES This was a course I taught on the Japanese cinema of the Art Theater Guild, roughly from 1968 – 1972. The website
This is the best version of the film I could find online. Note: It may load two silent/absent ads for 15 seconds before the film
Todd Haynes From Fassbinder to Sirk and backWatch this video on YouTube
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
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
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 This is s short excerpt from Factory Films’ documentary of Haynes talking about Sirk and Fassbinder. WATCH THE CLIP
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
This is the video for Grace Jones’ “Corporate Cannibal” (which Steve Shaviro discusses in Post-Cinematic Affect. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgMn2OJmx3w
Here are some videos of Rauschenberg talking about his “Erased De Kooning” Rauschenberg on “Erased De Kooning” Robert Rauschenberg on "Erased de Kooning"Watch this video
Previous centuries have been defined by novels and cinema. In a bold manifesto we’re proud to debut here on Kotaku, game designer Eric Zimmerman states
“2.5 Crazy Cameras, Discorrelated Images, and the Post-Perceptual Mediation of Post-Cinematic Affect” Shane Denson on Post-Cinematic Affect. From Post-Cinema: Theorizing 21st-Century Film Ed. by Leyda
PLEASE NOTE: LA FURIA UMANA’S Website is currently down Therese Grisham conducts two roundtable discussions on the Post-Cinematic for La Furia Umana. The Post-Cinematic in
Richard Kelly on “Southland Tales” Complete and Unedited. This is a great interview from reporter Abraham Riesman. Photos by Joshua Shultz. Read the Interview Here
This is a video essay on Deleuze’s essay made by Gary Hall, Clare Bichall, and Peter Woodbridge.
This is a very old post from an old blog for Thought and Image on Pop Art. It gives you a handy check-list of what
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.
