Text Box: Italian Novella Professor E. Licastro MW 5:00 - 6:20 Reg. No. 491649 Text Box: 443 Text Box: Oct 14 John Ford, The Searchers, 1956 Oct 21 Alfred Hitchcock, Vertigo, 1958 Oct 28 Peter Medak, The Ruling Class, 1972 Nov 4 Martin Scorsese, Taxi Driver , 1976 Nov 11 Gregory Nava, El Norte, 1983 Nov 18 Sergio Leone, Once Upon a Time in America, 1984 Nov 25 Jim Jarmusch, Dead Man, 1995 Dec 2 Pedro Almodóvar, Habla con ella/Talk to Her, 2002 Text Box: Course description available from the Department of Modern Languages, 910 Clemens Hall. Text Box: This course will examine the ways in which cinema functions as a tool for analysis or for the construction of cities. After a brief period of euphoria during which it celebrated the city’s revolutionary potential, cinema began more typically to focus on the horrors of urban existence and on the severe abridgements of citizens’ rights to the city. We will look at two major moments of cinema’s dystopic vision of urban life: that of film noir, which developed in the shadow of the second World War, and the recent emergence of cinematic cyberspace, which registers processes of globalization. We will also discuss the cinematic paradigms that underpin Las Vegas and similar places. Before September 11, cities were places of terror and terrorism as well as places of unheard of freedoms, entertainment, and exciting chance encounters, and all these possibilities were chronicled in films. Each week a different film will be screened and discussed alongside an interrelated mix of film and urban theory. Text Box: Contemporary Cinema: Cities and Cinema Professor Joan Copjec Wednesdays 3:30 - 6:50 Reg. No. 155664 Text Box: 441