Fall Course Catalogue - Department of Cinematic Arts - University of ...

EVERYDAY ART
MA 330/430.001 (CRN 44126 and 44127)
Cross-listed with RELG 347.005 (CRN 44495)
+ PCST 340.002 (CRN 47632)
SUSAN DEVER + CAROLINE HINKLEY
Fridays + 2 Saturdays, 11:30-6:00 p.m.
Ceria 365, Special Fee $63.
DATES: AUG 23, 24 + 31; SEPT 6 + 20, OCT 4 + 18, NOV 1, 15, 22
+ 23
EVERYDAY ART II
MA 430.002 (CRN 44128)
Everyday, adjective. Ordinary, routine, common . . . brilliantly what is
Every day, adverb. Daily, habitually, steadfastly . . . with much
delight in discipline
EveryDay Art, an adjectival noun adverb (or some such thing, surely).
e.g., a good cup of tea made mindfully each morning;
a symphony composed on paper napkins
This is a course about cultivating art-making as a daily habit, a way
of seeing, being, taking in, and responding to our world. With
Tibetan Buddhist artist Chögyam Trungpa’s True Perception, plus
the work of other Buddhist arts exemplars, accompanied by a range
of profoundly moving moving-images, we’ll practice the techniques
of mindfulness-awareness meditation, quieting our minds so that
insight has means, method, and opportunity to arise. Off the
cushion and away from our theater seats, we’ll visit sacred and
secular sites (an all-faith exploration, from sports arenas to
churches) to help us further experience elements that constitute the
seeds of our in(ter)dependent studies. Individual or group projects
may range from screenplays, critical essays, photography portfolios,
scholarly investigations, cinematic novellas, scientific projects, to
other quotidian and other evanescent pleasures.
CHICANO/MEXICAN FILM AND
LITERATURE
MA 330/430.003 (CRN 36896 and 38228)
STEPHANIE BECKER
Saturdays, 11:00 - 2:30 p.m.
Ceria 337, Special Fee $63.
This course will examine the intersections between cinema and
cinematic prose from and about Mexico and the US Latino
Southwest. We will read classics and newly released excerpts from
Chicano/as and explore the complex world of family, identity,
gender, and border politics as we watch films from both sides of the
border. For more information about our studies, or to learn why the
popular Chicana novelist Denise Chávez loves Mexican movie idol
Pedro Infante, simply sign up.
STILL / MOVING
MA 330/*430.004 (CRN 39353 and 36949)
CAROLINE HINKLEY
Wednesdays, 10:00a.m. – 1:30p.m.
Ceria 365, Special Fee $63.
This course will examine films and texts by filmmakers,
photographers, critics, and historians who address encounters,
intersections, and collisions of the still and moving image. There is
an emergent dialogue occurring across disciplines particularly with
film studies scholars, artists and interdisciplinary practitioners who
find these cinema and photo-based migrations and mutations critical
in the formation of post-modern film studies. In this class we will
examine installations and exhibitions of artists who not only expose
an audience to the intersections of the moving and still image, but
expose cinema and photography to each other in a single work.
Among others we will view films by Chris Marker, Patrick Keilor,
Atom Egoyan, Rebecca Baron, Nancy Davenport who combine
video, digital, and photographic formats to produce and blur
traditional cinematic boundaries.
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