Tentative course materials for HUM 510 Spring 2014
Books
- David Desser – Eros Plus Massacre: An Introduction to the Japanese New Wave Cinema
- Yuriko Furuhata – Cinema of Actuality: Japanese Avant-Garde Filmmaking in the Season of Image Politics
- Harry Harootunian – History’s Disquiet (selections)
- Kenji Nakagami – The Cape and Other Stories of the Japanese Ghetto
- Oshima Nagisa – Cinema, Censorship, and the State
Essays
- Roland Domenig – “The Anticipation of Freedom: Art Theater Guild and Japanese Independent Cinema”
- Max Tessier – “The Power of the Imaginary in the New Wave of the 60’s and Early 70’s”
- Yomota Inuhiko – “Two or Three Things I Know About ATG”
- Masao Matsuda – “An Excerpt from ‘City as Landscape'”
- Hirasawa Go “The Rise of Underground Cinema and the Early Years of ATG”
- Jasper Sharp “Interview with Masao Adachi”
- Tom Mes – “Interview with Koji Wakamatsu”
- Takashi Sakai, Shiro Yabu, and Go Hirasawa – “Attaining Vertical Thinking: Masao Adachi as Possibility”
- Masao Adachi and Go Hirasawa – “For the Present of Cinema=Movement: On the Publication of Oshima Nagisa 1968″
- Masao Adachi and Takashi Sakai – “Empire and Revolution”
- Harry Harootunian and Sabu Kosho – “Messages in a Bottle: An Interview with Filmmaker Masao Adachi”
- S.I. “Introduction to the Critique of Urban Geography” “Definitions” “Theory of the Dérive” “A User’s Guide to Détournement”
- Guy Debord – “The Culmination of Separation” from Society of the Spectacle
- McKenzie Wark – The Spectacle of Disintegration (selections)
- Walter Benjamin – “On the Concept of History” and “Paralipomena to the Concept of History”
- Celeste Olalquiaga – The Artificial Kingdom (selections)
Films
- Masao Adachi – AKA Serial Killer (Ryakushô renzoku shasatsuma)(Japan/1969)
- Susumu Hani – Nanami: Inferno of First Love (Hatsukoi Jigokuhen) (Japan/1968)
- Toshio Matsumoto – Funeral Parade of Roses (Bara no Sōretsu) (Japan/1969)
- Tsai Ming-Liang – The Hole (Dong) (Taiwan/1999)
- Oshima Nagisa – Death By Hanging (Kōshikei)(Japan/1968)
- Oshima Nagisa– Man Who Left His Will on Film (Tokyo senso sengo hiwa) (Japan/1970)
- Oshima Nagisa – In the Realm of the Senses (Ai No Corrida) (Japan/1976)
- Koji Wakamatsu – Ecstasy of the Angels (Tenshi no kōkotsu) (Japan/1972)
- Koji Wakamatsu – Go, Go, Second Time Virgin (Yuke Yuke Nidome no Shojo) (Japan/1969)