Also, Robert Ray, A Certain Tendency of Hollywood Cinema on Hollywood/French New Wave cross influences On Saturday, June 19, 2004, at 09:56 AM, Paul Ramaeker wrote: > Hi, > We are between semesters down here in NZ, and I am planning the > second semester of a full-year course I am running called > "Appropriating the Alternative". In the first semester, we mainly > looked at how and why Hollywood has borrowed from the art cinema > (coming off of my own research). Next semester, among other topics, > I want to look at how and why art cinema filmmakers (or, depending on > your definition of art cinema, related filmmakers) have appropriated > stylistic or narrative conventions from Hollywood. We have already > looked a bit at Truffaut and Godard here (and read things like > Wollen's piece "Godard and Counter Cinema"), and I was thinking now > of looking at Demy (Cherbourg or Rochefort, natch) and/or Melville > (probably Un Flic or Le Cercle Rouge), and Tykwer (Lola). > > Can anyone recommend any reading (it can be quite advanced) on these > films/filmmakers, or failing that, on strategies of appropriation > from Hollywood (genre, style, etc.) in European and/or art cinema? > > Thanks, > Paul Ramaeker > > ---- > Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the > University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu > ---- To sign off Screen-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF Screen-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]