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
>
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