A few recent pairings: --Terry Zwigoff's 'Ghost World' with Althusser (ISAs) --Alfonso Cuaron's 'Y Tu Mama Tambein' with Deleuze (C2) --Ridley Scott's 'Blade Runner' with Benjamin (Work of Art; see also Elissa Marder's article on this pairing in 'Camera Obscura') --Fernando Meirellis & Katia Lund's 'City of God' or Matthieu Kassovitz's 'Hate' with selected postcolonial theorists (e.g., Spivak, Bhabha, Said, etc.) My undergraduate students respond quite well to all of these pairings. With more challenging reading material, they almost always prefer more recent films to the classics or art films. So even though films by Resnais, Godard, or Antonioni would seem to be the more obvious choices for Deleuze, for example, my students have been consistently more open to Deleuze and clips from these other films if Cuaron's film is the primary text & touchstone. Best of luck! ____________________ Dr. Virginia Bonner Assistant Professor of Film & Media Studies [log in to unmask] http://a-s.clayton.edu/vbonner -----Original Message----- From: Film and TV Studies Discussion List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Carol Vernallis Sent: Sunday, December 12, 2004 8:03 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [SCREEN-L] Critical and Cultural Studies Course Dear Colleagues, I'm gathering materials for a course on critical and cultural theory. Has anyone taught such a course and successfully incorporated cinema? In particular I'm wondering if you have favorite articles that bring specific films into relation with Derrida, Foucault, Gramsci, Habermas, Lyotard or any other major theorists not usually linked with cinema. If anyone knows of films, film articles or syllabuses that might work, I'd be delighted to hear about them. Feel free to contact me through the list or directly through my school email, [log in to unmask] Sincerely, Carol Vernallis ---- 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]