[Frameworks] new critical studies film course in car culture

[Ryan Marino]

Two Lane Blacktop is essential.

On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 4:56 PM, Adam Hyman <adam at lafilmforum.org> wrote:

>  There’s very early silent, totally blanking on it right now but one of
> you will know, which a man and car blowing up, and the man is in pieces and
> gets reassembled – something like that.  Pretty vague, but at the same
> time, I’m sure someone will know of what I speak.
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> On 12/14/12 1:49 PM, "David Dvorchak" <david at as220.org> wrote:
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> Laurel and Hardy is "Two Tars"
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> On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 4:47 PM, Chuck Kleinhans <
> chuckkle at northwestern.edu> wrote:
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> The about to open, On The Road, and an almost endless stream of road
> movies in Hollywood.
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> There's a famous Laurel and Hardy film (whose name I forget at the moment)
> which includes tearing a car apart in a dispute.
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> Not about film, per se, but in the 1920s the expansion of relatively
> inexpensive autos created a certain moral panic around cars as mobile
> bedrooms for young people who could escape being chaperoned.
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> Chuck Kleinhans
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> On Dec 14, 2012, at 11:57 AM, Bryan Konefsky wrote:
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> > Hello Frameworkers - I am in the early moments of developing a critical
> studies course that looks at different ways the automobile has been
> imagined in cinema.  To this end I'd love to hear from ya'll with titles of
> films that you think might be useful to explore/expand this idea and
> readings that might also dovetail themes that might be explored.
> >
> > Do know that my pal Antoni Pinent recently turned me on to a great text
> titled Car Fetish.
> >
> > OK, let's hear what ya got!
> > best,
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