[Frameworks] new critical studies film course in car culture

[Gene Youngblood]

I already mentioned this to Bryan but thought I’d share it with the list, regarding luxury and fantasy cars from the 1930s. Cocteau put several in Orpheus, and there’s a neat one in Topper. And in another world, the custom racer in Pandora and the Flying Dutchman. Then there’s the James Bond cars, and one could link the drag race in Rebel Without a Cause, with the re-enactment of James Dean’s fatal crash in “Crash.” In fact, Crash is just as iconic as Two Lane Blacktop as a Car Imaginary, and a thousand times more interesting. The opening sequence of “Written on the Wind” is another indelible auto wet dream.

From: Bryan Konefsky 
Sent: Friday, December 14, 2012 12:57 PM
To: frameworks at jonasmekasfilms.com 
Subject: [Frameworks] new critical studies film course in car culture


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,
-- 
Bryan Konefsky
director, Experiments in Cinema
el presidente, Basement Films
lecturer, Dept of Cinematic Arts UNM
visiting lecturer, UCSC
board of advisors, Ann Arbor Film Festival



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