[Frameworks] new critical studies film course in car culture

[Peter Mudie]

Talking about great cars, very hard to forget the Citroën DS21:
Le Samouraï, Jean-Pierre Melville, Fr., 1967.
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Hollywood commercial stuff:
Vanishing Point, 1971 (great car)

Seated Figures – Michael Snow, Cdn., 1988.
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Fergus Walking (part 2 in the 3 part Autumn Scenes) – William Raban, UK (not US), 1978.
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And Death Race 2000.

On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 5:36 PM, Fred Camper <f at fredcamper.com<mailto:f at fredcamper.com>> wrote:
Quoting Bryan Konefsky <bkonefsky at gmail.com<mailto:bkonefsky at gmail.com>>:

> 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.

Transparency (Ernie Gehr)
Kustom Kar Kommandos (Kenneth Anger)
Rebel Without a Cause (Nicholas Ray)
Kiss Me Deadly (Robert Aldrich)
Two Lane Blacktop (Monte Hellman)

Fred Camper
Chicago


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