[Frameworks] new critical studies film course in car culture

[Abigail Severance]

a experimental short from late '90s called Pass (woman director, can't remember name) - played at MadCat Festival...
Wanda
Weekend
Betzy Bromberg's A Darkness Swallowed, framed/instigated by single photo of car
Killer of Sheep - country drive/flat tire sequence/mobility; picking up car engine & dropping it out of back of truck
A Band Apart (reading Odile while driving)
Faster Pussycat Kill Kill
Divingbell & the Butterfly 
Two Lane Blacktop
Drive
Vagabond
Bonnie & Clyde
Landscape Suicide - long driving shots of approaching sites of murders, with local radio playing
the drive home in Fat Girl
Cathy Crane's On the Line and The Girl From Marseilles
La Strada
Thom Andersen's Get Out of the Car
Grease (!)
The Rain People
The Graduate
Footloose
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Abigail Severance 
Faculty, CalArts Film Directing Program
asevera at calarts.edu ||  310-508-0352




On Dec 14, 2012, at 1:49 PM, David Dvorchak wrote:

> 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:
> 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.
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> > Do know that my pal Antoni Pinent recently turned me on to a great text titled Car Fetish.
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> > OK, let's hear what ya got!
> > best,
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