How does the Lacanian mirror stage theorize film spectatorship? Evaluate the success and application of Lacanian psychoanalysis to the writing of two film theorists with respect to cinema.

eb. 22 – Readings: Jean–Luc Comolli and Jean Narboni “Cinema/Ideology/Criticism” (478–86); Louis
Althusser “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses” (Brightspace)
Feb. 27 – Screening: Point Blank (Boorman 1967)
Feb. 29 – David Bordwell, “Classical Hollywood Cinema: Narrative Principles & Procedures”
(Brightspace); David Bordwell “The Art Cinema as a Mode of Film Practice” (558–73)
Mar. 12 – Introduction to Psychoanalysis
Readings: Jacques Lacan “The Mirror Stage” (Brightspace)
Mar. 14 – Screening: Peeping Tom (Powell 1960)
Annotated bibliography due
Mar. 19 – Readings: Jean–Louis Baudry “The Apparatus” (34–44); Christian Metz from The Imaginary
Signifier (17–33)
Mar. 21 – Screening: The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz (Bunuel 1955)
Mar. 26 – Readings: Sigmund Freud “On Fetishism” (708–13); Laura Mulvey “Visual Pleasure and
Narrative Cinema” (713–24)
Mar. 28 – Screening: Sorry to Bother You (Riley 2018)
Apr. 2 – Readings: Franz Fanon “The Fact of Blackness” (794–99); Richard Dyer, “White,” (822–839);
Elaine Shohat & Robert Stam, “Stereotype, Realism & Regression” (800–821)
Apr. 4 – Term Paper peer review workshop
Apr. 9 – Screening: House (Obayashi 1977)
Apr. 11 – Readings: Vivian Sobchak “Phenomenology and Film Experience” (62–68); Carol Clover from
Men, Women and Chain Saws (511–30)
Term paper draft due
Apr. 16 – Screening: The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Bunuel 1972)
Apr. 18 – Readings: Andrew Sarris “The Auteur Theory Revisited” (354–60); Peter Wollen “The Auteur
Theory” (361–74); Roland Barthes “The Death of the Author” (345–49)
Apr. 30 – Screening: TBA
May 2 – Readings: Fredric Jameson “Postmodernism and Consumer Society” (1031–41); Lev
Manovich, “What is Digital Cinema?” (1058–70)