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'''TCF 340 International Cinema''' is a discussion-oriented course taught by [[User:Jeremy Butler|Jeremy Butler]].
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#Explain the concept that goes by the terms, "technological manifest destiny" and "technological determinism." Why is it a ''mistaken'' notion when applied to TV?
 
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#*What are some examples that you've seen that prove this concept is wrong? (Don't rely on the examples in the book and you can refer to technology other than that involving video or TV.)
 
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#What is a kinescope? How were kinescopes created and what characterized how they looked?
 
  
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== Course objectives ==
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|File:Dumont Kinescope Machines.jpg|alt5=Dumont Kinescope Machines.|Dumont Network kinescope machines.
 
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''' Group 1'''
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TCF 340 assumes the student understands generally the contours of international cinema history. The course's objective therefore is to investigate in some depth the cinematic work of a particular nation and the historical/theoretical issues pertaining to it. This term our topic will be the French cinema.
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#Outline the history of TV editing--listing the major technological changes. How did these changes have an impact on TV style?
 
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#Why type of editing equipment do you suppose was used to cut the following programs:
 
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#*''All My Children'':
 
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#*''Northern Exposure'':
 
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#*''Seinfeld'':
 
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#*''Stranger Things'':
 
  
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The online syllabus ('''Fall 2014'''): http://goo.gl/KfRVST
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==Study groups==
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'''Group 1'''
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* Christian Abbatiello
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* Andrew Barksdale
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* Brooks Bell
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* Cameron Benson
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* Mia Blackman
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'''Group 2'''
 
'''Group 2'''
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#List the elements of the production of ''I Love Lucy'' that make it significant to the history of TV style. Explain ''why'' each element is important.
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* Chase Bodiford
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#What are examples of recent (within the past five years) programs that are shot the same way that ''Lucy'' was shot?
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* Kayla Cassese
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* Jessica Dimas
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* Matthew Eden
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* Shelby Fallin
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'''Group 3'''
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* Becca Hanlon
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* Thomas Klein
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* Ezra Laemmle
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* Natalie Landers
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'''Group 4'''
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* Taylor Martin
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* Allen Miller
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* Ethan Montgomery
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* George Murdison
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'''Group 5'''
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* Alex Pounders
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* Cape Sandlin
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* Kacey Tanveer
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* Trevyon Tellis
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|}
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== Online study guides ==
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===Chronological order===
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#Film Analysis: [[TCF340/Butler/Narrative Structure|Narrative Structure]], ''Television''
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#Film Analysis: [[TCF340/Butler/Mise-en-scene|Mise-en-scene]], ''Television''
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#Film Analysis: [[TCF340/Butler/Cinematography|Cinematography]], ''Television''
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#Film Analysis: [[TCF340/Butler/Editing|Editing]], ''Television''
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#Film Analysis: [[TCF340/Butler/Sound|Sound]], ''Television''
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#Film Analysis: [[TCF340/Analytical Exercise (Discussion)|Discussion]] of Analytical Exercise
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#Early French Cinema
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#The Avant-Garde ([[TCF340/The Avant-Garde (Discussion)|Discussion]])
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#French Cinema Between the Wars I: Popular Front [[TCF340/French Cinema Between the Wars I: Popular Front (Discussion)|(Discussion)]]
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#Bazinian Realism [[TCF340/Bazinian Realism (Discussion)|(Discussion)]]
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#French Cinema Between the Wars II: Poetic Realism (discontinued)
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#French New Wave I: Alain Resnais [[TCF340/French New Wave I: Alain Resnais (Discussion)|(Discussion)]]
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#French New Wave II: François Truffaut [[TCF340/French New Wave II: François Truffaut (Discussion)|(Discussion)]]
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#French New Wave III: Éric Rohmer [[TCF340/French New Wave III: Éric Rohmer (Discussion)|(Discussion)]]
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#French Modernism: Jean-Luc Godard & Bertolt Brecht [[TCF340/French Modernism: Jean-Luc Godard & Bertolt Brecht (Discussion)|(Discussion)]]
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#Godard and Contemporary Feminism ([[TCF340/Godard and Contemporary Feminism (Discussion)|Discussion]])
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#French Feminism, Continued: Agnès Varda ([[TCF340/French Feminism, Continued: Agnès Varda (Lecture)|Lecture]], [[TCF340/French Feminism, Continued: Agnès Varda (Discussion)|Discussion]])
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#Claire Denis ([[TCF340/Claire Denis (Discussion)|Discussion]])
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#Godard Since 1968 ([[TCF340/Godard Since 1968 (Discussion)|Discussion]])
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#Cinema Ascetic: Robert Bresson
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===List of lecture notes===
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[[:Category:TCF340 Lecture]]
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===List of discussion notes===
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[[:Category:TCF340 Discussion]]
  
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===Extra credit===
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#The history of color TV is very complicated. Create a timeline that lists the significant events leading up to color TV's widespread implementation.
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==== Shot Logger ====
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#What impact did color technology have on TV style?
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Prepare frame grabs for [http://shotlogger.org Shot Logger], using a French film.
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#What is the NTSC and why was it created?
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More details will be announced later.
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== Texts & resources ==
  
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'''Group 4'''
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===Books===
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#When did the remote control first appear and what were the names of the early devices?
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#Jeremy Butler, ''Television: Critical Methods and Applications''
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#*How did they work?
 
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#How do modern remote controls work and when did they become commonly used?
 
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#What have broadcast networks done to try to combat channel changing and distractions from "second screens" (that is, cellphones, tablets, laptops)?
 
  
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===Articles and book chapters===
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In alphabetical order, not the order in which they are assigned.
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|File:1956 Zenith Remote Ad.JPG|alt1=Zenith remote-control ad (1956).|Zenith remote-control ad (1956).
 
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|File:Zenith Space Command.jpg|alt2=Zenith Space Command remote control unit.|Zenith Space Command remote control unit.
 
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|File:56zenith.jpg|alt3=Zenith Space Command receiving TV set (1957).|Zenith Space Command receiving TV set (1957).
 
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|File:Toshiba Remote Control CT-9863.jpg|alt4=A Toshiba remote control, photographed in 2009.|A Toshiba remote control, photographed in 2009.
 
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== Bibliography ==
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#Armes, Roy. French Cinema. NY: Oxford University, 1985.
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#Gary Copeland, "A History of Television Style," in Jeremy G. Butler, ''Television: Critical Methods and Applications'', '''third edition'''. Not included in fourth and subsequent editions of ''Television''.
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#Bazin, André. "The Era of the Popular Front." In Jean Renoir, pp. 36-52. Edited and with an introduction by Francois Truffaut. Translated by W. W. Halsey II and William H. Simon. NY: Simon & Schuster, 1973.
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#Bazin, André. "The Evolution of Film Language." In The New Wave, pp. 24-51. Edited and translated by Peter Graham. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1968.
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#Bazin, André. "LE JOUR SE LÊVE . . . Poetic Realism." In LE JOUR SE LÊVE: A Film by Marcel Carné and Jacques Prévert, pp. 5-12. Translated by Dinah Brooke and Nicola Hayden. NY: Simon and Schuster, 1970.
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#Brecht, Bertolt. "The Modern Theatre is the Epic Theatre." In Brecht on Theatre, pp. 33-42. Edited and translated by John Willett. New York: Hill and Wang, 1964.
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#Bresson, Robert. Notes on Cinematography. Translated by Jonathan Griffin. NY: Urizen, 1977.
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#Crisp, C. G. Eric Rohmer: Realist and Moralist. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1988.
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#Fofi, Goffredo. "The Cinema of the Popular Front in France (1934-38)." In Screen Reader I, pp. 172-224. London: SEFT, 1977.
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#Kuhn, Annette. Women's Pictures: Feminism and Cinema. Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1982.
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#Hughes, Robert. The Shock of the New. NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1980.
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#MacCabe, Colin. Godard: Images, Sounds, Politics. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University, 1980.
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#MacCabe, Colin. Godard: A Portrait of the Artist at Seventy. New York: Faber & Faber, 2003.
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#Monaco, James. Alain Resnais. NY: Oxford University, 1979.
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#Monaco, James. The New Wave. NY: Oxford University, 1976.
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#Penley, Constance. "Les Enfants de la Patrie." Camera Obscura, 8-9-10, pp. 32-59.
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#Wollen, Peter. "Godard and Counter Cinema: VENT D'EST." In Readings and Writings: Semiotic Counter-Strategies. London: Verso, 1982.
  
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==External links==
 
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*[http://tcf.ua.edu/EO/DV/Kinescope-TapeComparison.php Kinescope-Videotape comparison]
 
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*[http://www.tcf.ua.edu/EO/DV/Clorox.php Clorox commercials].
 
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*[http://tcf.ua.edu/EO/DV/Laughin19680914.php ''Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In''] (episode 15, 9/16/1968)
 
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*[http://youtu.be/gV0Ralac0w4 ''The Magic of Television''] (1941)
 
  
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[[Category:TCF340]]
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[[Category:TCF311 Discussion]]
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[[Category:TCF Classes]]

Revision as of 10:42, 23 August 2016

TCF 340 International Cinema is a discussion-oriented course taught by Jeremy Butler.

Course objectives

TCF 340 assumes the student understands generally the contours of international cinema history. The course's objective therefore is to investigate in some depth the cinematic work of a particular nation and the historical/theoretical issues pertaining to it. This term our topic will be the French cinema.

The online syllabus (Fall 2014): http://goo.gl/KfRVST

Study groups

Group 1

  • Christian Abbatiello
  • Andrew Barksdale
  • Brooks Bell
  • Cameron Benson
  • Mia Blackman

Group 2

  • Chase Bodiford
  • Kayla Cassese
  • Jessica Dimas
  • Matthew Eden
  • Shelby Fallin

Group 3

  • Becca Hanlon
  • Thomas Klein
  • Ezra Laemmle
  • Natalie Landers

Group 4

  • Taylor Martin
  • Allen Miller
  • Ethan Montgomery
  • George Murdison

Group 5

  • Alex Pounders
  • Cape Sandlin
  • Kacey Tanveer
  • Trevyon Tellis

Online study guides

Chronological order

  1. Film Analysis: Narrative Structure, Television
  2. Film Analysis: Mise-en-scene, Television
  3. Film Analysis: Cinematography, Television
  4. Film Analysis: Editing, Television
  5. Film Analysis: Sound, Television
  6. Film Analysis: Discussion of Analytical Exercise
  7. Early French Cinema
  8. The Avant-Garde (Discussion)
  9. French Cinema Between the Wars I: Popular Front (Discussion)
  10. Bazinian Realism (Discussion)
  11. French Cinema Between the Wars II: Poetic Realism (discontinued)
  12. French New Wave I: Alain Resnais (Discussion)
  13. French New Wave II: François Truffaut (Discussion)
  14. French New Wave III: Éric Rohmer (Discussion)
  15. French Modernism: Jean-Luc Godard & Bertolt Brecht (Discussion)
  16. Godard and Contemporary Feminism (Discussion)
  17. French Feminism, Continued: Agnès Varda (Lecture, Discussion)
  18. Claire Denis (Discussion)
  19. Godard Since 1968 (Discussion)
  20. Cinema Ascetic: Robert Bresson

List of lecture notes

Category:TCF340 Lecture

List of discussion notes

Category:TCF340 Discussion

Extra credit

Shot Logger

Prepare frame grabs for Shot Logger, using a French film.

More details will be announced later.

Texts & resources

Books

  1. Jeremy Butler, Television: Critical Methods and Applications

Articles and book chapters

In alphabetical order, not the order in which they are assigned.

  1. Armes, Roy. French Cinema. NY: Oxford University, 1985.
  2. Bazin, André. "The Era of the Popular Front." In Jean Renoir, pp. 36-52. Edited and with an introduction by Francois Truffaut. Translated by W. W. Halsey II and William H. Simon. NY: Simon & Schuster, 1973.
  3. Bazin, André. "The Evolution of Film Language." In The New Wave, pp. 24-51. Edited and translated by Peter Graham. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1968.
  4. Bazin, André. "LE JOUR SE LÊVE . . . Poetic Realism." In LE JOUR SE LÊVE: A Film by Marcel Carné and Jacques Prévert, pp. 5-12. Translated by Dinah Brooke and Nicola Hayden. NY: Simon and Schuster, 1970.
  5. Brecht, Bertolt. "The Modern Theatre is the Epic Theatre." In Brecht on Theatre, pp. 33-42. Edited and translated by John Willett. New York: Hill and Wang, 1964.
  6. Bresson, Robert. Notes on Cinematography. Translated by Jonathan Griffin. NY: Urizen, 1977.
  7. Crisp, C. G. Eric Rohmer: Realist and Moralist. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1988.
  8. Fofi, Goffredo. "The Cinema of the Popular Front in France (1934-38)." In Screen Reader I, pp. 172-224. London: SEFT, 1977.
  9. Kuhn, Annette. Women's Pictures: Feminism and Cinema. Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1982.
  10. Hughes, Robert. The Shock of the New. NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1980.
  11. MacCabe, Colin. Godard: Images, Sounds, Politics. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University, 1980.
  12. MacCabe, Colin. Godard: A Portrait of the Artist at Seventy. New York: Faber & Faber, 2003.
  13. Monaco, James. Alain Resnais. NY: Oxford University, 1979.
  14. Monaco, James. The New Wave. NY: Oxford University, 1976.
  15. Penley, Constance. "Les Enfants de la Patrie." Camera Obscura, 8-9-10, pp. 32-59.
  16. Wollen, Peter. "Godard and Counter Cinema: VENT D'EST." In Readings and Writings: Semiotic Counter-Strategies. London: Verso, 1982.
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