Autobiographical & Family Films
John Katz profile
TR 12-1:30 Screening T 5-7:30
For most of us our families are both completely familiar and utterly mysterious. Since the invention of the movie camera, fiction and documentary filmmakers have sought to explore the familiarity and solve the mysteries of their own and other families. These filmmakers include Woody Allen (*Annie Hall*), Frederico Fellini (*Amarcord*), Ingmar Bergman (*Scenes from a Marriage*), Scott Hicks (*Shine*), Ira Wohl (*Best Boy* and *Best Man*), Craig Gilbert and the Raymonds (*An American Family*), Tom Joselin ( Silverlake Life*) and Ross McElwee (*Sherman's March*). We will view and discuss the work of many of these filmmakers and explore the themes, form, psychology and ethics of autobiographical films and films about family life. Readings will include autobiographies, biographies and film criticism. There will be mandatory film screening every week.
updated 2006-10-26
