SCHEDULE



I: The New British Gangster Film: Neoliberalism as Criminality


            Jan 10              Introduction

                Screening:    John Mackenzie, The Long Good Friday (1980)
           
            Jan 12              Lester Friedman, “The Empire Strikes Out”
                                    Thomas Elsaesser, “Images for Sale: The ‘New’ British Cinema”
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            Jan 17              John Hill, “Allegorising the Nation”

                Screening:    Peter Greenaway, The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover (1990)

            Jan 19              Peter Wollen, "The Last New Wave" 
                           
                                    Michael Walsh, "Allegories of Thatcherism"
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            Jan 24              Discussion of Term Papers – topics, timetables, research methods

                Screening:    Stephen Frears, Dirty Pretty Things (2002)

            Jan 26              TBA

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II: Britain as Brand: National Image in the World Market

            Jan 31              Andrew Higson, "Representing the National Past"

        
  
                Screening:    Hugh Hudson, Chariots of Fire (1981)

            Feb 2                Amy Sargeant, "Making and Selling Heritage Culture"


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            Feb 7                review Higson and Sargeant

                Screening:    James Ivory, A Room With A View (1985
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            Feb 9                Claire Monk, "The Heritage Film and Gendered Spectatorship"
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            Feb 14             Peter Todd, "The British Film Industry in the Nineties"
                                    Geoff Brown, "British Film Culture in the 90s
                                    Toby Miller, "The Film Industry and the Government"

                Screening:    Danny Boyle, Trainspotting (1996)

            Feb 16             Karen Lury, “Here and Then”

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            Feb 21             Sarah Street, excerpts from Transatlantic Crossings
                                                (not in coursepack)
                                   
                                    Topic Paragraph / Annotated Bibliographies Due Today
               
                 Screening:   Roger Michel, Notting Hill (1999)

            Feb 23             Moya Luckett, “Image and Nation in 1990s British Cinema”

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III: A Cinema of Counter-Heritage

            Feb 28             Stuart Hall, “New Ethnicities”   (not in coursepack)

                Screening:    Menalik Shabazz, Burning an Illusion (1981)

            Feb 30             Sarita Malik, “Beyond the Cinema of Duty”
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            Mar 14             Paul Giles, “History with Holes: Channel Four Television Films in the 1980s"

                Screening:    Frears and Hanif Kureishi, My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)

            Mar 16             Susan Torrey Barber, “Insurmountable Difficulties”
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            Mar 21             Leonard Quart, “The Religion of the Market”


                Screening:    Mike Leigh, High Hopes (1988)

            Mar 23             TBA
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IV: Claiming the Real: Toward a “Transnational Documentary”
   
            Mar 28             Manthia Diawara, “Power and Territory: The Emergence of Black British Film Collectives”

                Screening:    John Akomfrah (Black Audio Film Collective), Handsworth Songs (1986)

            Mar 30             Karen Alexander, “Black British Cinema in the 1990s” (not in cp)
                                     In-class screening: Gurinda Chadha, I’m British But (1991)
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            April 4              In-Class Screening: Ken Loach, Cathy Come Home (1966)
                                     Draft of Research Papers Due Today
 
                Screening:     Ken Loach, Riff Raff (1994)
 
            April 6               John Hill, “From the New Wave to ‘Brit Grit’”
 
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            April 11           Claire Monk, “Underbelly UK: The 1990s Underclass Film”
 
                Screening:    Michael Winterbottom, In This World (2002)
 
            April 13           John Hess and Patricia Zimmermann, "Transnational Documentaries: A Manifesto"
 
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            April 18           TBA
 
              Screening:       Ken Loach, Bread and Roses (2000)
 
            April 20           Wrap-Up
 
                        Research Papers Due April 28