Thursday 26 September 2013
Lesson 3: Cache, Haneke - Some Additional Resources and Wider Reading
Cache is a critically acclaimed film and subsequently, there is much discourse surrounding the film.
Below you will find some critical commentary on the film (some more academic than others) that are useful in helping you to come to some conclusions about the film and how it represents the thematic issues of the city, power, poverty and conflict, common to Urban Story films.
Also posted below is the first 30 minutes (2 parts) of a lecture on Cache and the politics of privacy by Dan North from the University of Exeter. This can be seen as useful to your study of the film as many Urban Stories focus on the spatial politics of the urban environment and our public experience of the City. However, in Cache, it is clear that Georges, although he has a public role as a TV presenter, is at pains to keep control of his own private world. This public / private dichotomy is an interesting aspect of the film.
There are also parts 3 and 4 of the lecture but I couldn't get them to play - maybe you will have more luck. If so, please post the links in the comments box.
Lesson 3: Case Study 2 - Cache, Haneke 2005 (France) HOMEWORK
For your homework, please complete the following:
1) read through your own screening notes and your teacher's and organise your findings on the mind map;
2) answer the questions about power, poverty and conflict in Cache
3) write a short personal response to the film and the question, How Is Cache an Urban Story?
To be submitted in Lesson 4.
Please ensure that you bring your homework to the lesson as you will need it to help you make some comparisons with our first case study film, La Haine.
1) read through your own screening notes and your teacher's and organise your findings on the mind map;
2) answer the questions about power, poverty and conflict in Cache
3) write a short personal response to the film and the question, How Is Cache an Urban Story?
To be submitted in Lesson 4.
Please ensure that you bring your homework to the lesson as you will need it to help you make some comparisons with our first case study film, La Haine.
Lesson 3: Case Study Film 2 - CACHE, Haneke 2005 (France)
The English translation of Haneke's 2005 film Cache is 'Hidden' but you could argue that this translation looses some of the impact of the film's French title and the allusion to some of the meaning within the film itself as a result.
Look at the definition of the french verb cacher below; now try to spot these definitions in the film Cache.
Thursday 19 September 2013
Lesson 2: La Haine - Homework
There are 3 parts to your homework for La Haine:
1) Carry out some brief research into Paris as a City? How has is developed since the revolution as a post-colonial city? How has this affected the spatial planning of Paris and its inhabitants?
2) Complete an analysis of the opening sequence (see handout below)
3) Write a short response to the question: How is La Haine an Urban Story? (see handout below)
Homework deadline: next week's lesson
1) Carry out some brief research into Paris as a City? How has is developed since the revolution as a post-colonial city? How has this affected the spatial planning of Paris and its inhabitants?
2) Complete an analysis of the opening sequence (see handout below)
3) Write a short response to the question: How is La Haine an Urban Story? (see handout below)
Homework deadline: next week's lesson
Wednesday 18 September 2013
Lesson 2: La Haine - Some Reading
Below you will find some useful reading on La Haine, some articles are more challenging than others! Use the 'reading summary grid' below to help you organise the content of your findings
La Haine Sight and Sound Article La Haine Representation Article La Haine - Lost in Translation
LESSON 2: La Haine, Matthiew Kassovitz
Below is a short film that is part of a series by CNN on directors and the cities they live in. Here, Matthiew Kassovitz, the director of La Haine, briefly offers his point of view about Paris, fellow Parisiennes and certain aspects and areas of Paris that he feels are important cinematically. He also explains why cities are important backdrops for directors and that, as a director, this helps to communicate the messages in his films.
Thursday 12 September 2013
LESSON 1 - Intro to the Urban Stories Unit
Click on the link below to view The Battle of Algiers clip - embedded video not working in Prezi
Lesson 1 Homework
Reminder of the homework for today's lesson - due in for my lesson next Wednesday:
1) Pick 3 clips from the Prezi, analyse them and fill out the grid on your handout
2) Write one side of A4 in response to the question: What is an Urban Story? Your answer should include a definition and consider some of the themes, characters, common props and stylistic codes that we would expect to see. You MUST refer to examples from the clips you have analysed for homework and in class to support your answer.
Below is a reminder of some of the points (and some others from previous groups) that you came up with about the Urban Experience, which may help you writing your answer...
1) Pick 3 clips from the Prezi, analyse them and fill out the grid on your handout
2) Write one side of A4 in response to the question: What is an Urban Story? Your answer should include a definition and consider some of the themes, characters, common props and stylistic codes that we would expect to see. You MUST refer to examples from the clips you have analysed for homework and in class to support your answer.
Below is a reminder of some of the points (and some others from previous groups) that you came up with about the Urban Experience, which may help you writing your answer...
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