Background Reading for September 28

With apologies for the delay...

P. Wollen, “The Two Avant‐gardes,” in Readings and Writings: Semiotic Counter‐Strategies (London, 1982). Online version here.

J. Walley, “Modes of Film Practice in the Avant‐Garde,” in Art and the Moving Image: A Critical Reader, ed. T. Leighton (London, 2008)

E. de Bruyn, “The Expanded Field of Cinema, or Exercise on the Perimeter of a Square,” in X‐Screen: Film Installations and Actions in the 1960s and 1970s (Vienna, 2003)

Recommended:

P. Adams Sitney, “Structural Film,” in Film Culture 47 (Summer 1969): 1‐10.

G. Stemmrich, “White Cube, Black Box and Grey Areas: Venues and Values”, in Art and the Moving Image: A Critical Reader, ed. T. Leighton

Background Reading for September 21

Some background literature for next week's lecture:

Boris Groys, "Politics of Installation": http://www.e-flux.com/journal/view/31 

Jacques Rancière, "the Emancipated Spectator": http://digital.mica.edu/departmental/gradphoto/public/Upload/200811/Ranciere%20%20spectator.pdf  [Somehow the link doesn't appear to work every time, but if you cut and paste it into the address bar, you should be able to access the document.]

Also:

Sven Lütticken,  "Transforming Time": http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/GREY_a_00009 (Should be accessible via university library, but I can also send a PDF.)

Sven Lütticken, "Viewing Copies": http://www.e-flux.com/journal/view/75