My all-time favorite car movie is Fellini's Toby Dammit http://youtu.be/loLRanmHTEY?t=4m34s (at the Hammer Museum someone had paired it brilliantly with Carl Dreyer's They Caught the Ferry—a motorcycle movie [does that count?])
Tony Lowe and Akiva Saunders' Arabian Drift is a compilation of Middle Eastern/Saudi car culture, which maybe unexpectedly is closely tied to homoerotic desire (this is not made explicit here but could be supplemented with readings) http://astral-projects.com/arabiandrift.html Moonshine movies dig into the ideology of car culture: Thunder Road Moonrunners http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frYqIfzhKfc The Last American Hero There are some great car commercials: Alexandre Alexeieff's Renault commercial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHWsiyKfeZs (the quality here is poor, but there's a good PAL dvd) This 1963 German VW commercial is like a quirky little structural film: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5AVnrRcXqM There's not only Cronenberg's Crash, but Ballard made his own semi-adaptation of it for the BBC in 1971: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HT2eECKvdTc W.C. Fields' Road Hogs from If I Had a Million is pretty stellar http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDSW-ybm0mg And what about Drive? Ryan Gosling is a dreamboat. The Transporter movies would make an interesting contribution, particularly because they are a commercial feature film franchise that emerged out of a BMW sponsored short film series. Good luck! Jon On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 1:01 PM, <frameworks-requ...@jonasmekasfilms.com>wrote: > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Bryan Konefsky <bkonef...@gmail.com> > To: frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com > Cc: > Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2012 12:57:24 -0700 > Subject: [Frameworks] new critical studies film course in car culture > > Hello Frameworkers - I am in the early moments of developing a critical > studies course that looks at different ways the automobile has been > imagined in cinema. To this end I'd love to hear from ya'll with titles of > films that you think might be useful to explore/expand this idea and > readings that might also dovetail themes that might be explored. > > Do know that my pal Antoni Pinent recently turned me on to a great text > titled Car Fetish. > > OK, let's hear what ya got! > best, > -- > Bryan Konefsky > director, Experiments in Cinema > el presidente, Basement Films > lecturer, Dept of Cinematic Arts UNM > visiting lecturer, UCSC > board of advisors, Ann Arbor Film Festival > -- *SCREEN SLATE <http://www.screenslate.com/> / PUBLISHER/EDITOR / INDEPENDENT, REPERTORY & GALLERY SCREENING LISTINGS* *330.265.3875 / jon.dierin...@gmail.com / follow screen slate on facebook<http://www.facebook.com/screenslate>& twitter <http://twitter.com/#!/screenslate>*
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