HACU 234

HACU 234
Traveling Identities: Immigrants, Exiles and Sojourners
in Film, Literature and Culture
Spring 2001

Eva Rueschmann
Asst. Professor of
Cultural Studies
Phone: 559-5429
erHA@hampshire.edu
Office hours: ASH 107,
M 1-2:20, Th 1-3

Mon screenings at 2:30 in ASH Auditorium
Wed seminars 2:30-5:20 in FPH 107


	Online Resources

	Check out the syllabus, including details of assignments and required texts. Communicate with other students in the class using these e-mail addresses. If you would like to set up an online discussion, please contact me. Use the research center. Ask a librarian, browse background reading. Get general advice on Division I exams. Browse links to related topics. ARCHIVE OF PREVIOUS WEEKS Week One Week Two Week Three Week Four Week Five Week Six Week Seven Week Eight Week Nine Week Ten Week Eleven Week Twelve

Screenings/Announcements

Week Six: March 12

Screening of Atom Egoyan's Calendar (Canada/Armenia/Germany 1993, 74 min.) today at 2:30 in Ash Auditorium.

Check out the Film Notes and Study Questions for further information on the director and film, as well as links to relevant sites. Discussion questions may serve as starting points for your journal entries.

Readings/Assignments

March 14

This week we will discuss Armenian-Canadian director Atom Egoyan's film Calendar as an example of exilic cinema. Our discussion of memory, loss and nostalgia in Eva Hoffman's Lost in Translation will carry over into a consideration of the ways in which Egoyan's cinema visually represents these aspects of the exile experience.

Complete readings in your course packet:

Hamid Naficy, "The Accented Style of the Independent Transnational Cinema: A Conversation with Atom Egoyan"
Laura Marks, "The Memory of Images" from The Skin of the Film