Art House Animation and Poetics

This is a trailer for Comparative Literature 382: Literature and the Other Arts: Dividing Time: Art House Animation and Poetics, an undergraduate lecture course offered at the University of Michigan in Fall 2011. DESCRIPTION: The word poetic often passes our lips in reference to experiences that have nothing to do with poems, when we are describing an event, an image, or an emotion, not to mention particular manifestations of justice, license, diction, imagery, or rhetoric. This course explores the notion that these whispers of the poetic are not careless, but suggest a mechanism that operates analogously across a range of texts and circumstances. Drawing our test cases from over a century of brilliant and bizarre visual materials—including animated films from Canada, Czechoslovakia, France, Japan, Poland, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States—we will examine how the timing, technique, technology, attention to audience, and intertextual relations of a given work condition our experience of it. Additional readings will include poems and short stories, as well as exemplary texts in aesthetic theory and film criticism.

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  Film & Animation