SCHEDULE

Date

Viewing

Reading

PERSONS & THINGS

Esposito, Immunitas; Hills, “Creatureliness

Trigg, The Thing

Esposito, Persons & Things

—introductions—

Salò

Suspiria

Cannibal Holocaust

8/31

9/7

9/14

9/21

BRUTAL HUMANISM

Roma: città aperta

—no class—

Umberto D

9/28

10/5

10/12

Schoonover, Brutal Vision

—no class—

Braidotti, The Posthuman

THE NONHUMAN GAZE

Il deserto rosso

The Passenger

Le quattro volte

10/19

10/26

11/2

Iovino, Ecocriticism & Italy

Agamben, Homo sacer

Grusin, The Nonhuman Turn; Past, "Sound"

POST | APOCALYPTIC

Il seme dell'uomo

L'ultimo terrestre

Jeeg Robot

conclusions


final paper due

11/9

11/16

11/30

12/7


12/14

Edelman, No Future

Szendy, Apocalypse-Cinema

Berger, After the End

Morton, Hyperobjects

Inhuman(e) Cinema