Mar 28, 2024  
2012-2013 HillBook (Class of 2016) 
    
2012-2013 HillBook (Class of 2016) [ARCHIVED HILL BOOK]

ENG 127 - The Art of Memory

Three Credits
Fall Semester

This course will be an interdisciplinary study of memory that encourages students to investigate both critically and creatively how different artists, writers, and filmmakers depict memory. We will discuss not only how it’s used in their work, but also how they represent the way it functions and how different approaches and mediums reveal or expose different aspects of experience. Artists, writers, filmmakers and composers we may explore include: Jonathan Caouette’s Tarnation, Chris Marker’s La Jetee, poet Marie Howe’s What the Living Do, Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time, Joe Brainard’s I Remember, as well as various essays (by authors such as Joel Agee and bell hooks). We will also examine the artwork of Christian Boltanski, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, and Harry Dodge and Stanya Kahn, as well as composer William Basinski’s Disintegration Loops.
 

Fulfills the Cornerstone Literature Requirement.