{"id":533,"date":"2007-01-02T10:12:32","date_gmt":"2007-01-02T15:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/?p=533"},"modified":"2007-02-02T15:02:19","modified_gmt":"2007-02-02T20:02:19","slug":"eastern-european-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/?p=533","title":{"rendered":"Eastern European Film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This coming semester (starting next week) I will be teaching a class on Eastern European Films 1956-2006. The syllabus (basically a list of films being screened) is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/http:\/www.shaviro.com\/Classes\/5070W07.html\">here<\/a>. I am teaching this class basically in order to learn more about the subject myself; I&#8217;m no expert. I am showing a few films I love (Vera Chytilova&#8217;s <em>Daisies<\/em>, Dusan Makavejev&#8217;s <em>WR: Mysteries of the Organism<\/em>, Bela Tarr&#8217;s <em>Damnation<\/em>, Emir Kusturica&#8217;s <em>Underground<\/em>, Jan Svankmajer&#8217;s <em>Lunacy<\/em>), a few that I respect more than love (works by Andrzej Wajda and Krzystof Kieslowski, for instance), and a good number that I have never seen before. There are films from Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovkia and its successor states, Romania, and Yugoslavia and its successor states. (MIssing &#8212; due to my ignorance rather than any better reason &#8212; are films from Bulgaria and Albania).<\/p>\n<p>One of the class requirements is for each of the students to keep a film journal, in which they comment on each of the films we see. In order to set an example &#8212; or perhaps because I will also be learning about this stuff myself &#8212; I will do likewise, and comment on all the films we see in this blog. (And perhaps on some additional films as well, which I watch as background).<\/p>\n<p>If nothing else, this ought to help me to increase the frequency with which I post on this blog &#8212; one of my New Year&#8217;s Resolutions for 2007.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This coming semester (starting next week) I will be teaching a class on Eastern European Films 1956-2006. The syllabus (basically a list of films being screened) is here. I am teaching this class basically in order to learn more about the subject myself; I&#8217;m no expert. I am showing a few films I love (Vera &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/?p=533\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Eastern European Film&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-easteuro","category-film"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}