Offered through Continuing Education at the University of Vermont, the course is open to the community and undergraduates, and is cross-listed in Theatre, History and Women’s Studies and fulfills major and minor requirements in Film & Television Studies.
Fall 2006
3 credits (plus 1 credit for production)
Begins August 29th
5:45pm to 8:45 pm Tuesdays
Royall Tyler Theatre, Room 210.
THE 195: Duras' India Song Project (CRN: 92778)
WGST 195: Duras' India Song Project (CRN: 92808)
HST 195: Duras' India Song Project (CRN: 92779)
To register for the course, please click on one of the links below:
Returning Students - Click Here - If you have registered for a UVM course in the last 10 years.
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Course materials are available via WebCT here.
This unique interdisciplinary class will study India Song, a blues-filled mood piece that challenges all the conventions. Duras adapted the work in different forms over time- first as a play, then a radio drama, and finally as a film. This course will be divided into 3 units of 4 weeks, each devoted to a different aspect of her complex output: the historical context, the film’s socio-cultural implications, and the play’s dramatic context and aesthetics. Students may register for an additional credit by participating in the production in some capacity- working behind the scenes with designers, participating in the production dramaturgy, or by auditioning to perform in the ensemble. Students will have the opportunity to participate in every aspect of our celebration commemorating the 10th anniversary of Duras’ death, which will feature a screening of her 1975 film adaptation of India Song, a site-specific staging of the play, directed by Guest Artist Rachel Perlmeter, and a symposium comparing the poetics of the film and the play with guest artists and critics and UVM faculty.
Abigail McGowan, Assistant Professor, History, joined the UVM faculty in the fall of 2004 after spending the 2003-2004 academic year as a visiting lecturer at the University of Virginia. She received her B.A. from Carleton College in 1993, and her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1999 and 2003. A specialist in modern South Asian history, she teaches courses on early and modern South Asia, Gandhi and his legacy for resistance movements around the world, and the peoples, cultures, and politics of the Himalayas.
Hilary Neroni, assistant professor of Film Studies at the University of Vermont, teaches courses in film theory, history and production. Her areas of interest include representations of gender and race in contemporary American film, violence in film, women directors, documentary film/video, feminist theory, psychoanalysis, and Marxism. She has published essays on women directors (in particular Jane Campion and Claire Denis) and issues surrounding gender and violence in the cinema. Her book The Violent Woman: Narrativity, Femininity, and Violence in Contemporary American Cinema will be out with SUNY press in 2005. Hilary has a Ph.D. and Masters in Critical Studies from the School of Cinema-Television at the University of Southern California. The emphasis of her masters was American Cinema, Film Theory and Documentary Film. She also has a Bachelor’s degree from Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts.
Rachel Perlmeter, Guest Artist & Curator, is a playwright, director, curator and performer. Her writings for the stage have been developed by the Playwright’s Center in Minneapolis, Soho Think Tank and Mabou Mines and her theatrical works have been seen in traditional as well as site-specific stagings in NYC, Moscow, Quito and Austin. She has been a Fulbright artist, a Social Sciences Research Council Fellow, and a TCG/International Theatre Institute fellow working with experimental theatres in Russia and staging performances at the Library of Foreign Literature. Prior to moving to Vermont, she curated arts-education outreach programs for New York City Ballet and worked with the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Her texts for performance include MOSCOW PLAYS, WANDERLUST, NEURASTHENIA, and her latest work, OSTENTATIOUS POVERTY.
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