Topics in the Avant-Garde in Literature and Cinema

Lecture Notes

WEEK #	TOPICS
1	Avant-garde (PDF)
2	Manifesto of the Communist Party (German Edition 1872) (PDF)
3	Futurism (PDF)
4	Eisenstein (PDF)
5	Kandinsky (1886-1944) (PDF)
6-7	Mass Culture and Woman (PDF)
8	Autonomous Art Movements & the Historical Avant-garde (PDF)
9	Georges Bataille (1897-1962) (PDF)
10	Mary Ann Caws, “The Poetics of the Manifesto: Nowness and Newness.” (PDF)
11	Theory of the Avant-garde (Bürger, 1974) (PDF)
12	Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) (PDF)