LibGuides: Monday Movies : Home

February

Mon. Feb. 24, 12:00PM - 3:00PM, at South Campus Libary or stream on Kanopy

A Trip to the Moon
Director: George Méliès, 1 hr. 22 min. (1902)

THE EXTRAORDINARY VOYAGE chronicles the journey of A Trip to the Moon from the fantastical Méliès' production in 1902 to the astonishing rediscovery of a nitrate print in color in 1993, to the premiere of the new restoration on the opening night of the Cannes Film Festival in 2011.

Stream on Kanopy

In the Library

The Past Is a Moving Picture by Janna Jones
Given the fragility of early nitrate film, much has already been lost. The fragments that remain--whether complete prints of theatrical releases or scraps of everyday life captured by Thomas Edison--only hint at what has disappeared. More recently, archives have been flooded with so much material that they lack the funds to properly preserve it all. Both situations raise questions about how film archives shape our understanding of history and culture.
Fantastic Voyages of the Cinematic Imagination by Matthew Solomon (Editor)
In Fantastic Voyages of the Cinematic Imagination, leading film scholars examine Méliès's landmark film in detail, demonstrating its many crucial connecions to literature, popular culture, and visual culture of the time, as well as its long "afterlife" in more recent films, television, and music videos.
Space Exploration on Film by Paul Meehan
This book chronologically examines 75 films that depict voyages into outer space and offers the historical, cultural, and scientific context of each. These films range from Georges Melies' fantastical A Trip to the Moon to speculative science fiction works such as 2001: A Space Odyssey, Solaris, and Contact, and fact-based accounts of actual space missions as depicted in The Right Stuff, Apollo 13, Salyut 7 and First Man.
Jules Verne: The Essential Collection
This superb collection of classic science fiction features the best of Jules Verne's epic adventure stories, including Five Weeks in a Balloon (1863), A Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), From the Earth to the Moon (1865), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873).

March

Mon., March. 24, 12:00PM - 3:00PM, A304, South Campus or stream on Kanopy

Masterworks of American Avant-garde Experimental Film - The 1920s

Stream on Kanopy

Local Art Exhibition
Now Through March 7, 2025
Irma Freeman Center for Imagination
Visit irmafreeman.org

In the Library

1920 by Eric Burns
Acclaimed author Eric Burns investigates the year of 1920, which was not only a crucial twelve-month period of its own, but one that foretold the future, foreshadow the rest of the 20th century and the early years of the 21st. Burns sets the record straight about this most misunderstood and iconic of periods.
American Cinema of The 1920s by Lucy Fischer (Editor, Contribution by)
In ten original essays, American Cinema of the 1920s examines the film industry's continued growth and prosperity while focusing on important themes of the era.
Prove It on Me by Erin D. Chapman
In the wake of the Great Migration of thousands of African Americans from the scattered hamlets and farms of the rural South to the nation's burgeoning cities, a New Negro ethos of modernist cultural expression and potent self-determination arose to challenge white supremacy and create opportunities for racial advancement. In Prove It On Me, Erin D. Chapman explores the gender and sexual politics of this modern racial ethos and reveals the constraining and exploitative underside of the New Negro era's vaunted liberation and opportunities.
Electric Dreamland by Lauren Rabinovitz
Featuring illustrations from private collections and accounts from unaccessed archives, Electric Dreamland joins film and historical analyses in a rare portrait of mass entertainment and the modern eye.

Film Intro & Discussion Questions

April

Mon., April 21, 12:00PM - 3:00PM, South Campus Library or Stream on Kanopy

Memento
Director: Christopher Nolan, 1 hr., 53 min.
(2000)

Three-time Oscar nominee Christopher Nolan (Interstellar, Inception) directs this critically acclaimed mystery.

Stream on Kanopy

In the Library

American Cinema of The 2000s by Timothy Corrigan (Editor, Contribution by)
In American Cinema of the 2000s, essays from ten top film scholars examine such popular series as the groundbreaking Matrix films and the gripping adventures of former CIA covert operative Jason Bourne; new, offbeat films like Juno; and the resurgence of documentaries like Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11. Each essay demonstrates the complex ways in which American culture and American cinema are bound together in subtle and challenging ways.
The Cinema of Christopher Nolan by Jacqueline Furby (Editor); Stuart Joy (Editor)
From Following (1998) to Interstellar (2014), Christopher Nolan's films explore philosophical concerns by experimenting with nonlinear storytelling while also working within classical Hollywood narrative and genre frameworks. Contextualizing and closely reading each of his films, this collection examines the director's play with memory, time, trauma, masculinity, and identity, and considers the function of music and video games and the effect of IMAX on his work.
Spoiler Alert! Mind-tricking Narratives in Contemporary Hollywood Film
This volume contributes to recent discussions of complex storytelling in film by naming, classifying, and deftly analyzing the “mind-tricking narrative” that is a more precise filmic category than the “twist” or “puzzle” film that other film scholars have identified.

Monday Movies : Home

February

Mon. Feb. 24, 12:00PM - 3:00PM, at South Campus Libary or stream on Kanopy

A Trip to the Moon Director: George Méliès, 1 hr. 22 min. (1902)

THE EXTRAORDINARY VOYAGE chronicles the journey of A Trip to the Moon from the fantastical Méliès' production in 1902 to the astonishing rediscovery of a nitrate print in color in 1993, to the premiere of the new restoration on the opening night of the Cannes Film Festival in 2011.

Stream on Kanopy

In the Library

March

Mon., March. 24, 12:00PM - 3:00PM, A304, South Campus or stream on Kanopy

Masterworks of American Avant-garde Experimental Film - The 1920s

Stream on Kanopy

Local Art Exhibition Now Through March 7, 2025 Irma Freeman Center for Imagination Visit irmafreeman.org

In the Library

April

Mon., April 21, 12:00PM - 3:00PM, South Campus Library or Stream on Kanopy

Memento Director: Christopher Nolan, 1 hr., 53 min. (2000)

Three-time Oscar nominee Christopher Nolan (Interstellar, Inception) directs this critically acclaimed mystery.

Stream on Kanopy

In the Library

A Trip to the Moon
Director: George Méliès, 1 hr. 22 min. (1902)

Local Art Exhibition
Now Through March 7, 2025
Irma Freeman Center for Imagination
Visit irmafreeman.org

Memento
Director: Christopher Nolan, 1 hr., 53 min.
(2000)