Required Readings

• Elizabeth Schmidt, ed. Poems of New York (Everyman’s Pocket Classics.)
  • ISBN-13: 978-0375415043               Ordered at Book Culture on 112th
• Column McCann. Let the Great World Spin (Random House)
  • ISBN-13: 978-0812973990               Ordered at Book Culture on 112th
• Patti Smith, Just Kids (Ecco Press)
  • ISBN-13: 978-0060936228

Required Films

Man on the Wire (2008), documentary film dir. by James Marsh about tightrope walker Philippe Petit.  Screening on Monday 9/15

Dancemaker (1998), documentary film dir. by Matthew Diamond about dancer and choreographer Paul Taylor.  Screening on Monday 10/6

American Journey: In Robert Frank’s Footsteps (2008), doc. dir. by Philippe Séclier inspired by the travels of Swiss photographer Robert Frank. Screening on Monday 10/20

The Waste Land (2010), documentary dir. by Lucy Walker with Brazilian artist Vik Muniz  and catadores of Jardim Gramacho, Rio de Janeiro.  Screening on Monday 11/3

Recommended

 Imagine (2012), feature film dir. by Andrzej Jakimowski.

Searching for Suger Man (2012), documentary film dir. and written by Malik Bendjelloul about a musical pioneer, Sixto Rodrigues.