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Key Concepts in Film
Key Concepts in Film
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Film: a critical introduction (3rd edition) - Maria Pramaggiore, Tom Wallis, 2011
Book | Suggested for student purchase
Film: a critical introduction (2nd edition) - Maria Pramaggiore, Tom Wallis, 2008
Book
The Oxford guide to film studies - John Hill, Pamela Church Gibson, Richard Dyer, E. Ann
Kaplan, Paul Willemen, 1998
Book | Recommended
Film moments: criticism, history, theory - Tom Brown, James Walters, 2010
Book | Recommended | Excellent student essay length writing (each one is 2500 words)
from a range of film academics.
Film (1 items)
Stories we tell - Sarah Polley, 2009
Audio-visual document | Essential
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How Do Documentaries Differ From Other Types of Film? - Bill Nichols, 2010
Chapter | Recommended
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Late Spring - Yasujiro Ozu, 1949
Audio-visual document | Essential
The Elements of
Mise-en-sce
ne - John Gibbs
Chapter | Essential | Digitised.
The life of mise-en-scne: visual style and British film criticism, 1946-78 - John Gibbs, 2013
Book | Recommended
How Cinematography Creates Meaning in Happy Together (Wong Kar-Wai, 1997) - Cathy
Greenhalgh
Chapter | Recommended | Digitised.
Mise en scene and film style: from classical Hollywood to new media art - Adrian Martin,
2014
Book | Recommended
Reading Hollywood: spaces and meanings in American film - Deborah Thomas, 2001
Book | Recommended
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Do the right thing - Spike Lee, Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, 2005
Audio-visual document | Recommended
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WALL-E - Andrew Stanton, 2008
Audio-visual document | Essential
Star-Spangled Ghibli: Star Voices in the American Versions of Hayao Miyazaki's Films - R.
Denison, 2008-07-01
Article | Recommended
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Settling the score: music and the classical Hollywood film - Kathryn Marie Kalinak, c1992
Book | Recommended
Film sound: theory and practice - Elisabeth Weis, John Belton, 1985
Book | Recommended
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The Lodger - Alfred Hitchcock, 1927
Audio-visual document | Essential
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Double Indemnity - Billy Wilder, 1944
Audio-visual document | Essential
Multiple Indemnity: Film Noir, James M. Cain, and Adaptations of a Tabloid Case - V.
Penelope Pelizzon and Nancy M. West, 2005
Article | Recommended
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Unthinking Eurocentrism: multiculturalism and the media - Ella Shohat, Robert Stam, 2014
Book | Recommended | this wide ranging book explores the political, colonial, and
racial politics of mainstream film whilst also calling attention to (and valourising) the
alternatives (experiments, music videos, peripheral cinemas, indigenous media and more).
Against interpretation and other essays - Susan Sontag, Susan Sontag, 2009
Book | Recommended | Especially sections I and IV. 'Against Interpretation' has been
digitised. Read in relation to Au hasard Balthasar (plus, other recommended films: Them!
(1954) or This Island Earth, Flaming Creatures, Muriel).
Build your own reading list: find two book chapters or journal articles that have relevance
to next week's topic.
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JCVD - Mabrouk El Mechri, 2008
Audio-visual document | Essential
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Acting His Age? The Resurrection of the 80s Action Heroes and their Aging Stars - Philippa
Gates, 2010
Article | Essential
Performance, with strings attached : Team America's (2004) snub to the actor - Alex
Clayton
Chapter | Recommended | Digitised.
Scandals of Classic Hollywood: Ingrid Bergman, Instrument of Evil - Anne Helen Petersen
Article | Recommended
Spectacular bodies: gender, genre and the action cinema - Yvonne Tasker, 1993
Book | Recommended
Read This: In proud defense of Nicolas Cage, fearless actor - Alex McCown, 2016
Webpage | Optional | This popular appreciation of Nic Cage is not the equivalent of
academic scholarship, but has its merits.
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Moulin Rouge - Baz Luhrmann, 2001
Audio-visual document | Essential
Cycles and Clusters: The Shape of Film Genre History - Leger Grinding
Chapter | Recommended
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Om shanti om - Farah Khan, 2007
Audio-visual document | Essential
Cultural globalization and the dominance of the American film industry: cultural policies,
national film industries, and transnational film - Diana Crane, 2014
Article | Recommended
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The plays the thing, wherein Ill catch the conscience of the king: Intertextuality in Om
Shanti Om - Sudha Shastri, 2011
Article | Recommended
Bombay talkies - Zoya Akhtar, Dibakar Banerjee, Karan Johar, Anurag Kashyap, Rani
Mukerji, Randeep Hooda, Saqib Saleem, 2014
Audio-visual document | Recommended
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The Rocky Horror Picture Show - Jim Sharman, 1975
Audio-visual document | Essential
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Book | Recommended
'People Who Think Outside the Box': British Audiences And Asian Extreme Films - Emma
Pett
Article | Recommended
'Trashing' the academy: taste, excess, and an emerging politics of cinematic style - J.
Sconce, 1995-12-01
Article | Recommended
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Choose a recent film release to watch
This week you must choose a recent film release to watch at the cinema, or alternative
viewing platform (iTunes etc). You must arrange to watch your film before your tutorial.
Journal of Videographic Film & Moving Image Studies, 1.3, 2014 | [in]Transition
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Journal | Essential
The Rise of the Movie Geek: DVD Culture, Cinematic Knowledge, and the Home Viewer -
Chuck Tyron
Chapter | Recommended | Electronic book. pp. 16-37.
Discussion on the future of film between David Bordwell, Simon Field, Andra Picard and
Alan Franey
Webpage | Recommended
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