Friday, October 24, 2008

Optional Readings - Not on Quizes or Tests

Carroll, Noël. “Philosophical Problems of Classical Film Theory: The Specificity Theory”, Braudy and Cohen 332-338

Prince, Stephen. “True Lies: Perceptual Realism, Digital Images, and Film Theory”, Braudy and Cohen 270-282

Sontag, Susan. “Theater and Film”, Styles of Radical Will 99-123 (reserve)

Andrew, Dudley. “The Unauthorized Auteur Today” in Film Theory Goes to the Movies, 77-86 (reserve)

Borde, Raymond and Etienne Chaumeton. “Toward a Definition of Film Noir” (pp. 5-13) and “The Sources of Film Noir” (pp.15-28) in Raymond Borde and Etienne Chaumeton, A Panorama of American Film Noir (San Francisco: City Lights Books, 2002) (reserve)

Friday, Krister. “A Generation of Men without History: Fight Club, Masculinity, and the Historical Symptom”, Postmodern Culture, Volume 13, Number 3, May 2003:
http://www3.iath.virginia.edu/pmc/text-only/issue.503/13.3friday.txt

Wollen, Peter. “Godard and Counter Cinema: Vent d’Est”, Braudy and Cohen 525-533
Brecht, Bertolt. “The Modern Theatre Is Epic Theatre” in Brecht on Theater, 1918-1932, trans. John Willett (reserve)

Heath, Stephen. “On Suture” in Questions of Cinema, 76-113 (reserve)
Boyd, David. “The Parted Eye: Spellbound and Psychoanalysis”. Senses of Cinema,
www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/00/6/spellbound.html

Sconce, Jeffrey. “‘Trashing’ the Academy: Taste, Excess, and an Emerging Politics of Cinematic Style”, Braudy and Cohen 534-553

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