READING LIST
This is a list of Recommended, Not required, reading. Absorbing this list is not a prerequisite for entrance into the M.A. program, but it can help with your preparation. The Foundation List is a short list of the works the faculty recommends as most valuable prior to beginning the program. The Extended List is a longer selection of works you may wish to pursue over a greater period of time.
Foundation List:
Andre Bazin, What Is Cinema, vols. 1, 2.
Sergei Eisenstein, Film Form and Film Sense
Louis Althusser, “Ideology and the Ideological State Apparatuses,” in Lenin and Philosophy
Walter Benjamin, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,” in Illuminations
Laura Mulvey, “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema,” in Movies and Methods, vol. 2
Bill Nichols, ed., Movies and Methods, vol. 1, 2.
Edward Said, Orientalism
Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks
Michel Foucault, History of Sexuality
Roland Barthes, Mythologies
Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams
The Oxford Guide to Film Studies (skim the book, read entries in your area of interest closely and pursue some of the recommended readings in those areas)
Extended List:
Peter Wollen, Signs and Meaning in Cinema
Robert B. Ray, A Certain Tendency of the Hollywood Cinema
Trinh T. Minh-ha, Woman, Native, Other
Roland Barthes, Image/Music/Text
Tom Gunning, "The Cinema of Attractions: Early Film, Its Spectator and the
Avant-Garde"
Lester Friedman, ed., Unspeakable Images: Ethnicity and American Cinema
Siegfried Kracauer, From Caligari to Hitler
Susan Sontag, On Photography
Judith Butler, Gender Trouble
Raymond Williams, Keywords
Frank Lentricchia and Thomas McLaughlin, Critical Terms for Literary Study
Teshome Gabriel, Questions of Third Cinema
Robert Kolker, The Altering Eye (OUP; available on-line under book title)
Christine Gledhill, ed., Home is Where the Heart Is: Studies in Melodrama and the Woman’s Film
Carson, et. al., Multiple Voices in Feminist Film Criticism
P. Adams Sitney, Visionary Film
Bill Nichols, Introduction to Documentary
Ilan Avisar, Screening the Holocaust
Mary Ann Doane, The Desire to Desire
Christian Metz, The Imaginary Signifier
Rick Altman, ed., Sound Theory/Sound Practice
Edward Brannigan, Narrative Comprehension and Film
Roland Barthes, S/Z and Pleasure of the Text
Noel Burch, Theory of Film Practice
70-80s Camera Obscura issues
Joan Copjek, Read My Desire: Lacan Against the Historicists
David Bordwell and Noel Carroll, eds., Post-Theory: Reconstructing Film
Studies
Leo Braudy and Marshall Cohen, eds., Film Theory and Criticism (sixth edition): beware; essays are abridged.
Larry Ceplair and Steven Englund, The Inquisition in Hollywood: Politics in
the Film Community, 1930-1960
Steven DeRosa, Writing with Hitchcock: The Collaboration of Alfred
Hitchcock and John Michael Hayes
Robin Wood, Hitchcock’s Films
Michael Ondaatje, The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing
for Film
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Movie Wars: How Hollywood and the Media Limit What
Films We Can See
Tom Schatz, The Genius of the System
Rainer Rother, Leni Riefenstahl: The Seduction of
Genius
Robert Towne, Chinatown and The Last Detail: Two Screenplays
François Truffaut, Hitchcock
Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida : reflections on photography
Pier Paolo Pasolini, Heretical empiricism
Gilles Deleuze, Cinema 1 : the movement-image
Guy Debord, The society of the spectacle
Michel Foucault, The Order of Things
Mike Featherstone, ed., Global Modernities
Gayatri Spivak, The Post-colonial Critic
Fredrick Jameson, Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
Rey Chow, Writing Diaspora
Andrew Aratoa nd Eike Gebhardt, eds., The Essential Frankfurt School Reader
Marianne Hisch, Conflicts in Feminism
Judith Mayne, Cinema and Spectatorship
Phil Rosen, ed., Narrative, Apparatus, Ideology: A Film Theory Reader
Oxford History of World Cinema
Christian Metz, Film Language
David Bordwell, Narration in the Fiction Film
Kaja Silverman, The Subject of Semiotics
John Berger, Ways of Seeing
David Rodowick, The Crisis of Political Modernism
Tony Bennett, Formalism and Marxism
David James, Allegories of Cinema
Fredric Jameson, The Prison House of Language
Sylvia Harvey, May ’68 and Film Culture
Stephen Heath, Questions of Cinema
Carol Clover, Men, Women and Chainsaws
Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish
Eve Sedgwick, Between Men
Ella Shohat and Robert Stam, Unthinking Ethnocentrism
Marjorie Garber, Vested Interests
Michael Rogin, Black Face, White Noise
Erik Barnouw, History of Documentary
Molly Haskell, From Reverence to Rape
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M.A. Recommended Film List
A List of Core Films for Incoming Grad Students Bill Nichols
Note: The Department of Cinema expects incoming graduate students to possess a reasonable degree of familiarity with films that have proven central to the history of cinema. To that end, at least three advanced film courses are required prior to entering the program. Additionally, the Department expects that new students will be familiar with films in each of the following categories. Familiar means having seen at least 6-10 films/category at least once and having read at least one substantial account that addresses significant aspects of those films (from books or articles). The titles listed are not exhaustive; other titles may be added, and partial knowledge is strongly preferred to significant gaps in knowledge.
Silent Cinema
Rene Clair, PARIS QUI DORT [CRAZY RAY], LE MILLION
Abel Gance, THE WHEEL, NAPOLEON
Luis Buñuel, UN CHIEN ANDALOU
Sergei Eisenstein, STRIKE, BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN, IVAN THE TERRIBLE, I, II, QUE VIVA MEXICO, OCTOBER, THE OLD AND THE NEW
D.W. GRIFFITH, sample of various Biograph shorts, BIRTH OF A NATION, BROKEN BLOSSOMS
Lois Weber, THE BLOT
Fritz Lang, METROPOLIS
F.W. Murnau, NOSFERATU, THE LAST LAUGH
Oscar Micheux, BODY AND SOUL, BIRTHRIGHT, WITHIN OUR GATES
Cecil Hepworth, RESCUED BY ROVER (1902 or so)
Lumiere Brothers, the program of 1895, at least, THE ARRIVAL OF A TRAIN, WORKERS LEAVING THE FACTORY, BATHING THE BABY…
Eric von Stroheim, FOOLISH WIVES, GREED
Alexander Dovzhenko, ARSENAL, EARTH
V. Pudovkin, STORM OVER ASIA, DESERTER
Alexander Kirisinov, MENILMONTANT
F.W. Murnau, NOSFERATU, SUNRISE, FAUST
Alice Guy Blanche, various titles
Georges Melies, A TRIP TO THE MOON, various shorts
Buster Keaton, OUR HOSPITALITY, STEAMBOAT BILL, SHERLOCK JR. THE GENERAL, various shorts
Charlie Chaplin, CITY LIGHTS, THE GOLD RUSH, MODERN TIMES, various shorts
European Cinema
Luis Bunuel, THE DISCREET CHARM OF THE BOURGEOISIE, EXTERMINATING ANGEL
Vittorio De Sica, THE BICYCLE THIEF, UMBERTO D
Julien Duvivier, PEPE LE MOKO
Roberto Rosselini, ROME OPEN CITY, PAISA
Carl Dreyer, THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC
Robert Bresson, PICKPOCKET, A CONDEMNED MAN ESCAPED
Rainer Werner Fassbinder, THE MARRIAGE OF MARIA BRAUN, MOTHER KUSTERS GOES TO HEAVEN, FEAR EATS THE SOUL ALI, IN THE YEAR OF THIRTEEN MOONS
Clair Denis, CHOCOLAT
Federico Fellini, 81/2, LA STRADA
Ingmar Berman, PERSONA, WILD STRAWBERRIES, VIRGIN SPRING
Bernardo Bertolucci, THE CONFORMIST, 1900
Jean-Luc Godard, PIERROT LE FOU, BREATHLESS, HAIL MARY, SIX FOUS DEUX, DEUX OR TROIS CHOSES QUE JE SAIS D’ELLE
Peter Greenaway, THE DRAUGHTMAN’S CONTRACT
Miklos Jansco, THE RED AND THE WHITE
Dusan Makavejev, WR: MYSTERIES OF THE ORGANISM, THE CASE OF THE MISSING SWITCHBOARD OPERATOR
Lindsay Anderson, THIS SPORTING LIFE, IF
Sally Potter, THRILLER
David Lean, LAWRENCE OF ARABIA, THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI
Jean Renoir, THE RULES OF THE GAME, THE RIVER, BOUDU SAVED FROM DROWNING
Margareta von Trotta, SISTERS, THE LOST HONOR OF KATERINA BLUM
Andre Tarkovsky, ANDREI RUBLEV, THE STALKER, NOSTALGIA, SOLARIS
Francois Truffaut, SHOOT THE PIANO PLAYER, 400 BLOWS
Jacques Tati, MON ONCLE, PLAYTIME
Marlene Gorris, A QUESTION OF SILENCE
Josef von Sternberg, THE BLUE ANGEL
Alain Resnais, HIROSHIMA MON AMOUR
Marta Mazaros, ADOPTION, DIARY FOR MY LOVES
R. Wiene, THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI
Andrzej Wajda, ASHES AND DIAMONDS, KANAL, MAN OF IRON, PROMISED LAND
Lina Wertmuller, SWEPT AWAY…, LOVE AND ANARCHY
Michaelangelo Antonioni, THE ECLIPSE, L’AVVENTURA, RED DESERT, ZABRISKIE POINT
Roman Polanski, REPULSION, KNIFE IN THE WATER
Chantal Ackerman, LETTERS FROM HOME, JEANNE DIELMAN
Classic American Cinema (1928-1975)
Charlie Chaplin, THE GREAT DICTATOR
Francis Ford Coppola, THE GODFATHER, I, II
Stanley Donen, SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN [WITH Gene Kelly], TWO FOR THE ROAD
John Ford, STAGECOACH, THE SEARCHERS, YOUNG MR. LINCOLN, FORT APACHE
William Wyler, THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES
Josef von Sternberg, MOROCCO
Dorothy Arzner, DANCE, GIRL, DANCE; CHRISTOPHER STRONG
Fritz Lang, BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT, THE BIG HEAT
Alfred Hitchcock, BLACKMAIL, YOUNG AND INNOCENT, STRANGERS ON A TRAIN, NOTORIOUS, VERTIGO, READ WINDOW, PSYCHO, MARNIE
Stanley Kubrick, DR. STRANGELOVE, PATHS OF GLORY, KILLER’S KISS, SPARTACUS
Douglas Sirk, WRITTEN ON THE WIND, ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS
Ernest Lubitsch, THE LOVE PARADE, TROUBLE IN PARADISE
Billy Wilder, SUNSET BOULEVARD, DOUBLE INDEMNITY, SOME LIKE IT HOT, ACE IN THE HOLE
Orson Welles, CITIZEN KANE, TOUCH OF EVIL, F FOR FAKE
Sam Fuller, UNDERWORLD U.S.A., RUN OF THE ARROW, NAKED KISS, SHOCK CORRIDOR, PICKUP ON SOUTH STREET
Nicholas Ray, REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE
Robert Aldrich, KISS ME DEADLY
Howard Hawks, RIO BRAVO, THE BIG SLEEP, BRINGING UP BABY
Edgard Ulmer, DETOUR
King Vidor, DUEL IN THE SUN, STELLA DALLAS
Michael Curtiz, MILDRED PIERCE, CASABLANCA
Joseph Lewis, GUN CRAZY
Abraham Polonsky, FORCE OF EVIL
Walt Disney, STEAMBOAT WILLIE, FANTASIA, BAMBI, SNOW WHITE
Elia Kazan, ON THE WATERFRONT
Modern American Cinema (1975- )
Arthur Penn, BONNIE AND CLYDE, THE LEFT-HANDED GUN, FOUR FRIENDS
Roman Polanski, CHINATOWN
Bob Rafelson, FIVE EASY PIECES
Steven Spielberg, JAWS, SHINDLER’S LIST
George Lucas, STAR WARS, AMERICAN GRAFFITI
Brian de Palma, GREETINGS, SISTERS, BODY DOUBLE
Ridley Scott, BLADE RUNNER, THELMA AND LOUISE
Robert Altman, NASHVILLE, MACCABE AND MRS. MILLER
Luis Malle, ATLANTIC CITY
Terence Malick, BADLANDS, DAYS OF HEAVEN
Quentin Tarantino, RESERVOIR DOGS, PULP FICTION
Lawrence Kasdan, BODY HEAT
Amy Heckerling, FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH
Peter Bogdanovich, THE LAST PICTURE SHOW
Martin Scorsese, RAGING BULL, TAXI DRIVER
Francis Coppola, THE CONVERSATION, APOCALYPSE NOW
Independent American Cinema
Todd Haynes, SAFE, POISON, SUPERSTAR: THE KAREN CARPENTER STORY
Charles Burnett, KILLER OF SHEEP
Coen Brothers, BLOOD SIMPLE, BARTON FINK
Jim Jarmusch, STRANGER THAN PARADISE, MYSTERY TRAIN
Spike Lee, SHE’S GOTTA HAVE IT, DO THE RIGHT THING
John Cassavetes, SHADOWS, WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE
John Sayles, RETURN OF THE SECAUCUS SEVEN, CITY OF LOVE
Hal Hartley, TRUST, THE UNBELIEVABLE TRUTH
Dennis Hopper, EASY RIDER
Claudia Weil, GIRLFRIENDS
Luis Valdez, ZOOT SUIT, LA BAMBA
Susan Seidelman, DESPERATELY SEEKING SUSAN
John McNaughton, HENRY: PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER
Steven Soderbergh, SEX, LIES AND VIDEOTAPE, SCHIZOPOLIS, KAFKA
Richard Linklater, SLACKER
Julie Dash, DAUGHTERS OF THE DUST
Jim McBride, DAVID HOLTZMAN’S DIARY
Bill Sherwood, PARTING GLANCES
David Lynch, ERASERHEAD
Lizzie Borden, BORN IN FLAMES
Martin Scorsese, MEAN STREETS
Melvin Van Peebles, SWEET SWEETBACK’S BAADASSSS SONG
Wayne Wong, CHAN IS MISSING
Greg Araki, THE LIVING END
Yvonne Rainer, THE MAN WHO ENVIED WOMEN
Asian Cinema
Akira Kurosawa, THE HIGH AND THE LOW, STRAY DOG, YOJIMBO, THE SEVEN SAMURAI, IKIRU, RASHOMON
Kon Ichikawa, FIRES ON THE PLAIN
Kenji Mizoguchi, THE LIFE OF OHARU, UGETSU
Nagisa Oshima, DEATH BY HANGING, THE CEREMONY
Yasujiro Ozu, TOKYO STORY, EARLY SPRING, LATE SPRING
Chen Kaige, YELLOW EARTH, FAREWELL MY CONCUBINE
Hou Hsaio-Hsien, CITY OF SADNESS, GOODBYE SOUTH, GOODBYE
Satyajit Ray, PATHER PANCHALI, MAHANAGAR [BIG CITY], DISTANT THUNDER, CHARULATA
Zhang Yimou, JU DOU, RAISE THE RED LANTERN
Ishiro Honda, GODZILLA [Japanese, 1954, and American, 1956, versions]
Hiroshi Teshigahara, WOMAN OF THE DUNES
Mani Kaul, Uski Roti [Daily Bread]
Mrinal Sen, BHUVAN SHOME, THE RUINS
John Woo, A BETTER TOMORROW, THE KILLER
Abbas Kiarostami, WHERE IS THE FRIEND’S HOME, LIFE AND NOTHING MORE, THROUGH THE OLIVE TREES, CLOSEUP
Mohsen Makhmalbaf, THE PEDDLER, THE CYCLIST, GABBEH
Ebrahim Forouzesh, THE KEY
African and Latin American Cinema
Glauba Rocha, DER LIONE HAS SEPT CABECAS [THE LION HAS SEVEN HEADS]; BLACK GOD, WHITE DEVIL
Tomas Alea, MEMORIES OF UNDERDEVELOPMENT, THE LAST SUPPER
Nelson Pereira dos Santos, HOW TASTY WAS MY LITTLE FRENCHMAN
Jorge Sanjines, THE COURAGE OF THE PEOPLE, BLOOD OF THE CONDOR
Gillo Pontocorvo, THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS
Ousmane Sembene, BLACK GIRL, EMITAI, XALA, CEDDO
Humberto Solas, LUCIA
Miguel Littin, EL CHACAL DE NAHUELTORO, THE PROMISED LAND
Patricio Guzman, THE BATTLE OF CHILE
Hector Babenco, PIXOTE, KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN
Eduardo Coutinho, A MAN MARKED TO DIE [aka TWENTY YEARS AFTER]
Carlos Dieges, QUILOMBO, XICA DA SILVA
Joaquim Pedro de Andrade, MACUNAIMA
Artur Omar, TRISTE TROPICO
Jorge Furtado, ISLE OF FLOWERS (short film)
Luis Bunuel LOS OLVIDADOS
Helvio Soto, BLOODSTAINED NITRATE
Raul Ruiz, TRES TRISTES TIGRES, THE PENAL COLONY
Experimental Cinema
Luis Bunuel, , L’AGE D’OR
Stan Brakhage, WINDOW WATER BABY MOVING, MACHINES OF EDEN, DESIST FILM, and any three other films
Peter Kubelka, ARNULF RAINER, UNSERE AFRIKAREISE
Maya Deren, video of all her works, or at least MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON, AT LAND, RITUAL IN TRANSFIGURED TIME
Chris Marker, LA JETTE
Luis Delluc, FEVER
Germaine Dullac, THE SMILING MADAME BEUDET
Carolee Schneeman, FUSES
Jack Smith, FLAMING CREATURES
Man Ray, complete works (videotape)
Hans Richter, complete works (videotape)
Kenneth Anger, complete works (videotape)
V. Pudovkin, CHESS FEVER
Su Friedrich, THE TIES THAT BIND
Jay Rosenblatt, THE SMELL OF BURNING ANTS, KING OF THE JEWS, HUMAN REMAINS
Rea Tajiri, HISTORY AND MEMORY
Peter Forgacs, FREE FALL, DANUBE EXODUS, THE MAELSTROM
Bruce Conner, A MOVIE, MARILYN X FIVE, COSMIC RAY
Jean Cocteau, BLOOD OF THE POET, ORPHEUS
Andy Warhol, BLOW JOB, FLESH, TRASH
Michael Snow, WAVELENGTH
David Rimmer, VARIATIONS ON A CELLOPHANE WRAPPER, WATCHING FOR THE QUEEN, SURFACING ON THE THAMES
Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen, RIDDLES OF THE SPHINX
George Kuchar, various shorts
Trinh T. Minh-ha, REASSEMBLAGE, SURNAME VIET GIVEN NAME NAM
Bill Viola, various shorts
Gary Hill, various shorts
Woody and Seina Vasulka, various shorts
Documentary Cinema
Luis Bunuel, LAND WITHOUT BREAD
Les Blank, BURDEN OF DREAMS
Christine Choy and Renee Tajima, WHO KILLED VINCENT CHIN?
Claude Lanzmann, SHOAH
Marcel Ophuls, THE SORROW AND THE PITY, HOTEL TERMINUS: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF KLAUS BARBIE
Errol Morris, THE THIN BLUE LINE; GATES OF HEAVEN; FAST, CHEAP AND OUT OF CONTROL
Barbara Kopple, HARLAN COUNTY, USA
Jean Rouch, LES MAITRES FOUS, JAGUAR, CHRONICLE OF A SUMMER
Drew Associates, PRIMARY, THE CHAIR
Maysles Brothers (David and Albert), SALESMAN, GIMME SHELTER
Fred Wiseman, HIGH SCHOOL, TITICUT FOLLIES, MODEL
Hara Kazuo, THE EMPEROR’S NAKED ARMY MARCHES ON, EXTREMELY PERSONAL EROS: LOVE SONG
Robert Flaherty, NANOOK OF THE NORTH, LOUISIANA STORY
Mikhail Kalatozov, SALT FOR SVANETIA
Dziga Vertov, MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA, THREE SONGS FOR LENIN, SYMPHONY OF THE DON BASIN, KINO-PRAVDA
F. Solanas, THE HOUR OF THE FURNACES
D. Pennebaker, DON’T LOOK BACK, MONTEREY POP, THE WAR ROOM
Connie Field, THE LIFE AND TIMES OF ROSIE THE RIVETER
Emile de Antonio, IN THE YEAR OF THE PIG, POINT OF ORDER, PAINTER’S PAINTING
Joris Ivens, SPANISH EARTH, NEW EARTH, INDONESIA CALLING
Isaac Julien, LOOKING FOR LANGSTON
John Akomfrah, HANDSWORTH SONGS
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