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