Contemporary Film Theory (2011/12 – Semester 1)

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  • Created: 15/02/2010 19:37:55
  • Last updated: 17/11/2011 12:49:26
Group by: Section | Type 133 items
  1. Screenings (13 items)
    1. Week 1 - Avatar (James Cameron) (1 item)
      1. Avatar - Cameron, James, Worthington, Sam, Saldana, Zo.͡, Lang, Stephen, 2010 (dvd)
        Audio Visual
        2010-09-01T14:32:00+01:00
    2. Week 2 - Bridget Jones's Diary (Sharon Maguire) (1 item)
      1. Bridget Jones's diary - Maguire, Sharon, Zellweger, Rene,̌, Grant, Hugh, Firth, Colin, 2001 (dvd)
        Audio Visual
        2010-07-05T13:29:04+01:00
    3. Week 3 - Hell Drivers ( Cy Endfield, 1957) (1 item)
      1. Hell drivers - Endfield, Cy, Baker, Stanley, Cummins, Peggy, 2007 (dvd)
        Audio Visual
        2011-07-21T18:54:37+01:00
    4. Week 4- Unveiled ( Fremde Haut, Angelina Maccarone, 2005) (2 items)
      1. Unveiled - Maccarone, Angelina, Tabatabai, Jasmin, Sarnau, Anneke Kim, Akhavan, Navid, MMM Film Zimmermann & Co. GmbH., 2006 (dvd)
        Audio Visual
        2011-07-21T18:59:08+01:00
      2. Unveiled - Maccarone, Angelina, Tabatabai, Jasmin, Sarnau, Anneke Kim, Akhavan, Navid, MMM Film Zimmermann & Co. GmbH., 2007 (dvd)
        Audio Visual
        2011-07-21T18:59:49+01:00
    5. Week 5 - Battle of Algiers (1 item)
      1. The battle of Algiers - Pontecorvo, Gillo, 2003 (dvd)
        Audio Visual | 1 DVD (116 min.) : sd., b & w
        2010-02-15T19:38:41+00:00
    6. Week 6 - Bhaji on the beach (1 item)
      1. Bhaji on the beach - Chadha, Gurinder, Vithana, Kim, Harkishin, Jimmi, Khajuria, Sarita, 2007 (dvd)
        Audio Visual
        2010-09-01T14:32:10+01:00
    7. Week 8 (2 items)
      The Guild (watch season 1 at least) and Four Eyed Monsters DIY Case Study.
      1. Website
        2010-09-01T14:36:02+01:00
      2. Audio Visual
        2010-09-16T13:49:40+01:00
    8. Week 9 - Madonna of the Seven Moons ( Arthur Crabtree, 1944) (1 item)
      1. Madonna of the seven moons - Crabtree, Arthur, Lawrence, Margery, Granger, Stewart, Calvert, Phyllis, Roc, Patricia, [n.d.] (dvd)
        Audio Visual
        2011-07-21T19:11:36+01:00
    9. Week 10 - Hero (Zhang Yimou) (1 item)
      1. Hero - Zhang, Yimou, 2002 (dvd)
        Audio Visual
        2010-09-01T14:32:24+01:00
    10. Week 11 - Gladiator (Ridley Scott) (1 item)
      1. Gladiator - Scott, Ridley, Crowe, Russell, Phoenix, Joaquin, 2005 (dvd)
        Audio Visual
        2010-09-01T14:32:27+01:00
    11. Week 12 - The Cell (Tarsem Singh) (1 item)
      1. The cell - Singh, Tarsem, Lopez, Jennifer, James, Colton, Baker, Dylan, 2000 (dvd)
        Audio Visual
        2010-09-01T14:32:31+01:00
  2. Week 1 (2 items)
    1. Key Reading (2 items)
      1. The film cultures reader - Turner, Graeme, 2002
        Book | Read: Judith Mayne, 'Paradoxes of Spectatorship', pp. 28-45
        2010-09-01T14:38:03+01:00
      2. Keyframes: popular cinema and cultural studies - Tinkcom, Matthew, Villarejo, Amy, 2001
        Book | Miller, Toby. 'Cinema Studies Doesn't Matter; or, I Know What You Did Last Semester' pp.303-311
        2010-02-15T19:38:50+00:00
  3. Week 2 (5 items)
    1. Key Reading (3 items)
      1. Feminist media studies - InformaWorld (Online service), 2004 (electronic journal)
        Article | Read Angela McRobbie, ' Post-feminism and popular culture'
        2011-07-27T19:24:53+01:00
      2. Cinema journal - Society for Cinema Studies, JSTOR (Organization), Project MUSE., Justine Ashby, Winter 2005 (electronic journal)
        Article | Read Justine Ashby, ' Postfeminism in the British frame'
        2011-07-27T19:38:47+01:00
      3. The film studies reader - Hollows, Joanne, Hutchings, Peter, Jancovich, Mark, 2000
        Book | Read 'Postfeminism and shopping films' by C.Brunsdon pp.289-299
        2010-07-05T13:12:29+01:00
    2. Recommended Reading (2 items)
      1. Cinema journal - Society for Cinema Studies, JSTOR (Organization), Project MUSE., Summer 2009 (electronic journal)
        Article | Read Elana Levine, ' Feminist Media Studies in a Postfeminist Age'. pp 137-143.
        2011-08-02T19:10:54+01:00
      2. Cinema journal - Society for Cinema Studies, JSTOR (Organization), Project MUSE., Summer 2009 (electronic journal)
        Article | Read Adrienne L. McLean, ' Paying Attention: Feminist Film Studies in the Twenty-First Century'. pp 144-151.
        2011-08-02T19:18:59+01:00
  4. Week 3 (5 items)
    1. Key Reading (4 items)
      1. Screen - Society for Education in Film and Television, 1969
        Journal | Vol. 24:6 (1983) Neale, S. 'Masculinity as Spectacle: Reflections on Men in Mainstream Cinema' pp. 2-16
        2010-07-05T13:14:19+01:00
      2. Cinema journal - Society for Cinema Studies, JSTOR (Organization), Project MUSE., Girelli, E, 2005. 44,4 (electronic journal)
        Article | Read Girelli, E ' Transnational Maleness: the Italian Immigrant in Hell Drivers' pp 44-56
        2011-08-02T19:30:33+01:00
      3. Transnational Maleness: The Italian Immigrant in "Hell Drivers" - Girelli, Elisabetta (electronic resource)
        Article
        2011-08-02T19:46:56+01:00
      4. Book | Essential | pp 93-102 Also available as e-book
        2011-09-01T18:54:46+01:00
    2. Recommended Reading (1 item)
      1. Book | Recommended | specifically pp 71-79
        2011-09-01T18:51:16+01:00
  5. Week 4 (4 items)
    1. Key Reading (2 items)
      1. Book | Essential | Read Butler, J " Imitation and Gender Insubordination" pp13-31.
        2011-09-01T19:21:38+01:00
      2. Queer theory: an introduction - Jagose, Annamarie, 1996
        Book | Essential | Read pp 72-100.
        2011-09-01T19:24:04+01:00
    2. Additional Reading (2 items)
      1. Queer theory - Morland, Iain, Willox, Annabelle, 2005
        Book | Recommended | Read Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky " Axiomatic " pp 81-95. Also available in Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky, Epistemology of the Closet pp 22-48.
        2011-09-01T19:29:49+01:00
      2. Epistemology of the closet - Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky, 1991
        Book | Recommended | Read pp 22-48. Also available in Morland, Iain and Willox, Annabelle (eds) " Queer Theory" pp 81-95.
        2011-09-01T19:32:29+01:00
  6. Week 5 (6 items)
    1. Key Reading (4 items)
      1. The film studies reader - Hollows, Joanne, Hutchings, Peter, Jancovich, Mark, 2000
        Book | Week 5: Read 'Colonialism, Rascism and Representation: An Introduction pp. 315-322
        2010-07-05T13:12:41+01:00
      2. Rethinking Third Cinema - Guneratne, Anthony, Dissanayake, Wimal, 2003
        Book | Read: Robert Stam, ' Beyond Third Cinema: The Aesthetics of Hybridity', pp. 31-48
        2010-09-09T14:17:01+01:00
      3. Access the eBookRethinking Third Cinema - Anthony R Guneratne, Wimal Dissanayake, 2003
        Book | E-Book, Read: Robert Stam, 'Beyond Third Cinema: The Aesthetics of Hybridity', pp. 31-48.
        2010-09-09T14:17:04+01:00
      4. Questions of third cinema - Pines, Jim, Willemen, Paul, 1989
        Book | Read: Teshome Gabriel, 'Third Cinema as Guardian of Popular Memory: Toward third Aesthetics', pp. 53-64.
        2010-09-09T14:17:07+01:00
    2. Additional Reading (2 items)
      1. Unthinking Eurocentrism: multiculturalism and the media - Shohat, Ella, Stam, Robert, 1994
        Book | Especially Chapters 5,7, and 8
        2010-02-15T19:38:45+00:00
      2. The Post-colonial studies reader - Ashcroft, Bill, Griffiths, Gareth, Tiffin, Helen, 1995
        Book | Week 5: Read 'Can the Subaltern Speak' by Chakravoty Spivak pp. 24-28
        2010-02-15T19:37:58+00:00
  7. Week 6 (4 items)
    1. Key Reading (3 items)
      1. Book | Read: Naficy, Hamid. 'Situating Accented Cinema' pp. 1-39
        2010-02-15T19:38:37+00:00
      2. The film studies reader - Hollows, Joanne, Hutchings, Peter, Jancovich, Mark, 2000
        Book | Week 6: Read 'Technology and Tradition: audiovisual cultural amon South Asian Families' By M.Gillespie pp.282-288
        2010-07-05T13:12:34+01:00
      3. Identity: community, culture, difference - Rutherford, Jonathan, 1990
        Book | Essential | Read Hall, Stuart, " Cultural Identity and Diaspora", pp 223-237. Also on MMS
        2011-09-01T19:45:38+01:00
    2. Additional Reading (1 item)
      1. Book | Read: pp.119-138
        2010-09-09T14:52:45+01:00
  8. Week 8 (6 items)
    1. Key Reading (3 items)
      1. Article | pp. 104-136
        2010-09-09T15:08:21+01:00
      2. Contemporary American cinema - Williams, Linda Ruth, Hammond, Michael, 2006
        Book | Read: Barbara Klinger, 'What is Cinema Today?', pp. 356-378
        2010-09-09T15:00:04+01:00
      3. Article | pp. 176-183
        2010-09-09T15:08:53+01:00
    2. Additional Reading (3 items)
      1. Book | Read: Introduction
        2010-09-09T15:00:43+01:00
      2. Book | E-Book, Read: Introduction.
        2010-09-09T15:00:46+01:00
      3. States of emergency: documentaries, wars, democracies - Zimmermann, Patricia Rodden, 2000
        Book | Read: 'Pirates of the New World Image Orders', pp. 154-197.
        2010-09-09T15:01:26+01:00
  9. Week 9 (4 items)
    1. Key Reading (2 items)
      1. Popular European cinema - Dyer, Richard, Vincendeau, Ginette, 1992
        Book | Essential | Read " The Popular" pp1-5
        2011-09-08T17:27:42+01:00
      2. Fashioning the nation: costume and identity in British cinema - Cook, Pam, British Film Institute, 1996
        Book | Essential | Read pp 1-40
        2011-09-08T17:30:03+01:00
    2. Additional Reading (2 items)
      1. Book | Read " Subverting rules and Reinforcing Stereotypes: Italianness in ' Madonna of the Seven Moons'. pp 58 - 68.
        2011-09-08T17:47:05+01:00
      2. Access the eBookBeauty and the beast: Italianness in British cinema - Girelli, Elisabetta, Dawson Books, 2009 (electronic book)
        Book | Read pp 58-68
        2011-09-08T17:48:13+01:00
  10. Week 10 (2 items)
    1. Key Reading (1 item)
      See also: Jenny Kwok Wah Lau, 'Hero: China's Response to Globalization', Jump Cut (Search Jump Cut, then search within journal for title of article). Available at http://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/jc49.2007/Lau-Hero/index.html
      1. The epic film in world culture - Burgoyne, Robert, 2011
        Book | Read: Leon Hunt, 'Heroic Chivalry, Heroic Sacrifice: Martial Arthouse as Epic Cinema'.
        2010-09-09T15:23:38+01:00
    2. Additional Reading (1 item)
      1. Chinese films in focus II - Berry, Chris, 2008
        Book | Read: Any Chapter
        2010-09-09T15:24:20+01:00
  11. Week 11 (3 items)
    1. Key Reading (2 items)
      1. Epics, spectacles, and blockbusters: a Hollywood history - Hall, Sheldon, Neale, Stephen, 2010
        Book
        2010-09-09T15:32:56+01:00
      2. The epic film in world culture - Burgoyne, Robert, 2011
        Book | Read: Robert Burgoyne, 'Sovereignty and Bare Life: Gladiator'
        2010-09-09T15:26:57+01:00
    2. Additioinal Reading (1 item)
      1. Movie blockbusters - Stringer, Julian, 2003
        Book | Read: Any Chapter
        2010-07-05T15:20:34+01:00
  12. Week 12 (4 items)
    1. Key Reading (1 item)
      1. Deleuze reframed: a guide for the arts student - Sutton, Damian, Martin-Jones, David, 2008
        Book | Read: Chapter 5
        2010-09-09T15:33:22+01:00
    2. Additional Reading (3 items)
      1. Deleuze on cinema - Bogue, Ronald, 2003
        Book
        2010-09-09T15:33:36+01:00
      2. Cinema 1: the movement-image - Deleuze, Gilles, Tomlinson, Hugh, Habberjam, Barbara, 2005
        Book
        2010-09-09T15:33:39+01:00
      3. Cinema 2: the time image - Deleuze, Gilles, Tomlinson, Hugh, Galeta, Robert, 2005
        Book
        2010-09-09T15:33:42+01:00
  13. Additional Reading (75 items)
    1. The new media book - Harries, Dan, 2002
      Book | Read: Sean Cubitt, 'Digital Filming and Special Effects, pp. 17-29.
      2010-09-09T15:38:30+01:00
    2. Webpage | On MMS
      2010-09-09T15:49:20+01:00
    3. Contemporary American cinema - Williams, Linda Ruth, Hammond, Michael, c2006
      Book | Week 12 Read 'What is Cinema Today' by Klinger, B. pp.356-378
      2010-02-15T19:38:58+00:00
    4. Webpage | Read Russell Meuff, ' John Wayne as " Supercrip" : disabled Bodies and the construction of " Hard" Masculinity in ' The Wings of Angels'
      2011-09-08T18:16:43+01:00
    5. The new media book - Harries, Dan, 2002
      Book | Read: Tom O'Regan & Ben Goldsmith, 'Emerging Global Ecologies of Production', pp. 92-108
      2010-09-09T15:39:43+01:00
    6. The film cultures reader - Turner, Graeme, 2002
      Book | Read: Stephen Prince, 'True Lies: Perceptual Realism, digital images and film theory', pp. 115-128
      2010-09-09T15:51:57+01:00
    7. The film cultures reader - Turner, Graeme, 2002
      Book | Read: Janet Staiger, 'Reception studies in Film and Television', pp. 46-72
      2010-09-09T15:40:42+01:00
    8. Manufacturing Postfeminism -- In These Times - Susan J Douglas, 2002-04-26
      Webpage
      2010-09-09T15:49:57+01:00
    9. Article
      2010-09-09T15:50:07+01:00
    10. Feminism in popular culture - Hollows, Joanne, Moseley, Rachel, 2006
      Book | Read: Joanne Hollows & Rachel Mosleley, ' Popularity Contests: The Meanings of Popular Feminism', pp. 1-22. Chapters 3 & 6 are also interesting.
      2010-09-09T15:50:21+01:00
    11. Postfeminism from A to G - Chris Holmlund, 2005
      Article | pp. 116-121
      2010-09-09T15:55:25+01:00
    12. Book
      2010-09-09T15:51:29+01:00
    13. Book
      2010-09-10T12:19:03+01:00
    14. The film cultures reader - Turner, Graeme, 2002
      Book | Read: Yvonne Tasker, 'Action Heroines in the 1980s: The limits of "musculinity", pp. 295-310
      2010-09-10T11:46:22+01:00
    15. Article | Read: pp. 107-110
      2010-09-10T12:19:22+01:00
    16. Approaches to popular film - Hollows, Joanne, Jancovich, Mark, 1995
      Book | Read: Lisa Taylor, 'From Psychoanalytical Feminism to Popular Feminism', pp. 152-171.
      2010-09-10T12:19:50+01:00
    17. Book | Read: Jinsoo An, 'The Killer: Cult Film and Transculture (Mis)Reading', pp. 94-114.
      2010-09-10T12:20:44+01:00
    18. Book
      2010-09-10T12:21:27+01:00
    19. Asian cinema - Asian Cinema Studies Society, 2005-
      Journal | Read Ha Sung Hwang, ' Characterizing Masculinity: Moving Toward Male Bonding' Vol 16.2 pp 291-300.
      2011-09-08T18:40:32+01:00
    20. The Asian film industry - Lent, John A., 1990
      Book | Read: Chapter 4
      2010-09-10T12:21:49+01:00
    21. Journal | pp. 50-51
      2010-09-10T12:22:08+01:00
    22. Hong Kong connections: transnational imagination in action cinema - Morris, Meaghan, Li, Siu Leung, Chan, Stephen Ching-kiu, 2005
      Book
      2010-09-10T12:22:26+01:00
    23. City on fire: Hong Kong cinema - Stokes, Lisa Odham, Hoover, Michael, 2001
      Book
      2011-09-08T18:45:27+01:00
    24. Journal | pp. 147-154
      2010-09-10T12:22:47+01:00
    25. Book
      2010-09-10T12:23:07+01:00
    26. Book
      2010-09-10T12:23:16+01:00
    27. New queer cinema: a critical reader - Aaron, Michele, 2004
      Book
      2010-09-10T12:23:29+01:00
    28. Queer cinema: the film reader - Benshoff, Harry M., Griffin, Sean, 2004
      Book
      2010-09-10T12:23:39+01:00
    29. Book
      2010-09-10T12:23:47+01:00
    30. The culture of queers - Dyer, Richard, 2002
      Book
      2010-09-10T12:24:19+01:00
    31. Now you see it: studies in lesbian and gay film - Dyer, Richard, Pidduck, Julianne, 2003
      Book
      2010-09-10T12:24:33+01:00
    32. British queer cinema - Griffiths, Robin, 2006
      Book
      2010-09-10T12:24:48+01:00
    33. Book
      2010-09-10T12:24:56+01:00
    34. Film and theory: an anthology - Stam, Robert, Miller, Toby, 2000
      Book | Read: Julio Garcia Espinosa, 'For an Imperfect Cinema', pp. 287-297
      2010-09-10T12:25:05+01:00
    35. Access the eBookRethinking Third Cinema - Anthony R Guneratne, Wimal Dissanayake, 2003
      Book
      2010-09-10T12:25:53+01:00
    36. Book | Read: Cineaste, 'Resolutions of Third World Film Makers Meeting, Algiers, Dec 5-14, 1973', pp. 463-472.
      2010-09-10T12:26:09+01:00
    37. Book
      2010-09-10T12:27:18+01:00
    38. Popular European cinema - Dyer, Richard, Vincendeau, Ginette, 1992
      Book | Read: Christian Bosseno, 'Immigrant Cinema, National Cinema: The Case of Beur Film'
      2010-09-10T12:27:25+01:00
    39. Book
      2010-09-10T12:47:24+01:00
    40. Journal | Read: pp. 92-101
      2010-09-10T12:47:35+01:00
    41. Book | Read: Thomas Elsaesser, 'Ethnicity, Authenticity, and Exile: A Counterfeit Trade? German Filmmakers and Hollywood', pp. 97-124
      2010-09-10T12:48:01+01:00
    42. Article | Read Valerie Orlando, ' From Rap to Rai in the Mixing Bowl: Beur Hip-Hop Culture and Banlieu Cinema in Urban France'. pp 395-415.
      2011-09-08T18:56:33+01:00
    43. Book
      2010-09-10T12:50:11+01:00
    44. YouTube: online video and participatory culture - Burgess, Jean, Green, Joshua, 2009
      Book
      2010-09-10T12:50:18+01:00
    45. The new media book - Harries, Dan, 2002
      Book | Read: Dan Harries, 'Watching the Internet', pp. 171-182
      2010-09-10T12:50:30+01:00
    46. A companion to film theory - Miller, Toby, Stam, Robert, 2005, c1999
      Book | Week 12: Read chapter 'The Work of Theory in the Age of Digital Transformation' by Jenkins, H. pp.234-261
      2010-02-15T19:38:37+00:00
    47. The new media book - Harries, Dan, 2002
      Book | Read: Henry Jenkins, ' Interactive Audiences?', pp. 157-170
      2010-09-10T12:51:39+01:00
    48. The new media book - Harries, Dan, 2002
      Book | Read: Marsha Kinder, 'Narrative Equivocations between Movies and Games', pp. 119-132
      2010-09-10T12:52:10+01:00
    49. Article | Read J.P Telotte, ' The Blair Witch Project Project'. pp 32- 39.
      2011-09-08T19:17:48+01:00
    50. Book | Read: Patricia R. Zimmerman, 'Digital Deployment(s)', pp. 245-264
      2010-09-10T12:53:09+01:00
    51. Asian cinema - There is a Beauty in the Door(way) of Flying Daggers - Asian Cinema Studies Society, Ya-chen Chen, 2005
      Journal | pp. 277-291
      2010-09-10T12:54:41+01:00
    52. Article | pp. 18-42
      2010-09-10T12:55:06+01:00
    53. Chinese-language film: historiography, poetics, politics - Lu, Sheldon H., Yeh, Emilie Yueh-yu, 2005
      Book
      2010-09-10T12:55:22+01:00
    54. Asian cinema - Heroism/Terrorism: Empire Building in Contemporary Chinese Films - Asian Cinema Studies Society, Maurizio Marinelli, 2005
      Journal | pp. 183-209
      2010-09-10T12:55:32+01:00
    55. Article | pp. 43-52
      2010-09-10T12:56:28+01:00
    56. The film cultures reader - Turner, Graeme, 2002
      Book | Read: Tino Balio, 'A major presence in all the world's important markets: The Globalization of Hollywood in the 1990s', pp. 206-217. (Also included in: Contemporary Hollywood Cinema)
      2010-09-10T12:56:51+01:00
    57. Movie blockbusters - Stringer, Julian, 2003
      Book | Read: Chris Berry, 'What's big about the big film? De-Westernizing the blockbuster in Korea and China', pp. 217-229
      2010-09-10T12:58:25+01:00
    58. Contemporary Hollywood cinema - Neale, Stephen, Smith, Murray, 1998
      Book | Read: Warren Buckland, 'A Close Encounter with Raiders of the Lost Ark. Notes on narrative aspects of the New Hollywood Blockbuster', pp. 166-177
      2010-09-10T13:11:05+01:00
    59. Book | Read: Timothy Corrigan, 'Glancing at the past: From Vietnam to VCR's ', pp. 11-48
      2010-09-10T13:12:20+01:00
    60. Transnational cinema: the film reader - Ezra, Elizabeth, Rowden, Terry, 2006
      Book | Read: Chapters 5 & 6
      2010-09-10T13:13:05+01:00
    61. The film cultures reader - Turner, Graeme, 2002
      Book | Read: Justin Wyatt, 'High Concept and Market Research. Movie Making by the Numbers', pp. 382-389
      2010-09-10T13:13:28+01:00
    62. The European cinema reader - Fowler, Catherine, 2002
      Book | Read: David Bordwell, 'The Art Cinema as a Mode of Film Practice', pp. 94-102
      2010-09-10T13:14:14+01:00
    63. Book
      2010-09-10T13:14:51+01:00
    64. Book
      2010-09-10T13:15:04+01:00
    65. Book
      2010-09-10T13:15:28+01:00
    66. Book
      2010-09-10T13:15:38+01:00
    67. Book
      2010-09-10T13:15:47+01:00
    68. Deleuze and horror film - Powell, Anna, 2005
      Book
      2010-09-10T13:15:57+01:00
    69. Deleuze, altered states and film - Powell, Anna, 2007
      Book
      2010-09-10T13:16:02+01:00
    70. Book
      2010-09-10T13:16:09+01:00
    71. Gilles Deleuze's time machine - Rodowick, David Norman, 1997
      Book
      2010-09-10T13:16:13+01:00
    72. The cinematic body - Shaviro, Steven, 1993
      Book
      2010-09-10T13:16:20+01:00
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