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CAMERA (4 items)

Film art: an introduction - David Bordwell, Kristin Thompson, Jeff Smith, 2017 Book | Essential | Chapter 5: ‘The Shot: Cinematography’

Supporting reading (3 items)

Chapter 2 - W. Phillips Chapter | Recommended | Digitised under the CLA Digitisation Licence therefore only available to students on module FMSU9M2

Introduction, IN: Style and meaning: studies in the detailed analysis of film - J. Gibbs, D. Pye Chapter | Recommended |

Film art: an introduction - David Bordwell, Kristin Thompson, Jeff Smith, 2017 Book | Recommended | Chapter 2

MISE EN SCENE (5 items)

Film art: an introduction - David Bordwell, Kristin Thompson, Jeff Smith, 2017 Book | Essential | ‘Part 3: Film Style/ The Shot: Mise-en-Scene’ pp. 112-158. [Page numbers vary in different editions.]

Supporting reading (4 items)

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Looking at movies: an introduction to film - Richard Meran Barsam, Dave Monahan, c2013 Book | Recommended | Mise-en-scene’ pp. 171-223

The role of the production designer, IN: Production design: architects of the screen - J. Barnwell Chapter | Recommended | Digitised under the CLA Digitisation Licence therefore only available to students on module FMSU9M2

Chapter 2 - T. Corrigan, P. White Chapter | Recommended

The Elements of Mise-en-Scene, IN: Mise-en-scene: film style and interpretation - J. Gibbs Chapter | Recommended | Digitised under the CLA Digitisation Licence therefore only available to students on module FMSU9M2

DIRECTORS OF PHOTOGRAPHY: LIGHTING AND COLOUR (9 items)

Film art: an introduction - David Bordwell, Kristin Thompson, Jeff Smith, 2017 Book | Essential | Chapter 5: The shot: Cinematography, pp. 159-215

How cinematography creates meaning in Happy Together (Wong Kar-Wai, 1997), IN: Style and meaning: studies in the detailed analysis of film - C. Greenhalgh Chapter | Essential | Digitised under the CLA Digitisation Licence therefore only available to students on module FMSU9M2

Supporting reading: lecture references you may want to follow up (7 items)

Painting with light - John Alton, American Council of Learned Societies, c1995 Book | Recommended

Looking at movies: an introduction to film - Richard Meran Barsam, Dave Monahan, c2013 Book | Recommended

Magic hour - Jack Cardiff, Martin Scorsese, 1996 Book | Recommended

Talking Shop’ (interviews at Camerimage festival), - Roger Clarke, Edward Lawrenson, 2009 Article | Recommended

On film-making: an introduction to the craft of the director - Alexander Mackendrick, Paul Cronin, Martin Scorsese, 2004 Book | Recommended

Film lighting: talks with Hollywood's cinematographers and gaffers - J. Kris Malkiewicz, 1986 Book | Recommended

A Very Brief History of Cinematography’ - Barry Salt, 2009

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Article | Recommended | Digitised under the CLA Digitisation Licence therefore only available to students on module FMSU9M2

EDITING 1 – CRAFT (10 items)

Film art: an introduction - David Bordwell, Kristin Thompson, Jeff Smith, 2017 Book | Essential | Chapter 6: The Relation of Shot to Shot: Editing, pp. 216-262

Lecture references (6 items)

Editing, IN: Looking at movies: an introduction to film - R. Barsam Chapter | Recommended | Digitised under the CLA Digitisation Licence therefore only available to students on module FMSU9M2

Closely watched films: an introduction to the art of narrative film technique - Marilyn Fabe, c2004 Book | Recommended

Closely watched films: an introduction to the art of narrative film technique - Marilyn Fabe, American Council of Learned Societies, c2004 Book | Recommended

Closely watched films: an introduction to the art of narrative film technique - Marilyn Fabe, 2004 Book | Recommended

On film-making: an introduction to the craft of the director - Alexander Mackendrick, Paul Cronin, Martin Scorsese, 2004 Book | Recommended

The technique of film editing - Karel Reisz, 1968 Book | Recommended

Lecture: supporting references (3 items)

The editing of Lawrence of Arabia: an interview with Ann V. Coates - Gary Crowdus, 2009 Article | Recommended | Digitised under the CLA Digitisation Licence therefore only available to students on module FMSU9M2

The art and craft of film editing - Richard Chew, 2009 Article | Recommended | Digitised under the CLA Digitisation Licence therefore only available to students on module FMSU9M2

Film form: genre and narrative, IN: Early cinema: from factory gate to dream factory - S. Popple, J. Kember Chapter | Recommended | Digitised under the CLA Digitisation Licence therefore only available to students on module FMSU9M2

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EDITING - ART (4 items)

Film art: an introduction - David Bordwell, Kristin Thompson, Jeff Smith, 2017 Book | Essential | Chapter 6: The Relation of Shot to Shot: Editing, pp. 216-262

Supporting reading: (2 items)

Film art: an introduction - David Bordwell, Kristin Thompson, Jeff Smith, 2017 Book | Recommended

Chapter 5 - J. Izod Chapter | Recommended | Digitised under the CLA Digitisation Licence therefore only available to students on module FMSU9M2

Further reading (1 items)

The films of Nicolas Roeg - Neil Sinyard, 1991 Book | Recommended

SOUND (9 items)

Film art: an introduction - David Bordwell, Kristin Thompson, Jeff Smith, 2017 Book | Recommended | Chapter 7: ‘Sound in the Cinema’

Supporting Reading (8 items)

The Sounds of early cinema - Domitor Conference, 2001 Book | Recommended

Moving Lips: Cinema as Ventriloquism’ - Rick Altman, 1980 Article | Recommended

Sound theory, sound practice - Rick Altman, 1992 Book | Recommended

Film art: an introduction - David Bordwell, Kristin Thompson, Jeff Smith, 2017 Book | Recommended | The Classical Hollywood Cinema after the Coming of Sound, 1930s-1940s’ pp. 474-476

Audio-vision: sound on screen - Michel Chion, Claudia Gorbman, Walter Murch, c1994 Book | Recommended

Film, a sound art - Michel Chion, 2009 Book | Recommended

Sound design: the expressive power of music, voice, and sound effects in cinema - David Sonnenschein, c2001 Book | Recommended

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Film sound: theory and practice - Elisabeth Weis, John Belton, 1985 Book | Recommended

MUSIC (12 items)

The American film musical - Rick Altman, c1987 Book | Recommended

Film art: an introduction - David Bordwell, Kristin Thompson, Jeff Smith, 2017 Book | Recommended

Film music and film genre - Mark Brownrigg, University of Stirling. Dept. of Film and Media Studies, 2003 Thesis | Recommended

Hearing place: Film music, geography and ethnicity. - Brownrigg, Mark1 [email protected], 2007 Article | Recommended

From Fanfare to Funfair: The Changing Sound World of UK Television Idents - Mark Brownrigg and Peter Meech, 2002 Article | Recommended

Unheard melodies: narrative film music - Claudia Gorbman, 1987 Book | Recommended

Further Reading (6 items)

Tracking British Television: Pop Music as Stock Soundtrack to the Small Screen - K. J. Donnelly, 2002 Article | Recommended

Flow amid Flux The Evolving Uses of Music in Evening Television Drama - 2011-11-01 Article | Recommended

Look! Hear! The Uneasy Relationship of Music and Television - Simon Frith, 2002 Article | Recommended

Interpreting television - Karen Lury, 2005 Book | Recommended | Sound

Popular songs and comic allusion in contemporary cinema, IN: The popular music studies reader - J. Smith Chapter | Recommended | Digitised under the CLA Digitisation Licence therefore only available to students on module FMSU9M2

Television Aesthetics and Style - Steven Peacock, Jason Jacobs, 2013 Book | Recommended | Woods, Faye. (2014) ‘Storytelling in Song: Television Music, Narrative and Allusion in The O.C

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DIGITAL AND CGI (10 items)

The impact of digital technologies on film aesthetics, IN: Film theory and criticism: introductory readings - M. Allen Chapter | Essential | Digitised under the CLA Digitisation Licence therefore only available to students on module FMSU9M2

Tales of Upward Mobility, IN: Film theory and criticism: introductory readings - K. Whissel Chapter | Essential | Digitised under the CLA Digitisation Licence therefore only available to students on module FMSU9M2

Film theory and criticism: introductory readings - (2016) Book | Recommended

Also return to reading listed in Week 1 on the academic value of reading film form, to which this lecture will return as a form of conclusion to the first block of the module: (2 items)

Introduction, IN: Style and meaning: studies in the detailed analysis of film - J. Gibbs, D. Pye Chapter | Recommended

The Significance of Film Form, IN: Film art: an introduction - David Bordwell, Kirsten Thompson Chapter | Recommended | Digitised under the CLA Digitisation Licence therefore only available to students on module FMSU9M2

Supporting reading (5 items)

Essential reading

Allen, Michael, ‘The impact of digital technologies on film aesthetics’, in Leo Braudy and Marshall Cohen (editors), Film Theory & Criticism Seventh Edition (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009), pp. 824-833.

Whissel, Kristen, ‘Tales of Upward Mobility: The New Verticality and Digital Special Effects’, in Braudy & Cohen, pp. 834-852.

Also return to reading listed in Week 1 on the academic value of reading film form, to which this lecture will return as a form of conclusion to the first block of the module:

John Gibbs and Douglas Pye, Introduction, Style and Meaning.

David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson, Chapter 2: ‘The Significance of Film Form’, Film Art: An Introduction Tenth Edition.

Supporting reading

Read as much as you can from the ‘Digitization’ section of Leo Braudy and Marshall Cohen (editors), Film Theory & Criticism Seventh Edition (New York: Oxford University Press,

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2009) or whichever edition you can get hold of. The ‘Digizitation’ section comprises: Braudy and Cohen: Introduction; Manovich chapter, Friedberg chapter, Rosen chapter, Allen chapter, Whissel chapter. Most of these will be mentioned in the lecture, but the key starting points follow:

Looking at movies: an introduction to film - Richard Meran Barsam, Dave Monahan, c2013 Book | Recommended

Classical cinema lives! New evidence for old norms’ - David Bordwell Website | Recommended

The language of new media - Lev Manovich, American Council of Learned Societies, 2002 Book | Recommended | Manovich, Lev, selections from Manovich Including ‘Synthetic realism and its discontents’ [also reproduced in Braudy & Cohen, pp. 785-801].

The world is ever changing - Nicolas Roeg, 2013 Book | Recommended | [Lecture reference.]

PSFK, ‘Audrey Hepburn Galaxy Chocolate Advert’, Internationalvisual Audio-visual document | Recommended

WRITING ABOUT FILM (6 items)

Film art: an introduction - David Bordwell, Kristin Thompson, uthor, (2013) Book | Essential | Writing a critical analysis of a film, pp. 450-456

Chapter 2 - T. Corrigan Chapter | Essential | Digitised under the CLA Digitisation Licence therefore only available to students on module FMSU9M2

A short guide to writing about film - Timothy Corrigan, 2012 Book | Essential | Read Chapters 1, 2 and 3, pp. 1-77.

Further reading (3 items)

Film art: an introduction - David Bordwell, Kristin Thompson, Jeff Smith, 2017 Book | Recommended | Chapter 11: Film Criticism: Sample Analysies’ pp. 400

Film art: an introduction - David Bordwell, Kristin Thompson, Jeff Smith, 2017 Book | Recommended | Chapter 8: Summary: Style and Film Form’ pp. 303-324

Film: the essential study guide - Ruth Doughty, Deborah Shaw, 2009 Book | Recommended

CASE STUDY: TEXTUAL ANALYSIS IN BADFILM (6 items)

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Essential reading: (1 items)

Esper, the renunciator: teaching 'bad' movies to good students, IN: Defining cult movies: the cultural politics of oppositional taste - J. Sconce Chapter | Digitised under the CLA Digitisation Licence therefore only available to students on module FMSU9M2

Further reading: (5 items)

A companion to the horror film - 2014 Book | Recommended | Read: Chapter 27: Hunter, I Q. Trash horror and the cult of the badfilm, pp. 483-500.

‘Trashing’ the academy: taste, excess, and an emerging politics of cinematic style - Jeffrey Sconce, 1995 Article | Recommended

The aesthetics of “so bad it's good”: value, intention, and the Room. - James MacDowell, James Zborowski, 2013 Article | Recommended

Bad Movies - J. Hoberman Chapter | Recommended

In the peanut gallery with Mystery Science Theater 3000: essays on film, fandom, technology, and the culture of riffing - c[2011 Book | Recommended | Read: Carter, David Ray. Cinemasochism: Bad movies and the people who love them. pp. 101-109

CASE STUDY: BRITISH CINEMA – THE STUDY OF PRODUCTION DESIGN, COLOUR AND POWELL AND PRESSBURGER (14 items)

Screen - 2005 Journal | Recommended | [Special issue on Powell]

Journal of British Cinema and Television - [special issue on colour] - 2010 Journal | Recommended | [Special issue on colour]

British colour cinema: practices and theories - Simon Brown, Sarah Street, Liz I. Watkins, British Film Institute, 2013 Book | Recommended

British Film Design: A History - Laurie N. Ede, 2010 Book | Recommended

British film design: a history - Laurie N. Ede, ebrary, Inc, 2010 Book | Recommended

Chromatic Borders, Cosmetic Bodies: Colour in the Films of Nicolas Roeg - Andrew Patch,

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2010-03-03 Article | Recommended | [Perhaps look back at Don’t Look Now in relation to colour using this piece.]

Colour films in Britain: the negotiation of innovation 1900-1955 - Sarah Street, 2012 Book | Recommended

Powell and Pressburger (7 items)

Magic hour - Jack Cardiff, Martin Scorsese, 1996 Book | Recommended | [See also the Cinematography lecture.]

Powell, Pressburger and others - Ian Christie, 1978 Book | Recommended

The cinema of Michael Powell: international perspectives on an English film-maker - Ian Christie, Andrew Moor, British Film Institute, 2005 Book | Recommended

The British Cinema: The known Cinema? IN: The British cinema book - A. Lovell Chapter | Recommended | Digitised under the CLA Digitisation Licence therefore only available to students on module FMSU9M2

Powell and Pressburger: a cinema of magic spaces - Andrew Moor, 2005 Book | Recommended

Powell & Pressburger: a cinema of magic spaces - Andrew Moor, 2005 Book | Recommended

A life in movies: an autobiography - Michael Powell, 1986 Book | Recommended

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