Understanding American Cinema The Industrial Form Genre (case study of one major genre from Classical Hollywood Cinema) And any 2 from the following: Auteurs and the system Melodrama Direct Cinema and subcultures New Hollywood and modernism Cult Cinema and Midnight Movies Suggested Readings Selections from David Bordwell, Janet Staiger and Kristin Thompson (eds), The 1985. Classical Hollywood Cinema: Film Style & Mode of Production to 1960, David Bordwell, The Hollywood in Narration in Fiction ‘Classical Narration: Example’, 1985. Film, Dirk Eitzen, Functionalism, and the Study of The Velvet ‘Evolution, American Cinema’, Fall 1991. Light Trap, Elizabeth Classical Hollywood Cinema and Classical in Cowie, ‘Storytelling: Narrative’, Steve Neale and Murray Smith (eds), 1998. Contemporary Hollywood Cinema, Selections from Thomas Elsaesser, 2012. The Persistence of Hollywood, Selections from Steve Neale, 2005. Genre and Hollywood, Andre Bazin, Evolution of the in Vol. 2, 1971. What is Cinema? ‘The Western’, of in More than Night: Film Noir and its Contexts, James Naremore, ‘History an Idea’, updated and expanded edition, 2008. Robin Wood, Nightmare: Horror in the in Hollywood from ‘An American 1970s’, revised and expanded edition, 2003. Vietnam to Reagan and Beyond, Robert Stam, Cult of and of in Film ‘The Auteur’ ‘Americanization Auteur Theory’, 2000. Theory: An Introduction, Thomas Elsaesser, in Another Country: Hollywood and the in ‘Two Decades Cinephiles’, 2005. European Cinema: Face to Face with Hollywood, ---, Auteur Cinema: The Last or First in Alexander ‘American – – Picture Show?’, Horwath, Thomas Elsaesser, Noel King (eds), The Last Great American Picture Show, 2004. New Hollywood Cinema in the 1970s,
Understanding American Cinema The Industrial Form Genre (case study of one major genre from Classical Hollywood Cinema) And any 2 from the following: Auteurs and the system Melodrama Direct Cinema and subcultures New Hollywood and modernism Cult Cinema and Midnight Movies Suggested Readings Selections from David Bordwell, Janet Staiger and Kristin Thompson (eds), The Classical Hollywood Cinema: Film Style & Mode of Production to 1960, 1985. David Bordwell, ‘Classical Narration: The Hollywood Example’, in Narration in Fiction Film, 1985. Dirk Eitzen, ‘Evolution, Functionalism, and the Study of American Cinema’, The Velvet Light Trap, Fall 1991. Elizabeth Cowie, ‘Storytelling: Classical Hollywood Cinema and Classical Narrative’, in Steve Neale and Murray Smith (eds), Contemporary Hollywood Cinema, 1998. Selections from Thomas Elsaesser, The Persistence of Hollywood, 2012. Selections from Steve Neale, Genre and Hollywood, 2005. Andre Bazin, ‘The Evolution of the Western’, in What is Cinema? Vol. 2, 1971. James Naremore, ‘History of an Idea’, in More than Night: Film Noir and its Contexts, updated and expanded edition, 2008. Robin Wood, ‘An American Nightmare: Horror in the 1970s’, in Hollywood from Vietnam to Reagan and Beyond, revised and expanded edition, 2003. Robert Stam, ‘The Cult of Auteur’ and ‘Americanization of Auteur Theory’, in Film Theory: An Introduction, 2000. Thomas Elsaesser, ‘Two Decades in Another Country: Hollywood and the Cinephiles’, in European Cinema: Face to Face with Hollywood, 2005. ---, ‘American Auteur Cinema: The Last – or First – Picture Show?’, in Alexander Horwath, Thomas Elsaesser, Noel King (eds), The Last Great American Picture Show, New Hollywood Cinema in the 1970s, 2004.
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