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Comprehensive Exam Bibliographies

Film Studies

Overviews:
Dudley Andrew, The Major Film Theories
David Cook, A History of Narrative Film, or Kristin Thompson and David
Bordwell, Film History
Robert C. Allen, Channels of Discourse
Robert C. Allen and Douglas Gomery, Film History: Theory and Practice

National Cinemas:
Andrew Higson, "The Concept of National Cinema," Screen 30.4 (Autumn
1989) 36-46.
Richard Abel, French Cinema: The First Wave, 1915-1929
Siegfried Kracauer, From Caligari to Hitler
Robert Stam and Ella Shohat, Unthinking Eurocentrism
Rey Chow, Primitive Passions: Visuality, Sexuality, Ethnography, and
Contemporary Chinese Cinema

Authorship:
John Caughie, Theories of Authorship
David Bordwell, Ozu and the Poetics of Cinema
Sumiko Higachi, Cecil B. DeMille and American Culture

Film Industry:
David Bordwell, Kristin Thompson, and Janet Staiger, The Classical
Hollywood Cinema
Michele Hilmes, Hollywood and Broadcasting: From Radio to Cable
Thomas Schatz, The Genius of the System
Tino Balio, The American Film Industry and Hollywood in the Age of
Television
Toby Miller, Global Hollywood

Genre:
Rick Altman, The American Film Musical
Thomas Schatz, Hollywood Genres
Rick Altman, Film/Genre
Noel Carroll, The Philosophy of Horror

Psychoanalytic/Feminist Criticism:
Christian Metz, The Imaginary Signifier
Patricia Erens, Issues in Feminist Film Criticism
Mary Ann Doane, The Desire to Desire

Non-mainstream cinemas:
Linda Williams, Hardcore
Eric Schaefer, "Bold! Daring! Shocking! True:" A History of
Exploitation Films, 1919-1959
P. Adams Sitney, Visionary Film

Ideological/Political Criticism:
Robert Ray, A Certain Tendency of the Hollywood Cinema
Cahiers du Cinema critics, "Young Mr. Lincoln"
Robin Wood, Hollywood from Vietnam to Reagan
Frederic Jameson, Signatures of the Visible

Reception/Exhibition
Douglas Gomery, Shared Pleasures
Janet Staiger, Interpreting Films

Early Cinema
Tom Gunning, D. W. Griffith and the Origins of American Narrative Film
Thomas Elsaesser, Early Cinema: Space, Frame, Narrative (maybe)
Miriam Hansen, Babel and Babylon: Spectatorship in American Silent
Film

Images of the Other
Alexander Doty, Making Things Perfectly Queer or Queering the Film
Canon
Robin Wood, "An Introduction to the American Horror Film"
Carol Clover, Men, Women, and Chainsaws
Michael Rogin, Black Face, White Noise
Richard Dyer, White

Technology
John Belton, Widescreen Cinema
Donald Crafton, The Talkies
Michel Chion, Audio-Vision

Film and Society
Richard Dyer, Stars
Ben Singer, Melodrama and Modernity

Film criticism
David Bordwell, Making Meaning
David Denby, Awake in the Dark
Mike Budd, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari: Texts, Contexts, Histories

Classical Film Theory
Andre Bazin, What Is Cinema? (2 vols.)
Sergei Eisenstein, Film Form and Film Sense

Narration:
David Bordwell, Narration in the Fiction Film
Murray Smith, Engaging Characters

Contemporary Hollywood Cinema:
Robert Kolker, A Cinema of Loneliness
Michael Ryan and Douglas Kellner, Camera Politica

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