CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF VISUAL CULTURE (CAVC)

In the Mood for Love, by Wong Kar-wai WEEK 3/ October 20 th Required Readings: Astruc, Alexandre. “What is Mise-en-Scène”,  Cahier du Cinema--the 1950s: Neorealism, Hollywood, New Wave . Eds. Jim Hiller. Harvard University Press, 1985. 266-269 [distribute in class] NOTE: if you want the digital copy, please email Ma Ran. CORRECTION: in the handout we have a shorter version (4 pages, 266-269), please use this 4-page version. Thank you! Bordwell, David & Thompson, Kristin . 2010.  “the Significance of Film Form”, “the Shot: Mise-en-Scène”,  Film Art: and Introduction  (10th Edition), University Of Wisconsin Press, 50-60; 112-159 the significance of film form [click  HERE ] the shot [click  HERE ] Reference Reading: Martin, Adrian.  2014. “What Was Mise-en-Scène”,  Mise-en-Scène and Film Style: From Classical Hollywood to New Media Art , (Palgrave Close Readings in Film and Television),   43-73 [click ...

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WEEK 2/ October 13 th Required Readings: “Attraction”, the Routledge Encyclopedia of Film Theory , eds. Edward Branigan & Warren Buckland, Routledge, 2014, p 45-49 CLICK HERE Dyer, Richard. “Introduction to Film Studies.” in the Oxford Guide to Film Studies , Edited by John Hill and Pamela Church Gibson, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1998, 1-10 CLICK HERE Gunning, Tom. 1986. “The Cinema of Attraction: Early Film, Its Spectator and the Avant-Garde”, Wide Angle , Vol.8, Issue 3-4, 63-70 CLICK HERE Reference Reading: Musser, Charles. “Rethinking Early Cinema: Cinema of Attractions and Narrativity”, The Cinema of Attractions Reloaded , eds. Wanda Strauven, Amsterdam University Press, 2006, 389-416 CLICK HERE

Nagoya’s Mini-Theaters (arthouse/second-round; mostly with NO English-subtitle when showing Japanese films) 1.            Nagoya Cinematique 　名古屋シネマテーク ( http://cineaste.jp/ ) : they have a great collection of film magazines too (in English, French — Cahier du Cinema etc., and Japanese and more); a tiny library from which you could access lots of unthinkable documents. Strongly recommend. 2.           Cinema Skhole 　シネマスコーレ (established by filmmaker Wakamatsu Koji; http://www.cinemaskhole.co.jp/ ) 3.           Meien Cinesalon 　名演小劇場 ( http://meien.movie.coocan.jp/ ) A Slightly more comfortable cinemas for art films ミリオン座 　（ http://www.eigaya.com/theater/million/ ）

Welcome to CFA fall 2017! It is a course that invites you to watch movies like a film scholar. And yes, as a course on film, a wide range of films (some of them are very fun to watch) will be screened throughout the semester. That said, it is also a college-level course, with credits being granted and homework graded. Thus, reading and writing are as important as watching. Here, we would like to introduce a few suggested readings that we find extremely helpful for those who are taking a film course for the first time.  They are: Elsaesser, Thomas & Buckland, Warren. “Film Theory, Methods, Analysis”,  Studying Contemporary American Films: a Guide to Movie Analysis,  Bloomsbury Academic, 2002, 1-25 [CLICK HERE ] Stam, Robert.  Film Theory: an Introduction , Blackwell Publishing, 2000 Villarejo, Amy.  Film Studies: the Basics , Routledge, 2nd edition, 2006. the link to Amy's book:  https://nuss.nagoya-u.ac.jp/ index.php/s/ZWV6wgicBcnYfBj ...

Dear all, Please download it from  HERE. [SAME password!!!] It is only for research/study purpose, and please do not circulate it outside the classroom. NOTE: sharing link would expire at the end of July.