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National Cinemas II: Hollywood |
Lectures |
Film Text |
| 1. Hollywood: The Emotion Picture Machine. | Gods and Monsters |
| 2. Hollywood Choices: Editing Practice, Culture and the Cognitive Process. | Broken Blossoms |
| 3. Monstrous Mass (Re)Production: Modernism, Mechanised Women & Male Subjects | 42nd Street |
| 4. Hollywood: The Myth & Lens. | Casablanca |
| 5. Self-referentiality, How I Wonder What you are! | Sunset Boulevard |
| 6. Psycho-semiotic Auteurs: Pop goes the Weaselly Analyst. | North by Northwest |
| 7. A Body 'of' and 'in' Children's Hollywood. | Big |
| 8. A Genre (Somewhere) in the Machine | Lost Highway |
| 9. Prostheses Unbound: Virtual Hollywood. | The Matrix |
| 10. Go Ahead, Punk: Re-animate the Public Sphere. | Do the Right Thing |
Reading List
Elsaesser, Thomas &
Hoffmann, Kay [ed] Cinema Futures: Cain, Abel or Cable: The Screen Arts in a
Digital Age. Amsterdam University Press. 1998.
* Hollows, Jane and Jancovitch, M. (1995) Approaches to Popular Film,
Manchester University Press.
* Neale, Steve & Smith, Murray [eds] Contemporary Hollywood Cinema.
Routledge. 1998.
Sobchack, Vivian [ed] Meta-Morphing: Visual Transformation and the Culture of
Quick Change. University of Minnesota Press. 2000.
Staiger, Janet. [ed] The Studio System. Rutgers. 1995
Williams, Linda [ed] Viewing Positions: Ways of Seeing Film. Rutgers
University Press, 1994.
*key texts purchase recommended