COM
409: Critical Methods for Visual Communication
Fall, 2005
Professor Arne G'Schwind
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Additional Resources
Books
Film History:
David A. Cook, A History of
Narrative Film (New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1996)
Kristin Thompson & David Bordwell, Film History: An Introduction (New York:
McGraw-Hill, 1994)
Film Theory and Criticism
Tim Bywater & Thomas Sobchack,
Introduction to Film Criticism (New
York: Longman, 1989)
Bordwell, David, and Kristin Thompson. Film Art: An Introduction, 6th
Ed. (McGraw-Hill, 2001).
Kolker, Robert. Film, Form, and Culture (McGraw-Hill,
1999). (book and CD-ROM)
General
Resources
Pauline Kael, 5001 Nights at the Movies (New York: Henry Holt & Co., 1991)
Phyllis
R. Klotman, Frame
by Frame I: A Black Filmography (Bloomington, IN:
Indiana University Press, 1979); and Phyllis R. Klotman
& Gloria J. Gibson, Frame by Frame II
: A Filmography
of the African-American Image (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press,
1997)
David N. Meyer, A Girl and a Gun: The
Complete Guide to Film Noir on Video (New York: Avon Books, 1998)
Camera Obscura
(feminism, culture, and media studies)
Journals Division,
(812) 855-9444
www.indiana.edu/~iupress
Cinema Journal (film history and theory)
University of
(512) 471-4531
journal orders@utpress.ppb.utexas.edu
Images:
A Journal of Film and Popular Culture (online: “a cross between a pop
culture film magazine and an academic journal with theoretical articles,
reviews of new releases, and genre studies.”)
http://www.imagesjournal.com
(Some of these may no longer be active.)