How can you still enjoy movies, I am often asked [. . .], when you spend all your time analyzing them and researching them? All I can say in response is that I enjoy movies more than ever, but admittedly, in a very different way from my very first excursions into the illuminated darkness (Andrew Sarris).

FLME 1010 – Aesthetics and Analysis
Email: mbass16@gsu.edu
Office: 25 Park Pl, 1021D (10th Floor)
Visitation Hours: TR 1:00 – 3:00 or by appointment

Full Course Syllabi
FLME 1010 Spring 2019 Syllabus – 8am
FLME 1010 Spring 2019 Syllabus – 11am

Readings
TEXTBOOK: David Bordwell & Kristin Thompson, Film Art: An Introduction, Eleventh Edition (Amazon)

Additional Readings (Password Protected)

Sign-Ups
Style Analysis Group Sign-Up Sheet (8am)
Style Analysis Group Sign-Up Sheet (11am)

Resources
Technology and GSU
GSU College of the Arts Homepage
GSU Film, Media & Theatre Homepage
GSU Semester Calendars and Exam Schedules
GSU Library: GSU Basics
GSU Library Film Studies Home Page
GSU Library Film and Video Research Guides
(Some) Georgia Film Festivals!
SWANK – GSU Library’s Streaming Service!
Kanopy – GSU Library’s Other Streaming Service!
Hoopla – Atlanta-Fulton Public Library’s Streaming Service!
Criterion Channel
Atlanta Fulton County Public Library
Adblock Plus
Videodrome Atlanta
Midtown Art Cinema Atlanta
Plaza Theatre Atlanta
Film Terms Glossary
Box Office Mojo
Film-Related Podcasts
How to Email a Professor
GSU Counseling Services
GSU Speech-Language-Hearing Clinic
GSU Writing Studio
Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL)
GSU 1010 Tutorials
Gauntlett, “Essay-Writing: The Essential Guide”
A Brief Guide to Writing Film Papers
More Paper Tips
What is a Scholarly Article?
How to Find Scholarly Articles
Citation Styles Help
Spring 2019 Final Exam Schedule
1010 Midterm Exam Jeopardy Game
1010 Final Exam Jeopardy Game

Lecture Notes

Art & Kitsch in Phantom of the Paradise
Carroll – The Nature of Horror
Dixon & Foster – Introduction: Toward a New History of the Experimental Cinema
Doane – Technophilia: Technology, Representation, and the Feminine
Film Art: Ch. 1 – Film As Art: Creativity, Technology, and Business
Film Art: Ch. 2 – Film Form: The Significance of Film Form
Film Art: Ch. 3 – Narrative as a Formal System
Film Art: Ch. 4 – The Shot: Mise-en-Scene
Film Art: Ch. 5 – The Shot: Cinematography
Film Art: Ch. 6 – The Relation of Shot to Shot: Editing
Film Art: Ch. 7 – Sound in the Cinema
Film Art: Ch. 8 – Summary: Style as a Formal System
Film Art: Ch. 9 – Film Genres
Film Art: Ch. 10 – Documentary, Experimental, and Animated Films
Film Art: Ch. 10 (Slides Version)
Film Art: Ch. 12 – Film Art and Film History
The Final Girl!
Final Girl vs. Nightmare
Haraway – A Manifesto for Cyborgs
How to Film Major…
Mulvey – Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema
Ryan & Kellner – Technophobia/Dystopia
Sarris – Notes on the Auteur Theory 1962
Self-Reflexive Musical
Wood – The American Nightmare (excerpt)
Wood – The American Nightmare (Full)

Extra Credit