FLME 4750 – Film Theory and Criticism
Email: mbass16@gsu.edu
Office: 25 Park Pl, 1021D (10th Floor)
Visitation Hours: MW 2:30 – 4:30 or by appointment
Textbooks
– Elsaesser, Thomas, and Malte Hagener. Film Theory: an Introduction Through the Senses. Routledge, 2015.
– Textbook Companion Website
Additional Readings (Password Protected)
Resources
Technology and GSU
GSU College of the Arts Homepage
GSU Film, Media, & Theatre Homepage
GSU Semester Calendars and Exam Schedules
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!
Atlanta Fulton County Public Library
Criterion Channel
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
Film Theory and Criticism Midterm Study Guide
Final Paper Presentations Sign-Up Sheet
Lecture Notes
Munsterberg – Why We Go to the Movies
Film Theory – Introduction: Film Theory, Cinema, the Body, and the Senses
Bordwell – Principles of Narration
Belton – The Space of Rear Window
Pye – Enter Lisa: Rear Window (1954)
Wollen – Semiology of the Cinema
Film Theory – Ch. 1: Cinema as Window and Frame
Shklovsky – Art, as Device
Eisenstein – The Cinematographic Principle and the Ideogram
Bazin – Ontology of the Photographic Image
Bazin – Myth of Total Cinema
Bazin – Evolution of the Language of Cinema
Sarris – Notes on the Auteur Theory in 1962
Wollen – The Auteur Theory
Schatz – Film Genres and the Genre Film
Film Theory – Ch. 2: Cinema as Door – Screen and Threshold
Baudry – Ideological Effects of the Basic Cinematographic Apparatus
Metz – Imaginary Signifier
Film Theory – Ch. 3: Cinema as Mirror – Face and Close-Up
Silverman – Suture
Lacan – The Mirror Stage
Freud – Fetishism
Balazs – The Close-Up
Film Theory – Ch. 4: Cinema as Eye – Look and Gaze
Foucault – Panopticism
Mulvey – Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema
Kaplan – Is the Gaze Male?
Modleski – The Master’s Dollhouse: Rear Window
Doty – There’s Something Queer Here
Film Theory – Ch. 5: Cinema as Skin – Body and Touch
Film Theory – Ch. 6: Cinema as Ear – Acoustics and Space
Chion – The Audiovisual Scene
Chion – The Projection of Sound on Image
Chion – The Acousmetre
Althusser & Gramsci
Comolli & Narboni – Cinema/Ideology/Criticism
Dyer, “Stereotyping”
Stam & Spence, “Colonialism, Racism, and Representation”
Clover – Her Body, Himself
Smelik – Feminist Film Theory
Film Theory – Ch. 7: Cinema as Brain – Mind and Body
Elsaesser, “The Mind-Game Film”
Extra Credit
The Bass Clan!
Michael S. Bass 