Film Studies Ph.D. Exam
Texts
Agee, James. Agee on Film. 1958; rpt. New York: Modern Library, 2000.
Altman, Rick. Film/Genre. London: BFI, 1999.
Andrew, J. Dudley. The Major Film Theories: An Introduction. New York: Oxford
UP, 1976.
Arnheim, Rudolf. Film as Art. 1933. London: Faber, 1958.
Balázs, Bela. Theory of Film: Character and Growth of a New Art. 1952; rpt. New
York: Dover 1970.
Barnouw, Eric. Documentary: A History of the Non-Fiction Film. New York; Oxford
UP, 1993.
Bazin, Andre. What Is Cinema? Vol. I. and II. Ed. and trans. Hugh Gray. Berkeley:
U of California P, 1971.
Bluestone, George. Novels into Film: The Metamorphosis of Fiction into Cinema. Johns
Hopkins UP, 2003.
Bordwell, David. Making Meaning: Inference and Rhetoric in the Interpretation of
Cinema. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1989.
Braudy, Leo. The World in a Frame. Garden City: Anchor Books, 1977.
Cavell, Stanley. The World Viewed: Reflections on the Ontology of Film. New York:
Viking Press, 1971.
Cawelti, John. The Six-Gun Mystique. 2nd ed. Bowling Green, OH: Popular Press,
1984.
Chatman, Seymour. Story and Discourse: Narrative Structure in Fiction and Film.
Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1978.
Clover, Carol. J. Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film.
Princeton: Princeton UP, 1992.
Cook, David A. A History of Narrative Film. 4th ed. New York: W.W. Norton,
2004.
Cook, Pam and Mieke Bernink. The Cinema Book. 2nd ed. London: BFI, 1999.
Cripps, Thomas. Slow Fade to Black: The Negro in American Film, 1900-1942. New
York: Oxford UP, 1993.
de Lauretis, Teresa. Alice Doesn’t: Feminism, Semiotics, Cinema. Bloomington:
Indiana UP, 1984.
Eisenstein, Sergei. Film Form: Essays in Film Theory. Ed. and trans. Jay Leyda.
New York: HBJ, 1949.
---. The Film Sense. Ed. and trans. Jay Leyda. New York: HBJ, 1947.
Gaines, Jane, ed. Classical Hollywood Narrative: The Paradigm Wars. Durham, NC:
Duke UP, 1992.
Grant, Barry Keith, ed. Film Genre Reader III. Austin: U of Texas P, 2003.
Gunning, Tom. D. W. Griffith and the Origins of American Narrative Film: The Early
Years at Biograph. Urbana and Chicago: U of Illinois P, 1991.
Haskell, Molly. From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies.
Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1987.
Hillier, Jim, ed. Cahiers du Cinema, 1950s: Neo-Realism, Hollywood, New Wave.
Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1985.
Hoberman, J. and Jonathan Rosenbaum. Midnight Movies. New York: DaCapo, 1983.
hooks, bell. Reel to Real: Race, Sex, and Class at the Movies. New York: Routledge,
1996.
Kael, Pauline. I Lost It at the Movies. Boston: Little, Brown, 1965.
Kawin, Bruce F. Mindscreen: Bergman, Godard, and the Language of First-Person
Film. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1978.
Kitses, Jim. Horizons West: Directing the Western from John Ford to Clint Eastwood.
London: BFI, 2004.
Kolker, Robert Phillip. A Cinema of Loneliness. 3rd ed. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2000.
Kracauer, Siegfried. Theory of Film: The Redemption of Physical Reality. New York:
Oxford UP, 1960.
Monaco, James. How to Read a Film: Movies, Media, Multimedia. 3rd ed. New
York: Oxford, 2000.
Mulvey, Laura. Visual and Other Pleasures. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1989.
Murray, Edward. Nine American Film Critics. New York: Ungar, 1975.
Naremore, James, ed. Film Adaptation. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 2000.
O’Brien, Geoffrey. Phantom Empire: Movies in the Mind of the 20th Century. New
York: Norton, 1993.
Perez, Gilberto. The Material Ghost: Films and Their Medium. Baltimore: Johns
Hopkins UP, 1998.
Ray, Robert B. A Certain Tendency of the Hollywood Cinema, 1930-1980. Princeton:
Princeton UP, 1985.
Rosenbaum, Jonathan. Placing Movies: The Practice of Film Criticism. Berkeley: U of
California P, 1995.
Russo, Vito. The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies. New York: Harper,
1981.
Sarris, Andrew. The American Cinema: Directors and Directions, 1929-1968. New
York: Dutton, 1969.
Schatz, Thomas. The Genius of the System: Hollywood Filmmaking in the Studio Era.
New York: Pantheon, 1988.
---. Hollywood Genres: Formulas, Filmmaking, and the Studio System. New York:
Random House, 1981.
Silver, Alain and James Ursini, eds. Film Noir Reader. New York: Limelight,
1996.
Sobchack, Vivian. Screening Space: The American Science Fiction Film. New
Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 2003.
Stam, Robert. Film Theory: An Introduction. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2000.
Telotte, J. P., ed. The Cult Film Experience. Austin: U of Texas P, 1992.
Wollen, Peter. Signs and Meaning in the Cinema. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1972.
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