FMA 101- MEDIA ARTS II
SCHEDULE OF READING ASSIGNMENTS

REQUIRED TEXTS:

(1) Leo Braudy & Marshall Cohen, FILM THEORY & CRITICISM (5th edition) Oxford University Press (ISBN 0-19-506398-8) NEW: $37.95 USED: $28.50 (required for FMA 100)

(2) Herbert Zettl, SIGHT/SOUND /MOTION: Applied Media Aesthetics [3rd edition] Wadsworth Publishing Company [ISBN0-534-07952] NEW: $68.15 USED: $51.15

 

. Week .
1.1/17-21
Zettl- Chap. 1-Applied Media
Aesthetics (3-15)
Braudy & Cohen- Intro/Film Language (1-7)
ON RESERVE BLITMAN READING ROOM-Annenberg Hall (3rd Floor) Bill Nichols [N], MOVIES & METHODS-Vol. 1:
V.F. Perkins- “A Critical History of Early Film Theory” (401-22)
Brian Henderson: “Two Types of Film Theory” [401-421]
2.1/24-28
Zettl- Chap. 2 & 3-Light
7--8-9: 2D and 3D Fields
Braudy & Cohen: Arnheim- “The Complete Film” (212-216)
Eisenstein-”Beyond the Shot” (15-25)
Bazin - “The Evolution of the Languageof Cinema [155-67]
3.1/31-2/4
Braudy & Cohen:
Eisenstein- Statement on Sound (360)
Zettl- Chap.11-Visualization, 17-Sound
ON RESERVE BLITMAN READING ROOM: Bill Nichols [N]:David Mac Dougall “Prospects of the Ethnographic Film” (P. 135)
BLITMAN RESERVE--FILING CABINET-Xerox File Cal Pryluck-“Ultimately We Are All Outsiders”
4.2/7-2/11
Zettl- Chap.14- Time & Motion,
BLITMAN RESERVE--FILING CABINET-Xerox File Alex Toogood “A Framework for the Exploration of Video As a Unique Art Form”
5.2/14-18
Zettl- 15-Continuity Editing, 16-Complex Editing
6.2/21-2/25
BLITMAN RESERVE-Bill Nichols [N]:
David Bordwell- “Citizen Kane” [p 273-89]
7.2/28-3/3
Braudy & Cohen:
John Belton, “Technology and Aesthetics of Film Sound” [376-84]
. 8.3/6-10
SPRING BREAK
9.3/13-17
Braudy & Cohen:
Rudolph Arnheim- “Film and Reality” [312-16], “The Making of a Film [316-21]
Maya Deren, “Cinematography: The Creative Use of Reality” [216-27]
10.3/20-24
Braudy & Cohen:
Andre Bazin, “De Sica: Metteur-en-scene” [203-211]
11.3/27-31
Braudy & Cohen:
Sergei Eisenstein, “Dickens, Griffith, and Ourselves” (Dickens, Griffith, and the Film Today) [(426-34]
12.4/3-7
Braudy & Cohen:
Peter Wollen, “Godard and Counter-Cinema” [499-507]
13.4/10-14
BLITMAN RESERVE-Bill Nichols [N]:
Claire Johnston“Women’s Cinema as Counter-Cinema” (208-217)
Fernando Solanas“Towards a 3rd Cinema”(44--64)
. 14.4/17-21
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. 15.4/24-28
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. 16.5/1-5
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. 17.5/8-12
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