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Cinema Theory

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1915

Why We Go to the Movies

Hugo Munsterberg

pub.2010 / orig.1924

The Close-Up

Bela Balazs

pub.1968 / orig.1935

The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

Walter Benjamin

pub.1949 / orig.1944

Dickens, Griffith, and Film Today

Sergei Eisenstein

pub.1989 / orig.1944

The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception

Horkheimer & Adorno

pub.2014 / orig.1948

The Birth of a New Avant-Garde: La Caméra-Stylo

Alexandre Astruc

pub.2004 / orig.early 1950s

The Evolution of the Language of Cinema

Andre Bazin

pub.1965 / orig.1960

The Establishment of Physical Existence

Siegfried Kracauer

1960

Cinematography: The Creative Use of Reality

Maya Deren

1964

Understanding Media (selections)

Marshall McLuhan

pub.1974-75 / orig.1970

Ideological Effects of the Basic Cinematographic Apparatus

Jean-Louis Baudry

1975

Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema

Laura Mulvey

1977/1979

Entertainment and Utopia + Stars essays

Richard Dyer

pub.1986 / orig.1983

Cinema 1: The Movement Image (selections)

Gilles Deleuze

1984

A Semantic/Syntactic Approach to Film Genre

Rick Altman

1985

Art-Cinema Narration

David Bordwell

1986

The Cinema of Attraction

Tom Gunning

1991

Documentary Modes of Representation

Bill Nichols

1992

Make Room for TV (selections)

Lynn Spigel

1994

Unthinking Eurocentrism (selections)

Stam & Shohat

1995

Black American Cinema: the New Realism

Manthia Diawara

2003

From Barbie to Mortal Kombat

Henry Jenkins

2003

The Auteur Theory: Michael Curtiz and Casablanca

Peter Wollen

2005

Information, Crisis, and Catastrophe

Mary Ann Doane

2006

Theory of Adaptation (selections)

Linda Hutcheon

2008

Production Culture (selections)

John Thornton Caldwell

2015

The Marvelous Clouds (selections)

John Durham Peters

2015

Women's Cinema, World Cinema (selections)

Patricia White

2016

What is Digital Cinema?

Lev Manovich

2016

Queer Cinema in the World (selections)

Karl Schoonover & Rosalind Galt

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