Syllabus/achievement requirements

Reading list

Book

Bordwell, David and Kristin Thompson (2009 (1979)) Film Art. An Introduction. 9th ed. New York and London: McGraw-Hill (Chapter 2-6, pages 55-519) – 465 pages

Articles

Narrative

Black, David A. (2001) ”Narrative”, in Roberta E. Pearson and Philip Simpson (ed.) Critical Dictionary of Film and Television Theory, London and New York: Routledge, pp. 300-303 – 4 pages

Hayward, Susan (2000) ”Narrative/Narration”, in Cinema Studies. The Key Concepts, London and New York: Routledge, pp. 256-258 – 3 pages Lacey, Nick (2000) ”Introduction to Narrative Theory”, in Narrative and Genre. Key Concepts in Media Studies, London: Macmillan, pp. 5-77 – 73 pages

Gaudreault, André (1984) ”Film, Narrative, Narration. The Cinema of the Lumiére Brothers”, in Thomas Elsaesser (ed.) (2008) Early Cinema. Space, Frame, Narrative, London: BFI Publishing, pp. 68-75 – 8 pages

Gunning, Tom (1986) ”The Cinema of Attractions. Early Film, Its Spectator and the Avant- Garde”, in Thomas Elsaesser (ed.) (2008) Early Cinema. Space, Frame, Narrative, London: BFI Publishing, pp. 56-62 – 7 pages

Barthes, Roland (1966) ”Introduction to the Structural Analysis of Narrative”, in Roland Barthes and Stephen Heath (ed.) (1993) Image-Text-Music, New York: Hill and Wang, pp. 79-124 – 46 pages

Chatman, Seymour (1978) ”Introduction”, in Story and Discourse. Narrative Structure in Fiction and Film, Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, pp. 15-42 – 27 pages

Branigan, Edward (1992) ”Narrative Schema”, in Narrative Comprehension and Film, London and New York: Routledge, pp. 1-32 – 32 pages

– ”Levels of Narration”, in Narrative Comprehension and Film, London and New York: Routledge pp. 86-124 – 39 pages

Bordwell, David (2008) ”Mutual Friends and Chronologies of Chance”, in Poetics of Cinema, New York and London: Routledge, pp. 189-250 – 62 pages

Hausken, Liv (2004) ”Textual Theory and Blind Spots in Media Studies”, in Marie-Laure Ryen (ed.) Narrative Across Media. The Languages of Storytelling, Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, pp. 391-403 – 13 pages

Aarseth, Espen (2004) ”Quest Games as Post-Narrative Discourse”, in Marie-Laure Ryen (ed.) Narrative Across Media. The Languages of Storytelling, Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, pp. 361-376 – 16 pages

– (2010) “A Narrative Theory of Games” – Juul, Jesper (2001) ”Games Telling Stories” http://gamestudies.org/0101/juul-gts/

Eskelinen, Markku (2001) ”The Gaming Situation” http://gamestudies.org/0101/eskelinen/

Frasca, Gonzalo (1999) ”Ludology meets Narratology: Similitude and differences between (video)games and narrative” http://www.ludology.org/articles/ludology.htm

Jenkins, Henry (2004) ”Game Design as Narrative Architecture” (Including discussion) http://www.electronicbookreview.com/thread/firstperson/lazzi-fair

Style

Salt, Barry (1978) ”Film Form 1900-1906”, in Thomas Elsaesser (ed.) (2008) Early Cinema. Space, Frame, Narrative, London: BFI Publishing, pp. 31-44 – 14 pages

Eisenstein (1929) ”From Film Form”, in Leo Braudy & Marshall Cohen (ed.) (2009) Film Theory and Criticism. Introductory Readings, 7th ed., New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 13-40 – 28 pages

Bazin, André (1955) ”The Evolution of the Language of Cinema”, in Leo Braudy & Marshall Cohen (ed.) (2009) Film Theory and Criticism. Introductory Readings, 7th ed., New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 41-53 – 13 pages

Sontag, Susan (1965) ”On Style”, in Against Interpretation and Other Essays, New York: Picador, pp. 15-36 – 20 pages

Bordwell, David (2005) ”Staging and Style”, in Figures Traced in Light. On Cinematic Staging, pp. 1-42, Berkeley and London: University of California Press – 42 pages

Butler, Jeremy G. (2010) “Introduction: Dare We Look Closely at Television?”, in Television Style, New York og London: Routledge, pp. 1-25 – 25 pages

Manovich, Lev (2001) ”From The Language of New Media”, in Leo Braudy & Marshall Cohen (ed.) (2009) Film Theory and Criticism. Introductory Readings, 7th ed., New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 785-801 – 17 pages

Allen, Michael (2002) ”The Impact of Digital Technologies on Film Aesthetics”, in Leo Braudy & Marshall Cohen (ed.) (2009) Film Theory and Criticism. Introductory Readings, 7th ed., New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 824-833 – 10 pages

Genre

Luckett, Moya (2001) ”Genre”, in Roberta E. Pearson and Philip Simpson (ed.) Critical Dictionary of Film and Television Theory, London and New York: Routlegde, pp. 195-199 – 5 pages

Hayward, Susan (2000) ”Genre/Sub-genre”, in Cinema Studies. The Key Concepts, London and New York: Routledge, pp. 165-170 – 6 pages Altman, Rick (1984) ”A Semantic/Syntactic Approach to Film Genre”, in Barry Keith Grant (ed.) (2003) Film Genre Reader III, Austin: University of Texas Press, pp. 27-41 – 15 pages

Neale, Steve (1990) ”Questions of Genre”, in Barry Keith Grant (ed.) (2003) Film Genre Reader III, Austin: University of Texas Press, p. 160-184 – 25 pages

Gledhill, Christine (2000) ”Rethinking Genre”, in Christine Gledhill and Linda Williams (ed.) Reinventing Film Studies, London: Hodder Arnold, pp. 221-244 – 24 pages

Mills, Brett (2009) ”Genre”, in Sitcom, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 24-49 – 26 pages

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