Textbook (Available for purchase at Akademika Blindern):
- Bordwell, David and Kristin Thompson (2019) Film art: An introduction. 12th edition. New York: McGraw-Hill. (The 11th and 10th Editions can also be used.)
Articles (available online):
Texts are listed in the order in which we will read them.
Naremore, James. “The Magician and the Mass Media.” In Film Analysis?: A Norton Reader, edited by Jeffrey Geiger. New York: W W Norton & Company, Inc., 2005.
Warshow, Robert. “Movie Chronicle: The Westerner.” In Film Theory and Criticism, edited by Leo Braudy and Marshall Cohen, 703–16. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
Cowie, Elizabeth. “Rear Window Ethics.” In Film Analysis: A Norton Reader, edited by Jeffrey Geiger, 474–93. New York: W W Norton & Company, Inc., 2005.
Altman, Rick. “A Semantic/Syntactic Approach to Film Genre.” In Film Genre Reader III, edited by Barry Keith Grant, 27–41. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2003.
Neale, Steve. “Teenpics.” In Genre and Hollywood, 118–25. London: Routledge, 2000.
Stewart, Garrett. “Screen Memory in Waltz with Bashir.” Film Quarterly, no. 3 (2010): 58–62.
Nichols, Bill “How Can We Define Documentary Film?” In Introduction to Documentary, 2nd ed., 1–41. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2010.
Restivo, Angelo. “Introduction” and "Chapter 1: The Cinematic" in Breaking Bad and Cinematic Television, 1–53. Durham: Duke University Press, 2019.
Jenkins, Henry. “Game Design as Narrative Architecture.” In First Person: New Media as Story, Performance, and Game, edited by Pat Harrigan and Noah Wardrip-Fruin, 118–30. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2004.
Aarseth, Eivind. “Quest Games as Post-Narrative Discourse.” In Narrative across Media, 361–76. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004.
J?rgensen, Kristine. “Between the Game System and the Fictional World: A Study of Computer Game Interfaces.” Games and Culture 7, no. 2 (March 1, 2012): 142–63.
Films (See schedule for screening times):
Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941; 119 min.)
The Searchers (John Ford, 1956; 119 min.)
Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954; 112 min.)
The Fits (Anna Rose Holmer, 2015; 72 min.)
Waltz with Bashir (Ari Folman, 2008; 90min.)
Television:
Breaking Bad, Big Little Lies and Sharp Objects. Episodes to be announced.
Computer games:
Gone Home and The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild