Today, for those of you who may be thinking of taking the educational plunge into Film Studies (as well as for those seeking to guide potential film students), Film Studies For Free brings a list of links to high-quality, freely-available online essays, sample book chapters, and other resources, all of which all give a very rich sense of what it is like to study this highly rewarding subject.
- Richard Barsam, Looking at Movies. 2nd ed. (New York: Norton, 2007) (including chapters on 'Film Genre', 'Story, Plot, and Time', 'The Biopic', 'Movies and Morality', Bicycle Thieves, and Breathless)
- David Bordwell, 'Studying Cinema', 2000
- David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson, ''Doing Film History', September 2008
- David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson, 'CHAPTER 1 Film as Art: Creativity, Technology, and Business', Sample chapter from Film Art: An Introduction (McGraw-Hill, 8e, 2008)
- David Bordwell, 'But what kind of art?', Observations on Film Art and FILM ART, April 20, 2007
- Timothy Corrigan and Patricia White, The Film Experience: An Introduction (Bedford/St Martins, 2004) companion website and preview of chapters 3 (on mise-en-scene) and 10 (on genres) in 2e here (thanks to cinetrix)
- Nick Lacey, 'Chapter 1: Film Language', Introduction to Film (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005) Also see Nick Lacey's blog HERE
- Greg M. Smith, ''It's Just a Movie:" A Teaching Essay for Introductory Media Classes', first published in Cinema Journal 41.1 (Fall 2001) 127-134
- Suzanne Speidel, 'Film Form and Narrative', Chapter 3, Introduction to Film Studies (ed. Jill Nelmes, Routledge, 4e, 2007)
- Kristin Thompson, 'Is there a blog in this class, Observations on Film Art and FILM ART, September 6, 2007
- YALE FILM STUDIES: Film Analysis Web Site 2.0
6 comments:
If you don't mind including the related field of Television Studies (and a little self-promotion), my new textbook Television and American Culture has a companion website and I've posted the introduction on my blog.
Thanks always for these great resources!
-Jason
Thanks for the excellent links, Jason. I'll try and look out some more television studies introductions for a related post.
...Thus inspired by Jason's links, today's FSFF post (above this one) gives lots of links to introductions to television and small screen studies.
Corrigan & White's 2nd edition of The Film Experience is now out, and you can preview chapters 3 (mise-en-scene) and 10 (genres) here
Thanks a lot Cinetrix. I'll add the link to the post.
This might be a 'little' late, but Chapter 1 - Looking at Movies & Chapter 3 - Types of Movies of Looking at Movies 3e and Chapter 6 - Editing of Looking at Movies 2e (both by Richard Barsam) can be read online. Click the respective 'demo' button at link - http://www.nortonebooks.com/disciplines/discipline2.asp?Discid=9
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