Maybe it's that back-to-school feeling in the air, but Film Studies For Free's attentions turn today to one of the most important topics in its discipline: the film-historical and film-theoretical behemoth that is 'Classical Hollywood Cinema'.
Below are direct links to online studies of Hollywood and other comparable cinematic classicisms -- together with related explorations -- ranging from the foundational (Bordwell, Thompson, Staiger, plus Hansen) through to the new and challenging (Cagle, Galt, Paneva, Thanouli). FSFF reckons you should also take in what one might call that most early-classical of relevant studies, online in its entirety: Aristotle's Poetics, written 350 B.C.E, Translated by S. H. Butcher.
- Deborah Allinson, 'Novelty title sequences and self-reflexivity in classical Hollywood cinema', Screening the Past, 20, 2006
- John Belton, 'Preface', American Cinema/American Culture (McGraw-Hill, 2005, 2/e)
- John Belton, 'The Mode of Production', American Cinema/American Culture (McGraw-Hill, 2005, 2/e)
- David Bordwell, 'Classical Hollywood Cinema: Narrational Principles and Procedures', Philip Rosen (ed). In Narrative, Apparatus, Ideology. New York: Columbia U P, 1986. 17-34
- David Bordwell interviewed by Erlend Lavik, 'The Way Bordwell tells it on classical and post-classical Hollywood cinema', University of Bergen, Norway, June (Year unknown)
- David Bordwell, 'Anatomy of the Action Picture', Observations on film art and FILM ART, January 2007
- David Bordwell, 'The Hook: Scene Transitions in Classical Cinema', Observations on film art and FILM ART, January 2008
- Catalin Brylla, 'How are Film Endings shaped by their socio-historical context? (part I)', Image & Narrative, Issue 8, May 2004
- Catalin Brylla, 'How are Film Endings shaped by their socio-historical context? (part II)', Image & Narrative, Issue 9, October 2004
- Chris Cagle, 'More thoughts on Classicism', Category D: A Film and Media Studies Blog, February 14, 2007
- Chris Cagle, 'Post-Classicism', Category D: A Film and Media Studies Blog, February 15, 2007
- Chris Cagle, 'More on Post-Classicism', Category D: A Film and Media Studies Blog, February 18, 2007
- Chris Cagle, 'Self-Reflexivity in Classical Cinema', Category D: A Film and Media Studies Blog, September 2, 2007
- Susan Courtney, 'Introduction: What Happened in the Tunnel and Other Open American Secrets', Hollywood Fantasies of Miscegenation: Spectacular Narratives of Gender and Race, Princeton University Press, 2004
- Jacobia Dahm, 'Lollywood Adventures: On Robert Blanchet's Blockbuster', Film-Philosophy, Vol. 9 No. 24, May 2005
- Fred Davies, 'Review of Bernardoni, James, The New Hollywood: What the Movies Did with the New Freedoms of the Seventies', H-USA, H-Net Reviews. June, 2003
- Lucy Fife, 'Review: Joe McElhaney (2006) The Death of Classical Cinema: Hitchcock, Lang, Minnelli State University of New York Press: New York', Film-Philosophy, 11.3, December 2007
- Brian Gallagher, 'Greta Garbo is sad: Some Historical Reflections on the Paradoxes of Stardom in the American Film Industry, 1910-1960', Images Journal, Issue 3
- Rosalind Galt, 'The Obviousness of Cinema', World Picture Journal, Issue 2, Autumn 2008
- Miriam Bratu Hansen, 'The Mass Production of the Senses: Classical Cinema as Vernacular Modernism', Modernism-Modernity, Vol. 6.2, 1999
- Tim Henderson, 'Classic Film Narrative and Flying with Pigs: What Have we been Missing?', Nausicaa.net, May 2005
- Curt Hersey, 'Diegetic Breaks and the Avant-Garde', Journal of Moving Image Studies, Volume 1, 2002
- Kevin Howley, Breaking, Making, and Killing Time in Pulp Fiction', Scope, May 2004
- Annamarie Jagose, Interview with Patricia White about her book, Uninvited: Classical Hollywood Cinema and Lesbian Representability [Indiana University Press, 1999]', Genders 32 2000 Limited preview of book from Google Books HERE
- Hermann Kappelhoff, 'Narrative Space – Plot Space – Image Space', trans. by Brian Currid, Herman Kappelhof Articles Online, 2005
- Michelle Langford, '[Reflections on and syllabus for the teaching of] The Hollywood Sytem', The Australasian Journal of American Studies, Vol. 26, No. 1, July 2007
- Richard Maltby, 'Taking Hollywood Seriously', Hollywood Cinema (Oxford: Blackwell, 2003, 2nd ed.)
- Angela Ndalianis, 'Architectures of Vision: Neo-Baroque Optical Regimes and Contemporary Entertainment Media', MIT Communications Forum, December 19, 1999
- Steve Neale, 'Review of Storytelling in the New Hollywood: Understanding Classical Narrative Technique by Kristin Thompson, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999', Scope, November 2000
- John Orr, 'Otto Preminger and the End of Classical Cinema', Senses of Cinema, 40, 2006
- Iva Paneva,“Chapter 1: Monster versus mainstream: classical narrative structure and the representation of women”, A study of female aggression as represented in Patty Jenkins' fiction film Monster, e--PhD Thesis, December 2008 (rest of thesis on Monster HERE)
- Janet Staiger, 'Self-Regulation and the Classical Hollywood Cinema', Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Fall 1991
- Eleftheria Thanouli, '"Art Cinema" Narration: Breaking Down a Wayward Paradigm', Scope, Issue 14, June 2009
- Kristin Thompson, 'Classical cinema lives! New evidence for old norms!', Observations on film art and FILM ART, February 12, 2007
- David Trotter, 'Virginia Woolf and Cinema', Film Studies, Issue 6, Summer 2005
- Yigit Yuksel, 'Classical Narration And Art Narration. Or: Hollywood vs Western Europe in 1950s' , The Long Take, September 21, 2008
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