You can purchase the required book for the course at the Hunter College Bookstore, or at online retailers like Amazon. (Used copies are fine.)
David Bordwell, “Doing Film History”
Thomas Doherty, “Hollywood’s Other Great Anti-Nazi Movie”
André Bazin, “An Aesthetic of Reality”
Cesare Zavattini, “Some Ideas on the Cinema ”
Giuliana Muscio, “Paisà/Paisan”
Donald Richie, from “Rashomon” (*please ignore the highlighting!)
Akira Kurosawa on Rashomon , from Something Like an Autobiography
(Optional) Ryunosuke Akutagawa, ““In a Grove” and “Rashomon”
Dana Polan, from In a Lonely Place
François Truffaut, “A Certain Tendency in French Cinema”
Jean-Luc Godard, from Godard on Godard (you’re reading the “Interview with Jean-Luc Godard” that starts on p. 171)
David Bordwell, “The Art Cinema as a Mode of Film Practice”
Michelangelo Antonioni, “Blow-Up,” from The Architecture of Vision: Writings & Interviews on Cinema
*Roland Barthes, ““Dear Antonioni” (Optional)
Francoise Pfaff, “Black Girl (1966): From Book to Film” from The Cinema of Ousmane Sembene
Fernando Solanas & Octavio Gettino, “Towards a Third Cinema”
*Glauber Rocha, “The Aesthetics of Hunger” (Optional)
Shohini Chadhuri, “Ali: Fear Eats the Soul: An Anatomy of Racism”
Norbert Sparrow, Interview with Fassbinder, “I Let the Audience Feel and Think”
Amy Taubin, from Taxi Driver
Peter Biskind, Introduction from Easy Riders, Raging Bulls
Robin Wood, “Papering the Cracks: Fantasy and Ideology in the Reagan Era”
Paula Massood, Introduction and chapter from The Spike Lee Reader
Hamid Naficy, “Neorealism: Iranian Style”
Azadeh Faramand, “Perspectives on Recent (International Acclaim for) Iranian Cinema”
Thomas Elsaesser, “Film Festival Networks”
Barbara Quart, “The Piano” (Review)
Michael Ciment, Interviews with Jane Campion
Wes Felton, “Rewriting Hollywood History in Julie Dash’s Illusions”
Jonathan Romney, “A Green and Pleasant Land”
Vulture interview with Alfonso Cúaron
Slavoj Zizek, comments on Children of Men (on YouTube)
Alain Bielik, “Children of Men: Invisible VFX for a Future in Decay”
