Reading given in class:
Andre Bazin, ‘De Sica: Metteur-en-scène’, in Leo Braudy & Marshall Cohen, ed., Film Theory and Criticism: Introductory Readings, 6th ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004), pp. 134-143.
Robert Stam, ‘The Phenomenology of Realism’ Film Theory: An Introduction (London: Blackwell, 2000), 72-77.
Key additional readings:
Dudley Andrew, chpt 6 in The Major Film Theories: An Introduction (London: Oxford University Press, 1968).
Dudley Andrew, What Cinema Is! (Blackwell, 2010).
Andre Bazin, ‘The Ontology of the Photographic Image’, inWhat Is Cinema? (University of California Press, 2004).
Stanley Cavell, The World Viewed: Reflections on the Ontology of Film (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1979).
Manthia Diawara, Black American Cinema: The New Realism (New York: Routledge, 1993);
Leighton Grist, ‘Whither Realism? Bazin Reconsidered,’ in Lucia Nagib & Cecilia Mello, ed., Realism and the Audiovisual Media (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2009), 20-30.
Paula J. Massood, ‘An Aesthetic Appropriate to our Conditions: A Killer of Sheep (Neo)Realism and the Documentary Impulse’. Wide Angle, Volume 21, Number 4, October 1999, pp. 20-41
Richard Rushton, The Reality of Film: Theories of Filmic Reality (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2011).
Katherine Thomson-Jones, Aesthetics of Film (New York: Continuum), pp. 18-25.
