Feel the need to stretch yourself over the holiday season? According to Slate magazine, James Franco has a reading list that might interest you: "James Franco’s Film Language Reading List."
Enjoy!The following texts are required for the reading:
* Leo Braudy and Marshall Cohen, eds.: Film Theory and Criticism(Oxford Press)
* Andre Bazin: What Is Cinema? (UC California Press)
* Christian Metz: Film Language(Chicago Press)
* Tom Conley: Film Hieroglyphs(Minnesota Press)
* Theodore Adorno: The Culture Industry(Routledge)
* Jerome Christensen: America's Corporate Art (Stanford)
We will also study the following films:
Vertov: Man with the Movie Camera
Eisenstein: Battleship Potemkin
Chaplin: Modern Times
Fritz Lang: Scarlet Street
Siodmak: The Killers
De Sica: Umberto D.
Godard: Contempt
Kobayashi: Kwaidan
Warner Bros.: Bonnie and Clyde
