Syllabus/achievement requirements

Reading list

 

BOOK

Bordwell, David and Kristin Thompson (2009 (1979)) Film Art. An Introduction. 9th ed. New York and London: McGraw-Hill (Part 2-6, pages 50-498) – 448 pages

 

ARTICLES (in compendium if not otherwise stated)

 

Narrative

Lacey, Nick (2000) ”Introduction to Narrative Theory”, in Narrative and Genre. Key Concepts in Media Studies, London: Macmillan, pp. 5-77 – 73 pages

Barthes, Roland (1966) ”Introduction to the Structural Analysis of Narrative”, in Roland Barthes and Stephen Heath (ed.) (1993) Image-Text-Music, New York: Hill and Wang, pp. 79-124 – 46 pages

 

Games

Aarseth, Espen (2005) “From Hunt the Wumpus to EverQuest: Introduction to Quest Theory” (blir tilgjengelig via nett) – (2010) “A Narrative Theory of Games” (blir tilgjengelig via nett)

Eskelinen, Markku (2001) ”The Gaming Situation” http://gamestudies.org/0101/eskelinen/ (Online)

Apperley, Thomas H. (2006) “Genre and game studies: Toward a critical approach to video game genres” (blir tilgjengelig via nett)

Manovich, Lev (2001) ”From The Language of New Media”, in Leo Braudy & Marshall Cohen (ed.) (2009) Film Theory and Criticism. Introductory Readings, 7th ed., New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 785-801 – 17 pages

 

Film

Eisenstein (1929) ”From Film Form”, in Leo Braudy & Marshall Cohen (ed.) (2009) Film Theory and Criticism. Introductory Readings, 7th ed., New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 13-40 – 28 pages

Bordwell, David (1997) “On the History of Film Style”, Cambridge.: Harvard U. P., pp. 1-11 – 11 pages

 

Genre/Tone

Hayward, Susan (2000) ”Genre/Sub-genre”, in Cinema Studies. The Key Concepts, London and New York: Routledge, pp. 165-170 – 6 pages

Altman, Rick (1984) ”A Semantic/Syntactic Approach to Film Genre”, in Barry Keith Grant (ed.) (2003) Film Genre Reader III, Austin: University of Texas Press, pp. 27-41 – 15 pages

Neale, Steve (1990) ”Questions of Genre”, in Barry Keith Grant (ed.) (2003) Film Genre Reader III, Austin: University of Texas Press, p. 160-184 – 25 pages

 

Television

Butler, Jeremy G. (2009) “Television and Zero-Degree Style”, “The Persuasive Power of Style”, in Television Style, New York and London: Routledge, pp. 26-69, 109-137 – 51 pages

 

Mills, Brett (2009) ”Genre”, in Sitcom, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 24-49 – 26 pages

 

Mittell, Jason (2012) Complex TV The Poetics of Contemporary Television Storytelling (Chapters: Introduction and Compelxity in Context) (Online) – 29 pages

http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/mcpress/complextelevision/author/jmittell/

 

Mittell, Jason (2006) “Narrative Complexity in Contemporary American Television”

The Velvet Light Trap Number 58, Fall 2006 pp. 29-40 (Online) – 11 pages

http://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/the_velvet_light_trap/v058/58.1mittell.html

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