Dear Guido et. al.
Now, how would you delineate the difference between this list and a list of the most significant contributions to Film-Philosophy? What I mean to focus on are the similarities and differences between film theory and film-philosophy. Or else there is little difference and we may as well fold ourselves into the other discipline (as so many Universities and State Systems are doing anyway).
But there is more than a question of the Academy at stake...Noel Carroll has criticized film theorists for being ideologists, in the pejorative sense of the term. That is, they are too committed to their overall theories to see the trees for the forest. What Bordwell and Carroll are calling for is a piecemeal discussion of film that refuses to take a set of assumptions as defining the social interests of a certain group (the group in this case is professional academicians).
With that in mind, what differentiates film theory from film-philosophy?
"For beauty is the beginning of terror we are still able to bear, and why we love it so is because it so serenely disdains to destroy us" Rilke's First Duino Elegy
Daniel Shaw
Professor of Philosophy and Film
Lock Haven University
Managing Editor, Film and Philosophy
website: www.lhup.edu/dshaw
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Subject: Film Book Essentials
A few days ago one of you have asked for a list of books about films for
the purpose of building a film library.
I tried to make a list that is both basic and wide ranged.
I hope it can help. Ill be glad to get comments. If someone thinks I left
out some essential books ill be glad to hear about it. I have also entered
a few up-to-date general books in History and Theory.
I'll just show you the list and you can decide for yourselves:
1. For Ever Godard by James Williams, Michael Witt, James S. Williams;
ISBN: 19010-3369-4; Publisher: Client Distribution Services; Publish Date:
01 June, 2004.
2. Theory of Film: The Redemption of Physical Reality by Siegfried
Kracauer; ISBN: 06910-3704-3; Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr; Publish Date:
24 November, 1997.
3. Oxford History of World Cinema by Geoffrey Nowell-Smith; ISBN: 01987-
4242-8; Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr; Publish Date: February, 1999.
4. Oxford Guide to Film Studies by John Hill, Pamela Church Gibson; ISBN:
01987-1124-7; Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr; Publish Date: 19 March, 1998.
5. Change Mummified: Cinema, Historicity, Theory by Philip Rosen; ISBN:
08166-3638-9; Publisher: Univ of Minnesota Pr; Publish Date: 2001-06-01.
6. Emergence of Cinematic Time: Modernity, Contingency and the Archive by
Mary Ann Doane; ISBN: 06740-0784-0; Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr; Publish
Date: 27 December, 2002.
7. Photography: A Critical Introduction by Liz Wells; ISBN: 04153-0704-x;
Publisher: Routledge; Publish Date: 17 May, 2004; Binding: Paperback , 382
pages , 3 edition.
8. Federico Fellini: Contemporary Perspectives by Marguerite R. Waller,
Frank Burke; ISBN: 08020-7647-5; Publisher: Univ of Toronto Pr; Publish
Date: 2002-06-08.
9. Agitator: The Cinema Of Takashi Miike by Tom Mes, Shinya Tsukamoto;
ISBN: 19032-5421-3; Publisher: Scb Distributors; Publish Date: 2003-03-06.
10. Post-Theory: Reconstructing Film Studies (Wisconsin Studies in Film)
by Bordwell, David, Carroll, Noel Bordwell, David Carroll, Noel; ISBN:
02991-4944-7; Publisher: The University of Wisconsin Press; Publish Date:
01 February, 1996.
11. Geopolitical Aesthetic: Cinema and Space in the World System by
Fredric Jameson; ISBN: 02532-0966-8; Publisher: Indiana Univ Pr; Publish
Date: August, 1995.
12. Forget Foucault; by Jean Baudrillard; ISBN: 09367-5610-1; Publisher:
Mit Pr; Publish Date: 01 June, 1988.
13. Movies and Methods: An Anthology vol. 1 by Bill Nochols; ISBN: 05200-
3151-2; Publisher: Univ of California Pr; Publish Date: 09 November, 1976.
14. Movies and Methods: An Anthology Vol. 2 by Bill Nochols; ISBN: 05200-
5409-1; Publisher: Univ of California Pr; Publish Date: 06 September, 1985.
15. Film Art: An Introduction by David Bordwell, Kristin Thompson; ISBN:
00724-8455-1; Publisher: McGraw-Hill College; Publish Date: June, 2003;
Binding: Paperback , 7 edition.
16. Film History: An Introduction by Kristin Thompson, David Bordwell;
ISBN: 00703-8429-0; Publisher: McGraw-Hill College; Publish Date: 06
August, 2002; Binding: Paperback , 788 pages , 2 edition.
17. Cinema 1: Movement-Image by Gilles Deleuze; ISBN: 08166-1400-8;
Publisher: Univ of Minnesota Pr; Publish Date: August, 1986.
18. Cinema 2: The Time-Image by Gilles Deleuze, Hugh Tomlinson; ISBN:
08166-1677-9; Publisher: Univ of Minnesota Pr; Publish Date: November,
1989.
19. What Is Cinema: Volume I by Andre Bazin, Dudley Andrew, Jean Renoir,
Hugh Gray; ISBN: 05202-4227-0; Publisher: Univ of California Pr; Publish
Date: 13 December, 2004.
20. What Is Cinema: Volume II by Andre Bazin, Dudley Andrew, Francois
Truffaut, Hugh Gray; ISBN: 05202-4228-9; Publisher: Univ of California Pr;
Publish Date: 13 December, 2004.
21. Brain Is the Screen: Deleuze and the Philosophy of Cinema by Gregory
Flaxman; ISBN: 08166-3447-5; Publisher: Univ of Minnesota Pr; Publish
Date: 17 February, 2000.
22. Film and Authorship by Virginia Wright Wexman; ISBN: 08135-3193-4;
Publisher: Rutgers Univ Pr; Publish Date: December, 2002.
23. Imaginary Signifier: Psychoanalysis and the Cinema by Christian Metz;
ISBN: 02532-0380-5; Publisher: Indiana Univ Pr; Publish Date: February,
1986.
24. Film Language: A Semiotics of the Cinema by Christian Metz, Michael
Taylor; ISBN: 02265-2130-3; Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr; Publish Date:
15 December, 1990.
25. Understanding Movies by Louis Giannetti; ISBN: 01318-9098-0;
Publisher: Prentice Hall; Publish Date: 24 March, 2004; Binding:
Paperback , 579 pages , 10 edition.
26. The Body in the Mirror: Shapes of History in Italian Cinema by Angela
Dalle Vacche; ISBN: 06910-0872-8; Publisher: Princeton University Press;
Publish Date: January, 1992.
27. On the History of Film Style by David Bordwell; ISBN: 06746-3429-2;
Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr; Publish Date: 15 January, 1998.
28. Film Theory and Criticism: Introductory Readings by Leo Braudy,
Marshall Cohen; ISBN: 01951-5817-2; Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr; Publish
Date: 11 March, 2004; Binding: Paperback , 6 edition.
29. Four Fundamental Concepts of Psycho-Analysis by Jacques Lacan; ISBN:
03933-1775-7; Publisher: WW Norton and Co Inc; Publish Date: April, 1998.
30. Death of Cinema: History, Cultural Memory and the Digital Dark Age by
Paolo Cherchi Usai, Paolo Cherchi Usai; ISBN: 08517-0837-4; Publisher:
Univ of California Pr; Publish Date: 01 August, 2001.
31. Voices in the Dark: The Narrative Patterns of Film Noir by J.P. Telotte
ISBN: 02520-6056-3; Publisher: Univ of Illinois Pr; Publish Date: March,
1989.
32. More Than Night: Film Noir in Its Contexts by James Naremore; ISBN:
05202-1294-0; Publisher: Univ of California Pr; Publish Date: 16 October,
1998.
33. History of Narrative Film by David A. Cook; ISBN: 03939-7868-0;
Publisher: WW Norton and Co Inc; Publish Date: 01 January, 2004; Binding:
Paperback , 1120 pages , 4 edition.
34. Audio-Vision: Sound on Screen by Michel Chion, Claudia Gorbman,
Claudia Gorbman; ISBN: 02310-7899-4; Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr; Publish
Date: 15 April, 1994.
35. Hitchcock's Films Revisited by Robin Wood; ISBN: 02311-2695-6;
Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr; Publish Date: 15 May, 2002.
36. The Dark Side of Genius : Life of Alfred Hitchcock by Donald Spoto;
ISBN: 08596-5213-0; Publisher: Plexus Publishing Ltd; Publish Date: 30
June, 1994.
37. Looking at Photographs: 100 Pictures from the Collection of the Museum
of Modern Art by Szarkowski; ISBN: 08212-2623-1; Publisher: Little Brown
and Co; Publish Date: September 1999.
38. Acoustic Mirror: The Female Voice in Psychoanalysis and Cinema by Kaja
Silverman; ISBN: 02532-0474-7; Publisher: Indiana Univ Pr; Publish Date:
April, 1988.
39. Visible and the Invisible: Followed by Working Notes by Maurice
Merleau-Ponty, Douglas Low; ISBN: 08101-0457-1; Publisher: Northwestern
Univ Pr; Publish Date: 01 January, 1969.
40. Critical Ideas in Television Studies by John Corner; ISBN: 01987-4220-7
Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr; Publish Date: 15 April, 1999.
41. Questions of Cinema by Stephen Heath; ISBN: 02531-5914-8; Publisher:
Indiana Univ Pr; Publish Date: November, 1985.
42. Dada and Surrealist Film by Rudolf E. Kuenzli; ISBN: 02626-1121-X;
Publisher: Mit Pr; Publish Date: 01 August, 1996.
43. Theorizing the Moving Image by Noel Carroll; ISBN: 05214-6607-5;
Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr; Publish Date: 31 May, 1996.
44. Abuse of Beauty: Aesthetics and the Concept of Art by Arthur C. Danto;
ISBN: 08126-9540-2; Publisher: Pub Group West; Publish Date: February,
2003.
45. Against Interpretation: And Other Essays by Susan Sontag; ISBN: 03122-
8086-6; Publisher: St Martins Pr; Publish Date: 25 August, 2001.
46. Cinema Book by Pam Cook, Mieke Bernink; ISBN: 08517-0726-2; Publisher:
Univ of California Pr; Publish Date: December, 1999; Binding: Paperback ,
406 pages , 2 edition.
47. Film As Social Practice by Graeme Turner; ISBN: 04152-1595-1;
Publisher: Routledge; Publish Date: November, 1999; Binding: Paperback ,
221 pages , 3 edition.
48. Film Theory and Philosophy by Murray Smith, Richard Allen; ISBN: 01981-
5988-9; Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr; Publish Date: 29 July, 1999.
49. Projecting Illusion: Film Spectatorship and the Impression of Reality
by Richard Allen; ISBN: 05215-8715-8; Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr;
Publish Date: 28 May, 1997.
50. World Viewed: Reflections on the Ontology of Film by Stanley Cavell;
ISBN: 06749-6196-X; Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr; Publish Date: 01 January,
1979.
51. Out Takes: Essays on Queer Theory and Film by Ellis Hanson; ISBN:
08223-2342-7; Publisher: Duke Univ Pr; Publish Date: 1999-04-01.
52. Film As Art by Rudolf Arnheim; ISBN: 05202-4837-6; Publisher: Univ of
California Pr; Publish Date: 06 March, 2006.
53. Bazin at Work: Major Essays & Reviews from the Forties and Fifties by
Andre Bazin, Bert Cardullo, Bert Cardullo; ISBN: 04159-0018-2; Publisher:
Routledge; Publish Date: 17 January, 1997.
54. Film Sense by Sergeii Mikhaiilovich Eisenstein, Jay Leyda; ISBN: 01563-
0935-1; Publisher: Harcourt; Publish Date: June, 1969; Binding:
Paperback , 288 pages.
55. Aesthetics and Psychology of the Cinema by Jean Mitry, Christopher
King; ISBN: 02532-1377-0; Publisher: Indiana Univ Pr; Publish Date:
December, 1999.
56. Storytelling in the New Hollywood: Understanding Classical Narrative
Technique by Kristin Thompson; ISBN: 06748-3975-7; Publisher: Harvard Univ
Pr; Publish Date: 05 November, 1999.
57. Film/Genre by Rick Altman; ISBN: 08517-0717-3; Publisher: Univ of
California Pr; Publish Date: 01 May, 1999.
58. Ingmar Bergman and the Rituals of Art by Paisley Livingston; ISBN:
08014-1452-0; Publisher: Cornell University Press; Publish Date: May, 1982.
59. Aesthetics of Film: Jacques Aumont, Alain Bergala, Michel Marie, Marc
Vernet by Alain Bergala, Michel Marie, Jacques Aumont, Marc Vernet,
Richard Neupert; ISBN: 02927-0437-2; Publisher: Univ of Texas Pr; Publish
Date: January 1992.
60. Merleau-Ponty Aesthetics Reader: Philosophy and Painting by Galen A.
Johnson, Michael B. Smith; ISBN: 08101-1074-1; Publisher: Northwestern
Univ Pr; Publish Date: 05 January, 1994.
61. Art of the Modern Age: Philosophy of Art from Kant to Heidegger by
Jean-Marie Schaeffer; ISBN: 06910-1669-0; Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr;
Publish Date: 04 April, 2000.
62. Cahiers Du Cinema: The 1950's Neo-Realism, Hollywood, New Wave by Jim
Hillier; ISBN: 06740-9061-6; Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr; Publish Date: 15
July, 2005.
63. Cahiers Du Cinema: 1960-1968 New Wave, New Cinema, Reevaluating
Hollywood by Jim Hillier; ISBN: 06740-9065-9; Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr;
Publish Date: 01 March, 1992.
64. Film Technique and Film Acting by Pudovkin, V. I.; ISBN: 11310-6760-6;
Publisher: Grove Pr Publish Date: June 1970.
65. Film/Cinema/Movie: A Theory of Experience by Gerald Mast; ISBN: 02265-
0974-5; Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr; Publish Date: January, 1984.
66. Visible Fictions: Cinema Television Video by John Ellis; ISBN: 04150-
7513-0; Publisher: Routledge; Publish Date: 14 August, 1992.
67. From Caligari to Hitler: A Psychological History of the German Film by
Siegfried Kracauer, Leonardo Quaresima; ISBN: 06911-1519-2; Publisher:
Princeton Univ Pr; Publish Date: 22 March, 2004.
68. Hugo Munsterberg on Film: The Photoplay A Psychological Study and
Other Writings by Allan Langdale, Allan Langdale; ISBN: 04159-3707-8;
Publisher: Routledge; Publish Date: 21 December, 2001.
69. The World in a Frame: What We See in Films by Braudy, Leo; ISBN: 02260-
7155-3; Publisher: University of Chicago Press; Publish Date: 15 July,
1984.
70. Film History: Theory and Practice by Robert Clyde Allen; ISBN: 00755-
4871-2; Publisher: McGraw-Hill College; Publish Date: 01 February, 1993.
71. From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies by Molly
Haskell; ISBN: 02263-1885-0; Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr; Publish Date:
15 October, 1987.
72. Genius of the System : Hollywood Filmmaking in the Studio Era (96
Edition) by Thomas Schatz, Steven Bach; ISBN: 08050-4666-6; Publisher:
Holt (Henry) & Co ,U.S.; Publish Date: 15 April, 1996.
73. Hollywood Genres: Formulas Filmmaking and the Studio System by Thomas
Schatz; ISBN: 00755-3623-4; Publisher: McGraw-Hill College; Publish Date:
01 February, 1981.
74. Women Who Knew Too Much: Hitchcock And Feminist Theory by Tania
Modleski; ISBN: 04159-7362-7; Publisher: Routledge; Publish Date: 07
September, 2005; Binding: Paperback , 185 pages , 2 edition.
Hope its useful.
Best Regards,
Guido Alberti.
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