WEEK 2/APRIL 21st: the Basics to Film Studies & Discussion Session

CHUNGKING EXPRESS, DIR BY WONG KARWAI

[you are supposed to read the references BEFORE the Apr 21 lecture]


NOTE: please do NOT circulate them outside of the classroom use; thank you!

Required Readings:

Bordwell, David & Thompson, Kristin, “the Shot: Mise-en-Scène” [click HERE to download] &“the Relation of Shot to Shot: Editing”[click HERE to download], Film Art: and Introduction (7^th Edition), University Of Wisconsin Press, 2003, p176-225, p294-344

Martin, Adrian. “What Was Mise-en-Scène”, Mise-en-Scène and Film Style: From Classical Hollywood to New Media Art, (Palgrave Close Readings in Film and Television), 2014, pp43-73

[click HERE to download]

“Introduction” [click HERE to download]& Astruc, Alexandre “What is Mise-en-Scène”[click HERE to download], Cahier du Cinema--the 1950s: Neorealism, Hollywood, New Wave. Eds. Jim Hiller. Harvard University Press, 1985. P5-14 & p266-269