WEEK 3/APRIL 28TH Lecture on the Cinema of Attraction

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Required Readings:

Gunning, Tom. “The Cinema of Attraction: Early Film, Its Spectator and the Avant-Garde”, Wide Angle, Vol.8, Issue 3-4, p 63-70

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“Attraction”, the Routeledge Encyclopedia of Film Theory, eds. Edward Branigan & Warren Buckland, Routledge, 2014, p 45-49

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Reference Reading[for graduate students]:

Musser, Charles. “Rethinking Early Cinema: Cinema of Attractions and Narrativity”, The Cinema of Attractions Reloaded, eds. Wanda Strauven, Amsterdam University Press, 2006, p389-416 

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