Film History 1880-1950

Benjamin, Walter. 1994 [1935]. “Konstverket i den tekniska reproduktionens tidsålder.” I Sätt att se: texter om estetik och film, red. och övers.: Astrid Söderbergh Widding, 112–146. Stockholm: Fischer. [pdf på Canvas]

Bordwell, David. 2008. ”Doing Film History”, https://www.davidbordwell.net/essays/doing.php

Eisenstein, Sergei. 1994 [1923]. “Attraktionsmontaget.” I Sätt att se: texter om estetik och film, red. och övers.: Astrid Söderbergh Widding, 38–45. Stockholm: Fischer. [pdf på Canvas]

Gunning, Tom. 2006 [1986]. “The Cinema of Attraction[s]: Early Film, Its Spectator and the Avant-Garde.” I Cinema of Attractions Reloaded, red. Wanda Strauven, 381–388. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.

[Open access: https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt46n09s]

Hansen, Miriam. 1993. “Of Mice and Ducks: Benjamin and Adorno on Disney.” The South Atlantic Quarterly 92:1, 27–61. [Online via UB]

Keating, Patrick. 2015. “Film Noir and the Culture of Electric Light.” Film History: An International Journal, 27(1): 54–84. [Online via UB]

Mullins, Victoria. 2021. “From Caligari to Disney: The legacy of German Expressionist cinema in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.” I Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs New Perspectives on Production, Reception, Legacy, red. Chris Pallant och Christopher Holliday, 25–44. New York: Bloomsbury Academic.

[Online via UB]

Musser, Charles. 2018. “When Did Cinema Become Cinema? Technology, History, and the Moving Pictures.” I Technology and Film Scholarship. Experience, Study, Theory, red. Santiago Hidalgo, 33–49. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. [Online via UB]

Ng, Kenny K. K. 2023. ”A Revisionist Reading of The Goddess: Visual Narrative Power in Chinese Silent Cinema.” Journal of Chinese Film Studies, 3(1): 103–123. [Online via UB]

Ōtsuka Eiji och Thomas Lamarre. 2013. “An Unholy Alliance of Eisenstein and Disney: The Fascist Origin of Otaku Culture.” Mechademia, 8: 251-277. [Online via UB]

Thompson, Kristin, David Bordwell och Jeff Smith. 2022. Film History: An Introduction, 5:e upplagan. New York: McGraw-Hill.

[3:e eller 4:e upplagan fungerar också men sidangivelserna kan avvika]

(introduktionen + kapitel som behandlar perioden fram till ca. 1950)

Zavattini, Cesare. 1977 [1952]. “Tankar om filmkonsten”, i Filmstilar: Från Méliès till Truffaut, red. Gösta Werner, 146–161. Stockholm: PAN/Norstedts. [pdf på Canvas]

Referenslitteratur:

Blomström, Vendela och Jeanna Wennerberg. 2021. Akademiskt läsande och skrivande, 2:a uppl. Lund: Studentlitteratur.