On Wed, 20 Mar 91 19:15:43 CST Christopher Amirault said:
>
>NOTE: this is not a film 101 class: I don't want to teach _Citizen Kane_,
>_Stagecoach_, etc.  Rather, I want to provide some basic film, tv, and
>written texts that students can use to get used to textual criticism,
>close reading, cultural studies, etc. etc.
>
I'd say that Bordwell & Thompson's FILM ART is the best around for
introducing students to film textual criticism--with Louis Giannetti's
UNDERSTANDING MOVIES loping along behind somewhere.  FILM ART has
more pertinent frame enlargements (done largely by Thompson) and is
one of my most-often-assigned textbooks.
 
TV textual crit is harder to come by.  CHANNELS OF DISCOURSE (ed. by
Robert C. Allen) is a good, omnibus collection, but it doesn't go
into textual crit in very specific ways.  Zettl's SIGHT SOUND MOTION
is quirky, but has good illustrations (and is expensive).
 
Those arethe ones that come to mind immediately...
 
P.S. Chris:  SCREEN-L is so new that there're only 15 or 20 people on
it--at least at the time of your note.  You might want to send you
query again in a couple of weeks when the list has developed more.
 
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