Matt Soar requests: > I'm conducting some background research for a scholarly essay on film titles > (current candidates for inclusion include the opening sequences for Psycho, > Se7en, American Psycho, and Swoon). Having trawled through the Screen-L > archives, it appears that queries concerning this general topic do surface > periodically, but rarely garner many responses. (I currently suspect that > there are interesting studies out there that I have yet to identify > precisely because they employ unfamiliar terminology to describe the same, > or similar, phenomena.) > > So: I'm particularly interested in any recommendations folks can make > regarding conference papers, scholarly articles, chapters, or even > book-length studies that discuss movie titles, or motion graphics, or > typography and the moving image - from *any* *scholarly* perspective at > all. As usual, I'd suggest starting with the FILM LITERATURE INDEX, which ought to be in your library's reference section. One book that might be of some relevance is 6 chapters in design : Saul Bass, Ivan Chermayeff, Milton Glaser, Paul Rand, Ikko Tanaka, Henryk Tomaszewski / foreword by Philip B. Meggs. Publisher: San Francisco : Chronicle Books, 1997. Also see: http://www.saulbass.net/ A very nice website devoted this one highly influential figure! Although it provides factual, rather than theoretical, insights, this website might also be of interest: http://www.designinmotion.com/aboutus/info/0,8098,35629,00.html Don Larsson ----------------------------------------------------------- Donald F. Larsson, English Department, AH 230 Minnesota State University Mankato, MN 56001 ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu