How about Charles Eckert's article on _Marked Woman_ ("The Anatomy of a Proletarian Film"), anthologized in Bill Nichols' _Movies and Methods_ vol. ii. It offers a very readable, lucid structuralist analysis of the Bette Davis film. Tracy Cox-Stanton Kalamazoo College Stephen Tropiano wrote: >To those who can relate: >I am making an effort to "retool" my undergraduate film theory course this >semester. I am once again using Braudy & Cohen's FILM THEORY & CRITICISM >(though I am planning to move on to another text in the fall because I >have finally faced the fact that it is not an appropriate undergraduate >text for my students). > >My question is this: I would like to devote a class to semiotics and >structuralism prior to discussing genre and would appreciate your >recommendations. Ideally, I would like to screen a film and have my >students read semiotic/structuralist analysis of the text, but one that >they will actually be able to understand. I have found examples for >television--but few for film. > >I know this sounds like a very basic request, but I have decided to get >back to the "basics" for my undergraduate theory class. I would also >appreciate other films that you feel have worked in regards to genre, film >narrative, ideology, and feminism. > >Yours in the struggle, >Stephen Tropiano >[log in to unmask] > >Stephen Tropiano >Director, Ithaca College Los Angeles Program >Editor, Journal of Film and Video >James B. Pendleton Center >3800 Barham Blvd. Suite 305 >Los Angeles, California 90068 >[log in to unmask] >[log in to unmask] > >Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others >because you were born in it. - George Bernard Shaw > >Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind. -Albert >Einstein > >You'll never have a quiet world until you knock the patriotism out of the >human race. >- George Bernard Shaw > >---- >Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite >http://www.ScreenSite.org > > ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.ScreenSite.org