Reading film (or tv)

For those of you writing about film and unsure how to approach questions of cinematic technique, here are two websites that cover some of the basic questions you should ask. I do not expect you to be experts in reading film sequences, but you should at least consider some of these questions.

http://wire.rutgers.edu/p_reading_film.html

http://web.uvic.ca/geru/439/seq.html

Secondary Source Suggestions

Spectators and observers:
Laura Mulvey, "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" (could apply to all our texts, not just film.)
https://wiki.brown.edu/confluence/display/MarkTribe/Visual+Pleasure+and+Narrative+Cinema

Lawrence Howe, "Through the Looking Glass: Reflexivity, Reciprocality, and Defenestration in Hitchcock's Rear Window"
http://0-muse.jhu.edu.library.stonehill.edu:80/journals/college_literature/v035/35.1howe.html

Dana Brand, The Spectator and the City in Nineteenth-Century American literature (book available at Stonehill Library)

Dana Brand, "Rear-View Mirror: Hitchcock, Poe, and the Flaneur in America" (photocopy outside my office) (also relevant to several other paper topics)

Crime and Criminals:
Howard Horwitz, "Maggie and the Sociological Paradigm," American Literary History, Vol. 10, No. 4 (Winter, 1998), pp. 606-638
http://0-www.jstor.org.library.stonehill.edu/stable/490138

Catherine Nickerson, "Murder as Social Criticism," American Literary History, Vol. 9, No. 4 (Winter, 1997), pp. 744-757
http://0-www.jstor.org.library.stonehill.edu/stable/490191

Keith Gandal, "Stephen Crane's "Maggie" and the Modern Soul," ELH, Vol. 60, No. 3 (Autumn, 1993), pp. 759-785
http://0-www.jstor.org.library.stonehill.edu/stable/2873412?&Search=yes&term=crime&term=crane&term=maggie&list=hide&

Machines and Technology:
Donna Haraway, "A Cyborg Manifesto" (especially last section)
http://www.egs.edu/faculty/haraway/haraway-a-cyborg-manifesto.html

Mark Seltzer, "Serial Killers (1)" (could also apply to crime essay)
http://0-find.galegroup.com.library.stonehill.edu:80/itx/infomark.do?contentSet=IAC-Documents&docType=IAC&type=retrieve&tabID=T002&prodId=ITOF&docId=A14506259&userGroupName=mlin_s_stonecol&version=1.0&searchType=PublicationSearchForm&source=gale

M. Christine Boyer, "Disenchantment of the City: An Improbable Dialogue Between Bodies, Machines, and Urban Form" (photocopy outside my office)

City and Village:
Toni Morrison, "City Limits, Village Values: Concepts of Neighborhood in Black Fiction"
(photocopy outside my office)

Doreen Massey, "A Place Called Home?" (in course pack; could apply to other essay topics too)

Apartments:
Sharon Marcus, Apartment Stories (photocopies of selections from book outside my office)

Dana Brand, "Rear-View Mirror" (see above under Spectators)