Today, for those of you who may be thinking of taking the educational plunge into Film Studies (as well as for those seeking to guide potential film students), Film Studies For Free brings a list of links to high-quality, freely-available online essays, sample book chapters, and other resources, all of which all give a very rich sense of what it is like to study this highly rewarding subject.
- Richard Barsam, Looking at Movies. 2nd ed. (New York: Norton, 2007) (including chapters on 'Film Genre', 'Story, Plot, and Time', 'The Biopic', 'Movies and Morality', Bicycle Thieves, and Breathless)
- David Bordwell, 'Studying Cinema', 2000
- David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson, ''Doing Film History', September 2008
- David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson, 'CHAPTER 1 Film as Art: Creativity, Technology, and Business', Sample chapter from Film Art: An Introduction (McGraw-Hill, 8e, 2008)
- David Bordwell, 'But what kind of art?', Observations on Film Art and FILM ART, April 20, 2007
- Timothy Corrigan and Patricia White, The Film Experience: An Introduction (Bedford/St Martins, 2004) companion website and preview of chapters 3 (on mise-en-scene) and 10 (on genres) in 2e here (thanks to cinetrix)
- Nick Lacey, 'Chapter 1: Film Language', Introduction to Film (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005) Also see Nick Lacey's blog HERE
- Greg M. Smith, ''It's Just a Movie:" A Teaching Essay for Introductory Media Classes', first published in Cinema Journal 41.1 (Fall 2001) 127-134
- Suzanne Speidel, 'Film Form and Narrative', Chapter 3, Introduction to Film Studies (ed. Jill Nelmes, Routledge, 4e, 2007)
- Kristin Thompson, 'Is there a blog in this class, Observations on Film Art and FILM ART, September 6, 2007
- YALE FILM STUDIES: Film Analysis Web Site 2.0
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