Critical Theory

Week 5: Reading Culture Critically: Television, Film, Video

• Television Exercise
• Daniel Chandler: The "Grammer" of Television and Film
• How to View a Movie or Film Also in PDF format

Links to Films Used in Class

Birth of a Nation (D. W. Griffith, 1915)

• Birth of a Nation site (download of the movie)
• Birth of a Nation study guide
• Birth of a Nation review
• Greatest Films review

Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Robert Weine, 1919)

• Caligari Plot (Ingrid Richter)
• Caligari Review
• Rotten Tomatoes Reviews

Nosferatu (Wilhelm Murnau, 1922)

• Roger Ebert's review
• Shot sequence

Metropolis (Fritz Lang, 1925)

• Metropolis Bibliography
• Metropolis site
• Metropolis walkthrough
• Roger Ebert's review

Battleship Potemkin (Sergei Eisenstein, 1925)

• Battleship Potemkin site
• Battleship Potemkin download
• Roger Ebert's review

Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941)

• Citizen Kane script
• Greatest Films review
• The Battle Over Citizen Kane - PBS program
• The Unofficial Citizen Kane site

Bicycle Thief (Vittario de Sica, 1948)

• Roger Ebert's review

On the Waterfront (Elia Kazan, 1954)

• Greatest Films review
• On the Waterfront notes
• Roger Ebert's review

The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman, 1957)

• Analysis of The Seventh Seal 
• Roger Ebert's review
• Seventh Seal site

Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg, 1981)

• Greatest Films review
• Raiders of the Lost Ark script
• Roger Ebert's review

Blade Runner (Ridley Scott, 1982)

• Off-World: Blade Runner Page