Film Studies
Suggested reading for Film Studies students
While you don't need a background in Film Studies, you might want to familiarise yourself with some texts and films in preparation for your degree.
Below is a sample reading and viewing list, which you may encounter in your Film Studies modules at Leicester. Enjoy!
Books
- Villarejo: Film Studies: The Basics
- Turner: The Film Cultures Reader
- Hayward: Cinema Studies: The Key Concepts
- Bordwell and Thompson: Film Art: An Introduction (10th edition)
- Corrigan and Barry: The Film Experience: An Introduction (3rd edition)
- Hjort and Mackenzie: Cinema and Nation
- Dennison and Lim: Remapping World Cinema: Identity Culture and Politics in Film
- Chapman: Cinemas of the World: Film and Society from 1895 to the Present
- McDonald and Wasko: The Contemporary Hollywood Film Industry
Films
5 Hollywood Classics
- Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1942)
- Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder, 1944)
- Rebel Without a Cause (Nicholas Ray, 1955)
- Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)
- The Shining (Stanley Kubrick, 1980)
5 European Classics
- Bicycle Thieves (Italy, Vittorio De Sica, 1948)
- A bout de souffle (France, Jean-Luc Godard, 1960)
- Cleo de 5 à 7 (France, Agnes Varda, 1962)
- Don’t Look Now (UK/Italy, Nicholas Roeg, 1973)
- Fear Eats the Soul (West Germany, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1974)
5 East Asian Classics
- The Goddess (China, Cai Chusheng, 1934)
- Tokyo Story (Japan, Yasujiro Ozu, 1953)
- A Touch of Zen (Taiwan/Hong Kong, King Hu, 1975)
- A City of Sadness (Taiwan, Hou Hisao-hsien, 1989)
- Poetry (South Korea, Lee Chang-dong, 2010)
5 World Cinema Classics
- Man with a Movie Camera (USSR, Sergei Eisenstein, 1929)
- The Battle of Algiers (Algeria/Italy, Gillo Pontecorvo, 1966)
- Where is the friend's home? (Iran, Abbas Kiarostami, 1987)
- City of God (Brazil, Fernando Meirelles and Katia Lund, 2002)
- Mustang (France/Turkey, Deniz Gamze Ergüven, 2015)