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)