MATERIALS AVAILABLE FROM THE ELECTRONIC RESERVE SYSTEM

 


Materials
marked "ERES" in the course schedule are availabe from the Electronic Reserve System at Washington University.
The following texts will be availabe electronically:

  • Siegfried Kracauer, "Montage." From Caligari to Hitler: A Psychological History of German Film. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1947. 181-189.
  • Anton Kaes, "The Cold Gaze: Notes on Mobilization and Modernity." New German Critique 59 (1993): 105-117.
  • Ernst Jünger, "Total Mobilization." Trans. Richard Wolin. The Heidegger Controversy: A Critical Reader. Ed. Richard Wolin. New York: Columbia University Press, 1991. 119-139.
  • Ernst Jünger, "Photography and the ‘Second Consciousness’: An Excerpt from ‘On Pain’." Trans. Joel Agee. Photography in the Modern Era: European Documents and Critical Writings, 1913-1940. Ed. Christopher Phillips. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art / Aperture, 1989. 000-000.
  • Michel Foucault, "The Eye of Power." CTRL [SPACE]: Rhetorics of Surveillance from Bentham to Big Brother. Karlsruhe: ZKM, 2002. 94-101.
  • Peter Weibel, "Pleasure and the Panoptic Principle." CTRL [SPACE]: Rhetorics of Surveillance from Bentham to Big Brother. Karlsruhe: ZKM, 2002. 206-223.
  • Lev Manovich, "Modern Surveillance Machines: Perspective, Radar, 3-D Computer Graphics, and Computer Vision." CTRL [SPACE]: Rhetorics of Surveillance from Bentham to Big Brother. Karlsruhe: ZKM, 2002. 382-395.
  • Claudia Gorbman, "Film Music." The Oxford Guide to Film Studies. Eds. John Hill and Pamela Church Gibson. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. 43-49.
  • Giorgio Agamben, "Der Ausnahmezustand als Paradigma des Regierens." Ausnahmezustand. Frankfurt a. M.: Suhrkamp, 2004. 7-41.
  • Carl Schmitt, "Definitions of Sovereignty." Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty. Trans. George Schwab. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1988. 5-15.
  • Anton Kaes, "Lang’s Fury and the Cinema of Exile." New German Critique 89 (Spring/Summer 2003): 33-58.
  • Stephen Crofts, "Authorship and Hollywood." The Oxford Guide to Film Studies. Eds. John Hill and Pamela Church Gibson. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. 310-324.
  • Tom Gunning, The Films of Fritz Lang: Allegories of Vision and Modernity. London: BFI, 2000. 1-11 & 307-339.
  • Rick Altman, Film / Genre. London: BFI, 1999. 1-29.
  • Gerd Gemünden, "From ‘Mr. M’ to ‘Mr. Murder’: Peter Lorre and the Actor in Exile." Light Motives: German Popular Film in Perspective. Eds. Randall Halle and Margaret McCarthy. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2003. 85-107.
  • Hamid Naficy, An Accented Cinema: Exile and Diasporic Filmmaking. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001. 10-39.
  • Paul McDonald, "Film Acting." The Oxford Guide to Film Studies. Eds. John Hill and Pamela Church Gibson. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. 30-35.
  • Siegfried Kracauer, "Introduction" & "Murderer Among Us." From Caligari to Hitler: A Psychological History of German Film. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1947. 3-11 &.215-222.
  • Thomas Elsaesser, "Introduction: Weimar Cinema’s impersonations" & "Expressionist film or Weimar cinema? With Siegfried Kracauer and Lotte Eisner (once more) to the movies." Weimar Cinema and After: Germany’s Historical Imaginary. London: Routledge, 2000. 3-17 & 18-60.
  • Tom Gunning, "Film History and Film Analysis: The Individual Film in the Course of Time." Wide Angle 12.3 (1990): 4-19.
  • Dudley Andrew, "Film and history." The Oxford Guide to Film Studies. Eds. John Hill and Pamela Church Gibson. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. 176-189.