UNIVERSITY OF LONDON

BIRKBECK COLLEGE

SCHOOL OF ART, FILM AND VISUAL MEDIA

MA Film and Visual Media

2003

Professor Laura Mulvey and Professor Lucia Nagib

PERSPECTIVES ON WORLD CINEMA (OPTION COURSE)

READING LIST:

Part 1

Susan Buck-Morss, Dreamworld and Catastrophe - The Passing of Mass Utopia in East and West. (Cambridge, Massachusetts/ London: The MIT Press, 2000)

Gregory Clayes and Lyman Tower Sargent, The Utopia Reader. (New York and London: New York University Press, 1999)

Stephen Greenblatt (ed.), New World Encouters. (Berkeley-Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1992)

Randal Johnson and Robert Stam (eds.), Brazilian cinema (expanded

edition). (New York: Columbia University Press, 1995)

Lúcia Nagib (ed.), New Brazilian Cinema. (London: I.B. Tauris, 2003)

Robert Stam, Tropical Multiculturalism - A Comparative History of Race in

Brazilian Cinema & Culture. (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1997)

Ismail Xavier, Allegories of Underdevelopment Aesthetics and Politics in

Modern Brazilian Cinema (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press 1997)

Part 2

Imruh Bakari and Mbye Chan, African Experience of Cinema (London: British Film Institute, 1994)

F. Darwishi, Iranian Cinema: Past, Present and Future (London: Verso, 2002)

Manthia Diawara, African Cinema: Politics and Culture (Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1992)

John Downing (ed.), Film and Politics in the Third World (New

York: Autonomedia, 1987)

Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1967)

June Givanni (ed), Symbolic Narratives (London: British Film Institute, 2001)

Jim Pines and Paul Willemen (eds.), Questions of Third Cinema (London: British Film Institute, 1989)

Richard Tapper (ed), The New Iranian Cinema: Politics, Representation and

Identity (London: IB Tauris Press, 2002)