Film Reading List

For posterity.

REQUIRED READING

Required readings associated with each assignment will be provided via downloadable PDF files throughout the quarter. To download, click the titles below.

• Reading 1: Chapter 1 Film as an Art, How to Read a Film; James Monaco (22-65 p)
• Reading 2: Mortality of the Image; Bill Viola

STRONGLY RECOMMENDED READING

The following books and articles are highly encouraged.

• On Directing Film, David Mamet
  Publisher: Penguin Books; (1991) ISBN: 067083033X
• Illuminating Video, Doug Hall and Sally Jo Fifer
  Publisher: Aperture; (1994) ISBN: 0893813893 (HrdCvr.); 0893813907 (Pbk.)

SUPPLEMENTAL READING

• Video Art, Michael Rush
  Publisher: Thames & Hudson; (November 24, 2003) ISBN: 0500237980
• History of Experimental Film, A.L Rees
  Publisher: British Film Inst; (May 1, 1999) ISBN: 0851706819
• Interaction: Artistic Practice in the Network, Amy Scholder, Jordan Crandall, John S. Johnson
  Publisher: D.A.P./Eyebeam Atelier; (April 15, 2001) ISBN: 1891024248
• New Screen Media: Cinema, Art, Narrative, Martin Rieser, Andrea Zapp
  Publisher: British Film Institute; Bk & DVD edition (March 1, 2002) ISBN: 0851708641
• Experimental Cinema, The Film Reader, Wheeler Winston Dixon, Gwendolyn Audrey
  Foster Publisher: Routledge; (November 2002) ISBN: 0415277876
• Future Cinema: The Cinematic Imaginary After Film, Jeffrey Shaw (Ed), Peter Weibel (Ed)
  Publisher: The MIT Press; (November 1, 2003) ISBN: 0262692864
• Virtual Art: From Illusion to Immersion (Leonardo Books), Oliver Grau
  Publisher: The MIT Press; Revised edition (January 17, 2003) ISBN: 0262072416
• The Language of New Media (Leonardo Books), Lev Manovich
  Publisher: The MIT Press; Reprint edition (March 7, 2002) ISBN: 0262632551
• The Digital Dialectic: New Essays on New Media (Leonardo Books), Peter Lunenfeld (Editor)
  Publisher: The MIT Press; (February 28, 2000) ISBN: 0262621371
• How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics, N. Katherine Hayles
  Publisher: Press; (February 15, 1999) ISBN: 0226321460
• Maya Deren and the American Avant-Garde, Bill Nichols, Maya Anagram of Ideas on Art, Form, and Film
  Publisher: University of California Press; (October 1, 2001) ISBN: 0520227328
• Sculpting Time, Andrei Tarkovsky
• Visionary Film: The American Avant-Garde in the 20th Century, P. Adams Sitney
  Publisher: Oxford University Press; 3rd edition (October 1, 2002) ISBN: 019514886X
• Reinventing the Future, Thomas Bass
  (Addison-Wesley Publishing, NY)
• City of Bits, William Mitchell
  (MIT Press, Cambridge, MA 1995)
• The Reconfigured Eye, William Mitchell
  (MIT Press, Cambridge, MA 1995)
• Video Spaces: eight installations, Barbara London/MOMA
  (Abrams, New York, 1995)
• Stories from the Nerve Bible, Laurie Anderson
  (Harper Perennial, New York, 1994)
• Illuminating Video, Doug Hall and Sally Jo Fifer
  (Aperture, New York, 1994)
• Slowly Turning, Bill Viola,
  (Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA, 1992)
• Video by Artists, Elka Town
  (Art Metrpole, Toronto, 1986)
• Art of the Electronic Age, Frank Popper
  (Thames and Hudson, London, England, 1992)
• Video constructions, Bucky Schwartz
  (Olive Productions, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA, 1994)
• Art and Technology
  (Academy Editions, London, 1994)
• Today’s Video, Peter Utz
  (Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, N.J.1992)
• Video Architecture Television, Dan Graham
  (Art PN 1992.8 .V5 G730)
• Videography as Art and Culture, Sean Cubitt
  (St. Martin’s Press, New York, 1993)
• Beyond Modern Sculpture, Jack Burnham
  (O. Braziller, 1967)
• Art and the Future, Doug Davis
  (Prager, New York, 1973)
• Origins of Kinetic Art, Frank Popper
  (M.I.T. Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1969)
• Performance, Live Art 1909 to the Present, Roselee Goldberg
  (Art NX 600, P67 G64)
• Total Art: Environments, Happenings and Performances, Adrian Adams
  Published in 1974
• United States, Laurie Anderson
  Published in 1984
• Poetry and Narrative in Performance, Oliver Douglas
  (Macmillan Press, London, England, 1989)
• Three Decades of Alternative Theater, Richard Kostelanetz
  (Mc Farland & Co. ,Jefferson, N.C. 1994)
• Acting Out: Feminist Performances, Lynda Hart and Peggy Phelan
  (University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, M.I. 1993)
• The Art of Performance, Gregory Battcock
  (E.P. Dutton, New York, N.Y. 1984)
• Periodicals and General Cultural Spying :
  Wired, HotWired, Mondo 2000, Mac World, Byte, Art News, Art in America, Art Forum, Arts, Flash Art, Contemporanea, Parakeet, YLEM, Nature, Science News, Scientific American, Leonardo, New Art Examiner, Metropolis, Pinhole Journal, High Performance, Videomaker, Toaster User, Camcorder.