Lens-Based Core Booklist

The following booklist is the core required reading that will form the basis for the Reading, Writing and Research Methodologies. Throughout the year this material will be used for close reading, discussion and essay writing exercises.

PHOTOGRAPHY

• Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography - Roland Barthes - 1993
• On Photography - Susan Sontag - 1979
• Towards a Philosophy of Photography - Vilem Flusser
• Another Way of Telling: A Possible Theory of Photography - John Berger & Jean Mohr
• Understanding a Photograph - John Berger
• Burden Of Representation: Essays on Photographies and Histories, John Tagg, University of Minnesota (1993)
• Techniques of the Observer: on vision and modernity in the nineteenth century, Johathan Crary, MIT (1992)
• Objectivity, Lorraine Daston & Peter Galison, Zone Books (2007)
• The Work of Art in the Age of Digital Recombination, Jos De Mul (2009): http://www.demul.nl/nl/item/412-the-work-of-art-in-the-age-of-digital-recombination
• Duty Free Art: Art in the Age of Planetary Civil War, Hito Steyerl, Verso (2017)

EDITING & NARRATIVE

• The Film Sense - Eisenstien
• What is Cinema? Andre Bazin. Volume I & Volume II
• Sculpting in Time: Reflections on the Cinema - Andrei Tarkovsky
• Into the Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them - John Yorke - 2014
• In the Blink of an Eye: A Perspective on Film Editing. 2nd Ed. - Walter Murch - 2001
• Film Art: An Introduction - David Bordwell & Kristina Thompson

PRE-HISTORY OF CINEMA / OPTICAL TOYS

• From the Vatican to Vegas: The History of Special Effects - Norman M. Klein
• Visual Thinking - Rudolf Arnheim
• Devices of Wonder: From the World in a Box to Images on a Screen - Barbara Maria Stafford - 2002

MEDIA THEORY

• The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction - Walter Benjamin - 1936
• The Emergence of Cinematic Time - Mary Ann Doane - 2002
• The Virtual Life of Film - D.N. Rodowick - 2007
• Framed Time: Towards a Post-Filmic Cinema - Garrett Stewart - 2007
• The End of Celluloid: Film Futures in the Digital Age - Matt Hanson - 2004
• Death 24x a Second - Laura Mulvey - 2006
• Deep Time of the Media: Towards an Archeology of Hearing and Seeing by Technical Means - Siegfried Zelinski - 2006
• The Language of New Media - Lev Manovich - 2001
• The New Aesthetic - James Bridle : https://jamesbridle.com/works/the-new-aesthetic