Course Materials

The literature is too extensive to list in full, but possible background resources to the course are:

Early cinema and historical avant-garde:

Thomas Elsaesser, ed., Early Cinema: Space, Frame, Narrative (London: BFI, 2008)

Tom Gunning, Céline Linssen, Hans Schoots, Het gaat om de film! Een nieuwe geschiedenis van de Nederlandse Filmliga 1927-1933 (Amsterdam: Lubberhuizen, 1999)
Malte Hagener, Moving Forward, Looking Back: The European Avant-Garde and the Invention of Film Culture, 1919-1939 (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2007)
Miriam Hansen, Babel and Babylon (New Haven: Harvard University Press, 1991)

Frank Kessler and Nanna Verhoeff, eds., Networks of Entertainment: Early Film Distribution 1895-1915  (Eastleigh: John Libbey, 2007)

Lynda Nead, The Haunted Gallery: Painting, PhotoGraphy, Film, ca. 1900 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007)

Wanda Strauven, ed., The Cinema of Attractions Reloaded (Amsterdam: AUP, 2008)

Haidee Wasson, Museum Movies:The Museum of Modern Art and the Birth of Art Cinema (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005)

Film and visual art after 1945:

Exhib. cat. Art and Film Since 1945: Hall of Mirrors (Los Angeles: Museum of Contemporary art, 1996)

Exhib cat. Expanded Cinema: Art, Performance, Film (London: Tate Publishing, 2011)

Exhib cat. Film as Film or Film als Film (English or German version of catalog, Cologne, Kölnischer Kunstverein, 1977)

Exhib. cat. Le Mouvement des images, exh. cat. (Paris: Pompidou, 2006)

Exhib. cat. Spellbound: Art and Cinema (London: Hayward Gallery/BFI, 1996)

Exhib. cat. X-Screen. (Vienna: Museum Moderner Kunst, 2004)

Maeve Connolly, The Place of Artists' Cinema: Space, Site, and Screen (London: Intellect, 2009)

Christopher Eamon and Stan Douglas, eds., Art of Projection (Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2009)

John Elderfield, ed., The Museum of Modern Art at Mid-Century: Continuity and Change (Studies in Modern Art, vol. 5; New York: Museum of Modern art, 1995)

T. Leighton, ed., Art and the Moving Image: A Critical Reader (London: Afterall, 2008)

Kate Mondloch, Screens: Viewing Media Installation Art (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010)

Gene Youngblood, Expanded Cinema (New York: Dutton, 1970)

Most of the publications listed here are available in the library both at the VU and in Leiden. At the VU, the publications will be on reserve in the library on the 12^th floor  (Onderwijskast) or else available as ebooks though the VU library catalogue.