This Film Studies Course Guide was created to assist patrons locate resources pertaining to English 2770, Film Studies. This is by no means an exhaustive listing of all resources available within the UW Platteville Library System. Click on one of the tabs at the top of this guide to access helpful links to useful information available in electronic databases, online resources, print resources, visual resources such as movies, and professional organizations. If you need any assistance please contact me.
Starting a new search for any topic can be overwhelming, however, it really does not have to be! When searching the topic Film Studies think of the different aspects of the subject: Genre of film, Director, Actor or Actress, and various awards. Other places to find keywords are databases, articles, and your syllabus and textbook, look at the areas you will be studying, topics of discussion, and the themes themselves. When breaking the larger subject down it will be easier to focus your research and find the materials you are truly looking for. Please do not forget, when all else fails, ask the librarian.
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Office: 320 Warner Hall
Phone: 608.342.1928
E-mail: gillotad@uwplatt.edu
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323 Warner Hall
Department website: https://www.uwplatt.edu/department/humanities
Department Chair: David Gillota
Office: 320 Warner Hall
Phone: 608.342.1928
E-mail: gillotad@uwplatt.edu
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Contact Information
608.342.1826 | koellersa@uwplatt.edu
0323 Warner Hall
This course is an exploration of some aspect, theory, problem or distinctive variety of film, particularly narrative film. Emphasis may be upon the history of a genre, a single artist, or the distinctive character of the medium in comparison to drama or narrative fiction.
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Interim Dean: Dr. Hilton Kelly
Associate Dean: Travis Nelson
Assistant Dean: Carrie Van Hallgren
Email: lae@uwplatt.edu
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Phone: 608.342.1151
The mission of the College of LAE is to provide a broad foundation of knowledge for all students, fostering an appreciation of the complexity of human nature and the diversity of human experience. The college accomplishes this in two ways: by providing liberal studies courses that form the foundation of a university education and by offering a variety of major and minor programs that may be used as a basis for career development.
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Required Text:
The Dark Side of the Screen: Film Noir, by Foster Hirsch
Required Text:
The Dark Side of the Screen: Film Noir, by Foster Hirsch
Required Texts:
The Brothers Grim: The Films of Joel & Ethan Coen, by Erica Rowell
The Philosophy of the Coen Brothers, edited by Mark T. Conrad
Required Texts:
Film Art: An Introduction, by David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson
The Great Movies, by Roger Ebert
Required Text:
Alternate Americas, by M. Keith Booker
Required Text:
Jeffrey Jerome Cohen's "Monster Culture (Seven Theses).: Monster Theory: Reading Culture
Suggested Texts:
Hitchcock: Fifty Years of His Motion Pictures, by Donald Spoto
Hitchcock, Francios Truffaut and Helen G. Scott
Hitchcock's Motifs, Michael Walker
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