The Booklist

What the well-read graduate in Screen and Media Studies can be expected to have read,
a guide for the perplexed who would like to know where to start reading,
something to read on the beach over the summer...
something to ask Santa for ...

Our suggestions are listed under 'media', 'fiction', 'fact', 'ideas' and 'video', loosely at the levels that we think they would be appropriate to.

You may care to read them while you are getting ready to study a paper (and we will add some notes on the titles that will include some sense of which specific papers they may be relevant to). For some of the more demanding titles, you might like to get together with other students in reading groups to share the work of looking up words in dictionaries and looking up references in encyclopedias or in the library.

All of these texts have changed our lives. Some of them have changed the lives of millions.

LEVEL ONE

MEDIA

André Bazin, What is Cinema?
Sergei Eisenstein, Film Form and The Film Sense
Roland Barthes, Mythologies (the last chapter is tough going)
Raymond Williams, Keywords
Bruce Kawin, How Movies Work
James Monaco, How to read a film : the world of movies, media, and multimedia : language, history, theory
Geoff Lealand and Helen Martin, It's all done with mirrors : about television
British Film Institute, The global media atlas

FICTION

Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Rudyard Kipling, Kim
Lewis Carroll. Alice in Wonderland and Alice Through the Looking Glass
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
William Gibson, Neuromancer
Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep

FACT

Robert Fisk, Pity the Nation
Claudia Orange, The Treaty of Waitangi
Dee Brown, Bury my heart at Wounded Knee; an Indian history of the American West

IDEAS

Claude Lévi-Straus, Tristes Tropiques
John Berger, Ways of Seeing
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto

VIDEO

The New Zealand Wars
Citizen Kane (Orson Welles)

LEVEL TWO

MEDIA

John Fiske, Television Culture
Lev Manovich, The Language of New Media
Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media
Naomi Klein, No Logo
Sadie Plant, Zeros and Ones
David Deacon, Graham Murdoch et al, Researching communications : a practical guide to methods in media and cultural analysis
Gene Youngblood, Expanded Cinema
Donald Richie, Japanese Cinema; Film Style and National Character
Frederik L Schodt, Manga! Manga! : the world of Japanese comics
John Hill and Pamela Church Gibson, World cinema : critical approaches

FICTION

Franz Kafka, The Trial
Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim
Elizabeth Knox, The Vintner's Luck
Angela Carter, Nights at the Circus

FACT

Michael Herr, Dispatches
Primo Lévi, The Periodic Table

IDEAS

Franz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks and The Wretched of the Earth
Herbert Marcuse, One Dimensional Man
Plato, The Republic
Andre Gundar Frank, ReOrient : global economy in the Asian Age
Samuel P Huntington, The clash of civilizations and the remaking of world order
Francis Fukuyama, The End of History and the Last Man
Allen Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind
Gordon Matthews, Global culture/individual identity : searching for home in the cultural supermarket

VIDEO

The Rules of the Game (aka La regle du jeu) (Jean Renoir)
Once Were Warriors (Lee Tamahori)

LEVEL THREE

MEDIA

Manuel Castells, The Information Age
Daya Thussu, Electronic empires : global media and local resistance
Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The cultural logic of late capitalism
Jean Baudrillard, Simulation (aka Simulation and Simulacra)
Walter Benjamin, Illuminations
Horace Newcomb (ed), Television - The Critical View
Jane Roscoe and Craig Hight, Faking It: mock-documentary and the subversion of factuality

FICTION

Toni Morrison, Beloved
Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, Watchmen
Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children
Neil Stephenson, Snow Crash

FACT

James Belich, Paradise reforged : a history of the New Zealanders from the 1880s to the year 2000
Eric Hobsbawm, The age of extremes : a history of the world, 1914-1991

IDEAS

Zygmunt Bauman, Globalization: The Human Consequences
Malcolm Waters, Globalization
Germaine Greer, The Whole Woman
Edward Said, Orientalism

VIDEO

Angel at My Table (Jane Campion)
Breathless (aka A bout de souffle) (Jean-Luc Godard)

HONOURS

MEDIA

Ella Shohat and Robert Stam, Unthinking Eurocentrism : multiculturalism and the media
Laura U Marks, The skin of the film : intercultural cinema, embodiment, and the senses

FICTION

Keri Hulme, The Bone People
James Joyce, Ulysses
Italo Calvino, If on a winter's night a traveller

FACT

Mike Davis, City of Quartz : excavating the future in Los Angeles
Ranginui Joseph Walker, The Maori people of New Zealand : 150 years of colonisation

IDEAS

Donna Haraway, Simians, cyborgs, and women : the reinvention of nature
Susan Buck-Morss, The Dialectics of Seeing
Pierre Bourdieu, Distinction

VIDEO

Feathers of Peace (Barry Barclay)
Man With a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov)