Karen Gocsik & Richard Barsam. (2012). Analyzing Film. In Writing About Movies (Third Edition). New York City: WW Norton & Co. (accessible through Blackboard)

I’ve dropped a resource in the Readings & Resources folder on Blackboard that some of you may find useful. Be aware, though, and this is a big warning, that the analysis that Gocsik and Barsam are demonstrating is very specific to film. There are some parts that simply won’t work when looking at a super-experimental non-filmic object. But the general rules about formal analysis may be useful in unpacking and writing about your chosen ‘text’.