Faculty of HumsSocSci

Film Studies

Explore this Section

Film and Reading Lists

The following is not a definitive list of films we study here at Keele University, rather, it is a list of filmic recommendations – films that are beautiful, interesting and diverse – films we love and hope you will too.

À bout de soufflé (Dir. Jean-Luc Godard, 1960)
Annie Hall (Dir. Woody Allen, 1977)
Apocalypse Now (Dir. Francis Ford Coppola, 1979)
The Big Sleep (Dir. Howard Hawks, 1946)
The Birth Of A Nation (Dir. D.W. Griffith, 1915)
Blade Runner (Dir. Ridley Scott, 1982)
The Bridge On The River Kwai (Dir. David Lean, 1957)
Caramel (Dir. Nadine Labaki, 2007)
Casablanca (Dir. Michael Curtiz, 1942)
Citizen Kane (Dir. Orson Welles, 1941)
A Clockwork Orange (Dir. Stanley Kubrick, 1971)
Double Indemnity (Dir. Billy Wilder, 1944)
E.T. (Dir. Steven Spielberg,1982)
The Godfather (Dir. Francis Ford Coppola, 1972)
Harlan County USA (Dir. Barbara Kopple, 1976)
Gone With The Wind (Dir. Victor Fleming, 1939)
It's A Wonderful Life (Dir. Frank Capra, 1946)
Jaws (Dir. Steven Spielberg, 1975)
The Maltese Falcon (Dir. John Huston, 1941)
Modern Times (Dir. Charlie Chaplin, 1936)
North By Northwest (Dir. Alfred Hitchcock, 1959)
On The Waterfront (Dir. Elia Kazan, 1954)
Psycho (Dir. Alfred Hitchcock, 1960)
Raging Bull (Dir. Martin Scorsese, 1980)
Rear Window (Dir. Alfred Hitchcock, 1954)
Schindler's List (Dir. Steven Spielberg, 1993)
The Searchers (Dir. John Ford, 1956)
Singin' In The Rain (Dirs. Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen, 1952)
Star Wars (Dir. George Lucas, 1977)
The Third Man (Dir. Carol Reed, 1949)
To Kill A Mockingbird (Dir. Robert Mulligan, 1962)
The Wizard of Oz (Dir. Victor Fleming, 1939)
Un chien andalou (Dir. Luis Buñuel, 1929)

Recommended Reading

Below is a short list of great books about film and Film Studies

Altman, R. Film/Genre (London: BFI, 1999)
Bordwell, D. & Thompson, K. Film Art: An Introduction (8^th Edition) (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2007)
Campbell, J. Film & Cinema Spectatorship (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2005)
Lacey, N. Introduction to Film (London: Palgrave, 2005)
Neale, S. Genre (London: BFI, 1983)
Nelmes, J. (ed.) Introduction to Film Studies 3^rd Edition (London: Routledge, 2003)