Bibliography
Surrealism and film; Luis Bunuel, avant garde, Un Chien Andalou, Salvador Dali. Matthews, J.H. 1971, The U Michigan P.
Histoire générale du cinéma: III. Le cinéma devient un art (1909-1920). Deuxième volume. La première guerre mondiale. Sadoul, Georges, 1973, Denoël.
The first source in our bibliography explores the concept of progressive French films, focussing on a range of directors and producers who convey surrealism in their work. We would only be looking at the sections that include Un Chien Andalou as it would give us an in depth view on how Bunuel and Dali incorporate surrealist theory into this short film and how that relates to the wider French Cinema Movement in the 1920s as a collective.
The second citation we looked at within our bibliography was a book that considers the whole of Europe and USA cinema of the 1910s and 1920s, including a section discussing French Cinema and form. We feel that this book will allow us to gather a wider insight on how French Cinema of the period fits into a broader industry across the globe. This means that our perspective on the French films can be compared to the movements and progressions of other nations, whereas our first source focussed solely on France so could arguably provide a narrower view of the global industry. The first source would allow us to see a closer and more detailed perspective on French cinema and its specific forms, and by pairing this with further research into the second source we would overall gain a competent and holistic view on French Cinema in the 1920s and the role it played on the cinematic industry as a whole.
This is a very solid post that does much of what was asked for in this week’s task. The post is impressively clear in it aims and makes use of images to support and enhance its presentation. You allow for the different aims of both books and skilfully explain how these aims in turn should inform our reading of them and their respective use to our studies (Mathews’ focus being principally upon French cinema and Sadoul’s casting the net wider to incorporate analyses of Europe as a whole and the US).
A few minor things:
Refer specifically to each book in your argument (in the first example, say, “the first source in our bibliography, J.H. Matthews’ Surrealism and Film, explores the concept of….”
What kind of books are they? Monographs, edited collections?
Citation should feature the author(s)’s name first, so:
Matthews, J.H. Surrealism and Film. U of Michigan P: 1971.