ENG 282: 1940s

1940

Fantasia (USA: Disney Studios, 1940: 124 mins)

Kutner, C. Jerry. "FANTASIA (1940) – The Varieties of Religious Experience." Bright Lights After Dark (October 25, 2011)

LoBrutto, Vincent. "Animation and Music: Fantasia." Becoming Film Literate: The Art and Craft of Motion Pictures. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2005: 136-143. [BCTC Library: PN1994 L595 2005]

The Great Dictator (USA: Charlie Chaplin, 1940: 125 mins)

Neibaur, James L. "The Great Dictator." Cineaste 36.4 (2011)

1941

Citizen Kane (USA: Orson Welles, 1941: 119 mins)

Gonzalez, Pedro Blas. "Citizen Kane: Biography and the Unfinished Sentence." Senses of Cinema #57 (2010)

LoBrutto, Vincent. "The Authorial Voice: Citizen Kane." Becoming Film Literate: The Art and Craft of Motion Pictures. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2005: 84-91. [BCTC Library: PN1994 L595 2005]

1942

Casablanca (USA: Michael Curtiz, 1942: 102 mins)

LoBrutto, Vincent. "Classical Hollywood Film Style: Casablanca." Becoming Film Literate: The Art and Craft of Motion Pictures. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2005: 67-76. [BCTC Library: PN1994 L595 2005]

The Glass Key (USA: Stuart Heisler, 1942: 85 mins)

Kuersten, Erich. "The Veronica Lake Effect." Acidemic #7 (2012)

This Gun For Hire (USA: Frank Tuttle, 1942: 81 mins)

Kuersten, Erich. "The Veronica Lake Effect." Acidemic #7 (2012)

1943

Day of Wrath (Denmark: Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1943: 97 mins

Wilkins, Budd. "Birthing Bad: Lars Von Trier’s Antichrist Through the Lens of “Nordic Horror." Acidemic #7 (2012)

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (UK: Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, 1943: 163 mins)

Smith, Imogen Sara. "The Music of Words: Storytelling in Two Powell & Pressburger Films." Bright Lights Film Journal #79 (February 2013)

Shadow of a Doubt (USA: Alfred Hitchcock, 1943: 108 mins)

"Director Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘Shadow of a Doubt’ – ‘Psycho’ – ‘The Birds’." Sound on Sight #309 (February 29, 2012)

1944

Double Indemnity (USA: Billy Wilder, 1944: 107 mins)

LoBrutto, Vincent. "Film Noir: Double Indemnity." Becoming Film Literate: The Art and Craft of Motion Pictures. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2005: 122-128. [BCTC Library: PN1994 L595 2005]

1945

I Know Where I Am Going (United Kingdom: Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, 1945: 91 mins)

Smith, Imogen Sara. "The Music of Words: Storytelling in Two Powell & Pressburger Films." Bright Lights Film Journal #79 (February 2013)

The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail (Japan: Akira Kurosawa, 1945: 59 mins)

Vahdani, Alireza. "The effects of Kabuki on Akira Kurosawa’s Auteurism, Pt 1." and Part 2 Offscreen (October 31, 2010)

1946

Beauty and the Beast (France: Jean Cocteau, 1946: 96 mins)

Steegmuller, Frances. "Beauty and the Beast." Current (from Cocteau: A Biography Boston: Atlantic-Little, Brown, 1970)

The Big Sleep (USA: Howard Hawks, 1946: 114 mins)

Klevan, Andrew. "Expressing the In-Between." LOLA #1 (2011)

1947

1948

The Bicycle Thief (Italy: Vittorio De Sica, 1948: 93 mins)

LoBrutto, Vincent. "Italian Neorealism: The Bicycle Thief." Becoming Film Literate: The Art and Craft of Motion Pictures. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2005: 33-38. [BCTC Library: PN1994 L595 2005]

Drunken Angel (Japan: Akira Kurosawa, 1948: 98 mins)

Hogg, Trevor. "Epic Dreamer: An Akira Kurosawa Profile." Flickering Myth (March 24, 2010)

A Foreign Affair (USA: Billy Wilder, 1948: 116 mins)

Riley, Christina. "Billy Wilder's A Foreign Affair: Marlene Dietrich's Star Persona and American Interventionist Strategies in Postwar Berlin." Bright Lights Film Journal #76 (May 2012)

Fort Apache (USA: John Ford, 1948: 125 mins)

Kehr, Dave. "How the West Was Filled With Loss." The New York Times (March 25, 2012)

1949

Stray Dog (Japan: Akira Kurosawa, 1949: 122 mins)

Hogg, Trevor. "Epic Dreamer: An Akira Kurosawa Profile." Flickering Myth (March 24, 2010)