Additional Reading:

NOTE:  These files are restricted to registered members of the class.  An MIT Certificate is required.  

Agee, James.  "Comedy's Greatest Era"  Agee on Film, Vol. 1.  James Agee.  Grosset and Dunlap, 1958.

Mast, Gerald.  from A Short History of the Movies, 6^th Edition.  Allyn and Bacon, 1996.

Braudy, Leo.  "Genre: The Conventions of Connection."  The World in a Frame.  Leo Braudy.  Garden City, NY: Anchor Press, 1976;  Second edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984. 

Recommended Readings:

Lethem, Jonathan. "The Greatest Death Scene" (on Robert Altman's McCabe and Mrs. Miller) in The New York Times Magazine, November 10, 2007.

Stone, Robert. "The Search Party" (on John Ford's The Searchers) in The New York Times Magazine, November 10, 2007.

Thorburn, David, "Television as an Aesthetic Medium." Critical Studies in Mass Communication, Vol. 4, No. 2 (June 1987): 161-173.

Thorburn, David, "Television Melodrama" in Television: The Critical View, Horace Newcomb (ed), 6th ed. (2000).

Thorburn, David, "Web of Paradox."  The American Prospect, vol. 9 no. 40, September 1, 1998 - October 1, 1998.