SUNY Adirondack Library: ENG252: Introduction to Film: ENG 252 Films

Films Available at SUNY Adirondack Library

These films are available in DVD format on Course Reserve, or streaming via Kanopy.

All the President's Men
Call Number: DVD PN1997.A45 1997
Babette's Feast
Call Number: DVD PN1997 .B33 2013
Dog Day Afternoon
Call Number: DVD PN1997 .D6342 2010
Do the Right Thing
Call Number: DVD PN1997 .D52 1998

ISBN: 9780783227948
Eat Drink Man Woman (Yin shi nan nü)
Call Number: DVD PN1997 .E15 2002
A Face in the Crowd
Call Number: DVD PN1997 .F23 2005
Frankenstein
Call Number: DVD PN1997 .F68 1999
Moonlight
Call Number: ENG 252 (Professor Copy)
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Call Number: DVD PN1997 .O27 2025
Poor Things
Call Number: DVD PN1997.2 .P6672 2024
Rashomon
Call Number: DVD PN1997 .R37 2012

ISBN: 9781604650730
Rear Window
Call Number: DVD PS3545.O777 R372 2001

ISBN: 9789991196633
The Red Balloon (Le ballon rouge)
Call Number: DVD PN1997 .B35 2008

ISBN: 9781604650303
The Secret of the Grain (La Graine et le Mulet)
Call Number: DVD PN1997.2 .G655 2009
Seven Samurai ( Shichinin No Samurai)
Call Number: DVD PN1995.9.S24 S4846 2006

ISBN: 9786310335841
Tigers Are Not Afraid
Call Number: DVD PN1997.2 .V84 2020
Wendy and Lucy
Call Number: *Available via Kanopy - click link to access
Young Frankenstein
Call Number: DVD PN1997 .Y66522 2006

ENG 252 Textbook

Film Studies: The Basics (3rd edition) by Amy Villarejo
Call Number: PN1994 .V527 2022

Available on Course Reserve for ENG 252

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Books about films for ENG 252

The Blade Runner Experience: The Legacy of a Science Fiction Classic by Will Brooker (Editor)
Call Number: Ebook

ISBN: 9780231501798
The Cinema of the Coen Brothers by Jeffrey Adams
Call Number: Ebook

ISBN: 9780231850810

*Includes a chapter that discusses the film, "O Brother Where Art Thou?"
Hitchcock's Magic by Neil Badmington
Call Number: Ebook

ISBN: 9780708323717

*Discusses the film, "Read Window" (Chapter 2)
Kazan Revisited by Lisa Dombrowski (Editor)
Call Number: Ebook

ISBN: 9780819570857

*See the chapter, "The Search for Humor and Humanity in Baby Doll and A Face in the Crowd"
Kurosawa: Film Studies and Japanese Cinema by Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto
Call Number: Ebook

ISBN: 9780822397090

*Contains chapters about "Rashomon" and the "Seven Samurai"
The Red Balloon by Albert Lamorisse
Call Number: PZ7.L183 Re 2016

ISBN: 9781101935217

*Title is on order! (Told through photographs taken during filming for "The Red Balloon")
Reel Food: Essays on Food and Film by Anne L. Bower (Editor)
Call Number: Ebook

ISBN: 9780203337233

*See Chapter 9 (Gendering the Feast: Women, Spirituality, and Grace in Three Food Films) for information about the film, "Babette's Feast"
Remaking the Frankenstein Myth on Film : Between Laughter and Horror
Call Number: Ebook

ISBN: 9780791486665
Spike Lee: Do the Right Thing by Spike Lee; Jason Matloff; Steve Crist (Editor)
Call Number: PN1997.D63 L45 2010

ISBN: 9781934429518
Transnational Chinese Cinemas: Identity, Nationhood, Gender by Sheldon Hsiao-peng Lu
Call Number: PN1993.5.C4 T65 1997

ISBN: 9780824818456

*See chapter called "Breaking the Soy Sauce Jar: Diaspora and Displacement in the Films of Ang Lee" for information about the film, "Eat Drink Man Woman"

Original Literary Works for ENG 252 Films

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
Call Number: PS3554.I3 D57 2017

ISBN: 9780345404473

*Adapted for film as "Blade Runner"
Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley
Call Number: PR5397 .F7 2008

ISBN: 9780199537150

"Livability" by Jonathan Raymond
*See the short story, "Train Choir", which served as the basis for the film, "Wendy & Lucy"

The Odyssey by Homer
Call Number: PA4025.A5 W56 2018

ISBN: 9780393089059

*The film, "O Brother Where Art Thou" is loosely based on Homer's "The Odyssey"
The Oxford Book of American Detective Stories by Tony Hillerman (Editor); Rosemary Herbert (Editor)
Call Number: PS648.D4 O98 1996

ISBN: 9780195085815

*Includes "Rear Window" by Cornell Woolrich
Poor Things by Alasdair Gray
Call Number: PR6057.R3264 P66 2023

ISBN: 9780063374683
Rashomon and Other Stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa
Call Number: Ebook

ISBN: 9786558945383

*The stories "Rashomon" and "In a Bamboo Grove" were famously adapted into the film, "Rashomon" by Akira Kurosawa
The Red Balloon by Albert Lamorisse
Call Number: PZ7.L183 Re 2016

ISBN: 9781101935217
Some Faces in the Crowd by Budd Schulberg
ISBN: 9781566637725

*On order! (See the short story "Your Arkansas Traveler")

People & events that inspired ENG 252 Films

All the President's Men by Bob Woodward; Carl Bernstein
Call Number: E860 .B47 2014

ISBN: 9781476770512

"The Boys in the Bank" (Life Magazine article)
* Article from Life Magazine that inspired the film, "Dog Day Afternoon"
Title: The Boys in the Bank
Authors: P.F. Kluge and Thomas Moore
Originally published: September 22, 1972
Source: Life magazine, vol. 73, no. 12
Copyright: Time, Inc.
A Racial Attack That, Years Later, Is Still Being Felt
*Article from the City Room Blog for the New York Times that discusses an event that helped inspire the film, "Do the Right Thing"
Tarell Alvin McCraney’s Play Got Shelved. Then It Inspired The Year’s Best Film, Moonlight
*Article about the unpublished play by Tarell Alvin McCraney, "In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue" which inspired the film, "Moonlight"
All In the Family: Abdellatif Kechiche's "La Graine et le Mulet (The Secret of the Grain)"
*Article discusses Director, Abdellatif Kechiche's Father, who inspired the main character in his film, "The Secret of the Grain"

Children of the Drug War by Damon Barrett (Editor)
Call Number: Ebook

ISBN: 9781617700309

*Drug-related violence & narco-orphans inspired the film, "Tigers Are Not Afraid"
Samurai : A Concise History by Michael Wert
Call Number: DS827.S3 W47 2019

ISBN: 9780190932947

*Inspiration behind Akira Kurosawa's films, "The Seven Samurai" and "Rashomon"