MSt in Film Aesthetics: Film List

Below you can find a list of all the films included on Oxford’s MSt in Film Aesthetics course syllabus (2019-2020).  

Note: Future film lists, and modules, are subject to change.

The Aesthetic Evaluation of Film
Late Spring (Yasujirō Ozu, 1949)
In a Lonely Place (Nicholas Ray, 1950)
Letter from an Unknown Woman (Max Ophüls, 1948)
You Only Live Once (Fritz Lang, 1937)
Rope (Alfred Hitchcock, 1948)
All That Heaven Allows (Douglas Sirk, 1955)
The Earrings of Madame de…(Max Ophüls, 1953)
Vivre sa vie (Jean-Luc Godard, 1962)

Study of a Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
Martha (1974)
Effi Briest (1974)
Katzelmacher (1969)

Concepts in Film History: The Face
Biutiful (Alejandro G. Iñárritu, 2010)
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (Vittorio De Sica, 1970)
Persona (Ingmar Bergman, 1966)
Eyes Without a Face (Georges Franju, 1960)

Individuation in Technological and Natural Environments
Pulse (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2001)
In Order Not to be Here (Deborah Stratman, 2002)
Level 5 (Chris Marker, 1997)
Une Visite au Louvre (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet, 2004)
Évolution (Lucille Hadzihalilovic, 2015)

The Film-Philosophy of Stanley Cavell
The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir, 1939)
The Lady Eve (Preston Sturges, 1941)
The Philadelphia Story (George Cukor, 1940)
Stella Dallas (King Vidor, 1937)

Art in Film
The Gleaners and I (Agnès Varda, 2000)
The Draughtsman’s Contract (Peter Greenaway, 1982)
Passion (Jean-Luc Godard, 1982)
Barbara (Christian Petzold, 2012)

The Aesthetics of Italian Cinema
Roma città aperta/Rome Open City (Roberto Rossellini, 1945)
Ladri di biciclette/Bicycle Thieves (Vittorio De Sica, 1947)
La dolce vita (Federico Fellini, 1960)
La grande bellezza/The Great Beauty (Paolo Sorrentino, 2013)