First Meeting: Hugo Münsterberg’s The Photoplay

The Film Studies Reading Group is scheduled to have its first meeting on Thursday at 2pm 2 April 2015. The Reading Group is a biweekly meeting (i.e. every other week), intended for all Postgrads (including MA and PhD students) and Faculty with an interest in reading primary literature within the realm of Film Studies.

For the first meeting, we have agreed to read Hugo Münsterberg‘s 1916 The Photoplay: A Psychological Study, which is available as a free .pdf, eBook, and Kindle from Project Gutenberg (http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/15383).

At the first meeting, the next readings will be discussed and agreed upon.  Room is Jarman 5.

Links to Relevant Videos

• Srirekha Chakravarty on Hugo Münsterberg

• Es.UNED on Hugo Münsterberg (you may have to change the translation of the subtitles to your preferred language)

• Neptune’s Daughter (1914) 

• Library of Congress, D.C., U.S.A. Edison Collection