REVISING THE FILM CANON

Christopher Philip Long

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Canon formation is necessary and inevitable. In 1985 Janet Staiger suggested two guiding principles to revise the process of canon formation: (1) include works that were previously marginalized and (2) eliminate or mitigate the role of evaluative criteria in canon formation to avoid repeating a system of exclusion and inclusion. In this paper I review Jonathan Rosenbaum's two most recent books, Movie Mutations (Citation2003) and Essential Cinema (Citation2004), in the context of Staiger's two recommendations and argue that the books embrace the first guideline while rejecting the second. I also conduct a statistical analysis of Rosenbaum's 1,000‐film canon in order to understand more clearly its implications.

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1995The western canon: the books and school of the ages 1968The American Cinema: Directors and Directions, 1929-1968 1997The Oxford history of world cinema 1985The Politics of Film Canons 2003Movie Mutations: The Changing Face of World Cinephilia 2003Movie Mutations 2004Essential cinema: on the necessity of film canons 2008Essential Cinema

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