Cinema and Psyche

CompLit 382, Spring 2006

Quoting film titles in the body of a paper:

In Bolshe Vita, Ibolya Fekete examines the way in which young people's lives are affected by the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Note: Film titles are italicized or underlined. All the important words in the title are capitalized.

Quoting book titles in the body of a paper:

The first English translation of Thomas More's Utopia appeared in 1551.

Note: Book titles are either italicized or underlined.

Quoting articles or book chapters in the body of a paper:

The exhilaration experienced by the characters in Bolshe Vita at their newly-found liberty, is also evident in George Konrad's "Letter From Budapest."

Note: Article/book chapter titles are put in quotation marks.

Quoting text in the body of a paper:

For quotations running less than four lines:

"Can you say something about nothing?" is a question that Huxley raises multiple times (70).

Many critics claim that "state-sponsored filmmaking is on its way out" in Eastern Europe (Konrad 7).

Note: The quoted text is put in quotation marks. The page on which the quote is found appears at the end of the sentence, in brackets. If the source of the quoted text is not evident from the context in which the quote appears, add the author's name before the page numbers. If quoting film dialogue, do not put page numbers or author names after the quote. Just make sure that it is clear which character utters the lines.

For quotations running more than four lines:

In Brave New World Huxley gives a detailed description of the manufacturing processes at the Central London Hatchery:
               On a very slowly moving band a rack-full of test-tubes was entering a large metal box,
               another rack-full was emerging. Machinery faintly purred. It took eight minutes for the
               tubes to go through, he told them. Eight minutes of hard X-rays being about as much as an
               egg can stand. A few died; of the rest, the least susceptible divided into two; most put out
               four buds [...] (6)

Note: The quoted text is indented two tab spaces from the left margin. It is double spaced (just like regular text) and no quotation marks are added.
 

MLA style bibliography

Films:

1984. Dir. Michael Radford. Perf. John Hurt, Richard Burton and Suzanna Hamilton. Virgin Films, 1984.

Note: The important information here is the name of the film, the director, the distributor, and the year the film was released. Any other info is optional.
 

Book chapters and articles:

Bori, Erzsébet. “Torte à la Russe.” The Hungarian Quarterly  37:144 (Winter 1996): 149-154.

Tarkovsky, Andrey. “The Film Image.” Sculpting in Time: Reflections on the Cinema. Trans. Kitty Hunter-Blair. London: The Bodley Head, 1986. 113-124.

Note: First list the author (first name follows last name), then the chapter or article title in quotation marks followed by the book or journal in which the piece appears, and finally, the year of publication and the page numbers. If quoting chapters of a book, also include the place of publication and the publisher.

Books:

Zamyatin, Yevgeny. We. New York: Eos, 1999.

Online publications:

Kino International. Karakhan, Alexei. “Interview with Director Alexander Zvyagintsev.” 

    March 12, 2004. <http://www.kino.com/thereturn/mainframe.html>.

Note: Give the title of the web page, the date when you accessed it and its network address (URL) enclosed in angle brackets.
 

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