An interesting video essay comparing The Dawn of Blood with 2001. Independent Study students, note the comparisons between the construction of mise en scene and thematic/conceptual intention of the director/s.
Now in it's 5th edition much of the classic content and case studies are now online, with some useful exercises, in readings, discussion of issues surrounding genre and representation of gender etc.
I thought this would complement Mr Williamson's bookmark about dopplegangers and mirrors in film directed by Aronofsky.
There's seems to be something deliberately mannered in this kind of motif in the oeuvre ( if, given their limited numbers of films, might be described as such) of each of these directors