Studies in Film

Calendar

Lec #	TOPICS	KEY DATES
1	Introduction
2-3	Unit One Film Viewing and Discussion of Robert Siodmak’s The Killers. Maupassant’s “A Piece of String”; and Ernest Heningway’s “The Killers”
4-5	Unit Two Film Viewing and Discussion of The Wachowski Brothers, The Matrix and Excerpts from Cervantes, Don Quixote
6-7	Unit Three Film Viewing and Discussion of Akira Kurosawa’s, Seven Samurai and Excerpts from Cervantes, Don Quixote
8-10	Unit Four Film Viewing and Discussion of John Ford’s My Darling Clementine and Aeschylus, Agamemnon	First paper due on Lec #10 (five pages)
11-13	Unit Five Film Viewing and Discussion of Clint Eastwood’s Unforgiven and Sophocles, Antigone
14-15	Unit Six Film Viewing and Discussion of Chris Marker’s La Jetée and Sophocles, Oedipus Rex
16-17	Unit Seven Film Viewing and Discussion of Francis Ford Coppolla’s The Godfather and Shakespeare, Macbeth	Second paper due on Lec #17 (six pages)
18-20	Unit Eight Film Viewing and Discussion of Laura Cavani’s Ripley’s Game. Reading: Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot
21-22	Unit Nine Film Viewing and Discussion of Jonathan Glazer’s Birth and Henry James, Turn of the Screw
23	Unit Ten Film Viewing and Discussion of Billy Wilder’s Sunset Boulevar
24-25	Unit Eleven Film Viewing and Discussion of Orson Welles, Citizen Kane and F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby	Third paper due on Lec #25 (nine pages)