21L.706 | Fall 2005 | Undergraduate

Studies in Film

Readings

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1 Introduction Carroll, Lewis. Jabberwocky. Oxford, UK: At the University Press, 1881.

Andersen, Hans Christian. The Steadfast Tin Soldier. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1981. ISBN: 013846295X.

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”

Siodmak, Robert. The Killers. 1946.

De Maupassant, Guy. “A Piece of String.” In Une Vie, a Piece of String and Other Stories. Holicong, PA: Wildside Press, 2003. ISBN: 1592245668.

Heningway, Ernest. “The Killers.” In Men Without Women. New York, NY: Scribner, 1927.

4-5 Unit Two

Film Viewing and Discussion of The Wachowski Brothers, The Matrix and Excerpts from Cervantes, Don Quixote

Film Showing: Andy and Larry Wachowski. The Matrix. 1999.

Excerpts from: Cervantes. Don Quixote. Translated by Edith Grossman. New York, NY: Ecco, 2003. ISBN: 0060188707.

6-7 Unit Three

Film Viewing and Discussion of Akira Kurosawa’s, Seven Samurai and Excerpts from Cervantes, Don Quixote

Kurosawa, Akira. Seven Samurai. 1954.

Excerpts from: Cervantes. Don Quixote. Translated by Edith Grossman. New York, NY: Ecco, 2003. ISBN: 0060188707.

8-10 Unit Four

Film Viewing and Discussion of John Ford’s My Darling Clementine and Aeschylus, Agamemnon

Ford, John. My Darling Clementine. 1946.

Aeschylus. Agamemnon. Cambridge, UK; New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2003. ISBN: 0521010756.

11-13 Unit Five

Film Viewing and Discussion of Clint Eastwood’s Unforgiven and Sophocles, Antigone

Eastwood, Clint. Unforgiven. 1992.

Sophocles. Antigone. Oxford, UK; New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2003. ISBN: 0195143108.

14-15 Unit Six

Film Viewing and Discussion of Chris Marker’s La Jetée and Sophocles, Oedipus Rex

Marker, Chris. La Jetée. 1962.

Sophocles. Oedipus Rex. Edited by Shomit Dutta. Greek Tragedy. London, UK: Penguin, 2004. ISBN: 014143936X.

16-17 Unit Seven

Film Viewing and Discussion of Francis Ford Coppolla’s The Godfather and Shakespeare, Macbeth

Coppolla, Francis Ford. The Godfather. 1972.

Shakespeare. Macbeth. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2005. ISBN: 0300106548.

18-20 Unit Eight

Film Viewing and Discussion of Laura Cavani’s Ripley’s Game. Reading: Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot

Cavani, Liliana. Ripley’s Game. 2002.

Balzac, Honoré de. Père Goriot. Oxford, UK; New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1999. ISBN: 0192835696.

21-22 Unit Nine

Film Viewing and Discussion of Jonathan Glazer’s Birth and Henry James, Turn of the Screw

Glazer, Jonathan. Birth. 2004.

James, Henry. Turn of the Screw. Boston, MA: Bedford Books of St. Martin’s Press, 1995. ISBN: 0312080832.

23 Unit Ten

Film Viewing and Discussion of Billy Wilder’s Sunset Boulevar

Wilder, Billy. Sunset Boulevard. 1950.
24-25 Unit Eleven

Film Viewing and Discussion of Orson Welles, Citizen Kane and F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

Welles, Orson. Citizen Kane. 1941.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. London, UK: Penguin, 2000. ISBN: 0141182636.

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