Required Texts
Singer, Irving. Reality Transformed: Film as Meaning and Technique. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1998. ISBN: 0262692481.
———. Three Philosophical Filmmakers: Hitchcock, Welles, Renoir. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2004. ISBN: 0262195011.
Where available, links to more information about each film viewed in the course have been made to the Internet Movie Database.
| LEC # | TOPICS/READINGS |
|---|---|
| 1 |
Introduction
Film: Cocteau, Jean. Beauty and the Beast (1946). |
| 2 |
Singer, Irving. Reality Transformed. pp. i-xiv, 1-50.
Film: Welles, Orson. Citizen Kane (1941). |
| 3 |
Singer, Irving. Reality Transformed. pp. 53-78.
Film: Allen, Woody. The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985). |
| 4 |
Singer, Irving. Reality Transformed. pp. 81-127.
Film: Visconti, Luchino. Death in Venice (1971). |
| 5 |
Singer, Irving. Reality Transformed. pp. 131-189.
Film: Renoir, Jean. The Rules of the Game (1939). |
| 6 |
Singer, Irving. Reality Transformed. pp. 191-200.
Film: Hitchcock, Alfred. The 39 Steps (1935). |
| 7 |
Singer, Irving. Three Philosophical Filmmakers. pp. ix-46.
Film: Hitchcock, Alfred. Psycho (1960). |
| 8 |
Singer, Irving. Three Philosophical Filmmakers. pp. 46-75.
Video: Camera Three: The Illustrated Hitchcock. Interview with Pia Lindstrom, 1972. |
| 9 |
Singer, Irving. Three Philosophical Filmmakers. pp. 77-145.
Film: Hitchcock, Alfred. Vertigo (1958). |
| 10 |
Singer, Irving. Three Philosophical Filmmakers. pp. 147-178.
Video: Orson Welles: Stories From a Life in Film. Interview with Leslie Megahey, BBC Television, 1989. |
| 11 |
Singer, Irving. Three Philosophical Filmmakers. pp. 178-219.
Film: Welles, Orson. The Magnificent Ambersons (1942). |
| 12 |
Singer, Irving. Three Philosophical Filmmakers. pp. 221-257.
Film: Renoir, Jean. The Crime of Monsieur Lange (1936). |
| 13 |
Discussion
Film: Renoir, Jean. Le Roi d’Yvetot (on Petit Théâtre de Jean Renoir (1971)). |
