Where available, links to more information about each film viewed in the course have been made to the Internet Movie Database.
| SES # | TOPICS/READINGS |
|---|---|
| 1 |
Introduction Sturges, Preston. The Lady Eve (1941). |
| 2 |
Singer, Irving. Reality Transformed: Film as Meaning and Technique. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1998. The Lady Eve commentary |
| 3 |
Singer, Irving. “Imagination” and “Idealization.” In Feeling and Imagination: The Vibrant Flux of Our Existence. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2001. Jeunet, Jean-Pierre. Amélie (2001). |
| 4 |
James, Henry. Washington Square. New York: Modern Library, 2002. (Download a version of the text from Project Gutenberg.) Holland, Agnieszka. Washington Square (1997). |
| 5 |
Singer, Irving. “Consummation.” In Feeling and Imagination . Wyler, William. The Heiress (1949). |
| 6 |
Shaw, Bernard. Pygmalion. New York: Penguin Books, 1957, including the prose epilogue. (Download a version of the text from Project Gutenberg.) Asquith, Anthony and Howard, Leslie. Pygmalion (1938). |
| 7 |
Bédier, Joseph. The Romance of Tristan and Iseult. New York: Vintage Books, 1994. Delannoy, Jacques. The Eternal Return (1943). |
| 8 |
James, Henry. “The Turn of the Screw.” In The Turn of the Screw, and In the Cage. New York: Modern Library, 2001. (Download a version of the text from Project Gutenberg.) Weigl, Petr. The Turn of the Screw (1982). (Based on the opera by Benjamin Britten.) |
| 9 |
Singer. “Alfred Hitchcock.” In Three Philosophical Filmmakers: Hitchock, Welles, Renoir. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2004. Hitchcock, Alfred. Vertigo (1958). |
| 10 |
Joyce, James. “The Dead.” In Dubliners. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. (Download a version of the text from Project Gutenberg.) Huston, John. The Dead (1987). |
| 11 |
Singer, Irving. “The Meaning of Death” and “The Love of Life.” In The Creation of Value. Meaning in Life Series, vol. I. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. Bergman, Ingmar. The Seventh Seal (1957). |
| 12 | Discussion of Previous Readings and Screenings |
