Studies in Film

Readings

Lec #	TOPICS	READINGS
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.