| 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. |