| Screenings: |
Thursdays and Sundays at 7:30 PM in Stokes Auditorium |
| Reading: |
Bordwell/Thompson: Film Art: An Introduction
Freud: Civilization and Its Discontents
Nichols: Movies and Methods, Vol. II (selected essays)
Essays in course pack:
Arbuthnot and Seneca: "Pre-Text and Text in Gentlemen Prefer
Blondes"
Krutnik: "Masculinity and Its Discontents"
Paul: "Charles Chaplin and the Annals of Anality"
Sanders and Lieberfeld, "Dreaming in Pictures"
Schrader: "Notes on Film Noir"
Sikov: "Thinking and Writing About Film"
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| Sept. 2 |
First class: Introduction to class; introduction to film analysis.
Next film screening: Nosferatu (Murnau, 1922).
Next reading assignments: Film Art, Chapters 2 and 3; Wood,
"Introduction to the American Horror Film" (in Movies
and Methods). |
| Sept. 9 |
Lecture/discussion: Nosferatu: Sex, horror, repression, and
film form.
Next film screening: Sunrise (Murnau, 1927).
Next reading assignments: Film Art, Chapter 6. |
| Sept. 16 |
Lecture/discussion: Sunrise: Binary oppositions, more film
form.
Next film screening: Psycho (Hitchcock, 1960).
Next reading assignment: Film Art, Chapters 7 and 8; Freud,
sections I, II, III.
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| Sept. 23 |
Lecture/discussion: Psycho: Oedipus and psychoanalytic film criticism.
Next film screening: Psycho (second screening required).
Next reading assignment: finish Freud. |
| Sept. 30 |
Lecture/discussion: Psycho: Close formal analysis.
Next film screening: City Lights (Chaplin, 1931).
Next reading assignment: Paul (in course pack) |
| Oct. 7 |
Lecture/discussion: City Lights: Sex, gender, and comedy.
Next film screening: Seven Chances (Keaton, 1925), which will
be screened
on Thursday Oct. 10 and Sunday Oct. 20.
Next reading assignment: Sanders and Lieberfeld (in course pack). |
| Oct. 9 |
Midterm exams due on Wednesday Oct. 9 at noon in the box outside
my office.
|
| Oct. 14 |
Fall Break – no class |
| Oct. 21 |
Lecture/discussion: Seven Chances: Comedy and male paranoia.
Next film screening: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Hawks, 1953).
Next reading assignment: Arbuthnot and Seneca (in course pack) and
Turim (in Movies and Methods) |
| Oct. 28 |
Lecture/discussion: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: Woman: commodity
or authority?
Next film screening: Morocco (Sternberg, 1930)
Next reading assignment: Mulvey and Studlar (both in Movies and
Methods). |
| Nov. 4 |
Lecture/discussion: Morocco: Sadism, masochism, and visual
pleasure.
Next film screening: Double Indemnity (Wilder, 1944)
Next reading assignment: Krutnik and Schrader (both in course pack) |
| Nov. 11 |
Lecture/discussion: Double Indemnity: Film noir - a crisis
of masculinity.
Next film screening: Laura (Preminger, 1944)
Next reading assignment: none |
| Nov. 18 |
Lecture/discussion: Laura: Another masculinity crisis.
Next film screening: Being John Malkovich (Jonze, 1999)
Next reading assignment: none |
| Nov. 25 |
Lecture/discussion: Being John Malkovich: Sadly, it’s
still a crisis.
Next film screening: Cape Fear (Scorsese, 1991), to be screened
in class on Dec. 2.
Next reading assignment: none. |
| Dec. 2 |
In-class screening: Cape Fear (Scorsese, 1991). |
| Dec. 9-10 |
Oral exam/discussion groups meet |
| Dec. 16-17 |
Paper conferences |
| Dec. 18 |
5-page final papers due on Wednesday Dec. 18th at high noon at
my office. No late papers will be accepted for grading. |
