Calendar

Lec # TOPICS KEY DATES
1 Introduction
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"
4-5 Unit Two

Film Viewing and Discussion of The Wachowski Brothers, The Matrix and Excerpts from Cervantes, Don Quixote
6-7 Unit Three

Film Viewing and Discussion of Akira Kurosawa's, Seven Samurai and Excerpts from Cervantes, Don Quixote
8-10 Unit Four

Film Viewing and Discussion of John Ford's My Darling Clementine and Aeschylus, Agamemnon
First paper due on Lec #10 (five pages)
11-13 Unit Five

Film Viewing and Discussion of Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven and Sophocles, Antigone
14-15 Unit Six

Film Viewing and Discussion of Chris Marker's La Jetée and Sophocles, Oedipus Rex
16-17 Unit Seven

Film Viewing and Discussion of Francis Ford Coppolla's The Godfather and Shakespeare, Macbeth
Second paper due on Lec #17 (six pages)
18-20 Unit Eight

Film Viewing and Discussion of Laura Cavani's Ripley's Game. Reading: Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot
21-22 Unit Nine

Film Viewing and Discussion of Jonathan Glazer's Birth and Henry James, Turn of the Screw
23 Unit Ten

Film Viewing and Discussion of Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevar
24-25 Unit Eleven

Film Viewing and Discussion of Orson Welles, Citizen Kane and F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Third paper due on Lec #25 (nine pages)