Spring
2007 Spring
2007
FLM 225.001: Notable Directors
Viewing
and Reading Schedule
-Films
and chapters due by the date
indicated-
'R' indicates that a written response is due at the beginning of that
class period
'FA'
refers to Film Analysis, 'SG' refers to A Short Guide to Writing
About Film
Please
use Film Analysis both as a critical resource to move beyond the
methodologies we discuss in class (through the short essays and the
bibliography) and as a suggestion for other films with which a film
student should be familiar.
January
18
course introduction
23
Auteur, Biographical and
Genre Criticism, FA: Introduction
(pp 17-40), SG ch 2
25
M*A*S*H*
(117m), R
30
McCabe
and Mrs. Miller
(121m), R
February
1
The
Player (124m), R
6
New Criticism and
Deconstruction, FA on Fellini, Rosellini and De Sica, SG ch 1
8
La
Strada
(115m), R SG ch 3
13
8
1/2
(135m), R
15
Amarcord
(127m), R
20
Reader-Response
Criticism, FA on Kenji, Kurosawa, Yasujiro and Yimou
22
The
Seven Samurai
(208m), R SG ch 7
27
Red
Beard (185), R
March
1
Dreams
(119m), R
6
rough
draft essay one due for peer review
8
Gender and
Psychoanalytic Criticism, FA on Buñuel,
SG ch 6
13
That
Obscure Object of Desire (102m), R
15
The
Phantom of Liberty (104m), R
19
& 25 Spring Break: no
class
27
Marxist and New
Historical Criticism, SG ch 5, ESSAY
ONE DUE TODAY
29
The
39 Steps (86m), R FA on Hitchcock and Polanski
April
3
Rope
(81m), R
5
Rear
Window
(116m), R FA on Kubrick
10
Dr
Strangelove or: How I Learned
to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (93m) R
12
A
Clockwork Orange
(138m), R
17
Full
Metal Jacket
(117 m), R
19
rough
draft essay two due for peer review
24
Mean
Streets (110m), R FA on Coppola and
Kubrick
26
Raging
Bull
(130m), R
May
1
The
King of Comedy (109m), R
3
final examination
review; ESSAY
TWO DUE TODAY
10
final examination: 12:30-2:30
NOTICE:
This
course may contain some material that is offensive to some individuals.
Any form of academic dishonesty will result in an ‘F’ as a final course grade.