HANDOUTS


CLASS 1

      Booklist, Syllabus, Policy and Requirements
      Literary Terms
      Film Glossary
      Adapting Literary Texts for the Movies
      Analyzing Narrative, Fictional Movies
      CUNY Policy on Academic Integrity
      Standards for Evaluating Writing
      Using Your Blackboard Blog
      Point of View and "Sleeping Beauty"
      Prose Styles
      The Top 120 Movies of all TIme Based on Critics Polls
        

CLASS 2

       General Characteristics of the Renaissance
       Greek Theory of Tragedy: Aristotle's Poetics
       Assignment 2:  Readings from Course Packet
       Revenge
       Elizabethan Humours (page 1)
       Elizabethan Humours (page 2)
       Blog Groups
       Outline of Introductory Lecture: Shakespeare's Hamlet

CLASS 3

      German Expressionism and Film Noir
      Play List of Clips Shown in Class
      Writing Assignment 3: Hamlet

CLASS 4

     Writing Assignment 4: Response to Olivier's Hamlet
     Notes for Watching Olivier's Hamlet
     Reviews of Olivier'sHamlet
     Hamlet (1948): Trivia
    

CLASS 5

      Michael Almereyda, "A Live Wire to the Brain:Hooking up Hamlet"
      Almereyda's Hamlet: Trivia
      Reviews of Almereyda's Hamlet
      Notes for Viewing Almereyda's Hamlet
      Writing Assignment 5: Almereyda's Hamlet
 

CLASS 6

       Writing Assignment 6: Transforming a Written Description into a Movie Set
       Literature and Film: Midterm Study Guide
      "Last Stage to Lordsburg" and "Ball of Fat"

    

CLASS 7

      Writing Assignment 7
       Women, Marriage, and Rights
      The Formalist-Realistic Scale
      Sample Midterm Questions and Student Answers/Essays
     "Brokeback Mountain": Short Story and Film (Paper, due Friday, May 2--date changed)
     Paper on Persepolis: Graphic Autobiography and Film (Paper, due Friday, May 2--date changed)

CLASS 8

      Notes for Viewing John Ford's Stagecoach
      John Ford and Stagecoach trivia 
      John Ford's Stagecoach: Reviews   
      Quotations about Love
      Writing assignment 8: Your Definition of Love

CLASS 9

      Wuthering Heights and the Gothic
     Chronology of Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights
     Writing assignment 9: Readings from course packet  
      Quotations about Love
     Excerpts from Reviews of and Articles on Brokeback Mountain
     Trivia: Brokeback Mountain

CLASS 10

     Study Guide: Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights
     Excerpts from Reviews of and Articles on Persepolis
     Notes for Reading Persepolis

CLASS 11

     Notes for Viewing William Wyler's Wuthering Heights
     Reviews of William Wyler's Wuthering Heights
     William Wyler's Film as an Adaptation of Emily Brontë's Novel
     William Wyler's Wuthering Heights (1939):  Trivia
     Gregg Toland: Cinematographer
     Writing assignment 10:  Response to Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights 
 

CLASS 12

     Luis Buñuel: Trivia and Facts
     Notes for Watching Luis Buñuel’s Abismos de Pasión
     Reviews of  Luis Buñuel's Abismos de Pasión
     Buñuel, Luis, "'‘Young and Damned’ Buñuel Has Joined the ‘Sensible’”
     Assignment 11: Response to Buñuel's Abismos de Pasión

CLASS 13

     Making Up One or Two Missing Writing Assignments
    
Assignment 12:  Response to  "It Had to Be Murder"
     Questions for Final: Literature and Film

CLASS 14

     Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window: Trivia
     Two Reviews of Hitchcock's Rear Window
     Excerpts from Reviews & Critical Comments: Hitchcock & Rear Window
    
Watching Rear Windows: Notes



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