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
       Assignment 2:  Hamlet
       Revenge

CLASS 3

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

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

       Writing Assignment 5: Transforming a Written Description into a Movie Set
       Revised Syllabus

CLASS 6

      Michael Almereyda, "A Live Wire to the Brain:Hooking up Hamlet"
      Almereyda's Hamlet: Trivia
      Two NewYork Times Reviews of Almereyda's Hamlet
      Notes for Viewing Almereyda's Hamlet
      Writing Assignment 6: Almereyda's Hamlet

    

CLASS 7

       "Last Stage to Lordsburg" and "Ball of Fat"
      The Formalist-Realistic Scale
      Writing Assignment 7: Response to Haycox and du Maupassant
      Literature and Film: Midterm Study Guide
      Sample Midterm Questions and Student Answers/Essays

CLASS 8

      Notes for Viewing John Ford's Stagecoach
      John Ford and Stagecoach trivia 
      John Ford's Stagecoach: Reviews

CLASS 9

      Wuthering Heights and the Gothic
     Chronology of Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights
     Writing assignment 8: Response to Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights  
      Quotations about Love
      Writing assignment 8: Love
     "Brokeback Mountain": Short Story and Film (Paper, due April 27)
     Excerpts from Reviews of and Articles on Brokeback Mountain
     Trivia: BrokebackMountain

CLASS 10

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

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 William Wyler's WutheringHeights 
 

CLASS 12

     Writing assignment 10    
     Luis Buñuel: Facts
     Notes for Watching Luis Buñuel’s Abismos de Pasión
     Reviews of  Luis Buñuel's Abismos de Pasión

CLASS 13

     Making Up One or Two Missing Writing Assignments
     Assignment 11 

CLASS 14

     Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window: Trivia
     Assignment 12
     Two Reviews of Hitchcock's Rear Window
     Excerpts from Reviews & Critical Comments: Hitchcock & Rear Window
     Watching Rear Windows: Notes
     Questions for Final: Literature and Film
     Buñuel, Luis, "'‘Young and Damned’ Buñuel Has Joined the ‘Sensible’”