Calendar
TENTATIVE COURSE CALENDAR, ENG 3940H: WEEKS 1-4
Week 1: Introductory
Thurs., 1/28: Introductions, Syllabus review
Week 2: Foundations, Exemplars
Tues., 2/2
Read: Entries on fear, anxiety, and paranoia from The International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis (handouts and linked here — you will need to log into to the library’s database system to access these electronically); Phillips, Introduction and Chap. 1 (pp 1-33) (*Since this book is not yet available at the bookstore, please read Chap. 1 of Monaco)
See: Dracula (1931) (Netflix streaming); 6pm screening: Fritz Lang’s M (rm. 323, Annex bldg)
Recommended viewing: Freaks (1932)(Netflix DVD); Frankenstein (1933)(Netflix streaming)
Thurs., 2/4
Due: Response paper: significance statement #1 (~2pp). Assignment will be posted on this blog on Monday 2/1.
Read: Monaco, Chap. 1 (pp24-71); Plantinga, “The Rhetoric of Emotion: Disgust and Beyond” (handout)
See: Un Chien Andalou (1929)(Google Video; Veoh); M (1931)(Netflix DVD); Eraserhead (1977)(Netflix streaming; Google Video)
Recommended Viewing: Blue Velvet (1986)(Netflix DVD); Polyester (Amazon VOD)(1981)
Week 3: Film Noir I
Tues., 2/9
Read: Monaco, Chap 1. (con’t). Schrader, “Notes on Film Noir” (handout)
See: D.O.A. (1950)(Netflix streaming); The Lady From Shanghai (1948)(Netflix streaming); 6pm Screening: Double Indemnity (1946)
Recommended viewing: The Big Sleep (1946) (Netflix streaming); The Stranger (1946)(Netflix streaming)
Thurs., 2/11:
Due: Response paper: significance statement #2 (~2pp)
Read: Naremore, Chap. 1 of More Than Night (handout); from A Panorama of American Film Noir (handout)
See: Double Indemnity (1946)(Netflix DVD); Detour (1945)(streaming and download from archive.org)
Recommended viewing: The Naked City (1948)(Netflix DVD); Panic In the Streets (1950)(Netflix streaming)
Week 4: Film Noir II
Tues., 2/16
Read: Laura Mulvey, “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema” (handout); Julie Grossman, “Film Noir’s ‘Femme Fatales’ Hard-Boiled Women: Moving Beyond Gender Fantasies” (handout)
See: Gilda (1946)(Netflix streaming); Laura (1941)(Netflix Streaming)
Recommended viewing: The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (Netflix streaming)
Thurs., 2/18:
Read: Naremore, Chap. 4 from More than Night (handout)
See: Touch of Evil(1957)(Netflix streaming); Kiss Me Deadly (1955)(Netflix DVD)
Recommended viewing:The Third Man (1949)(Netflix streaming)
CALENDAR FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE SEMESTER IS FORTHCOMING.
SYLLABUS IS TENTATIVE AND SUBJECT TO CHANGE. VIEWING ASSIGNMENTS MAY CHANGE BASED ON THE AVAILABILITY OF FILMS.
