Required Texts
Singer, Irving. Reality Transformed: Film as Meaning and Technique. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1998. ISBN: 0262692481.
———. Three Philosophical Filmmakers: Hitchcock, Welles, Renoir. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2004. ISBN: 0262195011.
Where available, links to more information about each film viewed in the course have been made to the Internet Movie Database.
Readings and Films by Session
| LEC # | TOPICS/READINGS/FILMS |
|---|---|
| 1 |
Introduction: Myth in Visual and Literary Arts Film: Sturges, Preston. The Lady Eve, 1941. |
| 2 |
Film: Jeunet, Jean-Pierre. Amélie, 2001. |
| 3 |
Bédier, Joseph. Tristan & Iseult. Rei ed. London, UK: Vintage, 1994. ISBN: 0679750169. Film: Cocteau, Jean, and Jean Delannoy. The Eternal Return, 1943. |
| 4 |
Shaw, George Bernard. Pygmalion. New York, NY: Penguin Books, 2003. ISBN: 0141439505. (Including the prose epilogue.) Film: Asquith, Anthony, and Leslie Howard. Pygmalion, 1938. |
| 5 |
James, Henry. Washington Square. New York, NY: Modern Library, 2002. ISBN: 0375761225. (Including introduction.) (Download a version of the text from Project Gutenberg.) Film: Holland, Agnieszka. Washington Square, 1997. |
| 6 |
Film: Wyler, William. The Heiress, 1949. |
| 7 |
Film: Hitchcock, Alfred. The 39 Steps, 1935. |
| 8 |
Discussion of Readings and Screenings to date - |
| 9 |
Cocteau, Jean. Cocteau on the Film. Mineola, NY: Dover, 1972, pp. v-76. ISBN: 0486227774. Film: Cocteau, Jean. Orphée, 1950. |
| 10 |
Cocteau, Jean. Cocteau on the Film. Mineola, NY: Dover, 1972, pp. 99-131. ISBN: 0486227774. Film: Cocteau, Jean. The Testament of Orpheus, 1960. |
| 11 |
Singer, Irving."The Meaning of Death." In The Creation of Value: Meaning in Life Series. Vol. 1. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. ISBN: 0801854512. Film: Bergman, Ingmar. The Seventh Seal, 1957. |
| 12 |
Discussion of Student Drafts of Paper 2 Film: Bergman, Ingmar. Through a Glass Darkly, 1961. (Interviews.) |