| Return to Course Policies |
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| Week 1 |
Film Noir and Genre Studies |
| 01/08 |
Introduction to course,
policies, and film challenges |
| In-class reading: Wright,
"Genre Films and the Status Quo" (FGR
42-50) |
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| Week 2 |
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| 1/15 |
Martin Luther King
Holiday - No Classes |
| Film: The
Big Sleep (Hawks, 1946) |
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| Shot-by-shot
due Tuesday, 1/16 by 5:00 pm (in lieu
of posting) |
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| Week 3 |
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| 1/22 |
Film: The
Lady of Shanghai (Welles, 1947) |
| Readings: Buscombe, "The Idea of Genre in the American Cinema" (FGR 12-26); Schrader, "Notes on Film
Noir" (FGR 229-42); Harvey, "Woman's
Place: The Absent Family of Film Noir" (WiFN
35-46) |
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| Week 4 |
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| 1/29 |
Film: Double
Indemnity (Wilder, 1944) |
| Readings: Place, "Women in Film Noir" (WiFN 47-68); Johnston, "Double Indemnity" (WiFN 89-98); excerpt from Krutnick, "Film Noir and America in the 1940s" (WebCT) | |
| Week 5 |
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| 2/5 |
Film: Klute (Pakula, 1971) |
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Readings: Gledhill, "Klute 1: A Contemporary Film Noir and Feminist Criticism" (WiFN 20-34); Gledhill, "Klute 2: Feminism and Klute" (WiFN 99-114) |
| Week 6 | |
| 2/12 |
Film: Basic Instinct (Verhoeven, 1992) |
| Readings:
Stables, "The Postmodern Always Rings Twice: Constructing
the Femme Fatale in 90s Cinema"
(WiFN
164-82); Grant, "Experience and Meaning in Genre Films" (FGR 115-29) |
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| Week 7 |
Horror and Gender Studies
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| 2/19 |
Film:
Bride of Frankenstein (Whale,
1935) |
| Readings:
Berenstein, "'It Will Thrill You, It May Shock You, It Might Even Horrify
You' " (DoD 117-142); Young, "Here
Comes the Bride" (DoD 309-337) |
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| Week 8 |
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| 2/26 | Film: Bram Stroker's Dracula (Coppola, 1992) |
| Readings: Wood, "Burying the Undead: The Use and Obselescence of Count Dracula" (DoD 364-78); Dika, "From Dracula--with Love" (DoD 388-400) | |
| Week 10 |
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| 3/5 |
Film: Psycho (Hitchcock, 1960) |
| Readings:
Williams, "When the Woman Looks" (DoD 15-34); Mulvey,
"Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" (WebCT); Recommended:
Lacan, "The mirror stage" (WebCT) |
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| Week 11 |
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| 3/12 |
Film: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Hooper, 1974) |
| Readings:
Clover, "Her Body, Himself: Gender in the Slasher Film"
(DoD
66-113) |
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| March 19-24 | Spring Break |
| Week 12 |
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| 3/26 |
Film: Alien (Scott, 1979) |
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Readings: Creed, "Horror and the Monstrous-Feminine: An Imaginary Abjection" (DoD 35-65); Doherty, "Gender, Genre, and the Aliens Trilogy" (DoD 181-99) |
| Week 13 |
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| 4/02 |
Film: A Nightmare on Elm Street (Craven, 1984) |
| Readings: Williams, "Film Bodies: Gender, Genre, and Excess" (FGR 141-59); Kawin, "Children of the Light" (FGR 324-45) | |
| Prospectus
Due |
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| Melodrama: The Gendered Genre |
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| Week 14 |
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| 4/09 |
Film: Rebecca (Hitchcock, 1940) |
| Readings: Staiger,
"Hybrid or Inbred" (FGR 185-99);
Doane, "The 'Woman's Film': Possession and Address" (WebCT) |
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| Week 15 |
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| 4/16 |
Film: Imitation of Life (Sirk, 1959) |
| Reading: Elsaesser,
"Tales of Sound and Fury: Observations on the Family Melodrama" (FGR 366-95) |
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| Week 16 |
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| 4/23 |
Film: Ordinary People (Redford, 1980) |
| Reading: Lutz, "Men's Tears and the Roles of Melodrama" (WebCT) |
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| 5/02 |
Paper
Due by 5:00 pm |