21L.706
Studies in Film
Intensive study of films from particular periods, genres, or directors, or films focusing on specific formal or theoretical problems. Instruction and practice in oral and written communication provided. Previous topics include The Contemporary Horror Film, Film Remixes, Film Narrative, Heroic Cinema, Color in Film and Hitchcock. Students taking graduate version complete different assignments. May be repeated for credit with permission of instructor if content differs. Limited to 12.
Fall 2005
Topics
- Introduction
- Unit One
- Unit Two
- Unit Three
- Unit Four
- Unit Five
- Unit Six
- Unit Seven
- Unit Eight
- Unit Nine
- Unit Ten
- Unit Eleven
Readings
- Lec #: 1 · TOPICS: Introduction · READINGS: Carroll, Lewis. Jabberwocky. Oxford, UK: At the University Press, 1881.
- Andersen, Hans Christian. The Steadfast Tin Soldier. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1981. ISBN: 013846295X.
- De Maupassant, Guy. “A Piece of String.” In Une Vie, a Piece of String and Other Stories. Holicong, PA: Wildside Press, 2003. ISBN: 1592245668.
- Heningway, Ernest. “The Killers.” In Men Without Women. New York, NY: Scribner, 1927.
- Excerpts from: Cervantes. Don Quixote. Translated by Edith Grossman. New York, NY: Ecco, 2003. ISBN: 0060188707.
- Aeschylus. Agamemnon. Cambridge, UK; New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2003. ISBN: 0521010756.
- Sophocles. Antigone. Oxford, UK; New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2003. ISBN: 0195143108.
- Sophocles. Oedipus Rex. Edited by Shomit Dutta. Greek Tragedy . London, UK: Penguin, 2004. ISBN: 014143936X.
- Shakespeare. Macbeth. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2005. ISBN: 0300106548.
- Balzac, Honoré de. Père Goriot. Oxford, UK; New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1999. ISBN: 0192835696.
- James, Henry. Turn of the Screw. Boston, MA: Bedford Books of St. Martin’s Press, 1995. ISBN: 0312080832.
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. London, UK: Penguin, 2000. ISBN: 0141182636.
Prerequisites & course information
Same subject as CMS.330[J] Subject meets with CMS.830 Prereq: ( 21L.011 and one subject in Literature or Comparative Media Studies) or permission of instructor U (Fall, Spring) 3-0-9 units. HASS-H Can be repeated for credit.
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- MIT OpenCourseWare ↗Fall 2005
- MIT OCW syllabus ↗
- MIT OCW readings ↗
- MIT OCW calendar ↗
- Historical MIT OpenCourseWare offering. Named reading entries and schedule topics are automatically extracted from the linked source pages.