Tentative Schedule:
Screenings: T E1-E3 in TUR 2322
The films of Fritz Lang / The films of Alfred Hitchcock
Screening Tuesday, January 8: Fritz Lang, Metropolis
discussion questions due by noom Wednesday January 9; email your questions to me at [email protected]
Tuesday: January 8: Introduction to Film Analysis: Recurring Motifs and Themes in Lang and Hitchock and Parodies (Mel Brooks' High Anxiety) Clips from Vertigo, Rear Window, Blackmail, Destiny (1921) aka Der müde Tod (1921),The Blue Gardenia,The Testament of Dr. Mabuse, Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler
Thursday January 10: Introduction to Film Analysis:
Required Reading: David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson, Film Art: An Introduction (skim the whole thing by January 17; no discussion questions, however). See also this website.
Screening: Tuesday, January 15: Fritz Lang, Die Niebelungen
Tuesday January 15: Introduction to Film Analysis
Thursday January 17: Film analysis quiz in class.
SIGN UP TO CO-LEAD CLASS Twice on Thursdays and Give a Report on a Tuesday.
Screening: Tuesday, January 22 Psycho
January 22: Reports on Peeping Tom and Sisters
January 24: Psycho
Screening: Tuesday, January 29 Scarlet Street
January 29: Report on Woman in the Window
January 31: Scarlet Street
Film Clip Analysis and Plot Segmentation Analysis Due Friday, February 1, by 8 p.m.
Screening: Tuesday, Feburary 5 Clash by Night
Tuesday, Feburary 5 Report on Secret Beyond the Door
Thursday February 7 Clash by Night
Screening: Tuesday, February 12 North by Northwest
February 12 Report on Notorious
February 14 North by Northwest
First Paper: Due Friday, February 15 by 8 p.m.
Screening: Tuesday, February 19 Spies
February 19 Report on The Ministry of Fear
February 21 Spies
Screening: Tuesday February 26 You Only Live Once
February 26 Report on Northside 777 and Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
February 28 You Only Live Once
Screening: Tuesday, March 4 The Wrong Man
March 4 Report on Fury
March 6 The Wrong Man
March 11-13 Spring Break
Screening: Tuesday, March 18 M
March 18 Report on Carrol Reed, The Third Man
March 20 M
Screening: Tuesday, March 25 The Lady Vanishes (1938)
March 25 Report on Carrol Reed, Night Train to Munich (1940; shares with The Lady Vanishes the same star, Margaret Lockwood, and a similar gay British couple played by the same actors Nauton Wayne and Basil Radford; uses the same toy train as well)
March 27 The Lady Vanishes
Screening: Tuesday, April 1 Strangers on a Train
April 1: Report on John Frankenheimer,The Train
April 3: Strangers on a Train
Screening April 8: Human Desire
Tuesday, April 8 Report on Jean Renoir's La Bete Humaine (Human Desire is a remake of Renoir's film; both films are based on the novel by Emile Zola)
April 10: Human Desire
Screening: Tuesday, April 15 Saboteur
April 15: Report on Foreign Correspondent or The Thirty Nine Steps
April 17: Saboteur
Second Paper: Due Friday, April 18 by 8 p.m.
April 22: Class discussion / evaluations