There will be no screenings. You must watch the films on disc or streaming on your own.
We will discuss the film on Tuesdays and the trailer for it on Thursdays.
I WILL GIVE A SHORT QUIZ at the beginning of every class.
YOUR FIRST ASSIGNMENT is due Monday, August 26 by 5:00 p.m.
Due Monday August 26 by 5:00 p.m: After you watch Macbeth (dir. Roman Polanski, 1971), write two Discussion Questions (DQs) on Macbeth (dir. Roman Polanski, 1971), and describe any three shots of your choice with three film analysis terms.
The Google doc gives examples of the format for the Discussion Questions and description of any three shots of your choice with three film analysis terms. They are always due Mondays and Wednesdays by 5:00 p.m. unless otherwise specified.
Post your DQs and three shots BOTH on Canvas AND on this Google doc by 5:00 p.m.
Computers are not allowed to be used in class.
Please turn off your cell phones and computers before class. Take notes with paper and pen or pencil. We will use the computer and computer projecter in class as we need them when discussing the film.
Tentative Schedule: (Please expect minor adjustments to be made in the schedule from time to time; all changes will be announced both in class and on the class email listserv. Soon we will begin discussing film trailers for the assigned films.)
August 22
Crash Course on this Course / Close Reading
St. Crispin's Day Speech in Laurence Olivier's Henry V (1944) and Kenneth Branagh's Henry V (1989).
The source text: the printed speech.
Post Your DQs etc. for Shakespeare and Film 1 Fall 2024 on this Google doc and on Canvas.
August 26
Due Monday, August 26 by 5:00 p.m: After you watch Macbeth (dir. Roman Polanski, 1971), write two Discussion Questions (DQs) on the film and describe any three shots of your choice with three film analysis terms.
August 27
REQUIRED VIEWING:
Macbeth (dir. Roman Polanski, 1971) You will need to rent this film (and every other assigned film) online or watch it on disc.
Due Wednesday, August 28 by 5:00 p.m: Two Discussion Questions and three shots with three film analysis terms you think would have to be in a different film trailer (but are not in the existing trailer). To be clear, choose three shots that are in the film that you think should be in the trailer that was released. But do not choose any of the shots in the trailer. In class, we can discuss whether you thnk the trailer is good or not and why.TRAILER: Macbeth (dir. Roman Polanski, 1971)
For comparative purposes you may wish to watch this trailer Macbeth Official US Release Trailer (2015) - Michael Fassbender War Drama HD and see what the two trailers share:
Post Your DQs etc. on this Google doc and on Canvas.
August 29
REQUIRED VIEWING:
Macbeth (dir. Roman Polanski, 1971)
TRAILER:
Macbeth (dir. Roman Polanski, 1971)
Sign Up to Co-Lead Class between September 3 and October 15. Do not partner with the same person twice. Once you have a partner to co-lead class discussion, the two of you will create a google doc for your notes and share it with me by 5:00 p.m. the day before you are co-leading so I can add my thoughts. Make sure you give me permission to edit the google document. When you co-lead, you do not have to turn in DQs and three shots.
You can find unedited versions of all of Shakespeare's plays online here. Here you can find The Tragedy of Macbeth
September 3
In Class Quiz on Film Analysis Terms
REQUIRED VIEWING:
Throne of Blood (dir. Akira Kurosowa, 1957)
September 5
REQUIRED VIEWING:
Throne of Blood (1957)
TRAILER
Recommended Viewing:
French Trailer and Preview for Castle of the Spider's Web (an accurate translation of Throne of Blood).
Le Château de l'araignée ( bande annonce VOST ) (French subtitles)
LE CHÂTEAU DE L'ARAIGNÉE - extrait "la prophétie réalisée" (HD - VOST)
September 10
REQUIRED VIEWING:
Macbeth (dir. Orson Welles, 1948)
119-Minute Roadshow Version
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September 12
REQUIRED VIEWING:
September 17
REQUIRED VIEWING:
The Tragedy of Macbeth (dir. Joel Coen, 2021)
September 19
REQUIRED VIEWING: "Something Wicked this Way Comes"
The Tragedy of Macbeth Official Trailer | Apple TV+
Recommended Viewing and Reading to think about the last shot of Coen's film:
The birds silently gather in the schoolyard in Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds (1963)
The Birds (1963): Storyboarding the Scene at the Schoolhouse by Christopher Laws
RECOMMENDED VIEWING:
THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH Teaser Trailer 2 (2021) Apple TV+
THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH Trailer 3 (2022)
The End of Macbeth Carter Burwell
Shot by Shot Assignment Example from first Macbeth (Joel Cohen, 2021) trailer
FIRST PAPER:
DUE Saturday, September 21, by 11:59 p.m.
Email the link to your google doc to me at [email protected].
Live GRADING in 4314 Turlington. We will meet at my office in person to discuss your assignment. I will send out an email with a link to a google with a schedule of times we can meet. You'll just need to sign up.
September 24 WHAT IS A TRAILER?
REQUIRED READING:
1. Dissecting a Trailer: The Parts of the Film That Make the Cut
2. Christopher Hooton, We spoke to the people who make film trailers
Required Viewing (but no DQs are required)
MACBETH - Official Teaser Trailer - Starring Michael Fassbender And Marion Cotillard
Macbeth Official Trailer #2 (2015) Michael Fassbender, Marion Cotillard Movie HD
With subtitles in an early modern font:
From Play to Screen | Macbeth with Michael Fassbender "'Fair is foul, and foul is fair'... adapted from one of William Shakespeare's most iconic plays - we've picked some of the most famous play to screen scenes from Justin Kurzel's MACBETH. Starring Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard."
Recommended Viewing:
TCM includes all original trailers for films they stream, here for War of the Worlds (1953) and here for The Flame Within (Edmund Goulding, 1935)
Shot by Shot Assignment Example from first Macbeth (Joel Cohen, 2021) trailer (in progress)
SHAKESPEARE ON FILM - Trailers
Montage trailer of Kurosawa's films 0:08 / 1:45 :
Kurosawa: A Complete Film Season trailer | BFI
Macbeth | Full Movie | Drama | William Shakespeare (2018) Stars: Wunmi Mosaku, Al Weaver, Mark Rowley
Sizzle reels made by Cohen Media in 2015 and 2016 as silent films (with cross-cutting between films, all of which get titles and reassembled at the end of the sizzle).
How to Make a Movie Trailer: 6 Tips for Cutting Your Own Trailer
The Oscar for Best Film Title Sequence Goes to ...
Prospero's Books - John Gielgud - Mark Rylance - Michael Clark - Isabelle Pasco - 1991 Trailer - 4K
Voice-over narration focused on the actors and on directors. The stars may be mentioned first or last. Sometimes the trailer tells the story, with . . . and starring . . . and
From the director who brought you . . .
THE GREEN INFERNO - Audience Reaction Trailer (Hat tip to Devoun Cetoute)
Sometimes Titles Are the Whole Story
The narration often include blurbs from critics.
Last Action Hero - Schwarzenegger Hamlet Scene
King Lear - Official Trailer | Prime Video
September 26
Class cancelled by UF
October 1
REQUIRED VIEWING:
Hamlet (dir. Laurence Olivier, 1948)
Hamlet (dir. Grigori Kozintsev 1964)
October 3
REQUIRED VIEWING:
Trailers:
Hamlet - Laurence Olivier - 1948 - Trailer - 4K
Grigori Kozintsev's Hamlet 1964 Original Trailer
Recommended Viewing:
Hamlet / (dir. Grigori Kozintsev 1964) (Russian Trailer) (English Subt)
October 8 This week we are seeing TWO different versions of HAMLET film and the trailers for both films! Write one DQ on the film and one DQ on the trailer.
REQUIRED VIEWING:
1. Hamlet (Franco Zeffirelli, 1990)
2. Trailer
Hamlet (1990) Official Trailer - Mel Gibson, Glenn Close Movie HD
RECOMMENDED:
Carl Orff - O Fortuna ~ Carmina Burana
October 10
Class cancelled by UF. Co-leaders please sign up to co-lead another class later in the semester.
You are NOT required to watch this adaptation:
1. Hamlet (dir. Micheal Almereyda, 2000)
2. Trailer
Hamlet "2000" - Ethan Hawke - Bill Murray - Liev Schreiber - Julia Stiles - 2000 - Trailer - 4K
October 15
REQUIRED VIEWING:
King Lear (dir. Peter Brook, 1971) (trailers optional)
https://login.lp.hscl.ufl.edu/login?URL=https://digitalcampus.swankmp.net/ufl275793/
October 17
REQUIRED VIEWING:
To Be or Not to Be (dir. Ernst Lubitsch, 1941) Criterion edition
October 22
REQUIRED VIEWING:
King Lear - Grigori Kozintsev - Jüri Järvet - Shakespeare - 1970 - HD Restored - 4K
King Lear - Grigori Kozintsev - Jüri Järvet - Shakespeare - 1970
***Select five shots from King Lear you would choose if you were making Your Own Trailer - turn this assignment in by 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday, October 23rd.***
October 24
REQUIRED VIEWING:
King Lear dir. Grigori Kozintsev, 1970 - HD Restored - 4K
King Lear dir. Grigori Kozintsev, 1970
Shakespeare illustrations by Soviet artist, Savva Brodsky (1923-1982).
October 29 (No Trailer)
REQUIRED VIEWING:
King Lear (dir. Orson Welles - Peter Brook -1953)
October 31
REQUIRED VIEWING:
Twelfth Night (dir. Trevor Nunn, 1996) (No trailers)
November 5 WE ARE WATCHING TWO FILMS THIS WEEK!
REQUIRED VIEWING: Write one DQ on the film and one DQ on the trailer.
Romeo and Juliet (dir. Franco Zefferlli, 1967)
Romeo and Juliet - Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey - 1968 - Zeffirelli - Original Trailer - 4K
At 2:32, the shots taken from the film end, and the rest of the trailer is made up of blurbs.
November 7
REQUIRED VIEWING:
William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet Directed by Baz Luhrmann • 1996•
WATCH THE ENTIRE FILM. Watch trailers 1 and 2. Watch the prologues again.
Two trailers and the film two prologues.
Trailer 1 Romeo + Juliet (1996)
Trailer #1 | Movieclips Classic Trailers
Trailer 2 Romeo + Juliet (1996)
William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet 1996 official trailer
Prologues (both of them)
Romeo + Juliet Baz Luhrmann - Prologues
DQ1: Hypothesis: the second prologue is only one of many ways the film is dumbed down. What other ways or instances are there?
DQ2: What does repeating the prologue a second time in the form of a trailer tell us about the film?
Recommended (optional)
PARODY Honest Trailers | Romeo + Juliet
November 12
REQUIRED VIEWING:
Othello (dir. Orson Welles, 1949)
November 14
REQUIRED VIEWING: Two Trailers:
1. Trailer OTHELLO by Orson Welles - NYC
2. 1951 - Othello Trailer - Orson Welles
November 19
REQUIRED VIEWING:
The Chimes at Midnight (dir. Orson Welles,1966)
November 21
CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT re-release trailer (2016) - Orson Welles
Second Paper, Film Trailer Excercise, due Saturday November 23 by 11:59 p.m.
Email your paper or trailer to me at [email protected].
Sign Up to Present Your Trailer.
November 26 - November 28
Thanksgiving Break
December 3
Class presentations of your trailer assignments.
https://richardburtphd.com/trailerassignment2024.html
Please Clap (timestamp (00:29)
PAY NO ATTENTION TO THE MATERIALS BELOW. THEY HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH THE WORK ASSIGNED FOR THIS COURSE.
King Lear (dir. Orson Welles - Peter Brook -1953)
King Lear (dir. RIchard Eyre, 2018 film)
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en.wikipedia.org |
Automated narration in a youtube plot summary of Diderot's Jacques the Fatalist.
Another example. Jacques the Fatalist by Denis Diderot | Book summary | Audiobook Academy
Recommended Viewing:
Roman Polanski and Casting Macbeth
Discussion Questions are always due Mondays and Wednesdays by 5:00 p.m. unless otherwise noted. I will no longer give the due dates.
December 10
REQUIRED VIEWING Film and Trailer:
Henry V (dir. Laurence Olivier, 1944)
Henry V - Laurence Olivier - 1944 - Trailer - 4K
Michael Anderegg, "Chimes at Midnight: Rhetoric and History," in Orson Welles: Shakespeare and Popular Culture, 123-40.
THIS WEEK AND NEXT WEEK, WE WILL BINGE WATCH ALL SIX EPISODES OF The Hollow Crown (TV series, abridged, 2012-16)! https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00s90j1
REQUIRED VIEWING:
The Hollow Crown: Season 1 The Wars of the Roses | Richard II. | Henry IV Parts 1 & 2.
December 12
REQUIRED VIEWING:
The Hollow Crown: The Wars of the Roses | Henry V.
TRAILERS AND EXTRACTS
1. "Let's Talk of Graves, of Worms, of Epitaphs . . . " The Hollow Crown Trailer 70 seconds (40 seconds of voice-over narration)
2. Longer version of this trailer "The House of Lancaster Warriors" 1:56 seconds (22 seconds of voice-over narration)
3. "Let's Talk of graves" speech in the Hollow Crown film Richard II (Ben Whishaw) (23 Shots) 2:58 minutes
4. The Making of Richard II (The Hollow Crown) One Shot 44 seconds
5. RSC's Richard II Let's talk of graves speech (David Tennant)
6. An Age of Kings David Williams (1960), BBC Derek Jacobi (1978), Richard Pasco 1982, Mark Rylance, Globe Theater (2003) Richard II: "Tell Sad Stories of the Death of Kings" speech
Richard Burton recites the same speech from Shakespeare's Richard II
December 17
REQUIRED VIEWING:
The Hollow Crown: Season 2 The Wars of the Roses | Henry VI: Part 1. | Henry VI: Part 2.
The Hollow Crown: Wars of the Roses Richard III Trailer
HENRY VI: THE WARS OF THE ROSES Teaser - 2022
"Would I were dead . . ." Wars of the Roses | Trailer
THE HOLLOW CROWN on GREAT PERFORMANCES | The War of the Roses: Henry VI Part 1 Preview | PBS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvlGMtzclYM
THE HOLLOW CROWN on GREAT PERFORMANCES | The War of the Roses: Henry VI Part 2 Preview | PBS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvlGMtzclYM
December 19
REQUIRED VIEWING:
The Hollow Crown: The Wars of the Roses | Richard III.
https://mckellen.com/stage/r2/speechscan.htm
To make a trailer, you will need quick time, some kind image capture, and powerpoint.
Pick a style used for trailers and teasers from a particular decade.
DIRECTIONS
Download a high quality (1080) version of the complete film.
Scroll left and right at will and capture images of the parts you will use. Put them in the order you want them be.
These captures will be the equivalent of story boards.
Watch, if you wish, these:
SYLVAIN DESPRETZ, and the GLADIATOR storyboard (english version)
Gladiator - Behind the Scenes: drawing a storyboard frame.
The second video is much longer than the first, but all the more informative.
DIRECTIONS, CONTINUE:
Open the file you downloaded in quick time player. Go to edit and open the drop down menu. Scroll down to trim and click. At the bottom of the open file, you will now see the entire file horzontally in a yellow frame. Drag the left and right frames to the part of the film you want to use. Then click on "trim" (in blue) on the right. Then go back to edit and scroll down to save. Give a title for this clip.
Assemble the clips in the order you want. You will probably have to adjust the length of the clips you have chosen. Open the first file and then drag and drop the rest. Then save the assembled file and give it a title.
Go back to edit and click on remove audio.
Create an audio file. Find the music you want to use online.
Download it in quicktime.
Open the file and go to edit. Scoll down to export and choose audio only. Save. You have your aduio file
Insert your audio file into your trailer file.
Save the file with your audio. There's your complete trailer.
Since there will be no voice, you'll have to figure out how to use title cards and what to write on them.
Don LaFontaine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QPMvj_xejg
In 500-700 words, explain what you did in your trailer and why. Describe what you have done.
Example:
Trailer of War of the Worlds Description: Male voice-over narration; builds from a shot of the earth from outer space to one long, reverse establishing shot with people looking at the explosions in the night sky, just as we are, then cranes up, then explosion of the people and of the entire screen. Fade to black. We get Spielberg's name, then the title in rotating silver letters. "Of the" are the last shots, followed by more titles, film. (Now explain why you did what you did.)
October 29
REQUIRED VIEWING:
King Lear (dir. Akira Kurosawa, 1985)
October 31
REQUIRED VIEWING:
Trailers:
1. Ran Akira Kurosawa - Official Trailer - 1985 - (King Lear adaptation) - 4K
Requiem of the Rose King (17 book series) 2020
Willam Empson, "Chapter Three" of Some Versions of Pastoral, "Sonnet 94"
0:05 / 2:22 The Hollow Crown - Tom Hiddleston's St Crispin's Day Speech (with music from Kenneth Branagh's 1989 version)
Tom Hiddleston Performs Henry V Monologue Nested Sequence (2024) - Spencer Harrington
The Hollow Crown The Hollow Crown (TV series)
"Sliced, stabbed, punctured, bleeding, harassed on all sides by various weaponry, the curious image of Wound Man is a rare yet intriguing presence in the world of medieval and early modern manuscripts. @j_hartnell on this enigmatic figure: buff.ly/38y3SQi "
The Northman, released on 22 April 2022 and directed by the American director Robert Eggers who also co-wrote the script with Icelandic author Sjón, is based in the original Scandinavian legend that inspired Shakespeare to write Hamlet.
https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/7546-joel-coen-s-the-tragedy-of-macbeth
Twelfth Night Trevor Nunn
Le Château de l'araignée ( bande annonce VOST )
LE CHÂTEAU DE L'ARAIGNÉE - extrait "la prophétie réalisée" (HD - VOST)
https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/577-olivier-s-shakespearehttps://www.criterion.com/films/366-richard-iii
https://www.criterion.com/films/579-henry-vhttps://www.criterion.com/films/621-hamlet
https://www.criterion.com/films/30205-romeo-and-juliethttps://www.criterion.com/films/28621-othello
https://www.criterion.com/films/735-throne-of-bloodhttps://www.criterion.com/films/28020-macbethhttp://www.dvdbeaver.com/film/DVDReviews10/hamlet_.htmhttps://www2.bfi.org.uk/sites/bfi.org.uk/files/downloads/bfi-press-release-richard-iii-blu-ray-dvd-2016-05-31.pdf
King Lear - Paul Scofield - Peter Brook - 1971
King Lear - Grigori Kozintsev - Jüri Järvet - Shakespeare - 1970
https://www.sensesofcinema.com/2017/soviet-cinema/hamlet-kozinetsev/
http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film/DVDReviews10/hamlet_.htm
King Lear (dir. Trevor Nunn, starring Ian McKellen)
Stephen Booth, "On the Greatness of King Lear" in King Lear, Macbeth, Indefinition, and Tragedy
The they has its own ways to be. . . . Averageness . . . is the an existential characteristic of the they. In its being, the they is essentially concerned with averageness. Thus, the they maintains itself factically in the averageness of what belongs to it, what it does and does not consider valid, and what it grants or denies success. The averageness, which prescribes what can and may be ventured, watches over every exception which thrusts itself to the fore. Every priority is noiselessly squashed. Overnight, everything that is original is flattened down as something long since known. Everything won through struggle becomes something manageable. Every mystery loses its power. The care of averageness reveals, in turn, an essential tendency of Dasein, which we call the leveling down of all possibilities of being.
--Martin Heidegger, Being and Time, Joan Stambaugh translation revised by Dennis Schmidt (2010), 123.
The indebtedness of idle talk has always already settled itself down in Dasein. We get to know many things initially in this way, and some things never get beyond such an average understanding. Dasein can never escape the everyday way of being interpreted into which Dasein grows initially. All genuine understanding, interpreting and communication, rediscovery, and new appropriation come about in it, out of it, and against it.
--Martin Heidegger, Being and Time, Joan Stambaugh translation revised by Dennis Schmidt (2010), 163
Hamlet (1990) Official Trailer - Mel Gibson, Glenn Close Movie HD
Othello d'Orson Welles : bande-annonce 2014
A classic, you have to repeat to understand
around 23:00 time stamp
First Assignment, a Film Clip Analysis Assignment, Due Saturday, by 11:59 p.m. Email it to me at
n needs to be moved up from the end of the essay to the front. Then you are ready to make your final revisions and add a new concluding paragraph. You may also have come up with a new title in the course of writing the paper. And then you are ready to proofread your paper. And then you will have finished writing your paper. Congratulations! :)
Macbeth (dir. Justin Kurzel, 2015)
Required Viewing:
Orson Welles, Othello (1949, 1950, 1951)
Oliver Parker, Othello
June 2:
Required Viewing:
A Double Life (dir. George Cukor, 1947)
William Shakespeare'sThe Taming of the Shrew (dir. Franco Zeffirelli, 1967)You may watch it for free on Youtube here:The Taming of the Shrew (dir. Franco Zeffirelli, 1967) Or here: The Taming Of The Shrew (dir. Franco Zeffirelli,1967)
:The Taming of the Shrew (dir. Franco Zeffirelli, 1967) Or here: The Taming Of The Shrew (1967)
Recommended Viewings (of other filmed theatrical productions of The Taming of the Shrew):
Commedia! - Taming of the Shrew - American Conservatory Theater - 1976 1976 PART 1 / 1976 PART 2 / 1976 PART 3 /The Taming of the Shrew. American Conservatory Theater. Subtitles: ENG.The Taming of the Shrew | Act 2 Scene 1 | Royal Shakespeare CompanyThe Taming of the Shrew - Meryl Streep and Raul Julia - Kiss Me Petruchio - 1978 - HD REMASTEREDRaúl Juliá and Meryl Streep Go Head-to-HeadAnd don't forget: Shakespeare: The Animated Tales The Taming of the Shrew Recommended Reading (cited by Stanley Cavell):Northrop Frye, "The Argument of Comedy" in D. A. Robertson, Jr. (ed.), English Institute Essays – 1948, (New York: Columbia University Press, 1949), pp. 58–73.FOOTNOTE:
THE ASSIGNED READING IS NOT A PROMPT. IT IS THE OBJECT OF YOUR CRITICAL ATTENTION. YOU ARE TRYING TO EXPLAIN IT TO YOURSELF SO YOU CAN EXPRESS YOURSELF CLEARLY TO OTHER STUDENTS.I will no longer post assignment due dates for Discussion Questions (DQs) and Three BIG WORDS OR THREE shots.The work is due every Monday and Wednesday by 5:00 p.m. unless otherwise noted. See the Attendance policies for this course.January 16Recommended Viewings:January 18 Sign Up to Co-Lead Class the First of at Least Two Times During the Semester. Don't co-lead with the same person twice, and co-lead once on a film and once on Cavell.Once you have a partner to co-lead class discussion, the two of you will create a google doc for your notes and share it with me by 6:00 p.m. the day before you are co-leading so I can add my thoughts. Make sure you give me permission to edit the google document.DQs ETC are always due the Monday and Wednesday before class by 5:00 p.m. I will no longer post due dates.DUE JANUARY 22, by 5:00 P.M. Post Your DQs etc on The Lady Eve (dir. Preston Sturges, 1941) on canvas AND on this google document here. OK. That is really the last time I will post due dates. :)January 23Required Viewing:January 25 Required Reading: Recommended Reading:Sigmund Freud, "The Uncanny"January 30Required Second Viewing:February 1Required Viewing:February 6Required Viewing:Recommended Viewings and Reading:Prospero's Books (dir. Peter Greenaway, 1991) Trailer
February 8 Shakespeare Rewrites The Taming of the Shrew as Revenge Comedy in Much Ado About NothingRequired Viewing:Much Ado About Nothing (dir. Nick Havinga, 1973)
Recommended Viewing:PRINCE: Come, lady, come, you have lost the heart of Signior Benedick.BEATRICE Indeed, my lord, he lent it me awhile, and I gave him use for it, a double heart for his single one. Marry, once before he won it of me with false dice. Therefore your Grace may well say I have lost it.BBC Much Ado About Nothing (dir. Stuart Burge, 1984)
Much Ado About Nothing (dir. Joise Rourke, 2011)Digital Theatre Live Broadcast, Wyndam Theatre, LondonStarring Catherine Tate and David Tennant
Recommended Listening:
Shakespearean Desire and Error / Alternation between city and country and between day and night
Required Viewing:A Midsummer Night's Dream (dir. Max Reinhardt and William Dieterle, 1935)
Recommended Viewings: A Midsummer Night's Dream (dir. Russell T. Davies, 2016); BBC Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream (dir. Elijah Moshinsky, 1981); A Midsummer Night's Dream (dir. Peter Hall, 1968)
BBC (dir. Peter Hall, 1981) Helen Mirren stars as Hermia (free on youtube).
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales A Midsummer Night's Dream
A Midsummer Night's Dream (BBC Radio 3)https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b07dx7lt/a-midsummer-nights-dreamRemember? (Dir. Norman Z McLeod, 1939) is a mediocre screwball comedy but could have interested Cavell because it can easily be regarded both as a comedy of remariage and as an analogue of A Midummer Night's Dream. The memory loss potion brewed by Dr. Schmidt and Sky administered by Ames to the married couple may serve as analogues of Oberon's flower and Puck.
February 27 A Midsummer Night's Dream Required Viewing:February 29Required Reading:
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales: The Winter's TaleApril 4Required Viewing:William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale (RSC 1999)Required Reading:THIRD PAPER DUE April 20 by 11:59 p.m.WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW: Your assignment is to do a close reading of a clip from an assigned film we've watched this semester except the film you wrote your first film assignment on. Focus on a scene and discuss it in detail. That passage or scene is your paper topic. Cite the film to make your points. Develop your thesis. The film is your evidence. Use screen captures to support your points. If you don't know what a close reading is and have never done one before, be sure to go to http://writingcenter.fas.harvard.edu/pages/how-do-close-reading. You may also ask me for clarification. You must also know how to write a research paper or analytical essay. You will need a title for your paper and a thesis, an argument that you can state in one sentence. Your thesis should go at the end of your first paragraph. To make sure we share the same understanding of the assigned paper, please read richardburtphd.com/paper.html before you begin writing. You may figure out your title before you write your paper, but usually, you only figure out your title after you figure out your thesis. And you figure out your thesis by writing your paper. What you first thought is your conclusion often needs to be moved up from the end of the essay to the front. Then you are ready to make your final revisions and add a new concluding paragraph. You may also have come up with a new title in the course of writing the paper. And then you are ready to proofread your paper. I strongly recommend you read it aloud to catch errors. And then you will have finished writing your paper. Congratulations! :) Also, please insert image captures as needed.Email your paper (as an attachment) to me at [email protected]. Put your name in the subject title or header of your title. Put your name in your paper.Grading: I will meet with you in person to discuss your paper with you. PLEASE BE ADVISED: If you don't do the asignment, a close reading, your grade is an automatic E. If you don't put your name on your paper, it's an automatic E. If you don't have a proper title, it's an automatic E. If you don't have a thesis, it's an automatic E. One third of your grade will be based on your title; one third on your thesis; and one third on the rest of your paper.Live GRADING in 4314 Turlington: I will meet with you in person to discuss your paper with you. PLEASE BE ADVISED: If you didn't do the asignment, your grade is an automatic E. If you didn't put your name on your paper, it's an automatic E. If you didn't have a proper title, it's an automatic E. If you didn't have a thesis, it's an automatic E. One third of your grade will be based on your title; one third on your thesis; and one third on the rest of your paper.
To Be or Not to Be (dir. Ernst Lubitsch, 1941)
In order to include all students in class discussion, and in order to make it easier for you to read closely and thereby improve your own writing, we will close read, read slowly the assigned text sentence by sentence or the assigned film shot by shot. Discussion co-leaders and I will call on a student at random and ask that student to read a specific sentence out loud and then to close read it. If the student is unable to read the sentence closely, the co-leaders will call on another student and ask that student to read a specific sentence out loud and then close read it. We will continue to discuss the same sentence until a student reads it closely. We will then proceed in the same fashion with the next sentence. And so on. Due to time constraints and because close reading is slow reading, we will skip parts of the assigned text, but we will always be talking and only be talking about words, syntax, punctuation, paragraphing, and narration in the text. As we move through the text, we will be able to make more general comments about parts of it. If students have comments to add on the sentence under discussion, they may raise their hands and make them once they have been called on by the co-leaders or me.In order to learn the names of all the students in the class, I will take roll on canvas at the beginning of class. As I state on the requirements webpage, if you are late to class, I consider you absent. If you are absent more than twice, your final grade may suffer. If you are absent four times, you fail the class.Here is what I have written on the requirements webpage:"Attendance means not only being in class, but includes completing the assigned work for each class by the time it is due and arriving to class on time. (If you arrive late to class or if you don't do the discussion questions, you are counted as absent.)"
NOTHING BELOW IS REQUIRED FOR THIS COURSE. YOU MAY STOP READING HERE.Richard Burt, "Charisma, Coercion, and Comic Form in The Taming of the Shrew," Criticism 26 (Fall 1984), 295-311; reprinted in Modern Critical Interpretations: William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew. Ed. Harold Bloom (New York and New Haven: Chelsea House, 1988), 79-82; reprinted in Shakespearean Criticism. Ed. Marie Lazzari (Detroit: Gale Research, 1996). Cavell, Prologues to each chapter on a screwball comedy in Cities of Words.J. Hillis Miller, Why Literature? A ProfessionStanley Cavell,"Epistemology and Tragedy: A Reading of Othello," Daedalus Vol. 108, No. 3, Summer, 1979, Hypocrisy, Illusion, and Evasion (pp. 27-43) https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/20024619.pdf
http://richardburtphd.com/Cavell-EpistemologyTragedyReading-1979.pdf
William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice (dir. Michael Radford, 2005) BBC Shakespeare: The Merchant of Venice (2008)
BBC Bites Shakespeare - The Merchant of Venice - characters"Like the previous chapter, this one concerns both a literary text and a film—in this case, not a film that is a close adaptation of a text, with tantalizing differences, but a film that is something like a commentary on a text. Eric Rohmer’s film bears, in French, the title Conte D’Hiver, which is almost the canonical French title of Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale. I shall, to distinguish it from the play, translate it as it is advertised in English, namely as A Tale of Winter."Marriage and Narrative Closure / Marriage and (or as) Punishment (woman as male property versus romantic love)Measure for Measure 5.1.DUKE VINCENTIO
Whipt first, sir, and hanged after.LUCIO
Proclaim it, provost, round about the city.
Is any woman wrong'd by this lewd fellow,
As I have heard him swear himself there's one
Whom he begot with child, let her appear,
And he shall marry her: the nuptial finish'd,
Let him be whipt and hang'd.
I beseech your highness, do not marry me to a whore.DUKE VINCENTIO
Your highness said even now, I made you a duke:
good my lord, do not recompense me in making me a cuckold.
Upon mine honour, thou shalt marry her.LUCIO
Thy slanders I forgive; and therewithal
Remit thy other forfeits. Take him to prison;
And see our pleasure herein executed.
Marrying a punk, my lord, is pressing to death,
whipping, and hanging. BFI list of Screwball Comedies RECOMMENDED SCREWBALL COMEDIES
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Peter Brooks, Seduced by Story: The Use and Abuse of Narrative (2023)K
Crystal LoPilato, "Garcetti v. Ceballos: Public Employees Lose First Amendment Protection for Speech Within Their Job Duties," Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law, Vol. 27, No. 2 (2006), pp. 537-44
John Milton, The Doctrine & Discipline of Divorce
Stanley Cavell, Preface to Updated Edition of Must We Mean What We Say?
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THE ONE THING NEEDFULCharles Dickens, Hard TimesN
NOTHING BELOW IS REQUIRED FOR THIS COURSE. YOU MAY IGNORE IT ALL.e film streaming. T
Kate Briggs, THIS LITTLE ART
365 pp. Fitzcarraldo Editions.
Medium Cool (1969) opening title sequence
Criterion Three Reasons: Medium CoolRiotsville, USA (2022)
Recommended:Nightcrawler (dir. Dan Gilroy, 2014)The last shot of Medium Cool is taken from the end of first shot of Jean-Luc Godard’s Contempt:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ivvn6eRcMdoGodard took for his idea for doing the titles in voice-over in the opening shot of Contempt from the end titles of Orson Welles Magnificent Andersonshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kwkan2hM74Qrobert-kennedy-without-tears
This 1965 film comedy portrayed a female president for the first time in screen history.
Kisses-My-PresidentYorgos Lanthimos's English-language debut The Lobster (2015), France is a 2021 comedy-drama film written and directed by Bruno DumontThe Devil Is a Woman (dir. Josef von Sternberg, 1935)
Notes on Blindness (dir.Peter Middleton, James Spinney, 2016)
My Night at Maud'sAmour (dir. Micahel Handke, 200)
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here Is the Friend's House?
The Lobster
Three Colors: Blue (dir. KRZYSZTOF KIE?LOWSKI, 199??)
La Notte (dir. Michelangelo Antonioni, 1962)
The Seventh Seal (dir. Ingmar Bergman, 1957)
Ikiru (dir. Kurosawa, Akira, 1952)Ivan's Childhood (dir. Andrei Tarkovsky, 1963)961)
La Notte soundtrack G. Gaslini Quartet - Blues All'Alba (1961)
La Notte has been compared by one critic to Piet Mondrian's paintings in order to draw attention to the film's geometric abstraction.
All Light, Everywhere (2021)
Blow-Up (dir. Michelangelo Antonioni, 1966)
Stalker (dir. Andei Tarkovsky, 1979)
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Here’s How to Fix That.To better understand why TV shows are so dark, we compared them across a range of TVs
Kenny Wassus, Nov 23, 2022
Repetition is key to learning.
To learn how to understand a piece of music, a philosopher said, you have to hear it twice.A conductor of baroque music said you have to listen to repeated hearings before you understand it."How full of meaning and significance the language of music is we see from the repetition of signs, as well as from the Da capowhich would be intolerable in the case of works composed in the language of words. In music, however, they are very appropriate and beneficial; for to comprehend it fully, we must hear it twice."--Arthur Schopenhauer, "On the Metaphysics of Music"
Vienna and Schubert: 'Death and the Maiden' String Quartet - Professor Chris Hogwood CBE"The greatest pieces of music are called classics simply because at a first hearing--that is terribly...very complicated to work out what's going on or even more complicated to explain to yourself why it's going on--even to hear it has to be heard several times. Probably after first hearing, immediately go back and hear it again, and on repeated hearings repeated things come to light."--Christopher Hogwood
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The Souvenir (dir Johanna Hogg, 2019)That Obscure Object of Desire (dir. Luis Buñuel, 1977) The Devil Is a Woman (dir. Josef von Sternberg, 1935)Summer with Monika (dir. Ingmar Bergman, 1953)
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