Participation 20% (based mainly on regular contributions to class discussions)
February 4 / 5
- “The Nature of Film Translation: Literal, Traditional, and Radical” (first five pages). This text serves as an introduction to our course.
- Here is a very informative video on Philip K. Dick. It includes a short section on "Minority Report."
- Start reading Philip K. Dick's Minority Report
- Movie: Minority Report -- (2002, Steven Spielberg, Director)
- Read the review in the New York Times and another one by Roger Ebert.
February 11 / 13
- Continue movie: Minority Report
- A Law Professor on "Minority Report" (text and film)
February 18 / 20
- Finish discussion of text/film Minority Report
- Read: "The Language of Film and Its Relation to the Language of Literature"
- Start reading William Faulkner's Tomorrow
February 25 / 27
- Discussion Faulkner's Tomorrow
- We start watching Tomorrow (1971, Joseph Anthony, Director)
- Film review of Tomorrow
On February 27 we will meet
in the Library and not in our classroom
March 4 / 6
- Continue Tomorrow
- Finish discussion of text/movie Tomorrow
- Start reading The Girl on the Train
March 11 / 13
- Discussion of The Girl on the Train (novel)
- Movie: The Girl on the Train (2017, Tate Taylor, Director)
- npr book review
- npr film review
- New York Times book review
- Washington Post film review
- Roger Ebert film review
March 18 / 20
- Finish discussions on The Girl on the Train (text and movie)
- Start reading Silence by Shūsaku Endō.
- A video on Francis Xavier who was one of the first Jesuits visiting in Japan.
- This article provides the historical background of the history of Jesuits in Japan in the 16th and 17th century.
March 25 / 27
SPRING BREAK
April 1 / 3
- Movie: Silence (2016, Martin Sorcese, Director)
- Silence film review in The New Yorker
- Review in the New York Times
- New York Times Magazine report on Scorsese and his film Silence
April 8 / 10
- Continue movie: Silence
- Read: Cahir: "Novels and Novellas into Film ..."
April 15 / 17
"Silence" Review due April 17
- Start reading The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy
- We start watching Ikiru (1952, Akira Kurosawa, Director, Japan)
April 22 / 24
- Continue The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Tolstoy)
- Film review by Roger Ebert
April 29 / May 1
- Start reading It had to be Murder by Cornell Woolrich
May 6 / 8
- Background information about the movie
- Rear Window (1954, Alfred Hitchcock, Director)
May 13 / 15
- Continue: Rear Window (1954 Hitchcock)
- Here's a review focussing on the topic words vs. images
- Another interesting comparison of text vs. film
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FFC Course Learning Outcomes
Students who take this course will
- be able to analyze literary texts
- be able to analyze films
- understand major aspects of the art of adaptation (literature to film)
- learn how to apply this knowledge to other literary works and films
FFC Program Learning Outcomes
- Provides students an introduction to university-level critical inquiry
- In discussions and written work, students frame critical questions about ideas, readings, visual materials, and other cultural texts.
- Students can critically reflect on their own thought traditions.
- Students understand that disciplines and intellectual traditions have histories.
- Students participate in academic exchanges, collaborative work, and/or co-curricular activities.
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