English 373: Film and Literature

Unit 1: The Power of Narrative	Section 1.1: Introduction: Issues, Strategies, and Methodologies Section 1.2 Reading Film: Wayne Wang and Paul Auster's Smoke Section 1.3 The Language of Film
Unit 2: Literature and Film in at the Cross-Currents of History	Section 2.1 Approaches, Background, Theory
Unit 3: Film and Theatre	Section 3.1 Anton Chekhov and His Theatre of Everyday Life Section 3.2 Vanya: the Film Section 3.3 Theatre to Film: Theories
Unit 4: Novel and Film	Section 4.1 History, Approaches, and Theory Section 4.2 Virginia Woolf's Orlando Section 4.3 Woolf on Literature and Film Section 4.4 The Script Section 4.5 Sally Potter's Screenplay Adaptation of Orlando Section 4.6 Orlando: the Film
Assignment for Credit	Essay 1
Unit 5: Fairy Tale and Film	Section 5.1 The Fairy Tale World: Mme Leprince de Beaumont Section 5.2 Jean Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast
Unit 6: Film and Poetry	Section 6.1 Poetry and the Avant Garde Section 6.2 Breaking Down the Film Image: The Early Theory of Eisenstein Section 6.3 Maya Deren's Poetic Films
Unit 7: The Film Novel	Section 7.1 Nabokov's Laughter in the Dark
Assignment for Credit	Essay 2
Assignment for Credit	Final Examination

English 373