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1IntroductionCarroll, Lewis. Jabberwocky. Oxford, UK: At the University Press, 1881.

Amazon logo Andersen, Hans Christian. The Steadfast Tin Soldier. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1981. ISBN: 013846295X.
2-3Unit One

Film Viewing and Discussion of Robert Siodmak's The Killers. Maupassant's "A Piece of String"; and Ernest Heningway's "The Killers"
Siodmak, Robert. The Killers. 1946.

Amazon logo 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.
4-5Unit Two

Film Viewing and Discussion of The Wachowski Brothers, The Matrix and Excerpts from Cervantes, Don Quixote
Film Showing: Andy and Larry Wachowski. The Matrix. 1999.

Excerpts from: Amazon logo Cervantes. Don Quixote. Translated by Edith Grossman. New York, NY: Ecco, 2003. ISBN: 0060188707.
6-7Unit Three

Film Viewing and Discussion of Akira Kurosawa's, Seven Samurai and Excerpts from Cervantes, Don Quixote
Kurosawa, Akira. Seven Samurai. 1954.

Excerpts from: Amazon logo Cervantes. Don Quixote. Translated by Edith Grossman. New York, NY: Ecco, 2003. ISBN: 0060188707.
8-10Unit Four

Film Viewing and Discussion of John Ford's My Darling Clementine and Aeschylus, Agamemnon
Ford, John. My Darling Clementine. 1946.

Amazon logo Aeschylus. Agamemnon. Cambridge, UK; New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2003. ISBN: 0521010756.
11-13Unit Five

Film Viewing and Discussion of Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven and Sophocles, Antigone
Eastwood, Clint. Unforgiven. 1992.

Amazon logo Sophocles. Antigone. Oxford, UK; New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2003. ISBN: 0195143108.
14-15Unit Six

Film Viewing and Discussion of Chris Marker's La Jetée and Sophocles, Oedipus Rex
Marker, Chris. La Jetée. 1962.

Amazon logo Sophocles. Oedipus Rex. Edited by Shomit Dutta. Greek Tragedy. London, UK: Penguin, 2004. ISBN: 014143936X.
16-17Unit Seven

Film Viewing and Discussion of Francis Ford Coppolla's The Godfather and Shakespeare, Macbeth
Coppolla, Francis Ford. The Godfather. 1972.

Amazon logo Shakespeare. Macbeth. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2005. ISBN: 0300106548.
18-20Unit Eight

Film Viewing and Discussion of Laura Cavani's Ripley's Game. Reading: Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot
Cavani, Liliana. Ripley's Game. 2002.

Amazon logo Balzac, Honoré de. Père Goriot. Oxford, UK; New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1999. ISBN: 0192835696.
21-22Unit Nine

Film Viewing and Discussion of Jonathan Glazer's Birth and Henry James, Turn of the Screw
Glazer, Jonathan. Birth. 2004.

Amazon logo James, Henry. Turn of the Screw. Boston, MA: Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press, 1995. ISBN: 0312080832.
23Unit Ten

Film Viewing and Discussion of Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevar
Wilder, Billy. Sunset Boulevard. 1950.
24-25Unit Eleven

Film Viewing and Discussion of Orson Welles, Citizen Kane and F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Welles, Orson. Citizen Kane. 1941.

Amazon logo Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. London, UK: Penguin, 2000. ISBN: 0141182636.

 








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