A written report submitted, handouts
for the participants and oral presentation will be required.
From the list below, or any pre-approved
submitted title, present to the rest of the class:
1) the source (story &/or script)
— a synopsis of the work and a chosen scene(passage)
2) the writer and/or the director
— a bio and
background, style, philosophy, technique.
and,
3) the film —
Why does the work appeal to you?
What has the director done to make the piece so effective?
Or, What did the director miss? Describe
the feelings evoked by the work , the aesthetics.
A few suggested titles:
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Wild at Heart Barry
Gifford ©1990 Grove Press
Rhinoceros Eugene
Ionesco ©1959 , Grove Press (Penguin1985)
Homicide David Mamet
1992 Grove Press
The Treasure of the
Sierra Madre B. Travern ©1935 Knopf (Time-Life1981)
Slaughterhouse-Five*
Happy Birthday Wanda June**
Kurt Vonnegut Jr. *1968 Dell ; **©1970 Samuel French
Rear Window Cornell
Woolrich ©1954
The Talented Mr.
Ripley Patricia Highsmith ©1955
Little Caesar
, The Asphalt Jungle , High
Sierra W.R.Burnett© 1929 ; 1949 ; 1940
The Wizard of
Oz L. Frank Baum ©1900
Alice In Wonderland
Lewis Carrol ©1865
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A few other suggested Directors and Writers :
Kurosawa , Graham Green , Larry McMurtry
, T.C. Boyle , Jerzy Kosinski , Arthur Miller , the Coen Bros. , Umberto
Eco Quentin Tarrantino , Norman Jewison , John Houston , Alfred Hitchcock
, Lawrence + Lee , Raymond Chandler , David Lynch , James M. Cain
, Sam Shepherd , Dashiell Hammett , Ross MacDonald , C.S. Forester
, Nikos Kazantzakis , Paddy Chayfsky , Agatha Christy , Ian Flemming
, Frances Ford Coppula , Charlie Chaplin , D W Griffith , Orson Wells
,
Etecetra . . .
* no more than three in
a group — all must participate in the presentation.
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