Table of Contents
Study Materials
Readings
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Required Texts
Singer, Irving. Reality Transformed: Film as Meaning and Technique. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1998. ISBN: 0262692481.
———. Three Philosophical Filmmakers: Hitchcock, Welles, Renoir. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2004. ISBN: 0262195011.
Where available, links to more information about each film viewed in the course have been made to the Internet Movie Database.
| LEC # | TOPICS/READINGS |
|---|---|
| 1 | Introduction Film: Cocteau, Jean. Beauty and the Beast (1946). |
| 2 | Singer, Irving. Reality Transformed. pp. i-xiv, 1-50. Film: Welles, Orson. Citizen Kane (1941). |
| 3 | Singer, Irving. Reality Transformed. pp. 53-78. Film: Allen, Woody. The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985). |
| 4 | Singer, Irving. Reality Transformed. pp. 81-127. Film: Visconti, Luchino. Death in Venice (1971). |
| 5 | Singer, Irving. Reality Transformed. pp. 131-189. Film: Renoir, Jean. The Rules of the Game (1939). |
| 6 | Singer, Irving. Reality Transformed. pp. 191-200. Film: Hitchcock, Alfred. The 39 Steps (1935). |
| 7 | Singer, Irving. Three Philosophical Filmmakers. pp. ix-46. Film: Hitchcock, Alfred. Psycho (1960). |
| 8 | Singer, Irving. Three Philosophical Filmmakers. pp. 46-75. Video: Camera Three: The Illustrated Hitchcock. Interview with Pia Lindstrom, 1972. |
| 9 | Singer, Irving. Three Philosophical Filmmakers. pp. 77-145. Film: Hitchcock, Alfred. Vertigo (1958). |
| 10 | Singer, Irving. Three Philosophical Filmmakers. pp. 147-178. Video: Orson Welles: Stories From a Life in Film. Interview with Leslie Megahey, BBC Television, 1989. |
| 11 | Singer, Irving. Three Philosophical Filmmakers. pp. 178-219. Film: Welles, Orson. The Magnificent Ambersons (1942). |
| 12 | Singer, Irving. Three Philosophical Filmmakers. pp. 221-257. Film: Renoir, Jean. The Crime of Monsieur Lange (1936). |
| 13 | Discussion Film: Renoir, Jean. Le Roi d'Yvetot (on Petit Théâtre de Jean Renoir (1971)). |