WEEKLY SCHEDULE

WEEK 1
September 5 & 7

Introduction to the course and concepts

Readings:
Poetics, Aritotle (pp.1-42)
Mimesis, Erich Auerbach (Odysseus's Scar , pp. 3-23)

WEEK 2
September 12 & 14

Readings:
Faust, Goethe (pp. 93-209 -- pages are in German and English so you are reading half the assigned pages)
Anatomy of Criticism, Northrop Frye (Historical Criticism: Theory of Modes, pp. 33-67)

Screenings:
FAUST (F.W. Murnau, 116 minutes, 1926)

WEEK 3
September 19 & 21

Readings:
Faust, Goethe (pp. 209-421)
Mimesis, Erich Auerbach (Miller the Musician, pp. 434-453)

Screenings:
FAUST (Jan Svankmajer, 1994)

WEEK 4
September 26 & 28

Readings:
Othello, William Shakespeare (pp. 113-204)
Mimesis, Erich Auerbach (The Weary Prince, pp. 312-333)
Interviews with Orson Welles (class handouts)

Screenings:
OTHELLO (Orson Welles, 93 minutes, 1952)

WEEK 5
October 3 & 5

Readings:
Othello, William Shakespeare (pp. 205-332)

Screenings:
FILMING OTHELLO

WEEK 6
October 10 & 12

Readings:
The Beginning and the End, Nagib Mahfouz (pp. 13-123)

Screenings:
THE BEGINNING AND THE END (Salah Abouseif, 130 minutes, 1960) -- part 1

WEEK 7
October 17 & 19

Readings:
The Beginning and the End, Nagib Mahfouz (pp. 124-208)
Cruelty of Memory, Edward Said, Al-Ahram Weekly Online,13 - 19 December 2001, Issue No.564 (http://www.library.cornell.edu/colldev/mideast/2sc1.htm)
The Legacy of Salah Abu Seif, Master of Realism in Egyptian Cinema, Ibrahim Al Aris, Aljadid, Vol. 3, No. 15, February 1997 (http://www.aljadid.com/film/0315aris.html)

Screenings:
THE BEGINNING AND THE END (Salah Abouseif, 130 minutes, 1960) -- part 2
THE BEGINNING AND THE END (Arturo Ripstein, 188 minutes, 1993) -- part 1

WEEK 8
October 24 & 26

Readings:
The Beginning and the End, Nagib Mahfouz (pp. 209-310)

Screenings:
THE BEGINNING AND THE END (Arturo Ripstein, 188 minutes, 1993) -- part 2

WEEK 9
October 31 & November 3

Readings:
The Beginning and the End, Nagib Mahfouz (pp. 311-412)

MID-TERM EXAM (in class)

WEEK 10
November 9 & 10

Readings:
Ordet, Kaj Munk
Selections from Dreyer in Double Reflection (class handouts)

Screenings:
ORDET (Carl Theodore Dreyer , 126 minutes, 1955)

WEEK 11
November 14 & 16

Readings:
Ordet, Kaj Munk

Screenings:
Selections from ORDET (Carl Theodore Dreyer , 126 minutes, 1955)

WEEK 12
Novermber 21

Readings:
Notes on the Cinematographe, Robert Bresson
Encountering Directors, Charles Thomas Samuels (New York: G.P. Putnam & Sons, 1972) http://www.mastersofcinema.org/bresson/Words/CTSamuels.html

Novermber 23

NO CLASS -- THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY

WEEK 13
November 28 & 30

Readings:
A Gentle Creature, Fyodor Dostoevsky (pp. 215 - 262)

Screenings:
A GENTLE CREATURE (Robert Bresson, 88 minutes, 1969)

WEEK 14
December 5 & 7

Readings:
Selections from Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment (class handout)

Screenings:
PICKPOCKET (Robert Bresson, 75 minutes, 1959)

WEEK 15
December 12 & 14

Work with individual students on their final papers

WEEK 16
December 18

Final paper is due