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Film as Literature Term
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Choose from the following list for FINAL TERM PAPER
Your final paper will be a thematic overview of the chosen author's work using the selected work or works as examples of those themes you see. You must employ at least three-five distinct critical approaches, including a critique of the weaknesses in a critical analysis by another author (Biographical and Historical together count as ONE). When you choose a dramatized work, you must of course quote from primary text, which means if it was a movie, you need the script. You may not analyze a work you have covered in a previous assignment. See Assignments 103 for more details.
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Listed by alphabetically by director, unless otherwise noted
- Altman. M*A*S*H
- Ballard. Never Cry Wolf
- Blank. Burden of Dreams
- Broccoli, Cubby (Producer). James Bond-007 (any)
- Brooks, Mel. Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein
- Brooks, Ray Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
- Broyles. Castaway
- Burton. 9, Beetlejuice, Coraline, Corpse Bride, Edward Scissorhands, Nightmare Before Christmas, Sweeney Todd
- Caffrey. Grand Theft Parsons
- Caro Whale Rider
- Coppola, Frances Ford. Apocalypse Now, The Conversation, The Godfather
- Coppola, Sophia. The Virgin Suicides
- Curtis, Casablanca
- D'Antonio. Bullitt
Eastwood. American Sniper, Gauntlet (The), High Plains Drifter, J Edgar, Million Dollar Baby, Mystic River, Pale Rider, Play Misty for Me, Unforgiven
- Edwards, Blake. 10, Breakfast at Tiffany's
- Forman. Amadeus, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- Garnet. Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
- Herzog. Grizzly Man
- Hill. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
- Hitchcock. Dial 'M' for Murder, I Confess, Marnie, North by Northwest, Psycho, Rear Window, Strangers on a Train, Suspicion, Vertigo, The Wrong Man
- Huston. African Queen, Maltese Falcon, Night of the Iguana
- Jarmusch. Dead Man, Stranger than Paradise, Smoke
- Kazan. On the Waterfront
- Kramer. It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
- Landis. American Werewolf in London, Animal House, Blues Brothers (The), Trading Places, Twilight Zone: The Movie
- Lean. Lawrence of Arabia
- Leone. A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, Hang 'Em High, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Once Upon a Time in the West
- Lester. Help!
- Lucas. American Graffiti, Star Wars (Episodes 1-3, 4-6 or 1-6, 7)
- Maysles, Maysles and Zwerin. Gimme Shelter
- Moore, Michael. Bowling for Columbine, Roger and Me
- Nichols. The Graduate
- Nolan. Memento
- Oshii. Ghost in the Machine
- Parker. Pink Floyd The Wall
- Pennebaker. Don't Look Back, Monterey Pop, Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
- Peralta. Dogtown and Z-Boys
- Ray. Rebel Without a Cause
- Ritchie. The Bad News Bears
- Scorcese. GoodFellas, Last Waltz (The), No Direction Home
- Shakey. Rust Never Sleeps
- Sturges. The Great Escape
- Spielberg. Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Indiana Jones (any), Jaws, Schindler's List
- Tarrantino. Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs
- Temple. The Filth and the Fury
- Tornatore. Cinema Paradiso
- Welles. Citizen Kane
- Wenders. The Buena Vista Social Club
- Documentary
- Maysles, Maysles and Zwerin. Gimme Shelter
- Moore, Michael. Bowling for Columbine, Roger and Me
- Pennebaker. Don't Look Back, Monterey Pop, Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
- Peralta. Dogtown and Z-Boys
- Scorcese. Last Waltz, No Direction Home
- Shakey. Rust Never Sleeps
- Temple. The Filth and the Fury
- Wenders. The Buena Vista Social Club
- Wise, Robbins. WEst Side Story
- Other (must be approved by Instructor)
- Musical Drama (listed by Lyricist)
- Rice, Tim and Andrew Lloyd Webber. Jesus Christ Superstar,
- Townshend, Pete (The Who) Tommy, Quadraphenia
- Waters, Roger, with David Gilmour and/or Rick Wright (Pink Floyd) The Wall,
- Other (must be approved by Instructor)
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© T. T. Eiland, January 1998
Last modified: April 30, 2009
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