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For Further Reading and Viewing

WORKSHEET FOR FILM ANALYSIS

Sundance Screenings

UNIT I

Part 1:  Great Expectations

Part 2:  "my only love sprung from my only hate"
Shakespeare's
Romeo and Juliet

Part 3:  Nabokov's Lolita

Journal #1 due


UNIT 2

Part 1:  Bulgakov's Heart of a Dog

Part 2:  The Madness of King George

Part 3:  Sunset Boulevard -- film noir

Journal #2 due
           Online Research due


UNIT 3

Part 1:  Twelve Monkeys

Part 2:  Girl,Interrupted
                 Outsider Art

Part 3:  Sylvia Plath

Required work & ideas: 
Review

Final Project due

About your instructor:
Susan Smith Nash


Art Brut --
"outsider art" & "outsider literature"

Readings:

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Jean Dubuffet
Art Brut
Outsider Art
New York Times
The Spanish Prisoner
Plot synopsis

Online Lecture:  Click Here!  :)

The con artist as the ultimate
OUTSIDER
Jim Thompson
8mm
David Mamet
The Grifters
The Talented Mr. Ripley
Las Nueve Reinas (The Nine Queens)