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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

Sylvia Plath --
Poetry, perfectionism, diaries of descent

Readings:
Sylvia Plath Homepage
Online Essays
230 Plath Poems
Diary of a Madwoman in the Attic
Complete List of Sylvia Plath Links
Voices & Visions -- Academy of American Poets

Online lecture notes -- click here  :)  thoughts on erotomania

Anne Sexton Bibliography
Diane Middlebrook's biography of Anne Sexton
Controversial conversations
Sexton resource page
American Academy of Poets page on Anne Sexton
Anne Sexton & Poetic Confessionalism
Anne Sexton-Links to Literature
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SOLARIS
Release Year: 1972
Production Company: Mosfilm
Country: USSR
Synopsis: Science fiction: some scientists in a space observation laboratory, above the planet Solaris, discover that the ocean contains some power which forces them to materialise their obsessions in solid form. A new arrival calls up the physical simulation of his wife, a long-dead suicide.
Review