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| W 1/16 |
- Alain Silver, "Introduction" (in Silver/Ursini)
- Raymond Borde and Etienne Chaumeton, "Toward a Definition
of Film Noir" (in Silver/Ursini)
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| W 1/16 |
- Screening: The Maltese Falcon
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2: The Maltese Falcon (dir. John Huston, 1941) |
| W 1/23 |
- Raymond Durgnat, "Paint it Black" (in Silver/Ursini)
- Paul Schrader, "Notes on Film Noir" (in Silver/Ursini)
- Janey Place and Lowell Peterson, "Some Visual Motifs of
Film Noir" (in Silver/Ursini)
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| W 1/23 |
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3: Phantom Lady (dir. Robert Siodmak, 1943) |
| W 1/30 |
- James Naremore, "Old is New: Styles of Noir"[ERES]
- Tony Williams, "Phantom Lady, Cornell Woolrich, and the
Masochistic Aesthetic" (in Silver/Ursini)
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| W 1/30 |
- Screening: Double Indemnity
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4: Double Indemnity (dir. Billy Wilder, 1944) |
| W 2/6 |
- Tom Ryall, "Genre and Hollywood" (in Hill/Gibson)
- James Naremore, "Modernism and Blood Melodrama" (sel) [ERES]
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| W 2/6 |
- Screening: The Big Sleep (dir. Howard Hawks, 1946)
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| W 2/13 |
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| W 2/13 |
- Double Feature:
- Laura
- L.A. Confidential (1997)
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6: Laura (dir. Otto Preminger, 1944) |
| W 2/20 |
- John Belton, "American cinema and film history" (in
Hill/Gibson)
- Douglas Gomery, "Hollywood as industry" (in Hill/Gibson)
- E. Ann Kaplan, "Classical Hollywood film and melodrama"
(in Hill/Gibson)
- ESSAY 1 DUE
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| W 2/20 |
- Screening: Scarlet Street
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7: Scarlet Street (dir. Fritz Lang, 1945) |
| W 2/27 |
- Thomas Schatz, Boom and Bust: The American Cinema in the
1940s (sel) [ERES]
- Stephen Crofts, "Authorship and Hollywood" (in Hill/Gibson)
- Catherine Portuges, "Accenting L.A." [ERES]
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| W 2/27 |
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8: Detour (dir. Edgar Ulmer, 1945) |
| W 3/6 |
- David Bordwell, "The Classical Hollywood Style" [ERES]
- Andrew Britton, "Detour" [ERES]
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| W 3/6 |
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10: The Killers (dir. Robert Siodmak, 1946) |
| W 3/20 |
- Robert Porfirio, "No Way Out: Existential Motifs in the
Film Noir" (in Silver/Ursini)
- Marc Vernet, "Film Noir on the Edge of Doom" [ERES]
- ESSAY 2 DUE
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| W 3/20 |
- Screening: Out of the Past
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11: Out of the Past (dir.Jacques Tourneur, 1947) |
| W 3/27 |
- Paul Kerr, "Out of What Past?" (in Silver/Ursini)
- Leighton Grist, "Out of the Past" [ERES]
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| W 3/27 |
- Screening: Sunset Boulevard
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| Week
12: Sunset Boulevard (dir. Billy Wilder, 1950) |
| W 4/3 |
- Deborah Thomas, "Psychoanalysis and Film Noir" [ERES]
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| W 4/3 |
- Screening: Kiss me Deadly
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13: Kiss me Deadly (dir. Robert Aldrich, 1955) |
| W 4/10 |
- Jonathan Buchsbaum,
“Tame Wolves and Phoney Claims: Paranoia and Film Noir”
[ERES]
- Alain Silver, "Kiss Me Deadly: Evidence of a Style"
(In Silver/Ursini)
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| W 4/10 |
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15: Touch of Evil (dir. Orson Welles, 1958) |
| W 4/24 |
- James Naremore, The Magic World of Orson Welles (sel) [ERES]
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| M 4/30 |
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16: Chinatown (dir. Roman Polanski, 1974) / Final Discussion |
| W 5/2 (Double Session 6:00 - 9:00 pm) |
- Todd Erickson, "Kill Me Again" (in Silver/Ursini)
- Alain Silver, "Son of Noir: Neo-Film Noir and the Neo-B Picture" (in Silver/Ursini)
- ESSAY 3 DUE
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