Comparative Literature 153 Course Outline

Lesson 1: Introduction to Course and Narrative Form

Lesson 2: Style: Cinematography and Close Reading

Lesson 3: Style 2: Montage and Narrative Time

Lesson 4: Documenting the Truth

Lesson 5: Adaptation

Lesson 6: Women in Literature and Film

Lesson 7: Post-traumatic Culture

 

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"Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill".

Henry David Thoreau

“Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music”

Frank Capra

"The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between artJean-Luc Godard and life. Unlike painting and literature, the cinema both gives to life and takes from it, and I try to render this concept in my films. Literature and painting both exist as art from the very start; the cinema doesn't."

Jean-Luc Godard

"Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness."

Helen Keller


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