Spring Film Class at Columbia
I just got my list of films we’ll be studying in Amer. Film History (1930-1960)
Jan. 21 SCARFACE,
Howard Hawks
“The Gangster as Tragic Hero” and “Movie Chronicle:
Jan. 28 STAGECOACH, The Westerner” in Warshow;
John Ford pp. 3 - 50 in Michael Wood
Feb. 4 CITIZEN KANE, Bazin, Chaps. l - 4; Wood, 97-125
Orson Welles (Rec: Naremore)
Feb. 11 FURY, Braudy, l-l03; Wood, l26-l45
Fritz Lang, (Rec: Sklar)
Feb. 18 TO BE OR NOT TO BE, Monaco, “The Shape of Film History”
Ernst Lubitsch (Rec: Herman Weinberg, The Lubitsch Touch)
Feb. 25 SULLIVAN’S TRAVELS, Braudy, l04-l8l (Rec: Sarris)
Preston Sturges
Mar. 4 THE BIG SLEEP, Monaco, “Technology” (Rec: Corliss)
Howard Hawks
Mar. 25 ON THE WATERFRONT, Monaco, “Film Theory”
Elia Kazan (Rec: Dudley Andrew)
Apr. 1 SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN, Braudy, l82-259,
Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly Wood, l46-l64
Apr. 8 PSYCHO, Monaco, “The Language of Film”
Alfred Hitchcock (Rec: Truffaut)
Apr. 15 SOME LIKE IT HOT, Monaco, “Film Art”
Billy Wilder (Rec: Haskell)
Apr. 22 PATHS OF GLORY, Monaco, “Media”
Stanley Kubrick
Apr. 29 THE PAWNBROKER, Bazin, pp. l02-l24 and l64-69
Sidney Lumet
