Short Talk and Film Schedule for Fall 2005: Reading and Writing about Texts

Session 1: Tues, Aug 30th

• The class watches Pat O'Connor's 1987 film adaptation of J. L. Carr's A Month in the Country.

Session 4: Tues, Sept 20th

• Short Talk 1: The allegory in the painting and how it relates to the story of A Month in the Country: Tone Johansson
  
  
• Short Talk 2: Religion as excluding people and making for communities in A Month in the Country: Colleen (Ashlyn) Foley
  
  
• Short Talk 3: The presentation of the terrorists and hostages in Bel Canto: Benjamin Brothers
  
  

Session 5: Tues, Sept 27th

• Short Talk 4: Turning a newstory into a Novel in Bel Canto: Ryan Duckwitz
  
  
• Short Talk 5: Compare how music functions in Bel Canto and art in A Month in the Country: David Rheaume
  
  
• The class watches as much of the 1966 Fred Zinneman film adaptation of Bolt's A Man for All Seasons as time permits (if necessary, finishing next time).

Session 6: Tues, Oct 4th

• Short Talk 6: The role of the common man in the play, A Man for All Seasons by Bolt: Cristiana Bulbuc
  
  
• Short Talk 7: The cost of one individual's idealism to others in A Man for All Seasons: Ashley Djordjevic
  
  

Session 7: Tues, Oct 18th

• Short Talk 8: The individual versus a corrupt society in A Man for All Seasons and The Quiet American: Bryan Crowe
  
  
• Short talk 9: The presentation of colonial wars and politics in The Quiet American: Angela Maniglia
  
  
• The class watches as much of the 2001 film of The Quiet American as time permits (if necessary, finishing next time).

Session 8: Tues, Oct 25th

• Short talk 10: Personal & political betrayal in The Quiet American: Danny Marca
  
  
• Short Talk 11: The connection of social pressure (bullying) to Lynching in The Ox-Bow Incident: Cerissa Martinez
  
  
• Short talk 12: Definitions of manliness and the despising of women in The Ox-Bow Incident: Tilly (Brittany) Koll
  
  

Session 9: Tues, Nov 1st

• Short Talk 13: The presentation of European-, African-, and Mexican-Americans in The Ox-Bow Incident: Ingrid Grijalva
  
  
• The class watches as much of the 2001 film adaptation by Fred Schepisi of Swift's Last Orders as time permit (if necesary, finishing next time).

Session 10: Tues, Nov 8th

• Short talk 14: Sex and women's fates in The Ox-Bow Incident and Last Orders: Cristiana Bulbuc
  
  
• Short talk 15: Mutual disloyalty, friendship, and myths of masculinity in Last Orders: Kyle Davis
  
  
• Short talk 16: Fathers, sons, and daughters in Last Orders: Benjamin Tsai
  
  

Session 11: Tues, Nov 15th

• Short talk 17: The function of places and journeys in Last Orders: __________________________
  
  
• Short Talk 18: Racism and male and female stereotypes in children's books (Chapters 1-3 of The Girl Sleuth): Britne Taylor
  
  
• Short Talk 19: A falsifying or unreal glamor ideal: Nancy Drew (as described and analyzed by Mason): Emily Berg
  
  

Session 12: Tues, Nov 22nd

• Short Talk 20: Alternative Girl Sleuths: Judy Bolton, Trixie Beldon, Cherry Ames, Vicki Bar (as described and analyzed by Mason): Lindsey Mehan
  
  
• Short Talk 22: Nafisi and her students read Gatsby (Part Two of Reading Lolita in Teheran): The Great Gatsby as a book about materalism and utter unconcern for the powerless: Seda (Pechseda) Nak
  
  

Session 13: Tues, Nov 29th

• Short Talk 21: Nafisi and her students read Nabokov (Part One of Reading Lolita in Teheran): Lolita as a book about male power and possessing a woman in the context of Nafisi's and her students experience of the return of "sharia:" Holly Lutz
  
  
• Short Talk 23: Strong women in Piercy's "For Strong Women," "Morning Athletes," and "Crescent Moon like a Canoe" (from The Moon is Always Female): Britne Taylor
  
  
• Short Talk 24: Nafisi and her students read James (Part Three of Reading Lolita in Teheran): The Nobility and Dangers of Ignoring Social Mores in James in the context of Nafisi and her students' experiences: Anne Duncan
  
  
• Short Talk 25: Nafisi and her students read Austen (Part Four of Reading Lolita in Teheran): Parallels between what happens in Austen's novels (love and marriage) and Nafisi's students' lives: _________________________
  
  

Session 14: Tues, Dec 6th

• Short talk 26: Ambition in "For the Young Who Want To," "The Wrong Anger, " 'Poetry Festival Lover (from The Moon is Always Female):" Ryan Maietta
  
  
• Short Talk 27: The woman's point of view in "Inside Chance," "Right to Life." "The Moon is Always Female (from The Moon is Always Female): Stephanie Szkutak
  
  
• Short Talk 28: Survival in "Night Flight," "The Long Death, "What It Costs, "Season of Hard Wind (from The Moon is Always Female):" Emily Berg