Short Talk and Film Schedule for Spring 2005: Advanced Composition in the Humanities

Includes Revised Plan and Essay Due Dates

Week 2: Thurs, Feb 3rd

• Thurs, 2/3: The class may watch excerpts from Pat O'Connor's 1987 film A Month in the Country.

Week 3: Tues/Thurs, Feb 8th/10th

• Tues, 2/8: Short Talk 1: Ruin and Restoration: The Painting and Crumbling Church in A Month in the Country: Jillian Milatzo
  
• Short Talk 2: Memory and History: Archeaology and the Landscape in A Month in the Country: Christian Brady
  
• Thurs, 2/10: Short Talk 3: Religion, Exclusion and Community in A Month in the Country: Kristin Fuller
  

Week 4: Tues/Thurs, Feb 15th/17th

• Tues, 2/15: The class is devoted to watching Campion's film, The Piano.
• Thurs, 2/17: Short Talk 4: Solace, Career, or Political Networking: Music in Bel Canto: Kim Moffatt
  
• Thurs, 2/17: The class finishes watching The Piano.

Week 5: Tues/Thurs, Feb 22nd/24th

• Tues, 2/22: Short Talk 5: Personal Presentation of Politics and "Terrorists" in Bel Canto: Jay Pereira
  
• Tues, 2/22: Short Talk 6: Turning a Newstory into a Novel in Bel Canto: Naomi Hinders
  
• Thurs, 2/24: Short Talk 8: Campion's The Piano as a Feminist or Woman-Centered Tale of Colonialism: Lara Ayad
  
• Thurs, Short Talk 9: Music as Self-expression, Sexuality and Class Prestige in The Piano: Kevin Makowski
  

Week 6: Tues/Thurs, Mar 1st/3rd

• Tues, 3/1: The class watches as much of Zinneman's A Man for All Seasons as we can.
  
• Thurs, 3/3: Short Talk 11: A Man for All Seasons as a political tragedy: Jessie Aldrich
  
• Thurs, 3/3: The class finishes watching A Man for All Seasons.
  

Week 7: Tues, Mar 8th

• Tues, 3/8: Short Talk 12: Characters Contrasted and Compared in A Man for All Seasons: The Stance taken towards Integrity in More, Rich, Cromwell, Norfolk and Alice: _________________________________
  
• Tues, 3/8: Short Talk 13: The Importance of the Acting Performances in The Piano and A Man for all Seasons: Andrew Ryder
  

Week 8: Tues/Thurs, Mar 22nd/24th

• Tues, 3/22: Short Talks 14: The Connection of Social Pressure to Lynching in The Ox-Bow Incident, the novel: Joe Haluska
  
• Tues, 3/22: Short Talk 15: The Connections between Bullying, Belonging to a Community, and Evil in The Ox-Bow Incident: Eileen Lopez
  
• Thurs, 3/24: Short Talk 15a: Manliness in The OxBow Incident: Damaris Polanco
  
• Thurs, 3/24: The class begins to watch Fred Schepisi's Last ORders
  

Week 9: Tues/Thurs, Mar 29th/31st

• Tues, 3/29: Plan for Essay-Journal #2 is due; Name of Book and Sources for Essay #3 are due.
• Tues, 3/29: Short Talk 16: Myths of Successful Masculinity (Jobs and Children) in the novel, Last Orders: Jeremy Cotham
  
• Tues, 3/29: The class will finish watching Last Orders.
  
• Thurs, 3/31: Short Talk 17: Women's Fates in the novel, Last Orders: Amy, Mandy and Susie: Katie Roem
  
• Short talk 18: Ensemble casts in The Ox-Bow Incident and Last Orders (films and/or novels): Christian Brady
  

Week 10: Tues/Thurs, Apr 5th/7th

• Tues, 4/5: The class may watch excerpts from Wellman's film, Ox-Bow Incident
  
• Thurs, 4/7: Short Talk 19: Racism and Male and Female Stereotypes in Children's Books (Chapters 1-3 in The Girl Sleuth: Ann Dang
  

Week 11: Tues/Thurs, Apr 12th/14th

• Tues, 4/12: ESSAY #2 DUE.
• Thurs, 4/14: Short Talk 20: A Falsifying or Unreal Glamor Ideal: Nancy Drew (as described and analyzed by Mason): Karen Chamaj
  
• Thurs, 4/14: Short Talk 21: Alternative Girl Sleuths: Judy Bolton, Trixie Beldon, Cherry Ames, Vicki Bar (as described and analyzed by Mason): Courtney Finney
  

Week 12: Tues/Thurs, Apr 19th/21st

• Tues, 4/19: Short Talk 22: Lolita as a book about male power and possessing a woman in the context of Nafisi's "cell" of forbidden reading (Part One of Reading Lolita: Amber Suggs
  
• Tues, 4/19: Short Talk 23: The Great Gatsby as a book about materalism and utter unconcern for the powerless (Part Two of Reading Lolita): Katharine Merritt
  
• Thurs, 4/21: Short Talk 24: The Nobility and Dangers of Ignoring Social Mores in James in the context of Nafisi's "cell" of forbidden readers (Part Three in Reading Lolita): Andrew Ryder
  

Week 13: Tues/Thurs, Apr 26th/28th

• Tues, 4/26: Short Talk 25: Parallels between Austen's novels and Nafisi's girls (Part Four of Reading Lolita in Teheran: Cynthia Burrows
  
• Thurs, 4/28 Short Talk 26: The autobiographical and biographical stories in Reading Lolita: Torture, State Terrorism and the Centrality of Marriage in people's lives: ________________________
  

Week 14: Tues, May 3rd/5th

• Tues, 5/3: Short Talk 27: A review of the film adaptations of Last Orders and Ox-Bow Incident: Kevin Makowski
  
• Thurs, 5/5: If time permits, the class may watch excerpts from and discuss a film adaptation of one of the novels Nafisi discusses: Peter Bogdanovich's 1974 adaptation of Daisy Miller