Postgraduate Coursework Units of Study
ENGL6948 - American Author, American Auteur
Semester 1, 2013 | Credit Points: 6
Coordinator: David Kelly
Phone: +61 2 9351 2214
Email: david.kelly@sydney.edu.au
Description
This unit will study continuities in American film and literature through intensive analysis of representative novelists and filmmakers. We will be considering the question of aesthetic authority in relation to literature and cinema, the creative role of the author and the auteur in the production of the literary or cinematic work of art, and the role of literature and film in cultural self-reflection, especially in relation to two enduring themes of American self-consciousness, the quest and original sin.
Assessments
1x4000wd essay (100%)
Textbooks
Prose:
Hawthorne: 'The Scarlet Letter';
Fitzgerald: 'The Great Gatsby';
Faulkner: 'Absalom, Absalom!';
Wharton: 'The Age Of Innocence'.
Film:
Welles: 'Citizen Kane';
Hawks: 'The Big Sleep';
Ford: 'The Searchers';
Scorsese: 'Taxi Driver';
Allen: 'Crimes and Misdemeanours';
Eastwood: 'Mystic River'.
Classes
1x2-hr seminar/week
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