ENGL 351: Advanced Film
(Spring 1998)

Feature Films


(all shown in video format on Tuesday evenings 6:00p.m. or 6:30pm, now in 604B Evans Library)
(film titles subject to change)

Date

Film
Jan 27D. W. Griffiths' "Birth of a Nation" (1915) (Clune's version)
Feb 3Daniel Petrie's "Fort Apache, The Broncs" (1980)
Feb 10Michael Cimino's "Year of the Dragon" (1985)
Feb 17
6:00pm
Mae West, "She Done Him Wrong" (1933) with pre-show Betty Boop cartoons and special introduction by Disney scholar, Sean Chadwell
Feb 24
6:30pm
Paul Verhoeven's "Basic Instinct" (1992)
Mar 3
6:30pm
Banned in Oklahoma City--Volker Schlondorff's "The Tin Drum" (1979)
Mar 10
6:30pm
H. Biberman's "Salt of the Earth" (1954)
Mar 17NO FILM; SPRING BREAK
Mar 24
6:30pm
Orson Welles's "Citizen Kane" (1941)
Mar 31
6:30pm
Howard Hawks'"Scarface" (1932) [clips] and Brian de Palma's "Scarface" (1983)
Apr 7
6:30pm
Ken Chaige's "Farewell my Concubine" (1993)
Apr 14
6:30pm
Roberto Rossellini's "The Miracle" (1951)
Apr 21
6:30pm
Jean-Luc Godard's "Hail Mary" (1985)
Apr 28
6:00pm
Martin Scorcese's "The Last Temptation of Christ" (1988)
May 5
6:00pm
"Monty Python's Life of Brian" (1979-80)

Guest Speakers


(in Blocker 163, unless otherwise indicated)
(Check back, additional speakers may be added)

Date/Time

Speaker/Topic
Feb 2
10:20 a.m.
Dr. Paul Parrish
First Amendment Rights and Censorship
Feb 17
6:00 p.m.
[604B Evans Library] Sean Chadwell
Betty Boop, Mae West, and the Hays Office
Mar 11
10:20 a.m.
Dr. Frank Lenihan
Hollywood Studios' Responses to HUAC Pressure
Mar 25
10:20 a.m.
Dr. Terry Hoagwood
"High Noon" and the House of Unamerican Activities (HUAC)


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