Readings

Where available, links to more information about each film viewed in the course have been made to the Internet Movie Database.

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1 Introduction

Sturges, Preston. The Lady Eve (1941).
2 Singer, Irving. Reality Transformed: Film as Meaning and Technique. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1998. 

The Lady Eve commentary
3 Singer, Irving. "Imagination" and "Idealization." In Feeling and Imagination: The Vibrant Flux of Our Existence. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2001.

Jeunet, Jean-Pierre. Amélie (2001).
4 James, Henry. Washington Square. New York: Modern Library, 2002. (Download a version of the text from Project Gutenberg.) 

Holland, Agnieszka. Washington Square (1997). 
5 Singer, Irving. "Consummation." In Feeling and Imagination .

Wyler, William. The Heiress (1949).
6 Shaw, Bernard. Pygmalion. New York: Penguin Books, 1957, including the prose epilogue. (Download a version of the text from Project Gutenberg.)

Asquith, Anthony and Howard, Leslie. Pygmalion (1938).
7 Bédier, Joseph. The Romance of Tristan and Iseult. New York: Vintage Books, 1994.

Delannoy, Jacques. The Eternal Return (1943).
8 James, Henry. "The Turn of the Screw." In The Turn of the Screw, and In the Cage. New York: Modern Library, 2001. (Download a version of the text from Project Gutenberg.)

Weigl, Petr. The Turn of the Screw (1982). (Based on the opera by Benjamin Britten.)
9 Singer. "Alfred Hitchcock." In Three Philosophical Filmmakers: Hitchock, Welles, Renoir. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2004.

Hitchcock, Alfred. Vertigo (1958).
10 Joyce, James. "The Dead." In Dubliners.  New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. (Download a version of the text from Project Gutenberg.) 

Huston, John. The Dead (1987).
11 Singer, Irving. "The Meaning of Death" and "The Love of Life." In The Creation of Value. Meaning in Life Series, vol. I. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.

Bergman, Ingmar. The Seventh Seal (1957).
12 Discussion of Previous Readings and Screenings