[v. 9-9-99]
English 3220-02:
Films of the American South
Tuesday/Thursday 8-9:15 a.m.
Wilson Bldg. 103
Dr. Robert W. Hill
Humanities 117
Phone: 770-423-6346
E-mails:
rhill@kennesaw.edu AND bjhill@mindspring.comWeb Site:
http://ksumail.kennesaw.edu/~rhillNicenet:
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http://bbs.kennesaw.eduKSU Statement on Academic Honesty (8-17-99):
http://ksumail.kennesaw.edu/~rhill/acahon99.htmKSU CATALOG DESCRIPTION:
ENGL 3220. Studies in Film. 3-0-3. Prerequisite: ENGL 2110. Analysis of film from such perspectives as genre, literary and film aesthetics, and literary adaptation. May
include screening of selected films.
COURSE REQUIREMENTS:
Be here. Read well. Think well. Listen well. Talk well. Write well.
FILMS (in chronological order of their release):
Gone with the Wind. 1939. The Little Foxes. 1941. A Streetcar Named Desire. 1951. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. 1958. Wild River. 1960. To Kill a Mockingbird. 1962. Wise Blood. 1979. Norma Rae. 1979. Mississippi Burning. 1988. The Long Walk Home. 1990. Mississippi Masala. 1991. Daughters of the Dust. 1992. Eve's Bayou. 1997.
TEXTS:
Cash, W.J. The Mind of the South. Intr. Bertram Wyatt-Brown. New York: Vintage-Random, 1991. ISBN0-679-73647-6.
Corrigan, Timothy. Film and Literature: An Introduction and Reader. Upper Saddle River: Prentice, 1999. ISBN 0-13-526542-8.
Shaara, Michael. The Killer Angels. New York: Ballantine, 1993. ISBN: 0345348109.
Occasional additional readings or viewings.
COURSE GRADING:
Response writing: Mostly online, ongoing, at least weekly, at a level that indicates your meaningful engagement with readings and ideas encountered in class and with the response writings of your classmates online, ongoing, etc. ("Online" means in a context available to me and all your classmates: (1) http://www.nicenet.org or (2) http://bbs.kennesaw.edu, or both.) Some work will proceed from small groups, as that may develop during the term. Graded twice--at midterm and before the last day of class--not to be graded as essays (spelling, grammar, etc.), your responses must be serious, conscientious, not written all at once the day before midterm, etc.: A or F--nothing in between. Averaged together, response writings are worth one BIG grade at the end.
Quizzes: Should it prove necessary to stimulate discussion and thus to help ensure your gaining sufficient educational benefit from this course, we might turn to the short reading quiz as a pedagogical device. If we do (and I sincerely hope we don't), the quizzes' average will be worth one BIG grade at the end.
Two essays: Out of class, in close consultation with small teams, requiring proper MLA documentation (see New Century Handbook or your professor) and "Works Cited." Each essay worth two BIG grades at the end.
Final examination: In-class, open-book essay, Tuesday, December 14, 6:30-8:30 p.m. It's worth two BIG grades at the VERY end.
Total of seven or eight grades,
depending on whether we have quizzes.
THE WRITING CENTER:
The KSC Writing Center is a place where you can find a reader to consult about any of the writing you are doing, someone to talk to about your writing at any stage of the process. Tutors are available in the Writing Center, located in Humanities 237, to assist you on Monday through Thursday--9 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Friday--9 a.m. to noon; Saturday--10 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Sunday--1-5 p.m. The phone number of the Writing Center is 770-423-6380.
SECOND RUN-OF-THE-TERM SYLLABUS:
Reading assignments may be added, deleted, and/or the order rearranged. Readings and written assignments are to be completed by the dates indicated. If you do not bring your texts to class, you will sometimes find yourself at serious disadvantage during certain classroom activities (as when I ask, "Where exactly do you see that in your book? what page is that on? which line is that?").
CLASS SCHEDULE (ALWAYS BRING YOUR TEXTS WITH YOU TO CLASS):
TUESDAY, AUGUST 24, 1999: Introductory class meeting: What is it that's "gone with the wind"? And what is or was that "wind"?
THURSDAY, AUGUST 26, 1999: The Mind of the South i-li.
TUESDAY, AUGUST 31, 1999: Gone with the Wind. 1939.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1999: MOS 3-99.
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1999: The Little Foxes (1941). Touch on Show Boat (1951).
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1999: MOS 103-85.
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1999: If it arrives, we will see at least the beginning of Wild River, which I have rented out of Connecticut.--RWH. You are also responsible for having seen A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) by class time.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1999: See conclusion to Wild River in class. Dr. Hill will be away at a literature and film conference at the University of West Virginia. Keep up with the syllabus assignments, however: have read MOS 189-342.in tme for class today.
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1999: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. 1958.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1999: MOS 343-429.
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1999: Wild River. 1960.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1999:
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1999: Norma Rae. 1979.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1999: To Kill a Mockingbird. 1960.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1999:
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1999: First essay due, 8 a.m.; first grades for response writing
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1999: Mississippi Burning. 1988.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1999
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1999: Last day to withdraw without academic penalty
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1999: The Long Walk Home. 1990.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1999:
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1999: Mississippi Masala. 1991.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1999
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1999: Wise Blood. 1979.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1999:
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1999: Eve's Bayou. 1997.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1999:
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1999:
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1999: National Thanksgiving Holiday
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1999: Daughters of the Dust. 1992.
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1999: Second essay due, 8 a.m.
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1999:
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1999: Second grades for response writing
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1999: FINAL EXAMINATION, 8-10 a.m.
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