Literature and Film

Catalog description

Investigation of significant films derived from literature through comparison of genres. Defining film as an art form in its relation to a particular literary source. Screening of such works as Ford's The Grapes of Wrath, Welles's The Trial, Bresson's Diary of a Country Priest, Visconti's The Stranger, Lean's Great Expectations, Truffaut's Shoot the Piano Player, Olivier's Henry V, and Kurosawa's Throne of Blood.