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Required Work / Overview

For Further Reading and Viewing

WORKSHEET FOR FILM ANALYSIS

Sundance Screenings

UNIT I

Part 1:  Great Expectations

Part 2:  "my only love sprung from my only hate"
Shakespeare's
Romeo and Juliet

Part 3:  Nabokov's Lolita

Journal #1 due


UNIT 2

Part 1:  Bulgakov's Heart of a Dog

Part 2:  The Madness of King George

Part 3:  Sunset Boulevard -- film noir

Journal #2 due
           Online Research due


UNIT 3

Part 1:  Twelve Monkeys

Part 2:  Girl,Interrupted
                 Outsider Art

Part 3:  Sylvia Plath

Required work & ideas: 
Review

Final Project due

About your instructor:
Susan Smith Nash


For Further Reading and Viewing

Representation of Mental Illness in Literary and Cultural Texts

Cohn, Norman. 
The Pursuit of the Millennium: Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle Ages.  Oxford UP, 1990. ISBN: 0195004566

Huot, Sylvia,
Madness in Medieval French Literature, Oxford University Press,
0199252122, $72.00

Kytle, Elizabeth, and Robert Coles.
The Voices of Robby Wilde.  University of Georgia Press.  1995. ISBN: 0820317152

Orion, Doreen. 
I Know You Really Love Me: A Psychiatrist's Journal of Erotomania, Stalking, and Obsessive Love.  Hungry Minds.  1997. ASIN: 0028616650

Sutherland, John,
The Oxford Book of English Love Stories, Oxford University Press, 0192804677, $16.95 (03), paper

Siegel, Ronald. 
Whispers:  The Voices of Paranoia. Touchstone Books.  1996.  ISBN: 0684802856
Szasz, Thomas. 
The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement.  Syracuse Univ Pr (Trade) ; Reprint edition (June 1997) ISBN: 0815604610 $18.95.
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Memoirs, Poems, Fiction - Mental Illness
Jamison, Kay.  An Unquiet Mind.  Vintage. ISBN: 0679763309
Kaysen, Susanna. 
Girl, Interrupted.  Vintage.  1994. ISBN: 0679746048
Heller, Joseph. 
Catch-22.  Scribner. ISBN: 0684833395
Kesey, Ken.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Penguin. ISBN: 014028334X
Burgess, Anthony. 
A Clockwork Orange.   W. W. Norton. ISBN: 0393312836
Nabokov, Vladimir.
Lolita.  Vintage Books.  ISBN: 0679723161
Plath, Sylvia.  The Bell Jar.  Harper Perennial.  2000.  ISBN: 0060930187
Plath, Sylvia. 
The Unabridged Journals.  Anchor Books.  2000. ISBN: 0385720254
Plath, Sylvia. 
The Collected Poems. HarperCollins.  1986.  ISBN: 0060909005
Theroux, Paul. 
The Mosquito Coast. Penguin.  1996.  ISBN: 0140060898
Wurtzel, Elizabeth. 
Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America: A Memoir  Riverhead Books.  1997.   ISBN: 1573225126
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LITERATURE
Kristeva, Julia.  Tales of Love.  Columbia UP. 1987. ISBN: 0231060254

Rosenthal, Lucy. 
World Treasury of Love Stories.  Oxford University Press.  1995.  ISBN: 0195093615

Rumi.  Love Poems of Rumi. Translated by Coleman Barks. Harmony Books.  1998. ISBN: 0609602438


FILMS

American Beauty (dir. Sam Mendes, 1999)
Apocalypse Now (dir. Francis Coppola, 1979)
Arizona Dream (dir. Emir Kusturica, 1994)
Benny and Joon (dir. Jeremiah S. Chechik, 1993)
Catch Me If You Can (dir. Steven Spielberg, 2002)
Chocolat (dir. Lasse Hallstrom, 2001)
Crazy/Beautiful (dir. John Stockwell, 2001)
Don Juan de Marco (dir. Jeremy Leven, 1995)
Fatal Attraction (dir. Adrian Lyne, 1987)
Lord of the Flies (dir. Harry Hook, 1990)
Mad Love (dir. Antonia Bird, 1995)
My First Mister (dir. Christine Lahti, 2001)
Nixon (dir. Oliver Stone, 1995)
Quills (dir. Phillip Kaufman, 2000)
Sid and Nancy (dir. Alex Cox, 1986)
Single White Female (dir. Barbet Schroeder, 1992)
Unfaithful (dir. Adrian Lyne, 2002)